Almost Ready to Fly
Browse our selection of the best Almost Ready to Fly (ARF) RC Airplanes and build an aircraft of your liking, to your liking. From Sports Racers to Warbirds, and from Trainers to Gliders, you are bound to find something you love.
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ARF radio-controlled planes are a popular category in RC aviation that come partially assembled. ARF planes are perfect for you if you want an RTF (Ready to Fly) model with a little room for customization. Unlike PNF (Plug N Fly), they generally do not come with motor, ESC, or servos, which allows you to choose the equipment you wish to use. Here is our exclusive collection of ARF designs, including 3D ARF RC planes, ARF electric RC planes, and ARF RC plane kits.
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Super Fast FlyCat 56mm EDF Jet (KIT)$27.04This little kit takes around 4hrs to build and will satisfy the throttle jocky in all of us!
The flycat comes with 56mm EDF and you will need a 25A ESC & 4800kv inrunner.
This plane is extremely fast, (over 100mph!), however still stable at slow flight.
Spec.
WingSpan: 640mm
Length: 800mm
Weight: 290g
BESC : 25A (not included)
Motor: 4800kv 20-30 size Inrunner (not included)
Lipoly: 1300mAh 11.1v 20C (not included)Required.
Motor & ESC
3 x 9g Servo
5 or 10min Epoxy (Araldite)
1 x Servo Y lead
1 x Servo Extention lead
12AWG Silicon wire (20cm For motor to ESC)
1300mah 11.1v 20C lipo battery
Your own receiver and transmitterOur flight report.
Kit fits together well, light sanding of leading and trailing edges required to remove extra foam. We chose to not strengthen the wing with CF tubing, which didnt prove to be an issue, even at full speed high G turns.
We opted to mount the BESC being the battery area, in case the battery needed to be moved forward to adjust CofG, however this wasnt necessary.
EDF was mounted on the stick mount. Stick mount was shortened, with the extra piece used to raise the EDF off the stick to clear the EDF shroud. 2 bolts held the fan unit to the stick, one before and one after the fan blades.
First flight.
We kept CofG 9.5cm from the apex of the wings leading edge. The flycat was hand launched at 3/4 throttle, accelerating quickly. To our surprise, no trimming was required.
The flycat is an extremely fast kit to fly, and required a lot of elevator in turns. We suggest putting the elevator on maximum throws. It needs HUGE amounts of elevator during turns!
Overall an excellent plane which flys smoothly, even on windy days.
We suggest a good lipo pack, as this little hotty will chew through a 1500mAh in only 5 minutes. We used the ZIPPY-R 1800mAh 22C 3S1P pack for around 8 minute flights. As compared to the ZIPPY-Q pack which brought us short at about 7 minutes.
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HobbyKing Sports Hawk 'ARF-Plus' 105mm EDF Jet w/Retracts, Servos & LED LightsSpecial Price $771.36 Regular Price $899.99This great-looking EDF sports jet is the one you have all been waiting for, and it has one of the lowest all-up weights in its class, it is a good 500g lighter than comparable models that are available on the market today. It is a sport scale design and is based on the iconic BAE Hawk trainer as used by military air forces all over the world. This easy-to-assemble model has been termed as an almost ready-to-fly-plus, it is completely built out of the box, the wings, all-flying horizontal stabilizers, and vertical stabilizer just bolt-on, and pre-installed are a set of all-metal electronic retracts with doors, sequencer control box, and lightweight wheels, 11 high-torque, metal-geared digital servos, and a set of pre-installed, day-bright LED lights. The Sports Hawk comes pre-painted in a Formula One-inspired paint scheme and includes a set of HobbyKing brand decals that you can apply if you wish. The pre-painted Sport Hawk color scheme lends itself nicely to having other sponsorship decals being applied, or you could even repaint it in a custom color scheme, the choice is yours. A nice touch is the removable base to the cockpit area which makes it very easy to add a pilot and more cockpit detail if you wish.
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