eduardo4

someone can help me to find a fast airplane????

evan-RCU

I can find a few in my workshop!!!!

Ed Smith

Try a "Miss Candace" Q40 pylon racer produced by H&M racing. Power it with a Nelson Q40 racing engine and fly faster than you have ever flown a model before.

Ed S

max plank

try this http://www.corvidae.net/

HighPlains

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They claim 233 mph for their Stinger 40.

Want to buy a bridge?

vicman

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Evan, you still got that mean grean thing?

Hows this for fast?[sm=bananahead.gif][sm=spinnyeyes.gif]

bob27s

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A couple of folks flying the Stingers with Jett FIRE 50 engines - high timed - pipes - APC qm prop ..... getting legit QM40 speed from them - up in the 185 range. Id imagine with some TLC and the right prop, or maybe a full-blown FAI or F1 engine they will do 200. No landing gear, very low drag...... but if it had a fairing over the pipe and engine like the Beretta it might do better.

I think Hobby Barn offers the planes here in the US.

As Ed noted, the Candice or any good QM40 design can make a wonderful sport-speed aircraft. Very smooth, well behaved, fly like they are on rails.

Take a look at matneymodels.com at the Zoomer 500 too. It is a 'modified' Q-500 design, quick, easy to build (glass/foam).

LGM Graphix

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Just FYI, I just called and Hobby Barn doesn't have any of the Stinger 40 Speed airplanes left and aren't planning on getting anymore. I hate shops like that, if you are going to have it on your website, then be willing to get the damn things [:@]

MustangAce

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I like this one myself...............http://www.wildharerc.com/Products/Racer/racer.htm

Rudeboy

Jeremy, I think you can still order the Stinger 40 direct from Speedmodels in Holland... They are supposed to be back in production (Look had some problems with his back, but I think someone else is building them for him now)

LGM Graphix

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That's all fine and good, but looking at the pricing in europe, it's double the cost of what Hobby Barn was selling them for, plus shipping would be ridiculous unfortunately.

Rudeboy

I don't quite know if you people have something like VAT or sales tax in Canada, but if you don't then you can start by subtracting 17% from the Euro price.
And I don't think shipping would be ridiculous... depends on what you call ridiculous really...

LGM Graphix

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Rudeboy,
The advertised price doesn't include VAT or import charges, I only pay 7% tax in Canada, but the advertised price of 179 Euro comes to $262 Canadian, Hobby Barns price was $175USD which is $212 Canadian, not a huge difference I know, but the shipping of the Stinger 40 to Canada will probably be in the neighborhood of $100 (seriously, shipping to Canada for some reason is ridiculous)

Rudeboy

Where does it say 179 Euro...? On my screen it says 150 for the Stinger 40, which is what I payed for my kit last year (and that includes 17% VAT)...

If shipping to Canada really costs around 100$ (be it canadian or american), that would indeed be borderline to ridiculous... Maybe it costs less to ship to populated area's (more traffic), but if you're living back out in the woods somewhere 200 miles from the nearest depot... I can see it getting expensive...

LGM Graphix

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Hey bud, here's where it says 179Euro

http://www.corvidae.net/speedmodels/...inastinger.htm

Don't ask me why it's so expensive to ship to Canada, but it always seems to be, we have UPS, FedEx, DHL, Loomis, and postal outlets all right here in town, but they charge through the teeth. It's even worse when I have to ship out of Canada, the biggest issue when stuff is shipped UPS or FedEx is the broker fee's they charge to cross the border, usually around $60. So with brokerage and shipping, it's almost like buying 2 kits

Rudeboy

I see... you are right then Jeremy... I was still looking at the old Speedmodels webspace. You would think they'd take that off line to avoid confusion like that.

At least they include the small wood parts in the kit right now (fire wall and stuff)... I had to cut those myself...

LGM Graphix

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How do you like it? Is it worth spending $300USD for the plane and shipping (by the time it's here) for it? Or am I further ahead to just scratch build something?

Rudeboy

I like it... but I wouldn't spend 300$ on it...

The glass fuse is nice, but not perfect: the horizontal tailplane fairings are not positioned at exactly the same height left and right.

The wing is nice too, but not perfect either: both wing halves lined up nearly perfectly when I put them together, but when I held a long ruler over them, I could see the foam cores (there are two seperate pieces in each wing half) weren't perfect. They were cut either too fast, the cutting wire wasn't hot enough, or the wire tension wasn't what it should have been. This caused some wire lag... nothing dramatic, but it's there. The Obechi sheeting is very nice though.

The balsa-plywood-balsa laminated tailplanes were perfect.

300$... add another 200$ and you've got yourself an all composite, skin hinged QM40 plane... bolt on a QM40 engine and prop, and you're doing 180 out of the box. I think that's VERY good value for an ARF...
It's kinda like shipping a Dust over here... you end up with a 100$ box that contains nothing but some fibreglass tubes and a few lite ply parts... is that worth 100$? No, but it's still a lot of fun... [>:] Take your pick

LGM Graphix

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Thanks for the honest reply Rudeboy, I think I'll pass on the Stinger then for that kind of money. I'll likely just scratch build something, I don't have any QM40 engines left (got rid of all my really noisy stuff when the club field adopted a noise bylaw, now I have a new field to fly at but no noisy engines LOL) and I wouldn't want to put a WEST50 with a long pipe on a Q40 airframe, kinda seems like putting a chevy engine in a Ferrari, still a great engine, but hardly fitting for the car :P

THE_RED_BARON77

how bout a TEQUILA SUNRISE .25 witha .30 heli engine with tuuned pipes!! fun yet still fast