Glenn, great your enjoying your new plane, if you use some tape on the fuss like I sujest'ed above, It'll be much stronger.

Built it stock, came out at 7.4 oz without battery (9.1 with 3x700).

Was impressed with the plane, especially at that price! A little more wing would be nice.

Second landing was a little hard, and I think I may have had full up elevator. Evevator broke in half.

So I imbedded a CF rod in the leading edge.

LOL its pritty funny seeing one of these balanced right. ive got a cdrom motor on mine that weighs a little more than half of that stock motor. ive gotta have the battery stuck right to the nose for it to balance near the spar. i moved the tail control servos forward about 6 inches and used pullpull on the rudder. i would also have setup pull/pull on the elivator if i did it agan. im pritty happy w/ how everythings worked out except if i did it agan i would also using some strapping around on the tail so it wouldent have the tendency to snap like it seems to. my setup was about 7.6oz auw with the battery (3s tp480) and due to the lighter weight it still flys good with the smaller prop that the motor, a 17 turn with n50's i got from rcgroups user 'Power', can swing. ive got a wobbly prop adapter on it i picked up at seff. ill try and get you guys some picks sometime. the next one i do id like to use cf strips on the wing instead of the relativly (for how stiff it is) heavy cf rod in the kit.

glennhl - Where was and now is your CG?

I moved the batteries to the front quite a bit just to get the CG on the wing carbon spar. I like the way it flies except it does require a little down elevator when inverted.

I'm getting more used to it, I have to say on high rates I've never seen a airplane roll so fast.

Thanks,
Glenn

I've got on of these Yaks and I love it! My CG is about 1/2" behind the recommended location. Hovers are rock solid!

I will post some pictures in a minute.

Pics

more pics

And a video if you want to see it in motion! **right-click and Save As** I will leave this up as long as I can.



ghee

ghee-grose - great flying, pics, and video!!!! What is your power system set up?

Thanks rarner! I used the Eskay 400XT that Hobby Lobby recommends with it. It's a really powerful little motor. Looks nice too!

Other equipment...
BP-10A ESC from www.balsapr.com
Kokam 3-cell 640mah Lipoly (8 minutes of flight)
Thunder Power 3-cell 1320mah Lipoly (18 minutes of flight)
3 x GWS Pico servos
GWS Pico receiver (4 channel)
APC 9x3.8 slo flyer prop
controlled by a Hitec Flash 5X

Oh yeah... it hovers at about 40% throttle!

ghee-grose Wow, thanks for the quick and detailed response! I'm surprised you went with a 9X3.8 inch prop. Have you tried larger ones, if so, how'd they work out?

For some reason that's the only one I've tried yet. I might try a 10x3.8 APC soon. When I do, I will be sure to post it here for ya'll.

Originally Posted by mike3976

heres a top view, love that shockflyer hardware, wish someone would duplicate it and make it readly available

You can get it in the UK from Perkins, but it's a bit pricey:

Perkins link

PDR