Well, the UPS man brought the chipmunk to my house this evening. It was nicely boxed up and inside was a very nice box with a picture of the Chipmunk on it. The specs for the wingspan are different on the box. The box says 63" and the website says 64". Not a big deal in my opinion.

Inside the box, everything was bagged and seperated by cardboard dividers. There was no damage. The fuse is absolutely perfect. The paint job is great and the formers appear to be epoxyed in with Bob violett epoxy, you know the white stuff that remains a little pliable and stays where you put it. All in all I was very happy with the fuse. The wheel pants and the cowl are fiberglass and of the same quality as the fuse. The wings are fully sheeted foam and were nicely covered in the red white and blue of the penzoil chipmunk. If you want to be picky, the red stripes on the top of the wing are spaced to far from the blue leading edge, but to me its not an issue either. I'm just trying to give everyone an honest view from a non biased consumer. The tail feathers were also covered nicely and perfectly packaged. The canopy is tinted smoke and wrapped in plastic. The parts bag is full of stuff that appears to be nice hardware and the wheels appear to be of good quality. The push rods are also quite acceptable.

I think the only mod I'll do to this plane is add some music wire to the aft part of the landing gear wire and anchor it to the wing to prevent the gear from folding back on less than perfect landings. Since the wings are foam, this shouldn't pose a problem.

The instructions are very nice and aren't those "cheezy" ones that come with some other arfs. The decals are typical mylar that your finger prints can mess up easily.

All in all, I'm very satisfied and would recommend the arf to anyone. Now I need to decide on an engine. They show an OS 52 in the instructions, but I don't think that will be enough engine. I'll probably go with a Saito 91 or 72. I've already got the 91

Later,

Andy