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Old 12-04-2007 | 09:20 AM
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Default RE: Ultimate biplane, mid-sized arf.?


ORIGINAL: HUNTERANDJEFF

I have been wanting to get an ultimate for a long time now. I stumbled across this guy at our club and told him that and he said that he had 2 of them for sale. I went to see them and they were both wrecked. I asked him how much and he said 100 dollars. I said each? He said no, 100 takes it all because I need to clean up my shop! So, I went home with two fuselages and 3 sets of wings. They are built from original Carl Goldberg kits. That was in September. I took the Roughest looking one and started pulling off the covering and the framework just fell apart (it was built with elmer's wood glue or something of that sort. I kept saying to myself, What have I gotten into????!!!!!! After hours of patience and massive rebuilding, It is together now and I couldn't be happier. The gear is Du-Bro and the new cowl and pants are from Stan's fiber tech.

Everyone that I have talked to says that they always want more power for their Ultimates. The best report that I've hear is using a YS 120s. I didn't have that kind of a budget so I went with a two stroke TT120pro. I ran it last night and all I can say is WOW!!!!! I will not be able to fly it untill February though because we will have snow untill then. So I will do the second one and Tinker with this one untill then.
Cheers!
Jeff

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Elmer's wood glue is one of the strongest glues around. It must have been something else. The wood will break before Elmer's glue joints will fail.


Ed Cregger