Greatplane "Siren"

After reading a few review about this Greatplane "Siren" I have decided to give it a try. got the model from NTC and the packing of the kit is very presentable. Even the manual are well printed out with all the flying regulations and reminders.

The building process of the "Siren" are somewhat simple as it is and ARF kit except for some slight modifications that needed to be done. Wings comes in 3 pieces and it has a wooden spar for the joints. The joining of wings are very crucial as a little mistake will cost the performance of the plane. Extra focus needed for that.

The fuselage itself have a great livery and it's fully carbon which means that the receiver antenna need to be out of the fuselage. The plane was design for Nicad cell and since we are now using Lipo's, there some modification needed to be done in order to get the right CG. Apart from that, the assembly of the servo and other electronics are a simple.

Did a flight test some weeks back and it was sort of a warmliner. This is base on my configurations and I have read somewhere in the net that they are some flyers who actually pushes the plane to the limit and it became somewhat of a hotliner.

The plane is very agile and it can also thermal very well. Tried climbing and it went straight up will lots of power...suitable for F5B. Did a few laps with power cut and it did actually floats but with a slight fast sinking rate but nevertheless when you hit a thermal, it goes up again. Apart from that, did some aerobatic maneuver and it responed well. Did a couple of highspeed low pass and also tried to tip stall it and it was difficult to get it tip stall. Overall it was indeed a good model :)

I would say that it's a good model to begin with if you are a beginner with hotliner as I am. The next model that I currently assembling is the fully moulded "Eagle 5" which looks similar to the "Siren"