Any good? have an extra Saito80 that I just got back from horizon and am looking for a plane to stick it in, was thinking one of the light weight 60 size arfs (p47, spit, p40 etc) to play with, any comments on these arfs?

Happy flying~

I saw their 30 size Extra today and it was very good quality. If they build their bigger planes like that you shouldn't have a problem.

They just came out with a Dragon Lady ARF 66 in. wingspan. Looks great in the add(RCModeler Nov.) but I have'nt heard anything yet.

I've had several global/ model tek arfs/arcs. They were all well built and solid, but they tend to be quite heavy, the penalty for solid.

Hideho all,

I've had several models by Model Tech and they have allways lived up to the value for the dollar.

Save one, that is. The Great lakes bipe was built good enough, it just didn't fly worth a hoot.

The warbirds that I have seen seem to pack the same punch for the buck, too.

I have the .40 sized P-51 and have only one thing that I would change. It comes with wood rails for mounting the engine and after about 40 flights, all of the glue joints on the rails came loose in flight. I should say that I had not noticed the problem until then but it probably was happening all along. I landed without incident and re-glued all joints of the rails and have had no problems since.

I might add that this plane was my first plane after being out of the hobby for about 15 years and with a little help from an instructor, only had one mishap and tore out the left gear. A few hours of repairs and I was back in the air.

Everyone who has flown this plane at my field has commented on how well it flies for a war bird. It tracks well and flies great with the OS 46fx in the nose.

All in all, I would definitely buy another Model Tech ARF.

I just typed a lengthy report of my model tech P-47 and after clicking the submit button I had to re-enter user and password. After doing this all my work was gone. Anyone else have this happen? This makes twice for me now!

Anyway I'm not re doing all that so to make a long story short, If you don't mind extra work, low grade covering job and material, hot melt glue go for it.

I have one of their .40-sized ME-109s with an OS .52 on the nose. Its solidly built (daspite the previously-mentioned hot glue). The covering is some low-temperature stuff that doesn't repair well, and is tough to match.

All that being said, this is a really nice flyer for such a small plane!