Hellcat Speed 400

Scale:  1/17
Span:  30"
Length:  23"
Wing Area:  168 SQ IN
Weight RTF:  18 OZ
Price:  $80 (including shipping within the continental US)

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The Hellcat Speed 400 was featured as a construction project in the July, 1997 issue of Model Airplane News. It's a moderately easy to build warbird of balsa and foam construction. It's designed for a 6V Speed 400 motor on 7 or 8 cells, but it can also be powered by a small brushless motor like theAstroFlight for even more impressive performance.

This is a complete laser-cut kit, and high quality Sig balsa is used throughout. Fuselage construction is conventional balsa, and the wing is foam sheeted with 1/32 balsa.

For best performance, I recommend the following flight hardware: 6V Speed 400 motor, Graupner #1328 prop adapter, Graupner 6 X 4 prop, 8-cell KAN-1050 NiMH battery pack, 20 amp BEC speed controller and micro radio gear.

 The kit includes all materials needed for construction:

• Machine-cut foam wing cores.
• Laser-cut balsa and ply parts.
• Pre-bored balsa cowl block.
• Premium grade balsa.
• Thermo-formed canopy.
• Full-size AutoCAD plans. (Click for partial view).
• Frisket masks for painting canopy.

Ryan Aircraft

6941 Rob Vern Drive
Cincinnati, OH  45239
Ph:  (513) 729-3323
Fax:  (513) 729-3432

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