I built a Telemaster 40 back in the early 80's dead stock with an OS 40. Loved the plane! Traded it off for a small block Chevy intake manifold. [X(] I finally caved in and bought another kit and it arrived last night. I already have a few mods planned. One will be a bolt on wing. It will also most likely end up a twin electric mainly because I have two of everything to power it well as a twin but I don't have a single motor in the needed range. Either they're too big or too small. [&o] This kit is also the newer one that is taildragger with God awful heavy aluminum main gear. That gear is going in the trash and I'll build my own mains from wire and go trike gear. (I just prefer trike) I have an early set of plans too so I have all the bend angles for the gear. Plenty of silver solder too.

In doing some research on the plane I've seen a few posts regarding the incidence angles of the wing and the H-stab. The wing being at 3 degrees + and the stab at 1 degree +. Guys have said they were going to remove the positive incidence but none of them ever posted back with how the plane flew! Maybe it didn't. I don't like a lot of incidence because I hate having to keep trimming for throttle changes. I realize it's a trainer but I'd still like to throw it around once in a while. Just mild aerobatics. Nothing wild. It's been almost 30 years since my first one and I honestly don't remember if I had to do a lot of trimming in flight. I'd love to hear from anyone that has changed the incidence. I don't care in the least about aerodynamic theories. I want to hear real world experiences.

I've also seen some posts about building slab or stick built flat H-stabs rather than the built up version. Once again nobody reports their findings back to the thread! I'd like to hear comments about this one as well.

I haven't even started the build yet. I've been trying to come up with a motor nacelle that I'm happy with first. I want something with some sexy curves like a C-130 but I'm not ending up with what I want. I've done six already and I'm using up a lot of balsa/ply so will probably cave in and just go with an ugly but easy to build boxy nacelle.

Joe