RE: Biplane Advanture
What I found flying the model is that the less down thrust and actually a little more right thrust was good on the model.
My Cg is about 70mm back from LE of the bottom wing. I put everything in as shown on the Naruke site...In fact my battery pack 2300mah nimh was up with the RX on top of the fuel tank. The Naruke site I think shows the battery pack back with the rudder servo.
The model grooves very well. I like the way it flies. It has different snap characteristics in that it snaps differently upright or inverted. So I set up a Flight mode for positive snaps. It took lots of elevator and lots of aileron. I even had to change servo arms to get the throw needed. Now the snaps are amazing....with the higher elevator and aileron throw.
Keep a close eye on the inter-plane strut pins. Mine got a little loose right away and I ended up putting some clear nail polish on the pins to tighten them up.
I have also made a mod to the center cabin strut to keep it tighter. I used some CF bracing to keep the front and rear uprights from moving independent of each other. Now the model is quite stiff.
I like the plane it has some good attributes. I have started doing some modification to mine since I have flown the Euphoria by Quique. I think the little changes I made will improve the Adventure even more.
Mine came out pretty light as its just a hair over 10.5lbs.... 4775grams I made some changes and added some weight and its much better now. It was a little floaty before...now its better in turbulence than before.
The model will groove very well with a 17-13APC on the 170.
I basically used all the same stuff as Naruke did on his. Of course I used JR sevros instead of the Futaba ones but... everything else was the same setup.
The model gets a thumbs up. I think the Euphoria is better in the wind for sure...They are just different models...Mixing is very low on both planes.
I have some new testing and trimming to do to the Adventure. I plan on getting on that in the next few weeks.
I'll have some more details on the changes I made to the model.
Troy