Extreme Flight 110" Yak54 - GP-123

[Joe Hunt]

[Joe Hunt]

Looky what showed up today:

Mangled box, but no damage that I could find.

[Joe Hunt]

Things' got a canopy cover, wing bags, and stab bags. A pilot, too. The quality of wood and assembly, along with the packaging, seems very H9ish. Meaning great. I flew Mike Domo's recently and loved it, so I got one. Even though Mike's had an old style (heavy) DA-150 on it.

I checked out the fuse carefully right where that major box crushing was done... couldn't fin any damage:

[Joe Hunt]

Going with eight Hitec 9380s and one Hitec 9360 on the throttle. These are truly amazing servos.

[Joe Hunt]

Off topic... I finally was able to get some 9380s again... so I took the JR MPH83T-M2 with 8711HV case tops out of my Pilot RC 122" wings and replaced them with the 9380s... nice. Oh, JR servos for sale. haha I programmed the 9380s vs the options... just because I enjoy programming. haha It does have some benefits, as well.

[Joe Hunt]

I did the standard thin CA soak all the joints... I went through a new 1oz bottle of ZAP thin CA on the fuse.

[Joe Hunt]

Since the fuel tank is over the wingtube (and therefore over the CG) the tank resides partly up inside the hatch. So, you can see quite a bit of the inside of the plane. I bought my plane at http://www.northwestrc.com and @SupaTim was nice enough to use this blue carbon fiber plywood so it would look nice. He says he'll do it for anyone that asks. Just kidding! I got some blue CF vinyl and put it on... just wanted to be a little fancy, you know. hehe

[Joe Hunt]

The length of the pushrods will be much better here than on my Pilot RC planes, but the control horn location is still not exactly where I'd like to see it. What surprises me is that after all these years (a dozen in fact since I showed it improved in a review) the slots for the control horns are still not wide enough for a conical on each side of the ball joint.

[Joe Hunt]

The hinges are not glued in which makes me very happy. I'd prefer all ARFs came this way. One it allows me to add hinges to each end of each aileron, etc. And, two it allows me to glue them in solidly with good glue.

[Joe Hunt]

About the control horns, I could always use DUBRO bolts like I did on my Pilot RC 122". Then I can put them where I like them and fine tune the height for perfect synchronization throughout the range of travel. But, I'm going to give it a go stock and see how it works out on the protractors.