Fore Check
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I just received my first Holverson kit from JonRocket yesterday. Then I got to looking around for reviews (after the fact) and I can't find any.
I'm usually not meticulous enough to document a build - thus being able to write a good, detailed review - but I was wondering who has bought/built any of their balsa kits?
I got the Ecee Thunder kit. I haven't opened the package yet, but just what you get looks stunning.
This kit as 99% balsa. In the package, there are 7 sheets of balsa stacked together in what looks like a solid block of balsa 18" long, 4" wide, and 2" thick eek: ) Four of those 7 sheets are 1/4" thick! There are also 2 x 24" long, 4" wide sheets of 1/8" balsa. And all of this balsa has been laser cut! There's also a BT50 size stage coupler/plug piston thingy to activate the elevators at ejection. The only non balsa parts in the bag (as far as I can tell) are a 24" long BT50 with a 1/4" vent hole near one end, the launch lug, a 2" wide vinyl adhesive strip for the elevators, and the instructions.
Has anyone out there built one? The only Edmonds kit I've seen fly was a Deltee Thunder at NSL - and it's a completely different bird.
I'll give the folks at Holverson one thing - just looking at a packaged crammed with that much wood, knowing that I'm gonna stick a D12-3 in it, has me excited!
I'm usually not meticulous enough to document a build - thus being able to write a good, detailed review - but I was wondering who has bought/built any of their balsa kits?
I got the Ecee Thunder kit. I haven't opened the package yet, but just what you get looks stunning.
This kit as 99% balsa. In the package, there are 7 sheets of balsa stacked together in what looks like a solid block of balsa 18" long, 4" wide, and 2" thick eek: ) Four of those 7 sheets are 1/4" thick! There are also 2 x 24" long, 4" wide sheets of 1/8" balsa. And all of this balsa has been laser cut! There's also a BT50 size stage coupler/plug piston thingy to activate the elevators at ejection. The only non balsa parts in the bag (as far as I can tell) are a 24" long BT50 with a 1/4" vent hole near one end, the launch lug, a 2" wide vinyl adhesive strip for the elevators, and the instructions.
Has anyone out there built one? The only Edmonds kit I've seen fly was a Deltee Thunder at NSL - and it's a completely different bird.
I'll give the folks at Holverson one thing - just looking at a packaged crammed with that much wood, knowing that I'm gonna stick a D12-3 in it, has me excited!