I am getting ready to start my Tiger 60. This will be my first kit. Are there any suprises I should look out for. (I have a trainer, and a FW 190 also. I have yet to fly the fighter though) My trainer was an ARF, and my buddies helped me put it together. Thanks in advance, Loren

If all else fails.....READ THE DIRECTIONS!!!!!!

Seriously though...read the directions FIRST....and study the plans before starting...... Surprising enuff...a LOT of people believe in the first statement I made.....they just start sticking things together and hitting them with the CA.....THEN.....when everything goes wrong.....

THEY ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE DIRECTIONS!!!!!!!!!

Good luck and remember........

WATCH OUT for........................

THEM!!!!!!

I have built 2 Tiger 60's (Deluxe,Standard) and a tiger 40. On the trailing edge stock it has notches cut into it for the ribs. On all three of them not all the notches lined up. It is easy to fix, line the stock up on the plans, mark where the notches should be and then with a razor saw cut the notches. On both 60's the fuse's were a pain to keep square when gluing. I had to keep alot of pressure on the fuse as well as holding a square and glueing. Decide before you build if you want the tricycle gear or a tail dragger. The plane handels great as a tail dragger. If you decide to go that way, you dont have to put the ply pieces in the wing to hold the tricycle gear. Other then that they are awesome flying planes. I went from a trainer to the tiger 40. It was so much easier to fly and land. It was faster but easier. By the way both Tiger 60's that I have built have been for friends. If you have any guestions dont hesitate to ask

Michael

I picked up a tiger 60 that was built but not covered, it has the tricycle gear config. For the tail dragger config where would the plans say to locate the main landin gear?

thanks

Ditto on "read the book". Read it a few times before ever starting.

I seem to remember the TE stock for the tips (and/or maybe the center section) were not as thick as the aileron stock, and I had to add a piece of sheeting to make it match.

Build the 40 with a servo for each aileron.

I agree about getting the fuselage straight. Don't use CA so that you have time to move it around. I used the method of marking a line on the center of each former (at the bottom) and then lining the centerlines with a line drawn down your building board.

Mine is a Tigger 60. It's orange with black stripes and Tigger is the pilot. Kids love it! Its about 10 years old and still flies great. It's got a Saito 80 in it. It is the best landing airplane I've ever flown.

I just finished triming out my Tiger 60. Hope to have it in the air very soon. Found no problems in the construction, just have patience and follow the directions.

flyday; My Tiger 60 is the Deluxe with tricycle retracts, but I will check to see if my instructions and plans indicate where the tail dragger mounts.

I have several pictures of it, as well as construction pictures here

I built the Tiger 60 kit and the Tiger 2 ARF.
In both cases the plane is quite tail heavy and in both cases, even after balancing with a heavy spinner and some weights, the plane will sit very precariuosly in the trycicle gear... it may drop the tail if hiting a bump while taxing or taking off.
To correct the last I raked the wing mounted mains back something like 1/2". Incidentally, those wing mounted mains are far apart and the landings are made very easy.
If you built the taildragger option it may correct both problems since the mains will be forward and the tailwheel mill probably not add too much weight to the tail end. But then the mains are going to be closer together...
In any case, it flies like a dream...
Albert

I built my Tiger exactly as the instructions said for everything BUT, On the cowling I fiberglasses that area from the firewall forward, inside and out. I also painted the inside of the Fuel Tank Compartment with thined epoxy to seal this entire area. Which I think I may have coincidentally defeated the tail heavy characteristic of this plane during construction. I'm using a O.S. 61FX. I used some scrap plywood to make triangles to reinforce the plywood inserts that hold down the wing, as per the advice of this website. Last but not least I did NOT use the provided stock for the wing tips. I simply capped these off with 3/32 balsa and called it a day. I flew one of these kits that was "beefed up" Not too terribly heavey but there were some noticable wieght bearing additions made to this persons kit and it really discourged me when I checked out the performance. I carried on with mine and did my best to try and make the kit as absolutely lite as possible. What a HUGE difference. Make this kit as lite as you can. It's a real SLOW and GENTLE landing plane, so there is no need to beefe anything up. The Aerobatics are TRUELY sport like in that it will do all manuevers very well with some proactice. Pefect airplane for moving away from the trainer and into midly ADVANCED Aerobatics.

I built 2 Tiger 60 Deluxe kits at once. These two were actually number 2 and 3 as the first one went down in a mid air with a trainer.
The construction is straight forward as previously mentioned. All three of the kits I built needed no additional weight to balance them. Make sure you have good joint match ups before glueing parts together and it will be light and strong.
As previously mentioned, they fly great.

Enjoy!

flyday; The plans for my Deluxe kit do not show the location of the gear for a tail dragger configuration. I am sure the mains would have to mount in front of the spar for a tail dragger configuration. That's where they mount on my tail dragger Ultra Sport, which has wing mounted gear.

Hey KatManDEW

I noticed on you page that you fly off grass. How do the retracts work out flying form this surface?

I have not had any problem flying off grass, but our grass field is REAL nice. Actually, the only time I have bent one of the gear was when flying from a paved field at another club, and one wheel caught the edge of the pavement and it bent back a little.

Could you please tell me where the Center of Gravity is supposed to be on the tiger 60?

thanks

John

The range is 3 3/4" and 4 3/4" as measured from the leading edge according to my plans.

Regards

Craig

I have just come to the finishing stages with my Tiger 2, and even with extra care in building the fusealage, I still ended up with an oh so slight twist in it. How..... I dont know, so like the others said, be carefull and have patients. In my manual, very last page was suggestions for taildragger option, see if there isnt something in yours too. My main gear is right at the leading edge of the wing. Have fun!

I built the Tiger 2 from a kit as a taildragger. Mine was a new "old stock" kit, and had no directions for making a taildragger, so I improvised. I just used the mounting blocks supplied with the kit, but I reversed them, right side stuff went into the left side and vice versa. And I mounted them in front of the spar rather than behind. I used a Du-bro tailwheel assembly mounted to the underside of the fuse, and controlled by the rudder. Since the hinge line of the rudder is angled, I made a ply "wedge" to mount the tail gear to so that the wire going to the rudder would be at a perfect 90 degrees. Works perfect.