Afraid I must disagree with you about floaters. While I'll grant that the Mirage may have been a benchmark, I'd be willing to fly a good Bubble Dancer vs. you with a Mirage any day. (Not that I'd necessarily win, we all know it's the pilot, and I don't know you so you may fly a lot better than I do.) If it was a bit breezy and we had the same airframe weight I'd even spot you a few points.
Actually, I think the Allegro Lite did some of it first, but the Bubble Dancer is a combination of full pedal strength with very light weight, balsa construction, low moment of inertia, and refined aerodynamics. I don't recall seeing that before the Allegro Lite. The Bubble Dancer turns very quickly for a 3 meter. My impression was that it did this quicker than the aileron jobs. I hadn't seen anything quite like it before. Certainly not a 3 meter that you could full pedal launch and also be comfortable doing a couple of circles from a hand launch. Watching Mark launch the Allegro Lite was surreal. Like playing a 33 at 45, or even 78, for those of you who remember vinyl. I don't know what the imitations fly like yet, though I hope to soon. ---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, I agree with your opinion. I read the threads and had to take a larger overview to what a benchmark actually means. In my opinion, Benchmark planes, means some plane to which other planes are compared to so that a noticeable advancement in performance, building, transport, and flying can be measured. They should be unique and contribute unique characteristics. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
