Hobbyking ASK21Mi Planeador EP, EPO (PNF)

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Dec 23, 2012

Sehr schnes Modell mit gutem Preis.- Leistungsverhltnis.

Gute Flugeigenschaften.

Das Hhenruder lsst sich nicht ordentlich bettigen. Der Stahldraht musste gegen einen dnneren Draht ausgetauscht werden, dann klappt alles recht ordentlich.



Ich kann das Modell empfehlen.

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Oct 16, 2012

Glider arrived packed well. Fitting the receiver proved to be a challenge and I also removed the steerable nose wheel for a better look.

Found the prop would catch the doors when retracting.
First flight with a 1300mA 3S nan-tech lipo was a bit exciting as the CG seemed too far back. Added more nose weight and the flight characteristics were better, but the model would drop one wing in the stall.

Wing flex very interesting.

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Oct 11, 2012

This glider flies well, but the wings are not strong enough and I can see them bending while taking off. I can control it via rudder for turning mainly. Make sure you set full movement to the ailerons, otherwise of no use !
The servo for upper the motor came bad after few cycles. It is not possible to change it...so be careful !
Apart from this this is good for value.
Thanks HK !!!

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Oct 09, 2012

They should revise this model, making it reliable and efficient, today it is not expensive at $ 80 but it is better to leave for decoration in the house to fly it! Although the new moderates would cost 100-120 $, it does not matter ... if it flies well.

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Oct 09, 2012

This aircraft is light and lovely on the photo. But it is, in truth, it is very fragile, flies very badly and very badly designed. 1300mah they say, it can not fly with this, it takes a lot of weight on the front and 2200 3s very suitable, but there is not room. It took me about 50 hours of work with big changes for the aircraft to fly it well. I put the servo depth directly on the tail, we open the fuselage and cut into 2 to set the servo because of origin, the elevator does not work well, the cable force in the motor gaine.Le s 'hook to get into the cockpit and struggling to get out, etc., etc.. Very fragile foam, the aircraft received with broken wings torn and direction behind. Plane flying very fragile and very difficult out of the box.

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Jul 24, 2012

tres beau planeur pour le prix

a deconseiller quand il y a trop de vent, les ailes se plie et le planeur resemble a un battement d'aile d'oiseau

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Jul 23, 2012

P.O.S.
Another waste of time. I do not think I have had a more problematic airplane. In the end the power pod disintegrated in flight forcing me to land with the motor hanging by its wires. I then made a fixed pod but now i am thinking about moving the motor to the nose.
P.O.S.
There are many better powered gliders out there.

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Jul 19, 2012

I received mine last year. was looking forward to flying it, it arrived with the rudder ripped off the engine bay doors irreparably misaligned, and the motor would not retract without hanging up on the doors. i am now waiting for a year for a replacement.

I'm disappointed.

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Jul 14, 2012

i bought one last year.
It arrived with the rudder was torn off, the fuselage was dropped very hard on the nose, and the engine bay doors would neither close nor operate properly, and the motor would constantly get caught by one of the doors.

As i said i ordered it last year.... to this day i have not been reimbursed nor have i received the promised replacement fuselage.

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Jun 30, 2012

I was drawn to this sailplane for the price and the power pod. Powerpods made (to my knowledge) for such a small glider are not available. Arrived in one piece missing parts (control arms for elev/rud, mount for horizontal stab). The elevator control surface is too small and the horizontal stabilizer did not come with carbon to reinforce it. It's very flimsy.

The elevator servo is mounted in front and runs on a long wire to the elevator control surface. This makes an incredible amount of friction. So much so it overloaded the servo. Unflyable like this so I cut a hole in the vert stabilizer and put the servo there and ran a long lead back to the rx. Problem solved except CG now required the plane to have 3000mah 3s pack to balance. Reinforcing stabilizer, moving elev servo, cutting foam for batteries to get CG sorted took about 4 hrs to get sorted.
I took it for a test flight, it would only fly on 2000mah 3s, nothing heavier. I had about 1 minute of decent flight time before the aileron servos failed and it came crashing down. It does take a crash pretty well. CA would have fixed it but the Aileron servos were done.
I ripped the power pod out of the kit to put in a fiberglass kit and trashed the rest. Not worth your money unless you want to take the powerpod for something else (plan to replace everything in it aside from the mount itself (servo is weak running it and motor an