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- From: gregt@col.hp.com (Greg Tarcza)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: First plane (sailplane) advice?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:35:19 GMT
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- sbixby@cup.portal.com (Steven W Bixby) writes:
- >I'd like to solicit comments on:
- >Dynaflite Butterfly
- >
- > Dynaflite kits are a little on the poor side, imho.
-
- I'll second that. My son built a Dynaflite Apogee (100")and it has its
- share of design oddities that I don't like, especially the way wings are
- mounted and aligned... but it flies OK and thermals well.
-
- >Airtronics Olympic II
- >SIG Riser 100
-
- Both of these planes are good planes from what I have seen. There have
- been a couple of Riser 100's and many Oly's show up at our club field and
- the owners seem to like them. With an experienced pilot, either one can
- "clean up" at our thermal contests.
-
- Another kit that I am close to is the Spirit 100. I don't have enough
- experience with it yet to tell you whether it would be a good first plane
- (in regards to construction and how much abuse it can take), but it seems
- to fly quite well and floats forever in light lift. Our club purchased
- 15 of these birds as sort of a group project a year ago and about half have
- been built. A couple have been crunched due to pilot errors and construction
- flaws. The experienced pilots always seem to build kits with their own
- set of modifications, so I'm not really sure how a totally stock kit will
- do.
- Greg T.
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