Hobby People WACO
The battery box is molded into the bottom of the fuselage (above left) and is a rather tight fit for the recommended 1500 mAh Li-Po battery. A plastic cover fits over the opening. Text has details. The pre-installed 2830 900Kv motor has right and down thrust built in and is fronted with a dummy seven-cylinder molding (above right) that provides some supporting scale detail. Additional scale details
feature nicely mounted twin windscreens (below left) and a printed instrument panel with cockpit interiors. Another nice scale touch is the propeller (below right), which is assembled from two separate blades as well as two hub pieces which are screwed together, adding a significant scale impression to the round cowl and radial engine.
the foam fuselage. Although the battery could be forced into position, it did put an undue amount of pressure on the plastic frame. Ultimately, I ended up cutting away some of the foam below the hard plastic frame to lessen the angle that the battery was required to negotiate in order to slip into its hook-and-loop mooring location. While I’m on the topic of the landing gear assembly and battery door area, let me ref-
erence one of the photos that shows a white paper label just ahead of hard plastic mold- ing. It is attached to the foam and reads “Keep hair, face and hands clear of the pro- peller”. Note that it is on the bottom side of the fuselage, not in any proximity to the pro- peller, and worse than that, cannot be re- moved without removing the paint from the EPO foam! I assume in our “Nanny” society, this label was installed by the same folks
that attach tags to mattresses that are not to be removed under penalty of law. Geez! The next step in the assembly process is in- stalling the radio receiver by attaching it to the inside of the fuselage using the provided square of double-sided tape, and hooking up the rudder, elevator, and aileron connections. An included Y-harness is used to connect the ailerons. Once everything inside the fuselage is hooked up, the opening is closed up by in-
The cabane struts are screwed to plastic mounting plates buried in the fuselage (above left) and an angle that allows them to mate accurately with the corresponding anchor plates in the wing. The individual aileron servos are pre-
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mounted in the wing. Formed pushrods (above right) are attached to the aileron control horns, which are also pre-mounted. Changing the location of the pushrod ends did require drilling out the servo arms and the control horns.
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