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08-16-2002 | 08:27 PM
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I agree!!!!!!!!!! It is a joke.
When I got mine earlier this year I sent the darn thing back to Tower Hobbies and got my 500+ dollars back. Couple of the formers were loose, and the fiberglass cowling looked like crap.
When I got mine earlier this year I sent the darn thing back to Tower Hobbies and got my 500+ dollars back. Couple of the formers were loose, and the fiberglass cowling looked like crap.
08-16-2002 | 11:21 PM
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From: toledo, OH
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zens are junk also. ordered the zen 90,when i got it some ply fell apart in my hands. nothing fit right and the covering was unrecoverable. thumbs down on chinese built pattern planes.
08-18-2002 | 01:17 AM
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Mixed emotions -
mine went together without a hitch ($499 at Chief Aircraft in Dec. 01) but after a minor, minor mishap on the 4th flight I came to severly like the build quality. I can vouch for the loose formers and no glue between balsa sides and lite-ply doublers. No glue in firewall or landing gear area.
To their credit, GP offered to send me a new one - but I elected not to - why? Because I went through all the hassle to make mine flyable and to the point I was comfortable it staying together. I didn't want to go through the time and hassle of getting a new one up to the level of my current one.
I love the way it flies (YS 91FZ) and wouldn't give up the plane now, but I probably would look elsewhere when I am in the market for such a plane in the future? Maybe Piedmont's Focus, only $595 now (ARC). But then again, I heard some minor things about them.
Anyways, I noticed some cracks in the balsa sides near the mid - to - rear part of the plane (in the blue covering area behind the wing... I have to strip the covering this weekend and repair cracked sheeting... UGH!)
PS - it's ultracote.
- Scott
mine went together without a hitch ($499 at Chief Aircraft in Dec. 01) but after a minor, minor mishap on the 4th flight I came to severly like the build quality. I can vouch for the loose formers and no glue between balsa sides and lite-ply doublers. No glue in firewall or landing gear area.
To their credit, GP offered to send me a new one - but I elected not to - why? Because I went through all the hassle to make mine flyable and to the point I was comfortable it staying together. I didn't want to go through the time and hassle of getting a new one up to the level of my current one.
I love the way it flies (YS 91FZ) and wouldn't give up the plane now, but I probably would look elsewhere when I am in the market for such a plane in the future? Maybe Piedmont's Focus, only $595 now (ARC). But then again, I heard some minor things about them.
Anyways, I noticed some cracks in the balsa sides near the mid - to - rear part of the plane (in the blue covering area behind the wing... I have to strip the covering this weekend and repair cracked sheeting... UGH!)
PS - it's ultracote.
- Scott
