Built from a 1/3-scale Balsa USA kit, Mike Gross Sr.’s aircraft has a prepared to fly weight of 46 pounds, including a 3 pounds of lead counterbalance combined to a firewall. Its 3W-85xi-CS engine, versed with a 3W header siren and bin scarf system, simply turns a Xoar 28×8 propeller. Mike’s radio is a Gen 2 Spektrum DX18 conductor and receiver with Savox SA1231SG and SC0251MG servos. Mike also has aboard 3 A123 2500mAh LiFe battery packs and switches from NoBS Batteries. The 9.3-inch selected wheels are from Du-Bro and a aircraft is versed with a Sullivan Skywriter fume siphon and a Bad Dog fume injector.

The covering on a wings is 1/3-scale printed four-color Lozenge Linen fabric from Glenn Torrance Models, while a fuselage is lonesome with 2.7 oz./yd. unbleached and malleable linen. All of a linen has dual coats of nitrate bone-head followed by 6 coats of butyrate dope. Mike finished all of a embellished surfaces with Klass-Kote glue paint, and he drew a lettering and markings with Red 5 Designs paint masks. Mike combined a weathering with stains and acrylics, all of that he stable with a final finish of dual coats of Min-Wax oil-based

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