Been a while since my last post, I have swapped a bunch of aircraft with a mate from NSW, and have been finishing off a few little jobs on my two new aircraft. A 1.8m Hellcat, and a 2m Edge 540 with a DL-50 on the front. I have had to reinstall the pushrod setup for the Hellcat as it had one of those horrible V-shaped pushrods for the elevators, and some terrible concotion for the rudder pushrod. Have replaced with Sullivan Golden Rod for both, I should use closed loop for the rudder, but I'm getting impatient to get this thing flying.
I've been on the hunt for retracts for it as well, a Robart system would set me back around $350, so for the time being I've ordered some Hanger 9 mechanicals from the US which were only US$30 including postage!
Next we'll tackle the big Edge 540. This is the largest Gas powered plane I've ever owned. It also has horrible elevator pushrod setup which has to change, and I have a bunch of digital servos that I'll install instead of the slow old analogue ones that it came with.
I'm changing the engine out as well, I've ordered and received a DL-50 which is a chinese copy of the DA-50, so we'll see how that sucker goes instead of the SuperTiger G2300 which it came with. (PS. This engine is for sale if you are interested!)
