So it was my lucky day today. I was looking at airframes online and came across a Carden Extra 300. Here is the ad.
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| 30% Carden Aircraft Extra 300, built, not covered. Very good job of building by a friend of mine. Bought it for flying, now I fly only warbirds. Includes fiberglass cowl and canopy. | |
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Well, I thought I would make an offer and I got it. Went and picked it up and to my surprise it is a 35%er.
Like the ad says, no plans came with it. While I was looking at Cardens site, All I could find in the 104" wingspan range is the Extra 330. How can I tell if this is the 330 and not the 300. The plane is in great shape, but needs some finishing work done. Does anybody have any tips or hints to help me out? Any tips on setup and power would be greatly appreciated. A couple of strange things I noticed were that it looks like the canopy was built to mount with just one screw going threw the top into the frame. Is this normal? The other thing is the cowl is not split right in half. The bottom "half" comes up over the prop shaft and the top "half" has a lip that slides under that part about 1" behind where the spinner backplate will be. It that normal on Carden cowls? In all the pics I could find on Carden's website, the cowl was just split in half.
I was thinking of going with the DLE 111 on it. I have a DL 50 on my Dietrich Extra 260 and have had great success with the DL engines.