HobbyKing Bushmaster Sport Plane EPO 1550mm (PNF)

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Feb 26, 2016

I bought on sale thank goodness. Long story short, the final assembly was not bad. The overall cosmetics are not bad. The flight characteristics when the electronics work, are good. It's a Cub, so the design is great. The bad is typical HK lack of Quality. Maiden flight lasted about 2 minutes. Upon initial flap deployment the motor shaft came out of the motor and shorted the receiver and servos and she ended up in the very top of the only tree in my back filed where I fly. I got it down and it took the incident pretty well. Once I replace all of the crappy HK electronics I'm sure it will be a fun plane.

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Jan 21, 2016

Have flown about 12 flights with no problems. Do not use 3S, not enough power. Think this is a great beginner airplane, simple to assemble and easy to fly. I am only using 2600 batteries, they seem to last just fine. Well worth the money, in my opinion.

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Oct 11, 2015

First off, this is a great plane, stable and very imposing in the air. I love flying this plane, you can take off and land on a table top and simply enjoy the peace of soaring around the sky. That said, I did make two changes to the place. Enforcing the landing gear seemed a no-brainer, after a few heavy landings, the wire legs start to give way and your prop hits the ground. I simply added to 4mm rods, gorilla glue to get sturdy legs. The second change was the engine mount, it is very weak so I cut off the nose and fixed the steel engine mount onto wooden struts. Apart from these two changes, this plane is a must and is very well built.

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Sep 14, 2015

Following on from my earlier review (tailplane spar wrongly positioned at manufacture), after jerking me around for three months, Hobbyking finally admitted that they couldn't get spare parts from the manufacturer and offered me $20 credit as compensation. I accepted as I had no real option, then I got busy and dug out the spar tube, reassembling it correctly with a fair amount of success. It's a pity it was necessary, though, and they would have helped if they'd admitted that they couldn't get spares a bit earlier! The plane flew well-until the third flight when, 3 minutes after takeoff, the esc burned out. The bec kept working, so I was able to land "dead-stick" but I have to say I'm not impressed; after buying from HK for over five years, without any real problems, I won't be buying any more of their planes unless they are exceptionally good value and which I'm prepared to rebuild/refit should there be any deficiencies!

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Aug 14, 2015

Fairly good product quality except for the decals which have to be trimmed. Yes you do need some glue and you need a few longer screws to attach the elevator horn. No big deal.
The plan has good predictable flight characteristics and yes, it pitches up quite a bit when applying flaps. I set my flaps for slow deployment of 4 seconds which makes the event less dramatic and allows for plenty of time to apply down elevator. I don't plan on adding a down elevator mix to my flaps.
The landing gear is way too springy and will bend too easily unless you make soft landings. I plan on adding some cross bracing.
All in all, this is a great plane.

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Jul 28, 2015

Netter Flieger in ansprechender Qualitt. Leider wie so mit kleinen Mngel. Der Schwerpunkt kann mit dem in der Empfehlung angegebenen 3000er Akku nicht eingestellt werden und ist sind zustzliche 20gr. Blei notwendig. Die Schrauben der Ruderhrner fr Quer und Klappen sind viel zu kurz. Fr Hhe und Seite sind jeweils nur 2 Schrauben vorhanden. Anscharnierung eines Querruders abgerissen. Possitiv zu Bewerten ist die Qualitt der Servos und des Antriebs. Diese sind mehr als ausreichend dimensioniert.
Werden die Mngel behoben hat man ein gut fliegendes Flugzeug zum ansprechenden Preis.

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May 08, 2015

Soweit man keine Ersatzteile braucht ist der Bushmaster - ok, sollte das aber mal der Fall sein, kann man das Modell weg werfen denn es gibt keine Ersatzteile bei HK, und das
finde ich absolut nicht ok.

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Apr 29, 2015

Received and built today. Fantastic quality kit. Everything fits beautifully. Even proper hinges for the flaps. Great finish on the foam even down to the wing scalloping. Battery bay is immense. Will be flying her tomorrow.

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Apr 07, 2015

lsst sich gut fliegen. wind macht sich nicht so bemerkbar wie bei der funcub.
epo ist besser als ich vermutet habe, aber nicht so gut wie mpx.
ein paar schrauben fr hhe und seitenleitwerk sind zu kurz:-(
regler war defekt (bec).
fr das geld ein toller flieger.

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Apr 05, 2015

First I will start by saying the Bush Master is a good model but not without some issues. Yes the stickers are poorly applied but can be fixed with a sealing iron on low heat, the supplied esc with mine was not able to power the 6 servos without the rx failsafe kicking in (test in on the bench but I changed out the esc you could also fit a ubec) the bearings in the supplied motor were very dry! after a lube so far they seem ok. The prop needs to be reamed at the back or the prop adapter wont tighten and balance the prop while you are at it. On the the plus side the model flies very well, plenty of power and the flaps are quite effective! The model draws heavily on the Fun Cub and it is a little bigger but a lot heavier and cant meet the Fun Cub in the bottom of the flight range and lacks its refinement too, but for the price and the minimal build time it represents good value. I used a 3700mah 4s and JR DMSS radio

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