Sovereign Tech Tandem-5 Chinook to ACH-47A Conversion

New project! This will be the build of a Sovereign Technologies Tandem-5 (500 size Chinook. Couldn’t believe it made the journey from Taiwan in just over a week..

Initial impressions: Box was well-packed and everything was undamaged. All parts are bagged as individual assemblies. The gears and drive system appear to be excellent quality. The motor is included, as is a tandem mixer module to allow use of a conventional FBL. They also emailed me a VBar profile, however I don’t plan on using it.

However, it isn’t all positives. The fuselage is vacuformed plastic. While the toyish look wasn’t a surprise, I really expected a fiberglass fuselage for the price. And while the heads appear to be decent quality, they have little to no flapping travel or damping. Instead, they appear to rely on tip weighted, flexible plastic blades. More to come after initial assembly is completed.