20-05-2012, 05:15 PM
Hobbyking B17 1850 wingspan Both Paul and myself spent the best part of saturday building so I could maiden today I was up at 4am to do finishing touches and the C of G. I used 2 3300 3 cell 70c nano batteries and orange 8 channel receiver on a 14mz transmitter after set-up at the field and a range check I eased the throttle in rolling quite easy tail lifted and now air born 3 clicks right rudder trim and perfect flight having been a long time advocate of buy cheap get cheap I to say the least have been very pleasantly surprised by this planes performance it does not have any bad trends and fly s flawlessly on 1/2 throttle. The landing with flap and the gear down didnt cause handling issues and the aircraft settles very nice on 1/4 power floated on the runway perfect touchdown the mains first the the tail by my account a very nice airframe and extremely stable even when the wind turned up still nice to fly I have since ordered the 750w motors and master air screw 9x7x3 blade pusher and normal props as they believe it will make a huge difference to it I also intend to remove the tape hinges on the flaps and replace with robart pin hinges I used lock tight on all metal screws and the one issue I had was on the outboard left hand wing the motor mount kept coming loose however iI have since fixed with some silicone that should stop the problem other than that a perfect model Paul will post the video later