I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about this plane yet. As a big CAP fan I really like the looks of this plane. It looks like it will 3D really nice and I think a Satio 100 would be just perfect for it. The ailerons look massive in some of those photos.

Here is the link.

http://www.bmeaircraft.com/html/capm...capmaniac.html

Matt

I'm pretty sure I won one in the drawing. Their supposed to announce the names on their website pretty soon. Looks cool!

Mike,
If you have not got the email from BME here is what they sent me.

Dear Customers,

By sending this mail to you, we are very excited to announce 5 of our Summer Giveaway winners:

Charles Buffington, Virginia
Mike Hawker, California
Oscar Sartorius, Texas
Sunny Lin, Arkansas
Thomas Ward, Virginia

Each of the above winner will receive one free Cap Maniac ARF, presented by BME Aircraft, before the end of October 2004. Let's congratulate these winners !

If your name is not on the winners' list, please don't be upset. We, BME Aircraft, appreciate your participation and would like to show our thanks by offering you with a great deal of USD189.99 for the Cap Maniac ARF before Christmas. We just thought that with our Cap Maniac's top quality and great 3D maneuverability; why not let more modelers get to enjoy it.

Attached please find the Order form and fill it out to place your order with us right now. The delivery will be available on around 25th of October. You may send us the Order form by return E-mail, Fax or Postal mailing. We will verify your name and address for the discount. PLEASE, one Cap Maniac for one participant only. As we have limited quantity and huge demand.

Thanks again for you participation.


BME Aircraft
Hardsilk Marketing Service Ltd.
www.bmeaircraft.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 604-638-3119
Fax: 604-638-3101

Sent my form and money last week.. Got an O.S. 91 Surpass pumped trying to mount something on my bench just itching to get in that plane. fiesty little bugger. I even had to take its prop away,,,,,,

BTW Mike,
Congrats you lucky dog.

I e-mailed BME to see if I could find out a bit more about how the plane flies and if it had any snapping tendancies. This is what I got back from Max at BME

"The flying characteristics of this Cap is very exciting. The tendancy for snaping has been reduced to minimum. Even if you pull elevator quickly during level flight, it will not snap unless you have some cross wind effect ( light weight plane). Too bad our video hhas not been posted due to our website designer's health condition, or you will see it hovers like a rock. Knife edge has the tendancy to pitch to the belly slightly which is normal for a Cap. Other than these this little thing is something you want to fly on a daily basis. It will do anything that a profile type of plane can do only with a true scale fuselage."

Im in the process of ordering one now.

Matt

Well its ordered and should be here in a week or 2.

I am gonna like this plane I can tell.

I will post some pics of the plane when it arrives.

Matt

THE VIDEO IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bmeaircraft.com/video/bmecapmaniac.wmv

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was kinda hoping for a blender, some hovering etc. but i dont think the pilot was a 3D kinda guy. does some harriers, noticed a little wing rock in the first entrance but once in it look like it smoothed. he did a rolling circle but not harrier style. but at least got to see it fly once

What's the radio and engine setup?

Engine: O.S. .91 4C w/pump
Radio: Futaba 9Z
Ailerons Futaba 9202 x 2
Elevators Futaba 9202 x 2
Rudder HiTec 945 x 1
Throttle Futaba 3001
All up weight 7.5 lbs

Sent in my order..Have a brand new Saito 100 that needed a home,Should be fun at that weight.

that's exactly what engine I thought of when I saw this ARF.

OK here is the latest news.

I was told by BME that their shipment would arrive on the 27th, spend a few days in the warehouse and be shipped this week (1st week of Nov). I should get it sometime this week. I am really looking forward to this plane as it is just a bit smaller than the Funtana 90, but is lightweight and looks like it will be great. As a major electric modeler I am debating making it electric ( flame suit on ) just for the fact that I would get more stick time with it being electric rather that glow. The flying field is a long drive for me and the electric field is closer.

I would encourage anyone that gets this plane to reply to this thread and show you setups.

I can't wait much more! hehehehe

Matt

We are putting in a Saito 100... think that's a good choice?

now i want to see a comparison to the pacific aero's edge 540. i wonder wich one is better in flying charictoristics and how good the build quality is.

Has anyone recieved their plane yet? We expect it any day now...

nope i would see the charge come off first on my card

Ok they charged my card today so i should see mine soon!!

We confirmed shipmet today... should be here by Tuesday! Yippeeeeee. We're warming up that Saito 100...

With so many great pilots flying BME aircraft and engines one has to wonder why they have such lame videos

The video is not the only lame thing... we have our Cap Maniac finally. Check this out... no instruction book! Nope, nada, nothing. Called BME, they tried to explain how to put certaim widgets together... but they aren't sure either. Not being a long-time builder, we have a number of "what's this for?..." and "... how the h-ll does this get installed" kinda questions. I think we have it all figured out now, but we have no clue where CG should end up. We're assuming lots of glue areas and covering removal is how they expect the thing to be put together.

BTW: You'll need 6 servos, one Rudder, one Throttle, two Aileron and two Elevator. Also, the Rudder is pull-pull. The hardware is weak, gonna upgrade all the control parts. Everything seems to fit together okay (within reason). The Wing Spar is a single thin strip of plywood, no pins or bars to alighn the rest of the wing to take high-g loads. I don't like it much. Looks weak to me. Appears you glue the wing assembly together, as the cover on the underside has no fastener means apparent. There is no clue where they want the battery or receiver packs, just a big fat opening. The top shell from the cockpit to the rudder is a foam molded part. The feathers are flat, we expected airfoil shaped surfaces.

It has a tiny 9-10 oz tank [&o]. With the Saito 100, that otta run about 6 minutes... We'll upgrade there for sure, no less than 14 oz. There's tons of space inside, as the fuse is huge and open with lots of room, but no cavities or clues about hardware placement. There are three servo cavities where it appears you only need one for the rudder. The twin elevator servos mount outside. I suppose the two extra cavities could be used to mount the elevator servos inside with long rods. Again, without instructions you have no clue, but we only see rudder slits in the fuse for the pull-pull cable exits.

We are gonna spend some time figuring this thing out. Probably need to re-engineer many features. I'm thinking we all need to do a build photo gallery on this so we take the best of everyones skill and experience here... I'll post a parts layout as soon as I can...

I was told they will have the instructions online next week.I agree they should of had them in the box.

I havent got mine yet. Thanks for the heads up. sounds like i wont be flying mine soon if i have to re engineer most of it..
That is also not good not knowing where the CG is especially on a cap. Get it too far back its snap roll city. that make for some interesting landings. was going to rob my funtana 90 of servos. but I will have to see what im up against.

Re-engineer? I just received mine a couple days ago and didn't take a good look at it, but I'd hardly call the lack of supplied information "re-engineering". Seriously, I think trying to figure out where to put a receiver and battery pack on your own isn't that big of a deal.

As far as CG. While I agree it would have been nice to have a "number", isn't the range always 25-30% of the chord- measured at the fuse- back from the leading edge on an aerobatic plane? Or at least a good starting point?

As far as the hardware pack. This comes up with almost every plane and it seems the included hardware, in those planes, is almost always "good enough", but most people upgrade due to personal preference.

Of course I reserve the right to be totally wrong about all of this once I get my hands on it