Well, received pretty many responses since I had posted about a new laser-cutMinimoa kit from Japan. Tanimura-san has updated his web site and now you can watch video clips of Minomoa in flight. Go to Thermal-studio's web site at http://www.thermal-kobo.jp/, and scroll down. After moving down past a large Ka-8b and Minimoa images, click where it says "2005/01/05 " . I am sure you can figure out the rest. Seeing this plane thermal in a rather low altitude with couple of kites is a sight to see. Now, this Minimoa has a gel coated FG fuse and laser-cut wing kit. It sell for 68,250 yen. S&H from Japan will be added on top of that. As with the 5m span Ka-8b, laser-cut kit is 88,200 yen, ARC version is 262,500 yen and ARF version is a hefty 367,500 yen. Right now, US$1 is about 103 yen, so bang on your clculator to see how much it comes out to be. I do not know if they will export their kits. I will not function as an exporter because too many things can go wrong. I have flown their ASK21 (1.8m span) and a fun sloper called Presto. They are both well designed and a blast to fly. I have also have their 1/6 scale Habicht kit waiting to be built. One? too many future projects on hand.
Toshiro Saruwatari Tokyo, Japan RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
