Happy to see this thread get started. I am an American retired and I now live in Nong Khai, Thailand. We have a small group, 5 or 6 fliers and 2 of us are avid builders. No hobby store here, nearest one is in Udon Thani and you could fit his entire inventory on a small computer desk. We do have a shop that sells sheet foam, and a local stationary store is carrying some balsa wood and xacto blades.

So foamies are the natural build for now.

I was searching the internet for a project and came across this website http://moleski.net/ULTBIPE/index.htm for the Ultimate BiPlane, I emailed the owner, Marty Moleski, ( a Jesuit Priest) and he sent me some 3 views that were in a DWG format, which means I could import them into my AutoCad Program. (doesent everybody have AutoCad?) After about 2 days, I had a scaled set of paterns for 18", 27" and 36" wing spans. I headed for the foam store and the only thing they had that was suitable was 5mm sheets 39 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches. 5mm is approx 3/16 so I set forth building the 27" version.

The plane flew well, had unlimited verticle, and was fully aerobatic. I needed to know it's weeknesses so I put it through 10 minutes of high speed tumbles and snap rolls. On one pass I noticed that the wings seemed to be misaligned and the plane seemed to crabing sideways. I landed yhe plane and examined the failures. The fuse had broken fore and aft of the center strut and the only thing holding the tail feathers on was the servo linkage.

Back to the drawing board, made some mods amd went into the second build. WOW, what a performer. This plane is for the advanced flyer, not recommended for a beginner. It will hover, do tail slides, tumble, snap, all the pattern manuevers, what a delight.

It takes 1 sheet of foam and a length of flat carbon fiber 10mm x 39 1/2" that I have mailed to me from Bangkok, I used 4 E-Sky servos, a 30 amp DualSky Controller, a GS Models brushless outrunner C28-30-12 with a GWS 1047 prop and a 3 cell 1000 mah battery and a 4 channel Futaba Radio

When I figure out where I can post the files (DWG is not supported here), I will do so, but in the meantime, anyone can contact me at [email protected] and I will email the files.

Note: You don't need Autocad, there ane several free DWG drawing viewers available for download, and you can print them out 1:3 for the assembly dwg, 1:1 for the motor mount which also has the canopy outline and whell fairings for those inclined, then take the assembly dwg and have it enlarged 300% for 27" wingspan.