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Scale Free Flight Forum => Scale, Indoor (F4D, F4E, Kitscale) => Topic started by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 12:52 AM

Title: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 12:52 AM
A very good kit and a pleasure to built it!I had a lot of fun..so i ll post some pictures..
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 12:55 AM
 ;)
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 12:57 AM
and now..covering..
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 12:58 AM
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Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 01:02 AM
...working with raki.. ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 01:06 AM
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Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 01:07 AM
and finally...
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 06, 2026, 01:09 AM
and with his box ;) ready for the trimming flights.
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: Spiros on Feb 06, 2026, 09:41 AM
Well done!! Really beautiful!
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: TheLurker on Feb 06, 2026, 09:08 PM
Very pretty.  Makes me think I really ought to get on and build the kit I have.
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: g_kandylakis on Feb 06, 2026, 10:13 PM
Nice one, John...

Here are two videos of it in flight, looks like a steady slow flyer.



Andrew_D, the designer, is flying the first one, maybe he can give some clues about trimming.
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: gravitywell on Feb 07, 2026, 12:05 AM
absolutely love that colour scheme.  Well done!
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 07, 2026, 02:15 AM
thank you very much guys for your good words and thank you George for the videos!
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: Andrew D on Feb 07, 2026, 02:43 AM
Nice job on the model.  I flew the particular model in the clip at the weekend and it still goes well.  Believe it or not it needed tailweight.  To avoid this give the prop a good scraping and lighten it up as much as you can...

It trims very easily.  There is down thrust built in and a bit of right thrust and left rudder is enough.  It is very stable and benign.

Andrew
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: dputt7 on Feb 07, 2026, 06:38 AM
Fine model. Well Done.
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 07, 2026, 02:55 PM
Quote from: Andrew D on Feb 07, 2026, 02:43 AMNice job on the model.  I flew the particular model in the clip at the weekend and it still goes well.  Believe it or not it needed tailweight.  To avoid this give the prop a good scraping and lighten it up as much as you can...

It trims very easily.  There is down thrust built in and a bit of right thrust and left rudder is enough.  It is very stable and benign.

Andrew
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 07, 2026, 03:34 PM
thank you very much Andrew for everything!you did a great job!nice kit easy built and accurate and scale...it was a pleasure for me..i ll post soon news from the trimming flight..the weight of my model is 23 grams.
i'll give the prop a good scraping and lighten it up as much as i can!
thank you very much!
Title: Re: Cessna 140 VMC KIT
Post by: John Kourbanis on Feb 07, 2026, 03:38 PM
dputt7 thank you very much!