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link via our Facebook page of his Quick Build F-18 doing its thing. The only down side is the crash that occurs on landing. Looks like a clean break though, probably repairable in a few minutes with the right glue. But we always wince a little when we see a good flight marred by a crash.
The Marauder tail is a great touch. Nice work all around on this F-18.
You can see the capabilities of the F-18, flies on rails, very acrobatic, and great speed. Thanks for the video!
]]>Sometimes we here at Parkjets get the very good question related to whether or not its best to buy a ready to fly airplane or whether it best to strike out on your own and build it. Most of the time, people want to know which is cheaper and what is the real difference (besides the obvious).
With ready to fly, or RTF, the RC airplane pretty much comes ready to go. Sure, there are always a few things that have to be done to the plane but typically its very quick and can be done in a matter of a few minutes. The same goes with almost ready to fly (ARF) RC airplanes. With ARFs, the owner will have to do some glue up or some minor construction, but typically, anyone can do it, it takes very little skill other than reading through the instructions. So what are the benefits of a pre-made RC airplane?
1. It will look fantastic and scale. Modern manufacturers go to great lengths to make their kits look great on the ground and in the air.
2. The system will work. In other words, the electronics and other necessary gear you need comes with the RC airplane, so you know it will work.
3. You will have a great set of instructions and the whole process is pretty much fool proof. With an RTF, you will be up and running in no time. With building, it can take a couple of days to weeks to complete a project.
Okay, so what are the disadvantages of an RTF or ARF RC Airplane kit?
]]>Of course, when you order the kit from us, you get all the foam laser cut out already, and if you get one of the parkjet motors in our catalog to go with it, you are basically 75% done already.
But, the scratch builder is the heart of the hobby, so we say keep on buiding.
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We have had a few requests over the last week to bring back the Super Bandit. For those of you that need a little history on this plane, we have had it, dropped it from production, brought it back, dropped it and now we have more requests to bring it back.
Well, turns out we checked our inventory and we have a few of these left in stock. The kits we have are of the bigger variety, 109% of the original plans, and that is to accomodate those EDF pilots that want to drop in a fan. For traditional pusher configuaration, it works well too.
So, we posted a little about it, but those of you that want to snatch up the last few remaining kits can click the add to cart button below and start building.
The kit comes with a clear canopy, a few pushrods and a stick to mount your motor onto. If you convert to EDF, its really up to you to make it work.
The instruction manual can be found here.
SUPER BANDIT 109%
Price: $55 plus shipping
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UPDATE: We are all sold out! But let us know if you want one, we can do some one off cuts.
]]>What an incredible video of the awesome F4D Skyray, converted into an EDF. We sell only a handful of these at any given time. And we don't know why. The bottom line is the Skyray is one of the easier kits to assemble, (it has a lot of sanding though) and it can be a pusher or EDF (we sell a conversion kit) and as you can see, it just flies great. The paint on this one is unbelievable. What an awesome example of a builder out there putting any RTF to shame.
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