Darin Jordan
01-03-2012, 09:21 AM
About two weeks ago, I crashed my ParkZone F-27Q Stryker 180 plane after one of the aileron control rods slipped through the control horn, locking on the aileron and causing the plane to do a nose-in spiral into the ground from about 30ft... Plane was trashed. Andy Kunz told me to send him the guts and he's build me something cool to replace it... Here is the build thread he did for it (on RC Groups):
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1561429
He's an AMAZING builder. I can't believe how quickly he's able to turn something like this out.
Watching Andy (Kunz) build up the Ultra-Micro Shrike this past two weeks got me excited to build a plane again. I've spent the last 6 or 7 years building FE boats and helping Pro Boat develop some fine RTR boats... I think it's time for a plane for myself.
I've had one of the pair of Ace Pacer 1/2A plane kits shown in the pictures for over 20 years. I had it JUST about finished, and had to put it in storage, where a litter of kittens (at my father's house) decided to eat the tail off of it and did some other damage.
The other kit was purchased from E-Bay as a parts plane. Both have been in storage for a LONG time...
I think I'm going to finish up my original plane (White/Blue winged) using a E-Flight Six-Series 2000KV motor with E-Flight 40A ESC, probably starting on 3S.
I'm going to try to build up the second one as well (as long as I'm fabbing replacement parts for the one, I might as well finish the other!)... I may see if I can make it work with floats, so I can take it to the Boat races with me.
More to come. I can't build as fast as Andy can, so this may take awhile. I still have boats to build as well...
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1561429
He's an AMAZING builder. I can't believe how quickly he's able to turn something like this out.
Watching Andy (Kunz) build up the Ultra-Micro Shrike this past two weeks got me excited to build a plane again. I've spent the last 6 or 7 years building FE boats and helping Pro Boat develop some fine RTR boats... I think it's time for a plane for myself.
I've had one of the pair of Ace Pacer 1/2A plane kits shown in the pictures for over 20 years. I had it JUST about finished, and had to put it in storage, where a litter of kittens (at my father's house) decided to eat the tail off of it and did some other damage.
The other kit was purchased from E-Bay as a parts plane. Both have been in storage for a LONG time...
I think I'm going to finish up my original plane (White/Blue winged) using a E-Flight Six-Series 2000KV motor with E-Flight 40A ESC, probably starting on 3S.
I'm going to try to build up the second one as well (as long as I'm fabbing replacement parts for the one, I might as well finish the other!)... I may see if I can make it work with floats, so I can take it to the Boat races with me.
More to come. I can't build as fast as Andy can, so this may take awhile. I still have boats to build as well...