ORIGINAL: AA5BY
Years ago, Hanger 9 produced a PT-19 120 size. A PT-19 has perhaps only moderate appeal as a plane and because the ARF suffered some bad landing gear strut failures, the word was out to leave it on the Hobby Shop shelves. Those like myself who rebuilt the landing gear struts discovered the plane to be an excellent flyer and great addition to the hanger. It is very aerobatic, and will even do fantastic lumcevaks.
Tell me about it. My 27% Aeroworks Extra 260 Cost me a whumping $700CAN and it came with aluminum gear that wiggled and flexed so much it was scary. I purchased Aeroworks carbon gear for it. Additional $60. The tail wheel is also aluminum and just from running up and down the runway a few times I got numerous dents on the bottom of the rudder. I grabbed an Ohio tail assembly. Another $20, no bigge but for a $700 arf AND from a company like Aeroworks it should have been fitted as standard with the plane...
But I goota say the build quality is rock solid. Tail feathers needed to be straightened but I did it and this thing flies like an arrow. With all of its downfalls it is the (hands down, end of all) most fun plane I own.
Because I paid so much for it I have just as much respect for it as one of my kit built planes…
This plane does pretty good lomcaveks, but NOTHING beats a scale extra 300 doing a pre-wound lomcavek right over the runway. Something with the lower wing design and dihedral I think. Looks very sexy!!
My next arf will be a composite extra or yak. I
REALLY, and do me
R E A L L Y like the composite-arf Extra 300 35%. Plain jane finish as I will do a unique finish... Powered with a DL111. huba huba!! You can see Oracle in the pic below. (I keep bugging Stacy to sell his, pic below, to me but he won't let it go!!) Apparently the company is still selling the plain jane one for around $1000 and the fancy air brushed one for $1800