When I was looking for an EPP 3d trainer I called 3dhs, these planes came highly recommended so I gave them a whirl. Below is a review I left for e-foamies.com:
After an unfortunate car melting incident with my beloved e-foamies extra I immediately when looking for my new fix. At that point in time the extras were sold out so I purchased the new Edge instead. Needless to say I could not be more happy.
First impressions were that the fues is identical to the extra, however the wing with its straight wing cord, and smaller tips greatly improves the stiffness of the wing. Building was uneventful as I had previously built an e-foamies bird before. I did learn a couple of things though.
1. I glued wooded tabs on the outside of the fues to screw mount the servos to. This lets you not have to glue the servo's in place should you strip one, and provides just as solid of a mount.
2. Fues stiffening--Although epp is just about perfect for a 3d training adding two 1/8 carbon rods the length of the fues( i placed mine on the bottom pushed to the outboard corners prior to gluing the bottom cover plate on), greatly improves the fues stiffness withut adding much weight. I found the fues stiffness to be helpful when learning manuevers such as rolling harriers.
3. Gear--mount the landing gear through wood blocks as well instead of the foam.
4. Use bigger servo's in the tail. I found on my extra i was constantly stripping tail servo's from tail touches, tail draggs and the
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