Neuport 28 Specifications: 33 inch wingspan / 25inch length / 188 sq-inch wingarea / 14.5ounce weight / 12 ounce wingloading.

Controls: elevator, rudder and motor speed.

Equipment: Two Cirrus CS-10BB on rudder and elevator, HITEC 555 receiver, speed 280 motor, 5:1 gearbox with a 10x7 APC SlowFly propeller. Note: this is not a standard APC prop but a lightened thinner prop for electric's only. And it works great! Getting a battery pack? I use a 7 cell AAA 720ma NiMH pack.

Construction materials: Thin light foam fuse, wings and tail feathers pre painted. EPSF (extruded polystyrene foam.) Bass wood struts with balsa bulkheads.

Comments: This is the Scorpio Neuport N-28. http://www.scorpio.it It is sort of an ARF Parkflyer. Though building it is a little challenging. So I hesitate to call it an ARF. But you could build it in a weekend. I used 5 minute and 30 minute epoxy. I tested CyA and it melted the foam. You have to cut away the battery hatch so use this as your glue test piece. I sort of relate this to building a ship in a bottle. Since everything is already painted and the fuselage is painted and complete. Building the bulkheads and firewall inside the fuse is a nice challenge to keep the finish nice and not cut any holes you don't need. I followed the instructions pretty much and at the end I screwed up my landing gear struts. So my N-28 leans a little to the left. I thought over it for a week on how to fix it and then decided to leaved it well enough alone. My suggestion is to tape a light straight stick across the bottom wing and elevator saddles, and as you fit the fuselage bulkhead and firewall, cut the landing gear strut slots. Make the left and right landing gear struts and fit them to the fuselage and with these setting down adjust the bulheads so the wing stick is level to the table top. Now pull out the landing struts and glue the fuselage bulkheads. Follow the instructions and when you get to putting on the landing gear your N-28 will sit straight. I hope. The kit comes with wing alignment jigs that hold the wings as the struts are glued. I didn't have any problems there and is a big plus in contruction. There is a battery hatch that I had trouble with the plywood spring to keep in closed I ended up leaving this off during flight. I used a piece of tape to secure the batteries.

When completed the plane is solid and strong.

BUT ! how does it fly? I set it down on the concrete tarmack of our field. It was a perfect cool calm day. (Note photos). I gave her a littel throttle and she started rolling and picking up speed. At about half throttle it gently lifted off. I needed just a little left rudder trim and we were flying. And boy does it fly. Loops, snap rolls, HEHEHE this was a blast. The rudder and elevator are very responsive good solid control. Whats really cool is that it flies nicely at half throttle. Full throttle and it climbs out. But because it is so light it is bumped around in rough air. The 720ma pack gives a very long flight time. I still haven't timed it but after a long flight I cut the throttle and down she came. The N-28 doesn't float like I thought it would so a little throttle might slow the decent. But I flared out and fed in elevator for a very nice smooth landing of just a couple feet. Then I still had power enough to taxi back the the pits (I probably could have taken off again.). The rudder is effective enough to taxi with on concrete. This plane cruising along looks REAL, it is very well proportioned and the colors show up very well in flight.

The Neuport 28 is a striking looking plane the colors are exciting and bright. I am really pleased on the finished plane.

My friend Steve got this for me for Christmas. When we were kids we used to dream of having tiny radio controlled planes just like this. He knew the Neuport 28 is my favorite looking plane of all time. Imagine that "A DREAM COME TRUE". Thanks Steve!