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crewchief
11-29-2007, 07:46 PM
Just bought these two stretched Vario Benzin gassers and tons of spare parts. One of them has only been flown for 1/2 hour. The owner's business has expanded and he hasn't used them for 3 years. I plan to go through them with a fine-toothed comb, and replace the 72 MHz Tx/Rx with a 2.4 GHz system, stabilizer, etc. I have trouble sometimes getting my Spektrum Tx to initialize the Rx and I've heard of other people having the same problem, so I'm thinking about putting the Futaba FASST system on these. I plan to upgrade the older one, and fly it around for awhile, then take what I've learned from that and refurbish the newer one with a nice paint job and electrics. A fun project for the winter!

Brett Horton
11-29-2007, 09:11 PM
Good deal,
Great machines, I had one just like 'um.

crewchief
11-29-2007, 10:20 PM
Brett,
I saw the excellent article about your business in one of the heli magazines. Congratulations - very well presented. Nice to know someone famous!

MarkWebber
11-30-2007, 05:40 AM
Yes, the world famous Brett Horton. Then, we didn't need an article for that!:thumbup:

Looks like fun, Bruce. Make the Trex look tiny, don't they.:shock: How are you going to live with all that inherent stability? It might diminish you're flying skills.:wink:

ron gill
11-30-2007, 06:37 AM
haha, the above reply was funny:rolling nice looking fleet!!!!!:glasses2::thumbup:!!!!!!!