Voyager49

I like to know How you rate the Tower hobbies Voyager?
and how does it perform when you flew it?
I have one a voyager and it's almost done, so please tell me what you think about the Tower Hobbies Voyager?

w8ye

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here is the assembly manual

http://www.towerhobbies.com/products...owa2048mnl.pdf

The plane has an economical price

It has an aluminum no drill engine mount

Is two stroke only

The inverted engine situation could be problematic

TFF

A friend of mine loves them and I will say they fly pretty good. He has had a few, all with tower 46s; one died when he upped elevator while low and inverted, oops. The inverted engine siphons the fuel; all his were like that. Overall a good plane. I never liked the covering, but that is minor.

Voyager49

would you improve the the covering?
there a trick that some rcers say how to start inverted engine

w8ye

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had a plane with that type covering that I was apprehensive about but I flre it for several years and the covering never gave any trouble

Voyager49

was it easy to fly?

TFF

The covering stayed on fine for the most part. If we got a hole in it, we just fixed it with packing tape; you have to be careful on cleaning it because it can fade the colors. If it was mine. I would side mount the engine, but you will have to engineer it a little bit, but we started it both normal and upside down and as long as you pintch the line off you wont have too much trouble. As for flying, both of us had just come back to the hobby and was a second plane for him. It flew great, but not a beginners plane; but if you can handle a trainer it is an easy transition. Someone might be able to buddy box learn with it but it will take longer than with a trainer. All of the first flights he would take off and fly around for 5 min and ask me if I wanted to fly it, so I would be flying around and call out to him to come land it. He would tell me to do it. At the time I was still flying mode 1 and he was mode 2. I made good landings and learned to fly mode 2 on that plane.

Voyager49

belly flop and pancake landings are the best surival landing to do.
I was learning on my Avistar and it survive the pancake land landings

TFF

He was too scared to crash his own plane so he left it up to me[>:]. I fly mode 2 now but moving the elevator stick to the other side when it was on the other for 15 years is unnerving.

bigedmustafa

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17 User Reviews here at RCU give the Tower Hobbies Voyager .40 ARF 3.5 stars out of 5:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/product_gu...cfm?kit_id=359

Most comments are favorable, with covering being the most common criticism.

The Voyager .40 ARF has a reputation for being a very good flying airframe. You'd probably see more of them than you already do if the market weren't so competitive for this kind of airframe. The Voyager .40 ARF is a direct competitor to the Sig Four Star .40, CG Tiger 2, Phoenix Dolphin .40, H9 Pulse XT .40, WM Sky Raider Mach II, WM LA Racer 40, WM Super Sports, VMar Ram Rod, VMar Escape, VMar Arrow, BH SuperAir, and a whole bunch of other planes.

You should enjoy flying your TH Voyager .40, report back after the maiden and let us know how it turned out.

Voyager49

I will as soon I get a ama club site
it at it near completion,