pawnshopmike
Staff member
Guess I can't dodge this bullet any longer so may as well get this thread started. I picked up a DA 50 almost a year ago now. Been looking for something to mount it on ever since. I have plenty of 3D birds already. So I've been wanting a giant scale lazy day flyer to play around with. My first choice was the AMR Trainer 50 until I found out they raised the price to $600. So I've been searching the classifieds for several months looking for a bargain. Stumbled across this NOS World Engines Robin Hood 99 kit for $225.00 shipped and decided I couldn't pass it up.
My kit building experience is very limited. Built a few Guillows free flight planes and the only RC kit I've built was a 48" Mountain Models L4 Grasshopper. Which was a breeze. Mountain Models laser cut kits are absolutely awesome works of precision art. Pretty much everything this 198o's kit isn't. I quickly realized after opening up the box and dragging out the plans and parts that I'm in way over my IQ level. I'll be relying heavily on my R/C brothers to get this thing anywhere near resembling a flying machine.
I've spent the better part of 2 evening drinking beer and looking at the plans trying to make sense of them. I'm pretty sure the plans are like those 3D Hidden Images posters that were all the rage back in the 90's. I just need to drink more beer and cross my eyes till I figure it out.
Remember these things?
See what I'm saying about the hidden 3D images. I can almost see an airplane if I drink enough beers and cross both eyes.
I'm not a good builder. Or a smart builder. But I make up for it by being really slow.
So stay tuned and be patient...very patient, and maybe just maybe, I'll someday get thing off the ground.
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