Scimitar - Humm...

[akent]

Well, since I love the Stryker so much, I had to see what the Scimitar was all about.
This is one expensive foamie!

I went ahead and got the retracts, too.
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I built the thing up and flew the maiden three weeks ago.
I had the throws set to mid travel with the vectored thrust setup on the rudder dual rate switch.

I took off and the thing flew, but not very well. I landed it Ok.

The next flight saw the plane take off and immediately nose over and go into the pavement. I did not have it at WOT, as it will take off and fly at half throttle and it lands very slowly. So, I don't believe I stalled it.
The right elevon had pulled out! It was not glued on one end. I popped the thing off the ground and it just nosed in.
I truly believe that the elevon just let loose.

Damage: Nose retract, right wing elevon, and nose piece.
I called Horizon and they wanted me to ship the whole thing back!! I had already thrown away the massive box. Bummer!
They otherwise refused to do anything for me, even after I sent them extensive pictures.

Anyway, I got the spare parts (another 100 bucks worth!) and fixed the thing.

The next flight saw it porpoise strangely on landing. This broke another nose retract.

I just got spare parts in today (another 75 bucks!!)

Anyway, my point is that this is one expensive foamie and if you get one, check EVERYTHING very carefully!

I'll fly this again. I think you need to land very very softly, as any speed will cause the porpoising destruction. I did have one good landing before the front collapsed.

Oh, and with two good flights, even with the vectored thrust, I could only get it into one boomerang. The other attempts were pretty poor inverted flat spins.

This thing needs some figuring out. It's too heavy to be treated like the Stryker!

So, my opinion?
1. If you want something that does everything, buy a Stryker Q and forget about the Scimitar. You can buy almost 3 x Strykers for the price of the Scimitar!!!!!!!!
2. If you want to fly high and land VERY VERY VERY carefully, you might consider the Scimitar. It will take lots of flights to figure out how to do some of the things the Stryker does in it's sleep.

I might change my mind once I figure this thing out, but so far it has been a very frustrating and expensive experience.

Kent

[19000rpm]

What a total disaster. I've had a few of those. It seems like a plane that expensive, with all of the purported capabilities, would work out better than that.

Thanks for the report. Hope you can get it sorted out. If not, send it back anyway with a letter. You might get a more sympathetic response once they see it.