I bought a Beech Musketeer (Made By Altech) here on RCU, a nice plane, complete with everything except engine. It had a Saito 270 in it before I got it and i was going to find another one or upgrade to a Saito 300. I mentioned this to the guys at my RC Club and got 3 different opinions. I was told ( I should mention I am re-learning this hobby after an extended time away...Really extended) that a 270 was overpowering the aircraft by two of the guys and all three agreed a 300 was WAY too much engine. It has a 96 in. wingspan and 72 inches in length. I cannot find a manual online ... Any thoughts? Or suggestions? Thanks.. Bob

Are you planning on re-learning to fly with this plane?

Either way, the weight of the plane will be necassary for an engine choice.

2 words: throttle management

if the engine needs to be that heavy to balance, a lot of people will prefer putting more engine instead of more dead weight.

I'm going to guess that this came from the ad where you got your plane. Maybe it will help:

So 22lbs.

Wow, I've been trying to research this plane (looks nice!) and am coming up with incredibly little! I did find, however, that Hirobo made these planes in the '80's and they were marketed/sold by Altech and Model Rectifier Corp. Maybe you can give them a ring/email and see if there's any info available:

http://www.modelrectifier.com/contactus/index.asp

Let us know how it turns out!

I have a trainer I am learning to fly with, this Beech is for later, after I become more competant. gaRCfield, you must have found the ad before he sold the engine from it. In the ad I responded to he didn't mention weight.
And thanks for the contact information. I will give that a try.

Did he use such a large engine because it was tail heavy, or did he add weight to the tail because of the engine ?

I vaguely remember this plane from the 1990's, I believe. I had the Porter , got it in 1994. I believe they advertised this model at a lighter wieght and with a much smaller engine. But Altech airplanes were made in the Philippines, and we assume from the landfill near the closed Clark AFB, and were very heavy models and notoriously weak. It was common practice to beef them up. My Altech Porter actually had some bark on the wing. And a friend swears his came with a hoof print on it !!

But, once you re-engineer one of these mostly plywood tug boats, they do fly very nicely , with enough power. They are heavy and fly very well in gusty conditions because of their high mass.


So here is my opinion:
Although, I doubt they ever advertised the plane to carry that much engine, it wouldn't surprise me that it eventually did.

hey do you still have this musketeer? have you flown it yet? im about to buy an old kready hey do you still have this musketeer? have you flown it yet? im about to buy an old kready built one and wha to know how they fly and handle, and do you have more pics of it?