TIME TO TAKE ON THE SNAKE!

If you’ve ever seen the movie Iron Eagle, there’s an incredible sequence in the movie where the lead character, Doug Masters, flies a Cessna 150 through this race they call “the snake.”  This consists of him racing a guy (Knocher) on a motorcycle through a canyon.  It’s a totally hokey scenario and it results in a kind of crash landing due to the guy Doug’s racing sabotaging the airplane (of course!).  Though, I think Doug might have had a better chance if he wasn’t racing with full flaps down…  That said, the whole flying sequence is a display of some pretty incredible flying by Art Scholl who was an amazing aerobatic pilot from back in the day.  He flew for a number of movies throughout his carrier but unfortunately his carrier ended too soon while filming the spin scene for the movie Top Gun.

So, when I saw the E-Flite 2.1m Cessna 150 Aerobat, it took me back to when I watched Iron Eagle over and over as a kid (quite literally) and I knew that I wanted one.  It captures everything great about the airplane and that sequence as the airplane looks great and flies aerobatics wonderfully.  So, there just might be a repaint in this airplanes future…  but before that, I wanted to give you guys a full review on this awesome Aerobat.  The box is huge, and the airplane is big, and it’s awesome!

ASSEMBLY NOTES

As noted, the airplane comes in a very sizable box that took up most of my workbench.  The airplane is nicely packaged and I didn’t find any damage at all through shipping.  E-flite has broken the airplane down into a small number of large components.  You have the fuselage, the wings and horizontal stabilizers, Continue reading →