> From: Rick Wardrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm considering getting my first scale ship. Not being either rich or a
> scale fanatic, I'm looking for something inexpensive and fun to fly. (Yes I
> realize using "scale" and "inexpensive" in the same sentence is self
> contradictory.)
>
> Currently the Icare Mini Salto and the Gerasis Fox 2m look attractive. Both
> are $200 which is about as high as I want to go. Reading the ads it looks
> like the Salto is probably the better kit while the Fox is larger and
> somewhat better looking. I doubt either thermals very well but both look
> like they should be airobatic.
Rick, I had an Icare Salto a couple of years ago. A nice little model, quite
reasonably scale and very pretty. BUT it needs a lot of speed to fly well and
tipstalls like a monster if you slow down at all. Etienne improved the kit
after some feedback about the difficulties I had building it. The Fox 2m is
likely to be a bit less of a handful; although I don't have a Geriasis one I do
had a ROWI version which appears to be very similar. I would say the geriasis
is a very nicely moulded model with high likelihood of performing well. At 2m
it is endowed with _much_ more wing area than the 53" Salto, maybe four times
as much? That Salto wing is very, very skinny - perhaps 4.5" root chord and 3.5
tip.
I'd go for the Fox and wait until I could afford a 2.5-3m Salto. Oh, wait, I
just started one of them.....
tim
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