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- From: bs464@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duncan R. McCoy)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Hobby Shack Birdie 40
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 18:19:41 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: bs464@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duncan R. McCoy)
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- My wife bought me a Hobby Shack Birdie 40 for Father's Day and,
- after a very hot summer in Southern Nevada, I'm finally getting
- it together.
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- It looks like it'll be a pretty nice airplane, nice lines, semi
- semmetrical airfoil, long moments should make for a smooth flyer.
- It'll be powered with a Magnum Pro .45. The plane is ready to
- cover now and I have a few comments.
-
- It would be nice if Hobby Shack would supply the kit with plans
- printed on only one side of the sheet. As supplied, the fuse views
- are on one side and wing and stab are on the other. Balsa supplied
- tended to the hard side but not as hard as some of the Hobby
- Dynamics kits and was workable. ***ALL SPAR STOCK WAS ARROW-STRAIGHT!
- Plywood supplied for formers, firewall and engine mount was not very
- good quality wood. Die cutting of balsa parts was excellent.
-
- Construction is essentially conventional with no major problems
- encountered, instructions were easy to follow but somewhat lacking
- in the kind of step-by-step illustrations we enjoy in Goldberg
- and Sig kits.
-
- The wing root is but joined then covered with 1/8" ply on both
- sides. Plans do not call for glassing the wing root and with the
- ply going across, it seems plenty strong. I think I'll try it
- without glass and see how it holds together.
-
- If this plane flies as good as it builds, then for $50 it's really
- a bargain. Hobby Shack just sent around a flyer with a special
- price on this plane for September of $45.
-
- This will be the first Birdie .40 to be seen at our field. I expect
- with the new price, we'll see some more.
-
- Anybody in Netland have any experience with this plane? Let us all
- know whether it's any good or not.
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- Duncan R. McCoy
- Boulder City, NV
- bs464@cleveland.freenet.edu
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