A few months ago I bought a redy built Senior Telemaster and was held up on the build while I was on an all expence paid "vacation" to the middle east. Anyway I have been back and got the plane together and had a successful flight today. I am not much for taking pictres while I work so I will post them later. The kit comes complete and that is needed is engine and radio equipment, quite literally. The quality of hardware included is not that bad. I opted to use a Sulivan tailwheel, one included seemed to transfer the landing force to the rudder, I also used Great Planes fuel tubing instead of the included fuel line. I also used control horns in pictured the plans to securfe the wing struts, wich was the only hardware not included in the kit. The kit arrived in good shape except the balsa where the "windshield" is was cracked, a little CA fixed that and a Iron ran over some of the covering to fix some wrinkles, I attatched the verticle and horizonal stabs with poly glue and was working on a bolt on mod for the wings, but decided aginst it. The wing stuts were a little tricky, I attached the wing ends as per the plans but cut the stabs short and used 4-40 control rod clevises to mount the struts to the fuse. I mounted the radios with no problem, I cut the servo tray in half and mounted the throttle servo as far forward as I could and the elevator and rudder servos about half way in the tracks, or where the control rods fit , aileron servos are pretty strait forward, I mounted a Super Tigre .61 and it fit like it was made for it. The really tricky part is mounting the elevator push rod, it is a split elevator and the pushrod needs to be bent to fit right and allow full elevator movement. The controls were set as per plans, with differental ailerons and flaperons, The CG was right on and I didn't have to move anything to get the plane to balance, the 4 cell battery is mounted under the fuel tank and the reciever is under the throttle servo.

Now for the flight report, I took it out last week and it was too windy but I was there, Got it running, full throttle and it took off in under 10 feet and rolled over, broke the spinner and the bulhead behind the wing where I had the wing mounted (which is why I have decided to use rubber band mounting), anyway I took out the bulhead, glued it back together, and traced out a new one on 1/8 inch ply and glued it back in, Today was calm so I went out, seeing that this thing taxis really good at idle I lined up and throttled up, I was about 1/4 throttle when the tail took off and was off the ground and climbing at a good pace at 1/2 throttle. It flew really well, this plane floats, I lost the engine and was able to make a turn dead stick before landing, the second flight went better, I got it up to full throttle in the air and it takes the speed really well, I read that it may need more rudder but I didnt have much of a problem, I can do aileron turns pretty good, I throw in a little rudder and it turns really well. Coming in for a landing I let the flaperons down and it handled verry well and the plane comes down pretty good until it gets into ground effect and it wants to keep flying, but touch and add throttle it is off the ground in under 10 feet or so, it bounces a little but not too bad. The tailwheel I have on it has a spring that attaches the rudder to the tailwheel, and it takes a while to turn, I ended up S turning, (I guess like you would taxi a real taildragger) it may take a little getting used to but I am extremly satisfied with this plane.

I have a few plans for this plane, I cut out a 4x6 panel in the belly of the plane and make a few "modules" for it. I have a Video camera i want to build a panel for, and a air drop module. We will see what happens.

Here are some pictues of the plane "dry fitted" together, stand by for further pictures and hopefully I can get my cameraman out to take some video