My latest toy
This is my newest toy. I got the kit from Stangel-Technologies on Ebay. It's called a Skylark Sport 40 and it comes as a short kit. Basically he supplies the wood and you supply everything else. The kit was pretty basic, all 1/4" balsa slab construction. Their are a few parts that are cut to shape like the fuse sides and the tailfeathers. The website says that you can complete the kit in just a couple of nights, and I would agree, as long as you don't do like I do and modify the heck out of it. I pitched the supplied rudder, elevator, and ailerons and went with my own built up ones instead (except for the ailerons, those were donated from an H9 UltraStick 40). I also pitched the wheel pants, I fly off of grass and didn't want to waste the time to build them just to see them ripped off on my first landing. It comes with a wooden cowl that yo can build, but as you can see, I just left the engine hanging out there. The engine is another of the changes. I emailed the Stangel guy (sorry, don't remember his first name) and he said that he wouldn't recommend anything bigger than an OS 40fx, unfortunately, I only had a 46FX. Oh darn. I flew it just this afternoon and for such an inexpensive and simple kit as this is, it flies wonderfully. Of course it would have flown better if I had remembered that it only had an 8 oz tank instead of the usual 10-12 that I'm used to. Deadstick on first flight, no damage. Very happy with this kit. Just had to show it off. Now lets see if I can get these pics to load. (oh, and no comments about my messy den)