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Old 10-18-2006 | 09:28 PM
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Default RE: Dynaflite skeeter

The little instruction manual that comes with it gives a step-by step of how to build it. Mine flew well as a light-lift sloper. Its not too much of a hand-launch though.

If you have any questions fire away. I built mine 10 years ago but they are straight-foreward. Keep the tail as light as possible. If the balsa fuse sides seem heavy, replace them with better balsa; you'll save quite a bit of nose weight that way. Dont put an adjustable clevis at the tail, use solder clevises and put them in the nose. For servos some HS-81's would probably do fine. A 270 Nicad/600 NiMH size battery will fit well.

As far as flying, I found mine did better if I kept thermal turns as open as possible. They are fairly strong for their size and weight- I had a TX battery quit once, and the plane went down behind a row of hills at warp factor nine. It took me an hour to find it, and all it had was a lightly dinged leading edge from hitting a tree. I got a lot of miles out of mine for two years of flying.