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Old 11-27-2010, 05:20 PM
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Frank Schwartz
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Default RE: .30 Saito gold anniversary edition

I think you refer to the Live Wire Champ. I built one of those years and years ago with a Fox 19 R\C (exhaust baffle) in it with five channels reeds. Hi and low escapement on the engine and up down and right and left... Silk covered. Decided to do an outside loop (thought I was a hot shot pilot then...) and took forever to tuck under and there it was ..trucking along like gang busters, upside down about fifty feet from the ground..and me holding full down to keep it going straight and level.... Well, I let go of the down stick trying to hit rudder and roll it out, but the lift and the speed took over first and the plane went straight in (down is up..and up is down when you are inverted, y'know) ...never had enough left to rebuild.
Anyhow...I have one of those replica kits for the Champ and plan to build it this winter...maybe a new Saito 30 would do well... Santa, are you listening??
Frank Schwartz AMA123
85 years young...still building and flying............