49in Dynam Piper J3 Cub PNP (EPO Foam)

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Product Review (submitted on July 7, 2015):

I purchased the plane and could not get screws to mount in the existing posts...carried to local Tupelo, MS hardware store....I have never had anything that they could not solve....they agreed that screws were not long enough. I modified by drilling a piece of hardwood to slip over studs and used epoxy glue to glue the hardwood and then glued another piece of hardwood (I purchased the hardwood from Hobby Lobby). Both pieces of wood were perfect thickness wing lays perfectly flat on top of wood. I drilled very small pilot holes and used the 20 mm long screws to screw wing snugly into place...I do not plan to disassemble, I have a full size Chevrolet truck with enclosed bed the assembled plane fits easily into back. The plane does not run well in grass, wheels tend to lock up, plane then flips, the motor came completely unglued from cockpit either during landing when the plane flipped or when I was running on concrete. There was no damage to foam cockpit and there was dried glue on back of plastic motor support. It is evident that the glue simply did not hold. I am considering gluing it back. I thought maybe that wood could be glued to foam cockpit and use longer wood screws to mount motor where it could be disassembled and replaced if required in future.

My suggestions are larger wheels and fix support between wheels where it can be removed before flight, the support between wheels broke when plane flipped, the plane needs larger wheels for taking off in grass, and longer screws to assemble wings, (possibly use blind nuts.

One of the club members has an extra radio that he is going to use to set up a buddy box for me to learn. He thinks after he and another experienced club member flew the plane that it is a great trainer plane and both recommended that I use this as my trainer and not to fly anything until I learn to fly this plane. He says speaking from experience that he jumped around too much with various planes.

Thanks,

Louie Dearman