Bill Foster
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Ok..my turn to test..I created my "Album" ..put some pics in it ..and now for the "test".. Speaking of "l-o-n-g slender legs" ..check out this set..! Bill
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Arnold, When I ordered my "tall CF gear" from China, I waited about 45 days and then submitted a complaint with the Paypal people (since I had used them for payment) Paypal went to bat, lodged my complaint, and "bingo", about a week or ten days later the gear showed up. I could not tell whether I got the original shipment or a second shipment; but I was impressed that PP got results for me. I'd be interested in getting a link from you for the CF wing tube. Also I'll try opening an "Album" here and drop some pics into it, and see what happens. Sounds like once you have pics in the Album you can source them when you need to include one or more in a post. Bill
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Good point Arnold ..."how DO YOU post pictures on this thread..???????" I thought it would be elementry, but No, I don't see the way to do this, so give us the steps, please..! Bill
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Hi Arnold, I was hoping you would see that I came back to this thread....nice to see some more action here. With regard to the question from Dennis, about how we get the weight of this model to 8.5 lbs ...could be a couple of things; the original weight listed was "fudged", and some of these 6S lipos weigh a pound or more themselves, and lastly, I'm guilty of this, some of us "build heavy"..! I have torn off too many landing gear blocks that it's usually the first thing I look at with a new model, and most require some additional beef to survive my grass field landings. It's so easy to do BEFORE you tear the gear loose..! Bill
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Hi Dennis, Yes, the "spar" or wing tube is usually a good place to look at, for the CG point, however with the long nose of this Raven, flyers are relating disasters with 145mm back from LE resulting in a tail heavy model. Reviewer David Ashby uses 135mm...others go for 125mm for the maiden, and some go all the way to 110 mm from leading edge. Apparently this situation is somewhat common with this manufacturer, and has occurred with other models they have released. On another note, Seagull (the factory), had also stated this model would require a 4S lipo pack and fly with a 10/7 prop. Since the model is weighing in at 8.5 pounds, flyers are going with either 5S or 6S packs along with either 14" or 15" props and a nice round 1000 watt power system to properly fly this model. Bill
