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I was not irritated with it, I thought it would be nice to let the modeler cut out his own holes. I am very pleased with this kit and am having a blast building it, should be lots of fun. I am starting to mess around with the internal components and was wondering if you guys that have flown one like the CG at the 5 3/4'' mark?, what kind of plus or minsu do we have to work with? I am trying to keep CG in mind as I install parts, Just wanna make sure!

Chris

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Strato,

My comments were directed at Birdseed, but I was just messin with him. Big grin while writing it......

I'll see if I can dig up some test flight data for you....

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Thanks Shaun!

Chris

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Yellow,

Not disputing the price or quality of the kit, im very happy with that. :D
What im saying is that why bother making a hole in the first place if it isnt the right size.
Why make a hole at all as you suggest. It would seem to fit that if youre going to do it at all it ought to be the right size. Another 2 cm would do it, and aint going to increase the workload of the producer or the price to the buyer to make a 8cm hole 10cm long. :confused:

i know strato says he rather cut his own holes, i, as another customer buying a ARF jet would rather have the holes cut, but i am just lazy. ;)

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Who says it's an ARF ?

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Hi guys.

This is the last photo of my Stingray before priming. I took it yesterday. During the comming weekend, I wil paint it, and hopefully have it ready for testfligt by next weekend.

http://www.jetdk.dk/IM001327.JPG

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Stig, look out, the speed brake flew off already!

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OH NO!!!!!! Now what do I do?

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Daugher Christine with the result so far. I still need to do some painting, but soon I will start mounting all the goodies.
http://www.jetdk.dk/Kopi%20af%20IM001334.JPG

I found the speedbrake again :)

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VERY nice!

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Nice work! I am almost ready to glass the wings, I have been mounting all of the internal components, talk about cramped! I will try to have some pics up this week of the inside.

Chris

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Dam you stole my colors! ;) I want to put my Stingray in bright yellow too, all in one color and striped.

Very nice work,

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I finally got all of the turbine gear where it will fit and the CG is happy, talk about a tight fit! A friend suggested I use plexiglass to make the plate instead of the ply so I could see inside the plane more so I decided to give it a try. I think it turned out good, tell me what you guys think.

Chris

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another angle

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mounted up

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at home

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another

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Last one for now. I will be glassing this week and finishing up with the air system and radio install and then it is off to the paint booth, grocery store for Depends and then the flying field!!

Chris

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Stig,

Looks great ! You're pretty fast !

Chris,

The plexiglass is a cool idea. I also like the curly fries job on your servo lead. Any special technique to do that ?

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Thanks Marc, my buddy Brett actually thought of the plexiglass so he gets all the credit. To make the servo wire curly fry thing just wrap it around a screwdriver and pull it out and voila!, use different sizes of driver for bigger or smaller loops.

Chris

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Chris,
That's what I thought but I was wondering if you heat set it with a heat gun or something like that.

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Hello Stingray fans.

I finnaly got to fly my Stingray. It was at the jetmeeting we had in Denmark this past weekend. I am very pleased with the model. It is very stable and the speedbrake is also OK. Here are some pic's.

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Rolling to a start with tha SimJet 1200 running.

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Comming in for a landing with the speedbrake deployed. Sorry for the bad quality of the pics, but I had to edit them to get them on this forum. I wil post a URL to my HP in the next days, where I wil post alle the pics of my Stingray flights. I had 7 flights with it, and got used to it almost right away. I set the control throws on tha ailerons a bit down. The were a bit to big for my taste. But that is individual.

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Hi Stig,

Some have said the Stingray eats a lot of runway from the high landing speed and limited effect of the stock speedbrake. How did yours perform on landing?

My stingray is about a month way from its first flight.
Thanks,
Kelly