Sig Mfg. Co., Inc...401-7 South Front Street....Montezuma, Iowa 50171
The King Kobra was designed to fill requests for a .60 sized airplane like our popular .40 - .50 size Kougar. Following the Kougar
philosophy, it is a compact model. Because of this efficient size, the King Kobra is capable of excellent aerobatic performance
without necessarily needing a tuned pipe and/or retracts. We know there will be some builders who will want to use these high
performance extras so a section is included in these instructions to guide them. The kit, however, is intended to produce the
fixed gear version as it will be built by the majority of buyers. Any extra parts or materials needed for retracts or tuned pipe
installation are not supplied.
It should be obvious that this is not a model for novice fliers. You can't go straight from a high wing trainer like the Sig Kadet to
the King Kobra without a lot of assistance from an instructor. But if you travel the full 3-step "Learn To Fly RC The Sig Way"
program or its equivalent first, the transition to the King Kobra's high speed and responsive performance will be easy.
Since most builders of this kit will probably have had some experience we were tempted to short cut the instructions. This was
not done. Some skilled fliers may not have had much prior building experience and beginners at both building and flying will
probably be constructing the model for future use. Other readers with considerable expertise may feel they can skip the
instruction book. Our advice is the same as to the amateur. Read it all before beginning. There are some essential facts mixed in
with the more elementary, don't get bored and miss these.
ABOUT THE BUILDING SEQUENCE
The quickest and most efficient way to complete a model is to work on several pieces at the same time. While the glue is drying
on one section you can start on or proceed with another part. Work can even go forward on several sections of the same
assembly at the same time, such as the front and rear of the fuselage. We occasionally get suggestions that our instruction
books should be in exact step-by-step building sequence. But this would result in many sentences starting, "While the glue is
drying on the fuselage, move to the wing etc." and a lot of jumping back and forth between assemblies with no consistant pictoral
progression. Also, our pre-selected building sequence might not suit your workshop space or time allotments.
