Does anyone have information on this plane. The spec's seem ok. How does it fly? Build ?

Thanks,

Hello,

Yes...I have put together this ARF. It is very easy to assemble with good instructions. You will have to paint the canopy though since it came unpainted in my kit.

The retract servo may take a little work to get them working just right since you have to bend the wires to clear the wheels.

Flies great if you can steer it straight. I had many problems with getting it to track right on takeoffs. I would highly recommend putting the tailwheel as far back as possible since it has a short tail moment and make sure the engine has some right thrust to assist straight tracking on takeoffs because that will be your biggest hurdle with this puppy. Looks great in the air and tracks well.

Good luck,
Jim

Jima,

What retracts did you use? I heard the Hobbico that is recommend is not worth a plug nickle and if you fly off grass don't even brother with retracts. I have been leaning on using the new Robart mechnicals instead.

Dave

Hi Dave,
I used the Hobbico. I have not used Robart on anything yet due to the high cost associated with that brand. If you have the bucks I would go for it or use Great Planes for those seem pretty nice.
Jim

Yesterday I nailed my Wm P-51 due to radio failure of some sort. Since i already have 2 other bigger P-51s, I am looking into the AT6 Texan but the Kyosho version.
*Now i have bad mouthed Kyosho in the past. Not on quality but being way over priced. Sniffing around in the last day i found this.
Towers webpage offers the GP Texan for $154. Tower is also offering the Kyosho Texan on sale for $163. That is a deal.
This is a no brainer-go for the Kyosho.

I have not looked at the Kyosho much. I think that it is some smaller though for sure.

Great planes sells parts for the AT6 in case you need them...priced decent. I need to get a new cowl as I type this for a new engine mount in the AT6. I will say the ground handling on this bird is something to be desired. It has a very narrow gear install points with a short fuse and long wing. Maybe put a gyro in the tail! I plan to use some right engine thrust with the next motor I put in it for racing.

Jim

I have a GP At-6 Texan with a Magnum 91-fs. I also used the retract gear from tower ( $19 bucks ) . I fly from grass and pavement, The thing you realy need to do first is add Tri braces on top of servo tray with e-poxy to secure. Mine came loose after a gallon of fuel through it . It went in hard , But the only thing I realy lost was the center part of the wing .I seen it goin down so I closed the wheels up . With right ,and down thrust it flew good. It would cutup like most funfly planes on high rates.I realy need to find one that has been crashed that maybe the center part of the wing can be saved. If you know of one I WILL BUY IT Thanks Tim

Hello Tim,

I have a brand new center section....not sure how much they go for.

Jim

I know the gear are backwards, but I wanted to get a pic!

JimA . You have the center section , the part that the retract goes in? I still have outer wing's but not the center. I'm curently trying to rebuild it with what's left , but it,s not going to good. not enough for pattern.I will buy it from you and pay shipping. The whole wing goes for $105. but for another $50. I can buy the whole plane. I guess GP likes it that way.Let me know what it will take .....Thanks

hey razor thats a very nice looking plane you got there i was thinking about getting the gp at6 as well but i went with the .40 size big stik and i am still trying to get time to put it together but anyway have fun with your texan hope it flys like a dream!

Heya Tim,

Maybe a trade of somekind? Have anything you want to get rid of? I will double check and make sure I have it still. Not sure if I have the plastic piece. Do you need that too?

I am big into the 1/12th scale glow racing. So..if you have any small stuff let me know.

Jim

Let me know what you need for trade .I have a bunch of stuff , and I'm going to the swapmeet in Columbia Tn. this Sat.

I just traded up a SuperStunts 40 ARF for the G.P. AT-6 ARF. I have three questions hopefully someone out there can answer.

Before buying the plane, I tried out the Kyosho 4- sized AT-6 on the RealFlight Simulator (curious they don't have the G.P. version). Landing it was relatively easy with flaps, but without flaps it comes in fairly hot (compared to my Ultra-Stick 60 w/o flaps extended). The G.P. AT-6 doesn't have flaps. This leads up to (2) of my questions:

1. What is my best landing technique? For the Ultra-Stick, I found that letting it settle in about a foot or two above the (grass) runway and then dropping throttle gradually allows me to "slick-in" the landings ... but this same approach has me bouncing on the simulator's hard runway with the AT-6 (w/o flaps).

2. Has anyone tried retrofitting flaps to the G.P. AT-6?

The third question has to do with retracts. I have read in this thread that the Hobbico retracts recommended by Great Planes are not the sturdiest, and assuming I work out "my" problem stated in question #1, I still have to contend with the issues of the field being "bumpy".

