I sure know how that works. The weight of a shipped item is often the smallest part of the cost....

OK, This one is a Slick, which will be a slight break from my usual type of flying machine. Looks really nice but the pictures will have to come along a little later. First item on my agenda is describe a little about how I'm going to go about this one. So here goes.

First off, everyone needs to know I'm not even a little bit an electric motor guy. I could fill a persons days with gas engine design, operations, and troubleshooting, but when it comes to electronics I'm a Rube. For me, where electrics are concerned 1+1=doo. Doesn't matter how much since it makes to someone else, for me it has to come out of the box, go together, work, and work well, or I'm done with it. So that's how this one is going to go.

In the past I've obtained some electric kits and power packages from other distributors that just didn't cut the mustard. Sort of turned me off on electric unless it was a foamie I did myself. I don't like the way foamies fly. Not even close to the way their larger cousins perform, which is what I predominantly fly. i want something that flies close enough in control and performance styles that will let me stay reasonably in tune with my 35% and larger stuff, and for those days where the location just won't permit a larger plane to work in. This one is intended to fill that desire and, at least for the moment, everything is proportioned and laid out like it should do so. Out of the box it's super light and I'll try to slide it on the scale at the shop to get some individual parts weights for everyone. Means some early days to get into the shop before formal working hours but what the heck.

I asked for a kit that was complete with everything suggested by the distributor that would let the plane fly to it's best performance level. So this kit came with the plane, motor, servos, ESC, servo extensions, and hardware. Evern a spinner! The only thing not in the box to make it ready to fly is the battery, and there is what I think to be a good reason for that. People have there own thoughts about what size and type battery they will want to use. In that area I'm no different. Another reason is that I can think of about a dozen ways a battery can get screwed up after it leaves the hands of a distributor. In other words, user induced failure. So letting the individual make their battery selection and obtain it themselves pretty much protects the distributor from having to warranty something they cannot control the use of. Practical thinking in my book. Tom makes a couple of recommendations, and in this case I'm going to pick up a couple of 4s, 2,500-3.000 ma li-polys for the power source.

So everyone is fore warned. I'm not going to post a bunch of stuff about amperage draws, watts, or any of that other 30 pound brain stuff. It's going to be assembled with what the distributor recommended and provided, and it will work or it won't. Darn thing better work cuz i have some pretty high hopes for this little girl. Right now I'm going to do something completely against my nature. I'm going to read the instructions before starting the kit...........