Help! F4U Corsair 1/8 60-90 ARF

[CAPT_STEVE]

Help! Anybody have any thoughts or experience with this kit?
http://www.jamara.de/com/produkte/flug/corsair/corsair_text.htm Quality ?Value? Flight ? Thanks a lot,
Steve
F4U Corsair 1/8 60-90 ARF
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[Pippen]

I have never seen nor heard of it, but just by the specs, I can tell you that you need to have had trainer experience, aerobatic experience, building experience, and all that. That looks like it should be a 3rd or 4th model At the earliest!!

What is your experience? before u buy, just make sure that you have the necassary experience to fly and biuld it. I would wait on it, if u have any doubts on your ability.

Looks like a sweet airplane though :D

[CAPT_STEVE]

Hi Pippen,
I agree with what you said nothing like having some experience. I've got all that you mentioned plus about 11,000 hrs hauling passengers around for the commuter airlines.... (not that flying full size helps with the actual hands on part of rc flying). We did recently get a fellow pilot into the rc and he soloed rc after about 4 flights amazing us, but I think he was an exception. I found a person that bought one of these kits from the same seller on ebay and he raved about the quality, claiming that it was the best ARF kit he's ever seen. That was enough for me so I bought a kit from the individual on ebay and I love it! The quality is awesome. Like you said it's not a first timers a/c because it's a 60 size and looks like it will be pretty fast, also the directions are not for a beginer leaving some to be done using common sense! Check out the guy on ebay some time http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=yuejin2002&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25 tell him "poisonivie2" sent you (my wife's ebay handel) and he may sell to you out side an auction.He's very trustworthy and ships very fast! Enclosed is a picture of me with my new toy after a long days work.(this is what it looks like just out of the box!)
take care,
Steve

[Pippen]

Hello Captain Steve,

Wow, that is a beuty of plane!! I just love those old warbirds. I own a Great Planes Easy sport, and it is my second model( third counting the trainer that I destroyed by flying without an instructer:mad: ) I hope the plane works out for you.

Good luck, and happy flying!!

[CAPT_STEVE]

Hello Again,
I've got an easy sport too that I've been playing with, it's a great little airplane. I have a supertiger 46 (i should run out in the garage to verify the size but I think thats it) and all though it will eventually run out of speed in the vertical it climbs incredibly well. Take offs from pavement are between 50 - 75 feet , from grass about 100. From what I've seen about the LA engines, I think there is a lot of excess vibration at least there is on 2 of my friends airplanes. I'm not sure how your model balances out but my easy sport could use a few more ounces in the nose so I don't think the extra weight will hurt you if you put a 60 in it but be care full of the speed. Mine is already very fast in level flight. I'm going to have to cut it short cause I need to be out at the airport @ 5 am this morning :-( !
Take care,
Steve

[Pippen]

Yes, easy sports are awsome!

You must have seen the post that I did about a .60 OS FX huh?
yep, that is what i would like to do, takeoffs take forever!! I could take a nap while waiting for it to lift off. :p Yes, my airplane needed alot more weight in the nose too. I had to add two 4 ounce lead balls just to get it to balance out at the CG. I takoff from a grassy, potholed runway, so I definitly need a little bigger engine. I wonder if i should go for the OS 50 SX instead? i am not sure, but i know that the .50 is $20 more than the .60, so i thought i would go for the bigger one.

Pippen