Attached is a picture of my first non-ARF kit, my first attempt at kit bashing, and my first twin. The basic kit is two Tower Uproar 60’s with two Thunder Tiger Pro 61’s for power. 84” wingspan, 52.5” long, 14 pounds with a wing loading of 23-oz/sq. ft. It has retractable tricycle landing gear and a center flap between the twin fuselages. It has a total of 11 servos (2-aileron, 2-rudder, 2-elevator, 2-throttle, 1-retract, 1-flap, 1-nose wheel) and fly’s with a non-computer Airtronics Vanguard radio.

No engine offset is used. On the first flight the plane flew well, after trimming, but seemed slightly tail heavy. That will be corrected on future flights (only one flight has been made to date due to an extended out of town work assignment). The plane is balanced per Uproar instructions. I believe the plane has enough power to pull vertical. No aerobatics were tried on the first flight.

The only fabrication that was not a part of the standard kit was the center wing section, the center tail section, the nose, the center flap, and the retract system. I also chose to taper the ailerons from the center out to each wing tip to give the wing less of a boxy look and I increased the size of the rudders for better engine out performance. AutoCad was used to draw each of these sections full size and then the section was built over a drawing just as you would build directly over the kit plans. The plane was actually much simpler to build than I envisioned. Before I started building I read everything I could about building twins and especially everything that “Twinman,” George Lumpkin, has written on the subject. I contacted George by e-mail and he served as an advisor throughout the project. The guy has a lot of experience to offer.

This kit is excellent for bashing into a twin because it did not have a cockpit built into the fuselage and because of the removable mid wings. Disassembly and transportation is a breeze. I have a canopy that I have not put on yet that will finish the plane out. I would recommend this project to anyone interested in a first twin. It is a simple, relatively low cost approach and is a great looking plane when it does a low pass with the gear up.