![]() ![]() ![]() Model ended up balancing nose heavy with no weight added to achieve proper CG. Things I added apart from stock was meister scale dummy tank, small ladder made from brass tubing, my own scale pilot with some extra detail to the cockpit, landing lights and one coat of black spray paint adding no primer as to achieve a weight under 24 pounds. As you can see from the pics put many details into the plane with a final weight of 23.6 pounds dry with DLE 61 for power. ![]() Small video clip attached of me taking off is literally the nature in which I flew the plane "very scale" with the exception of one intentional stall to learn the characteristics of the plane. It was only my third flight after maiden which had only flown 3 level flights with no aerobatics of any kind during all three flights. Im also calling out Tower Hobbies/ Horizon Hobbies and Phoenix models customer support whom after two weeks of multiple attempts to contact by me and fellow AMA members on my behalf haven't heard a peep from either.ΔΆ weeks ago I lost my Phoenix Models Westland Lysander to premature left wing failure which gave away snapping off in level flight at cruising speeds. I dont post very much, do mostly reading but in this case after losing over $1200 on a very poorly built arf thought I would share my experience and warn anyone interested in buying a phoenix models plane. ![]()
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