Kunai

Today we take a look at the Kunai by Great Planes. This warm-liner come ARF (almost ready-to-fly) or Rx-R (receiver-ready).

In addition:

Requires: 4-5 channel radio w/micro receiver, 11.1V 1200mAh LiPo battery & charger
ARF Also Requires: 20A brushless ESC & 4 high-torque micro servos

As far a battery setup, Great Planes recommends anywhere between a 850mAh up to 1300mAh. In a perfect world, a 1200mAh fits the best inside the fuselage. 

We were able to fly for about 8 minutes on a 1300mAh 3S.

You can get anywhere from 7 - 10 minutes depending on how aggressive you fly or if you can catch a thermal you can fly for much longer. 

If you are used to scratch building or EPP planes, this will be a more intensive build, but well worth the effort. Keep in mind, this thing will be traveling at an excessive speed so any little detail missed will be amplified by the flight characteristics. Do you best to align everything perfectly and don't get cheap glue! We highly recommend epoxy. No hot glue!  

The only real modification we made was to the hatch. It secures with two little magnets, one on the hatch and one on the fuselage. To be honest, we didn't trust them. At the speed this thing travels we felt the magnets weren't strong enough to hold the hatch on. 

We simply added two pieces of tape around the hatch as a little bit of insurance. 

This may seem like an extremely intimidating plane, but to our surpise, it was less hectic than expected. 

The stall tendencies were very forgiving. No hard tip stalls. 

Light wing loading allows for awesome maneuverability as well as the drag free airframe. 

This is as close as you can get with the follow quad before this happens...

If you want all the detals for this awesome plane, check out the Official Product Page which includes a PDF of the manual and some cool desktop wallpaper!

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