Knox Hobby, Blazing Wings Pitts?

[baxternick]

Has anyone out there flown, owned, or seen a knox hobby/Blazing Wings pitts fly with a 150cc? I have a 3w 150 laying in the shop and was looking at this plane from Knox hobby. The only video I have come across is with a 106 and it seems a bit slugish. Just looking for some input.

[2walla]

Good question...

[JEFFRO503]

	Quote: Originally Posted by baxternick
	Has anyone out there flown, owned, or seen a knox hobby/Blazing Wings pitts fly with a 150cc? I have a 3w 150 laying in the shop and was looking at this plane from Knox hobby. The only video I have come across is with a 106 and it seems a bit slugish. Just looking for some input.

Two different companies. Knox Hobbies makes their own design now , as Blazing wings still makes the same ones i believe. The company that was making the Blazing wings models went a different way and was picked up by Knox hobbies. Then Blazing wings hired a different company to start building their aircraft.

[sensei]

I see them from time to time around here, but I have never seen one flying yet.

Bob

[baxternick]

Well they still have the same dimensions and they both reccomend the same motor sizes. Just wanted to know if the 150 was to much?

[ChickenStick Rick]

Hey Nick,
For all intents and purposes, they are the same plane. CH model (the builder in China) started out building the planes for Blazing Wings. Then for reasons unknown, they Knox Hobbies picked up the line from CH and made some design improvements.

DH models now make the Pitts for Blazing Wings. Supposedly, DH was the original designer and builder and someone from DH left and took the design and started CH models. That is the story as I know it. However, I am sure there are some details that I do not know of.

Either way, I think the plane is a good deal. Happy Landings.

[JEFFRO503]

I actually did a lot of reading over in the CH Models Pitts thread >>>>> CH Models Pitts 12 and from what i gather a 150 fits pretty well. there was a guy who posted a video of one flying on you tube with a 3W-106 and it looked like it flew pretty well , but the pullout wasn't all that good.

With that being said....i had thought the perfect motor for this 150cc pitts would have been a BME 150LT. The reason being is it's only about 7oz heavier than a DA-100 , and takes up about the same size foot print. It has real close to the same HP as a DA-150 but weighs about 2-1/2 lbs less. I'm not Knocking DA though , because they are awesome motors and either one would probably work fine. I also think a 3W-120 or 3W-140 would be a good match as well. I think the original poster "CavanaBob" put a Kroma 180 in it....WOW! But i think he got it to balance ok....so there are a lot of options i think you could use in that big pitts. Having your choice of a custom scheme is pretty cool to.

[Imac flyer23]

I have seen the knox hobbies pitts fly with a gr pro 110 and had plenty of power a 150 will be crazy power!!!!