![]() ![]() The top of the box is completely open so as to easily install the tank, or the motor and battery wiring with ESC. As you can see, the plywood box comes not epoxied together so you can make the choice of engine power or electric power. ![]() Here you go as promised, a picture of the front of the fuselage and the retracts. I will submit some more pics soon of the inside, after all that is where the value lies, in that "sandwich composite" construction. I need the sound of that engine horsing it around and I hate waiting on batteries to charge. The Spinner is a heavy duty Aluminum spun in a 4.25" size. I will show pictures of these this weekend, but I have delivered the specs to CJM to make an American made set so a new owner of this plane can have a choice. The manufacturer makes a set of electric retracts for it, quite robust with a 1/2" strut. The Chinese have flight tested it, but this is one of the first production units in the states. It is wonderfully designed for choice and one doesn't have to modify anything to choose engine power or electric. The entire top of the Canopy/Hatch is removable for battery access. There is a big gap in the top of the box for air cooling the battery and ESC. The area under the cowl has a standard box like plywood fixture for the engine, one must epoxy it all together, and reinforce it if you want an engine, or there is an optional box for electric that slides over the engine box and voila, the electric motor bolts to this piece. They even have a power package to offer all figured out for you. ![]() Yes Eddie, the plane is designed for either engines or electric power. I will post more pics as assembly progresses. See pics, this is the first installment of this build thread for this awesome Spit. This plane is so completely preassembled, I am confident it could be flying in two days of arrival. With the retracts installed, the engine installed, all of the batteries, the aluminum spinner and prop with all of the radio gear, I would be surprised if the entire weight of the plane breaks 18lbs. This engine will cowl in with a pitts muffler, well you have to make cooling holes. I am installing the EME 35cc engine because for a 35 it is an animal, all of the EME engines are. The wings WITH the aluminum tubes installed in them weigh two lbs. I have weighed each piece of this plane and was surprised to discover that the fuselage weighs in at 3 lbs. The control rod to the elevator is pre made, the hatch is preinstalled and aligned the tailwheel assembly is done and ready to install. Another love, is the fiberboard control horns, all predone and preslotted. No fussing around here, just a drop of epoxy in the holes and it went together quickly. Another thing I noticed was the scale like hinging, and it is all predone. I examined all parts and everything is cherry. You just lift the foam ribs, and begin removing parts. I unpacked the crate and also noticed that their packaging was unique in that all of the parts were suspended inside the crate without touching each other. ![]() Personally, I have never experienced a full composite Warbird with a weight like this. The unit arrived on my doorstep and the first thing I noticed that never happened before is when the female delivery driver was packing the 55" crate in one arm and her paperwork in the other, I was clued in about this company's new "Sandwich Composite" Technology. Magnum RC introduces the first of it's kind in a build review of the Top RC Models, hereafter known as TRCM, in reference to the new MkIV Spitfire. ![]()
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