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I was looking at the quick build kit, and was curious your feeling on how complete
it is. Besides the poor manual that I have read about here. I have no experience
in building airplanes, but good mechanical abilities. I have about 55hrs
flying the Allegro 2000 during Sp training and solo and was looking to move
forward. Does any one know how many Kits have been sold and flying in the US?
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Subject: | Re: Quick build Kit |
I have no idea how many kits have actually been sold in the U.S., but I
purchased mine almost two years ago at the Sebring, FL Sport Aviation Expo.
You may have read one of my prior messages about the state of the assembly
manual - it left MUCH to the imagination. Maybe by now some changes have
been made. I also had no plane building experience, but consider myself
fairly handy. Had it not been for an Allegro 2000 within flying distance to
use as a reference, I would have been pulling my hair out. As it turned
out, that plane got sold, so we spent quite a bit of time on the phone with
B-Bar-D and found some answers there. This was after photographing every
square inch of what we thought we might need to refer to later on.
The kit was mostly complete, but it was hard to tell this without a
thourough parts list. Many of my parts appeared to have been thrown
together at the last minute without being sorted by category (perhaps in an
effort to make a deadline?). We did have to bother B-Bar-D quite a few
times towards the end for parts that we didn't even know existed until we
got to that particular project. Once again, hopefully Allegro has remedied
this issue.
Now that my plane is completed, I must say that it's gorgeous and I'm glad
we built it. Don't hesitate to take on this project, but be prepared to put
lots more time than advertised into the building process (part of which is
simply "creative solution" time). We have another plane that we were able
to fly in the meantime, so we were still able to get in the air without
renting. Just some things to think about....
Dale Hackworth
Hobe Sound, FL
Allegro 2000
N306AD
----- Original Message -----
From: "vertcnc" <petersen_t@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:56 PM
Subject: Allegro-List: Quick build Kit
>
> I was looking at the quick build kit, and was curious your feeling on how
> complete it is. Besides the poor manual that I have read about here. I
> have no experience in building airplanes, but good mechanical abilities. I
> have about 55hrs flying the Allegro 2000 during Sp training and solo and
> was looking to move forward. Does any one know how many Kits have been
> sold and flying in the US?
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=143523#143523
>
>
>
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