A Play Pattern Plane

[Jerry Budd]

Hi Bpb,

Before you fly your Excelleron 90 I'd suggest that you use some CA to 
make sure the balsa triangular reinforcing blocks attached to the 
back of the landing gear plate are actually bonded to the fuselage 
sides.  On the second flight of Terri Hemmis' Excelleron 90 a couple 
of weekends ago she rolled off the side of the runway (more like 
taxied actually) into some mud and the gear plate ripped out.  Upon 
inspection, there was no glue between the reinforcing strips and the 
fuselage sides.  Easily fixed but better to avoid the problem with 
some CA before first flight.

BTW - I haven't flown it, but Tony Frackowiak said that he flew the 
full FAI sequence with Terri's last weekend and that it flew really 
well (it has a YS110 in it).

Thx, Jerry


>Yes around 3 bills for the ARF; less than 2 bills for the BFK
>
>In a message dated 11/17/2004 10:06:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>rcaerobob at cox.net writes:
>
>Well, it's a lot closer to a triple hundred bucks....but still a 
>bargain, at least appearance-wise.  I would NEVER cover something, 
>anything, as well as this one is.  And they even put on a 
>highly-differentiated top to bottom color scheme so we can tell up 
>from down.  Nice, thick wing, triple-taper, airfoil stab, huge 
>elevators.  Has as much fuse side area as my Arresti, almost.
>
>Bob Pastorello
>NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
><mailto:rcaerobob at cox.net>rcaerobob at cox.net
><http://www.rcaerobats.net/>www.rcaerobats.net
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Rcmaster199 at aol.com>Rcmaster199 at aol.com
>To: <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>discussion at nsrca.org
>Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:02 PM
>Subject: Re: A Play Pattern Plane
>
>Bobby, another friend is building the kit and has told me similar 
>things about the kit. Only a couple hundred bucks for this thing. 
>It's good value, and I hear they fly without mixing; even better
>
>Matt
>
>In a message dated 11/17/2004 9:58:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
><mailto:rcaerobob at cox.net>rcaerobob at cox.net writes:
>
>Just a quick update, probably not news-worthy - but - I have my 
>Excelleron 90 almost RTF, just waiting on the motor, then some minor 
>stuff.  The update is that it seems even with the 1.20 I'm putting 
>on it, it will still be around 8lb 10oz.  And it is a very well done 
>ARF.  Covering quality, accuracy of all the pre-building is 
>terrific.  Heck, they even have the wing dowels glued and the 
>retaining blind nuts installed, with the wing pre-drilled for THOSE 
>!!!  And it's all STRAIGHT !!!
>
>Figuring on first launch around T-day or thereabouts, and I'll post 
>a little post-flight report.  But if anyone is looking for a 
>first-class, easy-to-do "90" size pattern bird, you could sure do a 
>LOT worse than this one.
>
>Bob Pastorello
>
>


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