see below > Brian Stutters wrote: > > > i'm looking to move up (or laterally) to another > > plane. my current spirit is not only fairly well > > destroyed, but has been a pain in the ass the entire > > way. I can understand that! Yuck!
>>i want to stay in the 2m RES area, not the greatest idea as even a little larger is much nicer >>so i've been > > considering these options: > > snip > > c) nsp's kestrel 2m. seems nice enough and i like the > > idea of laser cut parts. I flew an early version or maybe it was a prototype and it flew very well. I haven't heard the greatest things about the quality of the kit. Isn't there a short kit of the Sagitta 600? A little obsolete in some sense, but a very nice flyer nonetheless, and you won't have the old problem of telling yours apart from the other 5 in the same thermal. If you build one keep the tail as light as you can and maybe reinforce the fuse just a tad around the front of the fin. If I was in that market I might be tempted to try a Laser Arts Jester, but I don't know how it flies or whether it's any good. Just looks like it might be good. Of course if you're ready to do a lot of work there's the Allegro Lite, but that's a heavy duty project! > > > > lots of people have been telling me to step up to a > > 100" plane, but my hi-start is for 2m and it would be > > difficult to fit larger wings in my car, so that's out > > of the question...for now at least. Some 100" aren't very heavy, and most have two part wings. If you can't fit 50" wing halves you must be sharing a Messerschmidt tandem car with another flyer. Dynaflite used to have a 100" plane which I think was pretty light called the Apogee, but again I don't know how it flew, plus I don't know if you can get one. Maybe would high start on 2M ok. The Oly 2 is very nice but slow, and if a high start can launch a Spirit I bet it can do as well for a light Oly 2. Laser Arts has a 100" plane but I don't know what it's like. An Oly 2 made with a fully d tubed S3021 wing would probably be great. There's a short kit out there for the Sagitta 900, but I've never flown one, or at least not for long. I think people used to like them. snip -- Lincoln Ross NOTE ADDRESS CHANGE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
