Senior Telemaster
02-12-2007 | 09:50 PM
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Well I started on my new Senior Telemaster ARF last night. Two friends and I ordered them on Hobby Lobby's sale at $160. Very nice looking plane. My friend Marc and I like to fly the beaches in the off season so a G23 will be installed in the nose. With a 3200mah battery and a 1/2 gallon of gas, well you get the idea! Yes I am doubling the firewall and adding stiffeners to the air frame. I also plan on setting up floats. The guys at the marina where I keep my boat love it when I bring the Seamaster down and fly it. This should really get them going! I will be setting up flapperons too. All in all, I think this should turn out to be a real nice all around plane. Oh, and yes I'm installing a tow hook for sailplanes.
02-12-2007 | 11:21 PM
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Well I started on my new Senior Telemaster ARF last night. Two friends and I ordered them on Hobby Lobby's sale at $160. Very nice looking plane. My friend Marc and I like to fly the beaches in the off season so a G23 will be installed in the nose. With a 3200mah battery and a 1/2 gallon of gas, well you get the idea! Yes I am doubling the firewall and adding stiffeners to the air frame. I also plan on setting up floats. The guys at the marina where I keep my boat love it when I bring the Seamaster down and fly it. This should really get them going! I will be setting up flapperons too. All in all, I think this should turn out to be a real nice all around plane. Oh, and yes I'm installing a tow hook for sailplanes.
Well I started on my new Senior Telemaster ARF last night. Two friends and I ordered them on Hobby Lobby's sale at $160. Very nice looking plane. My friend Marc and I like to fly the beaches in the off season so a G23 will be installed in the nose. With a 3200mah battery and a 1/2 gallon of gas, well you get the idea! Yes I am doubling the firewall and adding stiffeners to the air frame. I also plan on setting up floats. The guys at the marina where I keep my boat love it when I bring the Seamaster down and fly it. This should really get them going! I will be setting up flapperons too. All in all, I think this should turn out to be a real nice all around plane. Oh, and yes I'm installing a tow hook for sailplanes.
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Just be sure to program in some crow, so you can land it with the engine still running. <G>
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02-13-2007 | 08:58 PM
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RE: Senior Telemaster
I just finished one for towing duties using a Ryobi 31cc. It has way more power than I need but will be good for pulling things. It weighs 13lbs dry and flies really nice and smooth. Just flying around at half throttle is alot of fun.
02-13-2007 | 09:17 PM
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Forgot to add pictures
I moved the firewall back several inches and ended up putting the radio in the fuselage area behind the wing for balance. I also used two servos for the elevator (one in each side) and a pull-pull for the rudder which I enlarged quite a bit. I need taller landing gear for the 18" prop which I have not done yet. The towhook I custom machined myself.
I moved the firewall back several inches and ended up putting the radio in the fuselage area behind the wing for balance. I also used two servos for the elevator (one in each side) and a pull-pull for the rudder which I enlarged quite a bit. I need taller landing gear for the 18" prop which I have not done yet. The towhook I custom machined myself.
02-14-2007 | 10:40 AM
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I had one forever, with internal bomb drop (quart beercan size), floats, bolt on wing, the works.
If I had to do it again, I would sheet the fuselage, bracing wires on the tail, enlarge rudder, do flaps and ailerons, lose the dihedral, and go with a Zenoah 20EI or an FPE 1.3 fully cowled.
If you don't sheet the fuse, it flexes/twists all over.
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02-16-2007 | 03:34 PM
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Right, I hear you. I traded for the FPE. It is pricey.
I had a G23 on mine at at one point. I had a shake-a-thon with the fuselage, so I switched to a Kioritz 100, but it was too unreliable.
The G23 is now on the nose of a Sig Rascal.
