This is my Great Planes Tutor.  It has a speed 300 electric motor running on 7 NiCad, 270mAh cells.  We covered it in Reynolds Plastic Wrap.  The weight is 10 oz.

    This is the Tutor on landing.  The instructions say it can be build with ailerons or without ailerons.  The thing is I found you need both mixed.

Fatal Flaw

We found that this plane has a fatal flaw. On three different occasions we put the plane into a spin and could not recover. The first two times we weren't sure what happened. The third time it happened Steven was flying it high. He could not recover it, so he handed me the radio. I could not recover it either. After the crash we did a radio range check where it lay. No problems with the radio. Our conclusion is that the plane can get aerodynamically 'stuck' in a spin. Because of this, we decided not to rebuild a 3^rd time.

 

 

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