Author / Post Admin Admin Group RCSB Owner/Founder Joined: July/22/2003 United States Posts: 5505 IP Logged Posted: September/01/2019 at 9:23am  Quote   This month's winner of Model Of The Month is  Lane Crabtree's UV-20A "Chiricahua" (Pilatus Porter) This is a very unique model as well as an awesome build thread here on RCSB!   Follow Lane through every step of his building process and watch this masterpiece come alive. For his efforts, Lane has won an awesome "Zap Pack" from  Frank Tiano at FTE (https://www.franktiano.com/). You can read more at: https://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=300 01 __________________ Mike Chilson, RCSB Owner/Founder -------------------- My R/C Scale Aircraft Over The Years   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search  Web    LBJ Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: August/21/2012 United States Posts: 5487 IP Logged Posted: September/06/2019 at 5:28pm  Quote   Got my Team Zap Pack glue package today. Many thanks Mike and Frank Tiano. I certainly never expected to get Model of the Month here at RCSB. Lane __________________ LBJ Fort Worth, TEXAS There are always TWO sides to every story. Proverbs 18:17 Current Projects Ziroli Hellcat   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    Clmoore Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: February/18/2018 United States Posts: 71 IP Logged Posted: September/06/2019 at 5:51pm  Quote   Congratulations Lane. Very nicely done.  __________________ Chris Casper Wy. Flying... ARF stuff. Building... All my own from here on out.   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    LBJ Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: August/21/2012 United States Posts: 5487 IP Logged Posted: September/07/2019 at 10:18pm  Quote   Hi Chris, glad you like the UV-20A. It was an interesting build in that it was not built over plans. All the parts were well engineered and laser cut. I feel it turned out cool and wish there would be more kits at this level. It might help bring back "building" to the RC hobby. For such a large model, it wasn't that expensive either. Maybe The World Models will do some more kits like this. They offer a large Stearman PT-17 as an ARF that would make a great kit. Thanks, Lane __________________ LBJ Fort Worth, TEXAS There are always TWO sides to every story. Proverbs 18:17 Current Projects Ziroli Hellcat   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    LBJ Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: August/21/2012 United States Posts: 5487 IP Logged Posted: September/15/2019 at 7:08am  Quote   Finally got a video of the UV-20A inflight. It's a partial video after been flying a few minutes. But, gives some idea of how she flies. This is the first day I've flown her, myself. Very smooth and easy to fly. I need to adjust the throttle servo arm to refine the throw as the arm is too long right now. Need to move the linkage attach point back toward the center of the arm. Right now just a few clicks on the stick and you get full power. Not good. After this flight, I adjusted the strut springs to put more tension on them and give a bit more ground clearance. Overall, a very fun plane and the roll rate is WAY higher than I imagined. Plenty of power to zoom thru a loop. Need a few more flights to really dial in the handling of the bird. I ended up adding quite a bit of DOWN elevator with mid and full flap positions. Should get one more video soon from another club member. Lane UV-20A Flight Video 1 __________________ LBJ Fort Worth, TEXAS There are always TWO sides to every story. Proverbs 18:17 Current Projects Ziroli Hellcat   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    King George Site Supporter Joined: December/04/2007 United States Posts: 1254 IP Logged Posted: September/15/2019 at 10:17am  Quote   __________________ KING GEORGE Pilatus ROLAND   C11 OV-1 Mohawk Sea Fury RS-14 FIAT DO-26 KI-61 TONY TUCANO  Peter goldsmith designs: schweizer TG-3 aero commander   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    LBJ Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: August/21/2012 United States Posts: 5487 IP Logged Posted: September/15/2019 at 2:02pm  Quote   King George, thanks for the bump! Ha. Lane __________________ LBJ Fort Worth, TEXAS There are always TWO sides to every story. Proverbs 18:17 Current Projects Ziroli Hellcat   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    LBJ Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: August/21/2012 United States Posts: 5487 IP Logged Posted: September/27/2019 at 10:56am  Quote   Before the month is gone, I’d like to say it is an honor to have the UV-20A selected as Model of the Month! Thanks again to Mike for this award. There are so many great builders here, I never expected to be in the M.O.M. class! So, it was quite a surprise to see it happen. I was honored just to get the UV-20A photo on the “merry go round” of planes on the home page! RCSB has been a great help to me in the last few years with the many resources and build threads to learn from. Hope to continue to participate/give/receive to RCSB for a long while. Also, thanks to Frank Tiano for the Zap Glue kit. Lane __________________ LBJ Fort Worth, TEXAS There are always TWO sides to every story. 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