Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone can tell me the approx. time (in hours) required to build a 29% AW edge (builders kit ver.).
Thanks,
Mayur

I think I spent 300+ on mine.

i can tell you 3 months of working on it after work. I started in Jan and flew it early April 01..... .

Mayur

GO FOR A WM EXTRA ARF>>

Wingspan 81 inches.
LENGTH 72 Inches.

ARF

Cheers

I kept a record of my time on the AW 29%. Had 197 hours work on it to get to the test flight. I also spent some extra time in the landing gear area doing a little more reinforcement, and changed the engine box area slightly from the plans.
Randy

Wow! Lots of time I see spent on this, lol my friend chris is having his built, this guy has had it for over a 1 year now! lol prolly more like 600 hours lol

Mine took exactly three months.

Yes....mine had taken 12,000 hours...and counting.

When did you give the builder your plane Chris???

Like January 2001.

lol

ARE You Growing the Balsa u R self ? !

lol !

keep it up.....

I paid to have mine built---took the guy 5 months. A long time considering there is so little in the box.

Mayur ...........

I strongly recommend that u go for an WM ARF !

if you have to wait like 3-5 months for a plane....... i'd go for the WM.......almost the same stuff.......

Cheers

---and this was after I waited 5 months to get mine built!---So tell me the truth Kraycz--would you have built one if you hadn't flown mine?

ya hahhahahahhahahah funny ****.

All I can say is if there are people spending 300 or more hours an an AW 29% I want to know what they are doing. I have built 8 AW Edges from the 25% to the 40% and everything in between. If I end up with 100 hours in one I've been fluffing off. There really isn't that much to do. I vaccum bag all the foam so I can bag a wing tonight and then bag another in the morning and so on and so on. If you don't bag and have a couple of benches you can sheet several things at once. By morning they are all done. The fuse takes less than 1 day to build including the gear plate mods. The 25% and the 29% have no engine box, the firewall mounts to the fuse sides. I guess my point is I don't understand how guys are getting so much time in them. Just my 2c worth

I agree...there really is not much to do at all...

AJF--2
Loved flying your edge. I was so amazed at just how sweet she flew in all that wind you were flying her in and how slow she would fly with out dropping a wing. Man my sig cap flew well but the edge flyies great!!! better than tony the tiger could have Daid Great! That edge is just one sweet machine in the air. just like anything the time can vary putting one together, i took the better be safe appoarch and read something 2-5 times before i atemp that step. Now the live and learn part is that i could do the edge in about 1.5 -2 months now. I only glued one side of the wing sheeting a day so this alone acounted for 4 days to sheet the wings. If you own enough weight the wings could be sheeted in one day ( I only had 4 lowes sand bags) I think i took another 4-5 days to build the rudder, elevator, and elevators halfs. Doing it this way i did not have any Oh man i should have completed it this way.

Took me about 2 months, working a little every day. This was my first plane with foam surfaces so I read everything about 10 times.