Art Hobby Timon 2m Anyone??

[tomi]

I'm thinking of getting the Timon from Art Hobby. For one, The price is outstanding. 2nd, Their quality are super. I had their Falco-V 1.5 HLG plane and it flew so nice until I hit a tree. $75 for a wing replacement. Ehhhh.. A few more bucks I'll just get a new plane. I want that Timon. But does anyone have any experience with one? I want one to highstart with and explorer thermals.

-Tomi

[SR71]

Hi Tomi,
Got one coming from Andre and as it weight is putting it in the hand launch size, (as of 10 years ago anyways) it should be a great lite lift 2 meter. Also it will be able to file in very lite slope lift also. I wouldn't be afraid of anything he puts out...

Wylie

[tomi]

slopes here are suitable. I was intending to buy this plane for flatland flying. I just hope it floats in the thermal well.

-Tomi

[SR71]

Hi,
It should do well since your going to come out between 13-20oz real light for a 2 meter, If you go an read the write up for the 2.5 Thermik, he markets that as a TD acft. I've just got a email from Andre at Art Hobby he's gotta a bunch of gliders coming in this week, and he'll be shipping my Timon maybe on friday. Not worried about the time as I'm up to my Yahoo in projects, a little here and a little there....just not enough time a week to do it all, oh well. Yeah the Timon should be able to catch those elusive gopher fart of a thermal. Cheers mate.....

Wylie

[tomi]

Wylie,

lets keep this thread going. I'm gonna see if the wife will let me place the order on the Timon. I will be able to do pictures of buidling the plane but it will be a few weeks until I can get radio gear for it. Of course radio gear always cost more.

I looked at the thermik. Same HN1033 airfoil. so I guess you are right about this plane being a thermal plane. Well it states that it is, but I wasn't too sure if this plane will thermal well.

My falco-V shares the same airfoil and I've yet to catch a thermal. it's more like a slope racer to me. It picks up speed really well. I can slow it down but then it just wants to keep going faster. My point is, I hope the Timon will fly a little bit slower to hold itself in thermals. of course I'll have to circle the thermal but I don't it to end up doing some pylon turns or anything.

I think I will go ahead and pay for it now. I hope they can ship it out atleast Friday. Like Andre said in the emails, they should be comin in this week. If not, I can wait just as you can Wylie.

Last thing, have you thought of what type of radio gears you are going to use??

I'm thinking HS-81mgs for the ruddervators and HS-85mgs for the Ailerons. probably a 1000mah nicad 4 cell or higher and I have no idea on what receiver. Thinking of the SuperSlim 8 from Hitec, but probablly will get the 555 instead, that's if I don't do flaps and if it slows down enough to land without flaps...

-Tomi

[tomi]

I got an email from Andre. The planes come in tomorrow. He's shipping them out early next week. So Monday I'm guessing. Hopefull I get my plane on Wednesday if the mail sends it quick with the priority mail. If not, I know it'll be here on Thursday. I got 2 HS-81mgs for the wings and 2 HS-81 standard mini servos for the ruddervators. Hitec 555 Micro RX and I don't have a batterypack yet. Probably gonna go 700mahs like my Falco has.

[AustinTatious]

I want to get one of these and build it for DS- stress. I think I could build it to take 150+ easily. The biggest problems I forsee are the weak tail feathers and then building ailerons that will hold on and not flutter. The wing I know can be built right. I would glass it and embed lead out in the wingtips.

Austin

[tomi]

The wing on my Falco-V broke and smashed up. It's fixed. I DS'ed the plane into the dam, broken wing bolt. The only time I've ever broken the Vtail is pulling it out of the car. The fuse doesn't have a single crack on it. Basically, what I'm saying is, the V-Tails aren't fragile. Since you want to build it for DSing, you can just glass the whole tail. A suitable plane for DSing is the Sierra. It has the RG15 airfoil. But of course it cost $199 and I am not sure why it's more expensive than the other planes below it. Building the ailerons with carbon inserts throughout the whole span should eliminate flutter. That's what I have for an Idea. But I'm not sure if to use cured carbon strips or just carbon rods.

I think we should move this thread over to the HLG forums. Once I get my plane, I will do a build thread on the Hlg forums. I also didn't think I was going to get any radio gear for it but I do have some spare ones which I will use.

-Tomi

[AustinTatious]

the Rg-15 is obviously good, but I have headr that the Hn1033 is a racing airfoil.. I found it to be VERY fast... My thermik would penatrate as well or better than a lot of open class ships that weighed much more... It would even keep up with a THermal eagle sporting an rg-15 weighing 69 oz..... My thermik was more like 40.

I may have been misinformed though.

The Sierra is also a 98 inch plane... THe reason it is more than the thermik is because of the Fuse... its not pod and boom like the Thermik.... for 150$ Im gonna give the Timon a shot!