I love my Kestrel 100, I have been flying it for the past year at the Orlando Buzzards field and had nothing but very nice comments from fellow buzzards. If I build another one I would make the tow hook position adjustable, I made mine rudder, elevator, flaperon, and spoilers. The spoilers are very effective the only change I would do next time is to put the spoiler servos in the wing instead of in the fuse, a lot simpler to construct that way. The flaperon was a bad Idea, I get flutter if I go a little too fast ( caused three servos to strip gears), my suggestion is to build separate flaps and ailerons and put the flap servo close to the middle of the panel( instead of towards the inboard). By the way, these suggestions ( and many many more)I received from fellow buzzards, thanx guys. Also be sure to read , read, and reread the instructions over and over. There are some discrepancies in them I think what Sal did was copy the instruction booklet of the Kestrel 2 meter and didn't incorporate all the changes in it. The plans though are excellent, I taped the plans on the wall, this way I can look at them while I read the book,I made a copy for my building board. A good suggestion was to drill two holes in the nose block (from the back side) and used later for nose weight. I have used a high start but, with the winch I get much higher launches. I hope this helps Raed
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