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Joe Sobotka
This was the very first kit that I ever assembled. I did put together 2 ARF's before the Wright Flier, (and 2 micros). I opened the box and asked myself, What did I get myself into? But after going through the instructions and contents of the box, I was confident I could build the Dare Wright Flier. The kit itself has nice laser cut parts, and clear instructions. For a "rookie" it was not too difficult to build ( with a couple of emails to Pat :). In fact I had a great deal of fun, and sense of great accomplishment when finished. It looks very scale like, the best I've seen so far, for a RC Wright Flier. The first flight, I was very nervous, but it came of very well. Sorry no pics in flight yet, but here's one just after I finished the build. The "engine" looks blue in the pic, but its actually gray. All in all, I had great fun building, and hopefully more fun and many more flights :)

Thanks for a great kit and design. You can't go wrong with this one.

Joe

Gary Bullock
Los Angeles, CA - The model is the P-26 by Mike Midkiff.
I have always wanted to build a flyable P-26, and tried several years ago with the Sterling kit, to no avail. The Mike Midkiff design is ingenious, light, stable and ultimately a delight to behold. I used the blue tissue included in the kit, but opted for lightspan for the wing and tail feathers, because it is stronger, and a better color yellow than the  tissue in the kit. I worked up the decals on my computer, also using an old image of the “arrowhead” emblem I had. The RC system is a Berg Microstamp receiver with two feather servos, and an Astro Flight 010 brushless with planetary gearing, running on a 3-cell 1200 mah LiPoly pack. Empty weight (without battery) is 12 oz. Did I say it flies well? It does.

Sean Tamblyn
Atlanta, Ga (Georgia Tech)
Comments: I bought a Verti-Go kit and built it as a 3-ch park flyer to use here in downtown Atlanta. It has GWS pico receiver, microservo's and a geared 180 motor with a 700ma 2-cell Li-Po. This model is designed to be rubber-powered but handles the RC conversion very well with few modifications. I modified the kit by adding a separate firewall for the motor, adding an interior balsa support to mount the servos, and by fabricating the rudder and elevator control surfaces. The only thing I didn't account for is the landing gear, which is much too wobbly to allow for an actual takeoff. Landing are nice and soft though. This kit flies very well with the added weight of RC equipment....I can't imagine how long it must stay up with several hundred turns of rubber. The laser-cut parts went together well and the balsa quality was good. I covered the kit with tissue and I used the glue stick and clear krylon method. This is a fairly new method of covering for me but it was the quickest, least messy, and I am happy with the results. Thanks!

Dwight Gregson
I talked to one of you this summer when I bought this Luscombe. You were interested that I was going to make an electric (4) channel out of it. It has a Himax Outrunner HC2816 motor, 10 X 4.7 slow fly prop. I use a 3 cell lipo 1500ma battery and JR Lite 4 channel radio. 

It flies really well on 1/2 throttle. Full throttle is too much at level flight. 

It was a good kit to build. All the parts were cut perfect. I have only one negative about the kit and is was not a problem for me but it could be for an inexperienced builder. There was no windshield layout on the plans. Other than that, perfect! 

Here's a few pictures. I will probably be ordering another kit soon.
Regards,  Dwight Gregson

Tres Wright
Forney, Texas
Pat Tritle designed Fokker, Dare kit # 505 EL.

I finally completed my Dr.-1 and have now flown it many times. It is outstanding!!! I really love it. I was expecting it to be a slow floater, but it has proven to be quite aerobatic. I'm running a Razor 400 on it in a GWS "C" gearbox with 10x4.7 prop, Phoenix 10 ESC, 3s 1050 Apogee lipo pack, GWS Pico servos and Berg microstamp receiver. Preliminary flight weight without pack was 10.6 oz, weight with pack was 13.3 oz. After adding the detailing described below it picked up 0.9 oz., but still flies just as nicely. I easily get over 15 minutes of aerobatic flight. Inside loops are as big or small as you want, outside loops are easily done, rudder rolls will leave you swearing it has ailerons, spins are tight with a pretty slow descent. Even does a fair hammerhead. But ease the throttle back to 1/4 and it behaves like a slow flyer, cruises around majestically and looks fantastic doing so! Wheels are handmade by Keith Sparks, radial is from Dare (I used carbon fiber for the pushrods), guns are spandaus from Wright Bros. and the pilot head was stolen from an old plastic model kit and installed on a scratch-built balsa torso. Cowl, lower wing and struts are all held in place with rare earth magnets and are removable. Pictures attached.

Thanks!  -  --Tres

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