83in Giant Easy Stik ARF (Balsa)

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Product Review (submitted on December 15, 2014):

Shipped and received very quickly. Kit was very complete, quality hardware, easy assembly. Plenty of room for anything you could possibly want to install. 450cc Fuel tank, 380cc smoke oil tank, Sullivan Sky Writer pump, 2 2000 mah 6v packs for RX, 1 2000 mah 6v pack for ign, 1 600 mah 4.8v pack for smoke. All fit nicely with room to spare and the whole thing balanced perfectly, CG is dead on. Using an AGM 30cc with 19x8 prop this will give you almost unlimited vertical. Flaps down and this thing will float, they are not needed on this plane but makes for 3 ft' takeoffs and wows the crowd with creepy slow flyby's. The flaps are cut for downward movement only, to mix with ailerons they need to be notched on the top for upward movement. The landing gear mount is very thin ply and extremely weak. First landing was in tall grass with perfect approach and very slow, gear ripped right out. Rebuilt with 3/8 ply and sheeted the entire bottom with 1/16 ply, now it will take any landing short of a crash. Wing pins that engage the fuse are hollow carbon tubing, mine were coming loose. Ran a 10-32 bolt through each one with some 3/8 ply epoxied inside and now I am confident throwing it around in high g-maneuvers. For the price you can't beat it with a STIK! My favorite plane yet, hands down.