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- From: sbixby@cup.portal.com (Steven W Bixby)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: First plane (sailplane) advice?
- Message-ID: <73184@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:15:38 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <73179@cup.portal.com>
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- >Ok, I've read the FAQ and decided to build a Standard class sailplane
- >as my first R/C craft.
-
- >I'd like to solicit comments on:
- >Dynaflite Butterfly
-
- Dynaflite kits are a little on the poor side, imho. The butterfly is a
- powered sailplane, and flies well, however.
-
- >Airtronics Olympic II
-
- EXCELLENT! Airtronics sailplane kits are very good quality kits. The
- instructions could be just a little more informative, but you can always
- ask the net. :-)
-
- >SIG Riser 100
-
- No experience with it, but Sig kits are usually pretty good, and the
- instructions are excellent; I doubt you'd go wrong with this kit.
-
- >I also need recommendations on books about sailplanes (building and flying)
- >and radios. (As my kids will eventually push me into power I thought I'd go
- >with a good 4ch setup.)
-
- I haven't looked at books aimed at the beginner lately, really. However,
- Model Airplane News publishers have put out a book on building and flying
- sailplanes that I found to be quite interesting and informative, although
- it didn't really address many subjects in great details. A fairly good
- introduction to the field.
-
- I'm sure there are some other, very good books, I'm just not familiar with
- them... :-)
-
- -swb- (Steve Bixby, sbixby@cup.portal.com)
-