Motif HobbyKing ™ Ionos F3A Avion Balsa 1500mm (ARF)

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Nice model, just bought my second one

Feb 24, 2017

Excellent value for the money and good quality. Dont really agree with all of the earlier comments. It is true however that the cg figure is incorrect. It should be about 140mm from leading edge. Fitted mine with sk3 5045 500kv, 14*8.5 prop running with 6s lipo. Corona servos. Nothing too expensive but excellent flight performance at my level of expertise.

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Dec 25, 2015

ok this is a BJ Craft Monolog which they stopped making a couple of years ago the material and acc quality id reasonable the colours arnt too bad when you see it in person the pink canopy can be painted over the reason for the low review is that I have been unale to get it to fly straight and today I put a straight edge on the fuse side and found it to be bent to the left by 2.0mm plus which on a normal model would be no biggy but this has such deep sides that it acts as a big rudder and I have had to put up to 5mm of ruder trim on it to try and get it to fly straight but it effects other menovers I was going to use this as a practice model but I have now made a warranty claim for the fuse see how hobby king respond to a customer that has spent $thousands with them they have bee good up to date but I have never had a claim for a full model before

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Aug 25, 2015

The manual is terrible and CG is totally wrong. If you use CG based on manual, you will for sure get crashed. Both tail wheel and landing gear are not good at all and you have to replace all. Also, my one wing is not aligned/connected well with the fuselage and there is a big gap between the top wing area and fuselage. The canopy lock is also designed badly and you need to replace it.

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Apr 25, 2015

Fine model, it flyes very smooth and almost perfect.
I use it for the F3A European Hydroplane Contest training (just a few modifications are needed for that purpose).