Hey Guys . . . A great opportunity for someone (or someone's) . . . I have 2 Tempest's that are for sale. Both are x-tail TD versions.
The first one was built as my personal plane for this season . . . it has all of about 10 flights on it and is basically in new condition. For those of you that know me and have probably already guessed it, I'm pretty much done with TD flying . . . 15 years of contest flying included lots of great wins and great flying, but I have some other interests as far as flying is concerned and I'm committing my time to these interests for the immediate future. Getting back to the plane, it is my usual Kawasaki Green with purple stripes on the wing bottom . . . the usual Tempest specs - 128 inch span, 1016 squares, MH32, 76 oz flying weight. Comes with wing servos (JR DS368's) . . . fuse servos are negotiable (DS537 on elevator and DS368 on rudder). Fuselage has been painted due to some minor seamline uglies. Done with matching paint to the "in-the-mold" painted parts. I'm asking $900.00 for this plane including installed wing servos. The second plane was built for a customer who flew it for approximately 1 month and was not happy with it. I refunded his money and took the plane back. It has a couple of cosmetic "uglies" on it, but is structurally sound. First ugly is the "standard" leading edge shin modification . . . damage is to an area approximately 3" x 4" . . . almost invisible on the top surface, but quite visible on the bottom. Second ugly is some cracking and repair around the wing joiner holes on the fuse . . . once again, it is quite ugly, but is still structurally sound . . . if you're going to be doing continual dork landings with this plane, the uglies will probably continue to grow . . . it's just one of those things that can happen in a high-stress area, and once it's starts, it's there for the lifetime of the fuse. Other features on this plane include custom trilerons . . . these are "boot" activated (hopefully the photos will be self-explanatory) and move quite easily. The plane also has a custom carbon-rod nose skeg . . . a 1/4 inch carbon rod slips through a tube in the nosecone into another tube in the fuselage . . . acts as a skeg and a nosecone retainer. The fuselage was originally setup for 2 JR DS368 servos, so keep that in mind as the inner cone has been cut for this size servo. Asking $400.00 for this plane. If someone is really interested, they can buy both planes for $1200.00 . . . that's one basically new plane all-ready to go and a nice backup plane that just needs radio equip for the price of a new kit. Would prefer PayPal, but a money order would also work. Will only sell to US . . . no international shipping involved. Photos can be seen at: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=386199 Details on the Tempest can be found at www.acmeflyingmachines.net. Mark Triebes Elk Grove, CA RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
