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| 962.1 | yuck | DISCVR::JONEILL | | Fri Apr 14 1989 10:18 | 1 |
| MARKS JEMCO (now Dynaflight) fun scale mustang (.60 size)
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| 962.2 | Sleepy Hollow | K::FISHER | Stop and Smell the Balsa! | Fri Apr 14 1989 10:40 | 17 |
| > I can't see making ailerons out of Rib Tips and sheeting. Yes....the
> ailerons are hollow!
Ken - hollow ailerons are quite common - I have hollow ailerons on my
Aeromaster and the 2 Berliner-Joyce's. I have had problems with solid
ailerons when the balsa was not real hard. Sheeting over rib caps makes
ailerons very rigid and the covering over that can add a lot more
rigidity and strength. The plans may stink but the ailerons might be OK.
P.S. The Mark Models fun scale (.40) sized Mustang also had poor
instructions - but my greatest complaint was the strength of the
forward fuselage.
Bye --+--
Kay R. Fisher |
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| 962.3 | Royal's Cessna 172 | CLOSUS::TAVARES | John -- Stay low, keep moving | Fri Apr 14 1989 14:56 | 7 |
| Royal's Cessna 172 -- the bulkheads are drawn every which way, so
you have to try and fit them on the drawing to figure out which
side goes up, and one bulkhead, the last one is completely wrong.
Also, the model from the plans is a mix-match of several year's
versions. But I've a hunch that this last one is relatively
common.
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| 962.4 | Sun Fli 4-20 | PTOMV4::MATSCHERZ | | Wed Apr 19 1989 18:36 | 10 |
| BEWARE,
The "quality" of some of Great planes' products are not so quality.
I recently built and crashed a bad example of a Sun-Fli 4-20. It
had some of the worst plans I had ever seen and they were wrong
to boot.
PS The plane was real fast!
Steve M in the Pitts....
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| 962.5 | A CERTAIN AMOUNT IS TO BE EXPECTED, GUYS.... | PNO::CASEYA | THE DESERT RAT (I-RC-AV8) | Wed Apr 19 1989 19:46 | 29 |
| Just to make a general statement on the subject, I'd like to submit
that, the further one advances from the beginners' stage, the less
and less detailed become the plans/instructions included in kits.
Logic suggests that the mfgr's assume (perhaps rightly so) that
the more building experience one attains (as indicated by the
complexity of the kit), the less specific/detailed the plans/
instructions need to be. This holds true up thru and including high
caliber scale kits which include little more than a rough construction
drawing and literally no written instructions whatever. The builder
is assumed to have the skill/ability to lay out and build in such
things as flaps, retracts etc.
I appreciate that a newcomer would be dumfounded should he come
into possession of one of these kits, but that's my point: stay
within your skill level at any given point in time and be prepared
to find less and less "glue-tab-A-into-slot-A" type instructions
as your skills and the complexity of your models increases. There
comes a time when you no longer need that extent of detail and the
mfgr's, realizing this, leave it out.
On the other hand, I'll offer no defense for a set of sloppy,
inaccurate or just plain _bad_ plans/instructions.
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| | 00 Adios, Al
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| Z__(O_\_ (The Desert Rat)
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| 962.6 | Royal Electronics | POBOX::KAPLOW | Set the WAYBACK machine for 1982 | Thu Apr 20 1989 19:24 | 6 |
| I don't recall the name they use now, but Royal RC (the
electronics part of the company) has horrible instructions for
their kits. Many things were left out (like connect the RF board
output to the antenna), many were wrong (polarity on the charger),
many were confusing or unclear. Their 1/2A receiver wasn't as bad
as the rest, but I'd avoid these in kit form.
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