Weather here has not been ideal for flying so I used my spare time to add another ARF to my hanger. This is an aero subaru I purchased from hobby king using all hobby king electrics parts except the ESC and a xoar prop which I already had in my stock. Altogether with shipping I am into the project for about $200... not bad for a plane with a 42" wingspan.
I typically don't use bargain electronics in my ARFs but I wanted to see how cheaply I could build one. My flying buddy uses almost all HK/Turnigy "guts" in his planes and hasn't had any issues because of them so I thought this would be a great kit for experimentation.
This is a list of the parts I bought from hobby king to go into the plane:
*Aero Subaru FA 200 Low Wing Sport Balsa 1040mm (ARF)
*Turnigy Park480 Brushless Outrunner 1320kv
*Turnigy™ TGY-EX5201 Ball Bearing Analog Micro Servo x 4
*M3 Blind Nuts (10pcs/bag)
*3.5mm Gold Connectors 10 pairs (20pc)
*OrangeRX RX3SM Micro 3-Axis Flight Stabilizer w/DSMX
Parts I had on hand:
Skywalker 40A esc with BEC
XOAR 9x7 wooden prop
BUILD:
Kit quality is so-so but what I'd expect for a ~$60 ARF.
The motor mount that came with the park 480 did not align with the pre-drilled holes in the motor mount plywood plates nor did those plates come with blind nuts. I had to use my own hardware to mount the x-bracket and glad I purchased the t-nuts which I was going to use on another project. If I did not have those I would have used washers and m3
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