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| A competition product to the well established Multiplex Easy Star: Construction / tuning: The colour scheme of this new plane immediately pleased my eye when I spotted it in one of the Hungarian model shops. In addition the plane came with all RC equipment (except receiver) pre-installed, boosted an installed brushless in-runner motor, ailerons and all servos. Even the stickers were already fixed! After opening the box, all parts were nicely wrapped in foil and fixed in a foam mould. All servos were properly glued in place, the rudders attached as elastic flaps and all servo-rudder connections made. A strong CFK rod was provided to connect the wing halves. The only tuning I made from the beginning was to fix a proper APC propeller - versus the provided prop - which looked more like a rubber motor propeller. Within 10 minutes the plane was assembled! Only one thing had to be glued: the elevator and rudder - with the provided 5-min epoxy glue this was done in no time. After installation of the receiver, the rudders were checked and the transmitter programmed. I did programme butterfly, but it is not needed as you may see in the video - the plane can be flown very slow - without stall tendency. The only negative point - the very nice 4-colour manual did not provide the CG point! So for the first flight I assumed 35 % from the depth of th wing measured where it inserts into the fuselage. Actually this plane looks very similar to the Easy Star (Multiplex) - the foam quality is equal and the fuselage is even re-enforced with a CFK rod to provide more stability. Ready, lets take this new Alpha for a spin! |
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Flight Experience:
Same day when I finished the plane I took it to the field to try it out!
Rudder check, range check, motor check - one last check of the CG -
and off it went!
Straight the plane pulled away with a tendency to go up too much. A few
clicks down and it was perfect! Now the usual tests followed... dive -
yep, the CG was ok, speed - plane would need a bit of down
programmed at full speed, roles - do not come well as the ailerons are
rather small, looks - ok, upside down flight - ok, quite some down
rudder needed to keep the plane level. Stall test - what stall? This is
unknown to the plane - it just puts down the nose and picks up speed.
Overall very gentle handling - perfect for beginners!
Next came the extreme low flying - and that was the real forte of this
plane and actually why I bought it - to provide some nice inflight videos
filmed from very low level flying! See for yourself in the video provided
below.
Preparation for video-flights:
The fixing of the flycamone V2 eco on top of the fuselage was a matter of
seconds. It was fixed with a strip of double tape. For security reasons a
rubber band ensures that it wont fly away in any case!
| Other videos you will find here! |
Sample video from the producer....
