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Old 05-12-2003, 01:24 PM
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Bill L
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[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]Here's one vote to send you out to get the Firebird XL. Mine would clear 50 feet in about 100 yards, when hand launched into a 5+knot breeze. Don't put the little piece of plastic under the trailing edge of the wing untill you learn to control it. Then put it in and go much faster. I put my XL into a tail spin, and could not pull it out, and burried about 3 cm into hard mud. That was in the morning, and by supper time I had it into the air again, repaired, wing and all. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] Let's see you try that with a slow stick, or a tiger moth.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] You will never make sharp turns with an XL like you could with a moth or stick. Fly what you want, but fly, Fly, FLY![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]