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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!monsanto.com!lesnyd@monsanto.com
- From: lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Beginner questions (again!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.190621.4619@tin.monsanto.com>
- Sender: news@tin.monsanto.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: DSC
- References: <BzH2qr.3IE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:06:21 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <BzH2qr.3IE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jtg0707@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jui Tien) writes:
- >
- > Holiday Greetings.
- >
- Happy Holidays!
-
- > I went down to the store to check out the engines, the K&B and FOX
- > do look less *polished* than the O.S. engines. Are they really
- > such bad engines?
-
- No, but they aren't the easy-to-run workhorses the OS engines are, either.
- As I've posted before, I learned to fly on an Eaglet 50 with a K&B .20
- Sportster and that engine was GREAT. It always started on the second or
- third flip and always ran well. But for higher performance, I'd go OS.
-
- >
- > 2. Question of durability vs. flyability.
- > Many people suggested that I should get planes such as U.S. Aircore
- > or something called *Duraplane* as beginner trainers. While others
- > suggested Balsa planes such as PT40 and the like. The prevailing
- > opionion is that Balsa planes fly much better but are very fragile.
- > The question is: how fragile is the Balsa planes? How much
- > flyability do I give up by going to the *industructable* planes?
-
- You should fly a plane built to FLY, not a plane built to CRASH! A plane
- that is "indestructible" probably needs to be, since its wing loading will
- be high and it will fly HOT. The most fragile plane around, the SIG Kadet
- Senior, is also the easiest to fly. I had never seen one until last summer,
- when a newcomer brought one out. It was barely rolling when it simply lifted
- up off the ground at about 10 mph! And although this guy was a natural flyer,
- within a month he had moved up to a fast low-winger. The Kadet never crashed,
- and this guy never had an instructor. I'm not saying the Kadet is THE way to
- go, I'd probably recommend an Eagle or PT40 with ailerons, but I strongly
- recommend learning on a plane built to FLY, not built to CRASH (I said that
- before, didn't I?).
-
- >
- > By the way, I've decided to heed the advice and leave the helicopters for
- > later days.
-
- Wise move.
-
- > Thanks in advance.
- > J.T.
- > 12/18/92
- >
- >
- >
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