new look on my old sft katana [wadoyathink]

[diger]

Stans Fiber 40% Katana 39lb, 3w 150ss,Futaba 9152s,Rc blimp tail wheel, 32x10 beila, 2 Fromco 4800 1 2400, 2 jr r2000 rec, 1 matchbox, and all the rest of the good stuff. Lots of tape,Viper yellow, plum crazy purple, stone silver. Sure hope wether gets better for next weekend plan on going to bootcamp.

[Eury]

Looks great, the kid wants you to take him up, but I'm not even sure if he's big enough to be a scale pilot!

[Shawn Berkheimer]

That is without a doubt the best that airplane has ever looked. I'm glad it's still around, it was a real PITA fixing the spar on that thing. Enjoy it, looks great.


Shawn Berkheimer


R/C Blimp Productions Home

[diger]

The plane flys great it lost weight from when Zak had it even with the new paint. Im flying IMAC with it , bute it 3d soooo gooood. note your tail wheel Shawn, got it from Don's. What was the deal on the spar. I knew you fixed it. Todd

[Shawn Berkheimer]

The spar is 1/4" balsa with the grain running horizontal. What had happened is the spar started to split around the wing socket. I cut some access holes in the root, repaired the spar and then glassed the spar/socket front and back with 1" overlap on the top and bottom skin. It's bulletproof now. I always liked this airplane, it's nice to see that someone took the time to do it up right. When origially built there was a team of 4 of us that goin it flying in about a week.


Shawn

[diger]

Zak said that is what the insane 6 ment. So Im putting it on. People would see it when it was white and say I ve seen that plane before And I would tell the that it was Zaks and they seen it on 3dbatix.com. Those vidio's are stil on there. Zak has been good to me and I consider him a freind. Hes a good flyer. I tell him to quite building new planes before big contest's. You helped on the Votec, it look's great. Coulnt believe how light your tailwheel was need a set of maine' like that.s

[Shawn Berkheimer]

I suppose that if you add in Zak and his dad Mike that would total 6 people all together. We have a great group of guys here in norcal and it is not unusual for a few guys to come together like this when one is in need. Both of us have been offered turn key airplanes when we found ourselves without. Zak has got to be one of the most under rated pilots in IMAC. He is not as well known as he should be but can hold his own with the best. I still a little angry that I have to compete against him next season. Glad you like the tailwheel.

Shawn

[diger]

There has to be a few of these planes out their Stan built 9 or 10 of them. Havent seen any more then mine and when Jeff Szueber flew for Stan.