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Short coupled and draggy. Should really present well but could be a handful. Wonder if he's putting a gyro on the rudder? Here's about as big as I go nowdays, in the past I have built and flown up to 42%. This one was an 80" kit that I upscaled the plans to 94" and am scratch building. If anyone lives in SC or near there there's a huge giant scale fly in every summer called the Joe Nall fly in. A full week of nothing but giant scale flying from dawn to dusk and after dark as well with some glow sticks attached to planes. Normally have a full scale airshow as well. Also has a lake/pond to fly float planes off of. I highly recommend it, but you have to join the AMA to attend (available on site). I've been twice and it was well worth the 12 hour drive. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/borzak_ranger/DSC00498.jpg I have one of these sitting in a storage locker in a box waiting for me to recover from the divorce and find a place with enogh room to build it. ETA: Might be a good place for a pilot "Steve". |
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Short coupled and draggy. Should really present well but could be a handful. Wonder if he's putting a gyro on the rudder? Here's about as big as I go nowdays, in the past I have built and flown up to 42%. This one was an 80" kit that I upscaled the plans to 94" and am scratch building. If anyone lives in SC or near there there's a huge giant scale fly in every summer called the Joe Nall fly in. A full week of nothing but giant scale flying from dawn to dusk and after dark as well with some glow sticks attached to planes. Normally have a full scale airshow as well. Also has a lake/pond to fly float planes off of. I highly recommend it, but you have to join the AMA to attend (available on site). I've been twice and it was well worth the 12 hour drive. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/borzak_ranger/DSC00498.jpg I have one of these sitting in a storage locker in a box waiting for me to recover from the divorce and find a place with enogh room to build it. ETA: Might be a good place for a pilot "Steve". Thats actually cool, make sure you clip the wings and overpower the shit out of it. 
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Short coupled and draggy. Should really present well but could be a handful. Wonder if he's putting a gyro on the rudder? Here's about as big as I go nowdays, in the past I have built and flown up to 42%. This one was an 80" kit that I upscaled the plans to 94" and am scratch building. If anyone lives in SC or near there there's a huge giant scale fly in every summer called the Joe Nall fly in. A full week of nothing but giant scale flying from dawn to dusk and after dark as well with some glow sticks attached to planes. Normally have a full scale airshow as well. Also has a lake/pond to fly float planes off of. I highly recommend it, but you have to join the AMA to attend (available on site). I've been twice and it was well worth the 12 hour drive. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/borzak_ranger/DSC00498.jpg I have one of these sitting in a storage locker in a box waiting for me to recover from the divorce and find a place with enogh room to build it. ETA: Might be a good place for a pilot "Steve". Thats actually cool, make sure you clip the wings and overpower the shit out of it. Im going to go with a DLE-222 engine and a Futaba 8J radio. |
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I woulda crashed it in about 3.7 seconds flat. I suck at flying rc planes The only time I have ever crashed was equipment failures. Get a simulator. Thats planes, I have dumb thumbed a few helis. When I learned to fly RC ( early 80's ) there was no such thing as a simulator, you built it out of balsa, covered it with monokote, crashed it, rebuild, crash over and over. by about your third plane or so they would live till you got tired of them. It's so easy now days, last couple of planes I have bought you just installed the gear, balanced it up and go fly the shit out of them. It's always fun finding the design limits of a 2500$ hollow moulded carbon glider in the DS circle. I learned before sims, I wasn't even 10 yet. Sims made me better than just about anyone at my field though. Which was either a parking lot or an un built subdivision. 
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