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Old 04-05-2002 | 12:56 PM
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Hans Meij
 
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Default ModelTech Great Lakes Setup

Hi Mike,

I have the plane, you can find some pictures and building advise at my site:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~meijhmb

look under 'bouwprojecten' (site is in Dutch)
Somewhere you can find a quote of someone 'scary little...' that I found in a newsgroup.
This is not my opinion, it is a great flying plane, but some points are to be made:
Have the cog right and keep the weight low.
I placed the rudder and elevator servo one compartment ahead.
I placed the receiver on top of the tank
I placed the throttle servo within the cowl area.
I placed the battery on top of the engine (engine inverted)
Used a saito 65 as engine Enlarged the cowl to acommodate the saito.
No lead to balance, weight is 2765 gr
I also changed the wing support. From this location I do not have the correct figures, but it thought that a piece of wood of quarter inch was placed under the rear sopport of the top wing.
Keep some power on when landing, this plane will not float, but on the other hand will slow down nicely when going from full to third power.

Greetings,
Hans