3. Has anyone actually installed any other brand of retracts, and if so are they happy/unhappy with the results? From an expense point of view, I am thinking mechanicals, but I still would like to here from anyone with experience with pneumatic units or anyone who has used "oleo" or similar struts.

Thanks.

-Stu

I just finished the Kyosho AT-6. really nice plane. it replaced a P-51 that had radio failure over Christmas. I thought the whole thing was real good. Only problem i ran into were the retract wells. They claim to be designed for a set of Hobbico Mechanical but they are not.
The depth of it is not deep enough. Therfore you need to do what you have to do to dig it out. Bit of a pain but nothing serious. The T- 6 is seriously tail heavy. I am running a G90 up front plus 1 lb lead bar. have not flown it yet do to lousy weather but should happen shortly.
Now flying a sport plane has nothing on a scale. You land your scale like your stik and your going to take it home in a garbage bag. You need to land with some throttle on or your gonna stall it. Sport planes are very forgiving, Scales are not. I have been at this 5 years and seen darn near all of it. But never seen a stik stall and go in. I have seen them go in but not on a stall. You get to slow on a scale or even a sportscale and its gonna flip.
As far as bouncing down the runway, That is technique.
Now you may be goo at fying your stik but when it comes time to maiden some scale thing, have some help or have somebody do it for you .
You may have your hands full to a point of losing the plane. I had a first flight on a big P-51 last year. Soon as those wheels left the ground it went into a hard and fast left turn. Thought it was a gonner but I had help froma guy who was moving the trims for me on my tx. Turned into my most reliable plne all last year. later

Hello, I have this plane also. I agree with the other post about tracking on takeoffs. I had a heck of a time getting it to track straight. But once you get then hang of it it is a Very Nice Flyer. I have a Saito 81 in it and really move's. It is a little rough on the stiff retract gear from Hobbieco, But I bend them back every few flights. Watch the CG it is a bear to fly if your tail heavy. I recovered mine and my nephew has the standard coating on his.
It also like's some power on landing.
I am happy with mine it looks real good in flight and is very acrobatic for a warbird.

Good luck what ever way you go.
JWA

The one thing that I have learned in the short time I've been (back) in this hobby is to remember to be humble! I have an ultra-sport that I "rescued" and had one of the instructors at the field take it up for the first time (at our field). Good thing too, because the one thing I didn't check was the incidence of the horizontal stab. I guess I figured that nobody could screw up attaching a stab to an ARF that way.

All this plane wanted to do was climb! It took all the down trim I had to keep it controllable, and even then past 3/4 throttle down the elevator had to be held to keep the plane level. I surely would have put it in.

Back to my shop I found 2 degrees (positive?) incidence in the tail. Took about an hour to build up the courage to rip the tail off to correct it.

I am still waiting for the snow to clear to test the ultra Sport again (I don't think this plane will fly well with skis ) , but you can be sure that I will have an instructor with me. I will probably have him do the 1st takeoff and landing, and then have him by my side to talk me through my 1st attempts. Since this plane owes me nothing, I will probably fly this one for a month or two before the AT-6, to build up some low wing experience. I know from the G2 simulator that the AT-6 and the ultra-sport fly differently, but I expect that there are some skills that will transfer over.

I have completed the GP AT6. Now I am waiting for it to stop raining so I can fly it....
The AT-6 was fairly easy to assemble, but it is very heavy. I had to put 4 - 5 oz lead in the tail to get it to balance with a MDS .48 in the nose with a Bison Pitts muffler. I moved the battery as far back as it would go and used the lightest pitts muffler I could find and a light aluminum spinner nut and still had to put 4 oz of lead in the tail. I am not sure how some people have these come out tail heavy. Maybe the quality of the ARF? I have become increasingly unimpressed with Great Planes ARFs. The quality is just not there. I went with the retract setup instead of the fixed gear and that took a great deal of time to get right. I can explain how I did it if you are interested. I will let you know how it flys if I can ever get back to the field.

Jimbo

Just a picture of the t-6 racing event they had at a local club. You have to have the GP arf t-6 with a motor that cost under $200. Looks like a good time!


Phil (Mesa, AZ)

Anybody seen the ad for the new 68 inch AT6 ARF from Hangar 9? Looks real promising. The ad says it comes with retracts already installed. Don't have any idea about the quality. Hope it's good, I wouldn't mind trying one out. Engine requirements state .60 to .78 2S or .80 to .100 4S. A 120 4S would probably do fine.

That is the coolest thing i have seen in a while. I think the best we could do here is a simple .40 size Warbird group. having all those guys with the same plane is great.

i was in the race pictured above. what a blast! plane tracks excellent if balanced properly. the only bad habit is it wants to bounce on landing. tower retracts have worked well. if you want real fun organize one of these races at your club field. our next race is april 19, can hardly wait. ken berg