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I'm Resurrecting the first Giant Scale Aerobatic Airframe Trev built almost 10 years ago.
It's a 107" Aerotech Yak 54 built from a Kit. It was Trev's First BBT and he finished it in QQ's Yak 54 Scheme.
Was powered by a DA85 on a KS Tuned Pipe. He had it for a while then I traded him a 35% Carden Edge for it and he refinished it in my favorite Yak 54 scheme, The Group Tranchant Aerobatic Team.
Trev wanted to keep the DA85/Pipe combo so I put in a DA100L on DA mufflers.With this combo I thought I was around 30 lbs but measured it and she was 33lbs. Big Wing Area made her a floater and while the DA100L wouldn't win any drag races it still had unlimited vertical and if you didn't back-off the throttle it would climb out of site, on a 3 Blade
I flew it in IMAC in the Sportsman Class and was at a Contest in Ottawa when I planted it in a Snow Fence.
Hit one of the "T-Bar" posts that bit into the right wing panel right up to the Wing Tube, Hacked up the cowl and the prop was toast.
I don't like rebuilding so I sold it that Fall at the London Swap Meet to maddog. He rebuilt it and Sold it to 4REDave.
3 years ago I was at the London Swap Meet and bought it back from 4REDave. It had a Mintor 110 on cans in it and a mix of servos.
I pulled all that out and sold it. I was going to put a DA 100L on Plane Bender Cans. Then changed to a 3w110CS but finally decided on a DA120 on Plane Bender Pipes.
Below is a photo of when it was in the QQ Scheme and some photos of what it is looking like now in the Group Tranchant scheme