Creek Hobbies Quest - 90

[Henderson,Eric]

 	I was in the hobby shop today, (when are we never not?) due to bad weather, and the owner hit me up for a loan of my YS 91. As he was bending my arm it became clear that he wanted to put it in a newly arrived Quest. I had one paid for since the WRAM show so I declined to loan and opted to take mine home with me. He was happy either way because he wanted one in the air ASAP locally. A week from now is possible....

The plane came in another color, other than that girly pink that got me into trouble the last time I said it so I won't this time :-)) The pink was replaced with a more manly red! So they pulled one out of the pile in the warehouse and loaded it into my van...

As I type this my #2 son is cutting the box up for trash day on Monday and to make room in my small town house. The Swallow created some space because she went to a good home in Brooklyn NY, last weekend so I have the engine and RX/servos etc. ready to install. The prototype looked promising as a good AMA 401-404 pattern plane. This time I get to weigh the parts. This is what you find in the box.

Normal ARF hardware. An instruction CD that I just printed off and saved on my lap to so that I can read it on the plane and make update/notes.

Weights.

Stab						 5.2
Rudder					 1.2
Pants						 2.0
U/C						 6.0
Long cowl					 5.0	
Wing 1					14.0
Wing 2					14.0
Canopy					 3.8
Fuse- inc. fin and Wing fairing	25.8

That's 72 oz before assembly and "ironware" is added (4.5 lbs). I figure about 3lbs of additional stuff and we will have a 7.5lb plane with a YS 91 on the front. This 91 pulled a 9lb plane straight up... so it looks promising in that dept. If not there's always a YS 1.10 coming soon... :-) predicted weight is 3.4-3.8kg

Wooden fuselage with a long shell of a cowl. Tinted canopy - at last!- and span is 1840mm/72-7/16" one piece wing with a wing area 62 sq dm.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating but this one tastes good so far...Here's hoping another viable ARF is out there to entice more pattern Newbies...

Regards,

Eric.


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