The Sickle is basically a copy of a Gremlin. I built a gremlin with a coro wing long before the Sickle was introduced. I actually kitted it and sold about 30 of them locally.
Granted, coro is cheap and quick to work with, but I can build a foam wing plane for less than $10 in two evenings. If you could fly a Sickle and a foam wing gremlin back to back you would see foam flys better. My Gremlin with a 25 bb Norvel was radared at 92 mph pulling a streamer, I can hold my plane vertically and let it go and it will climb straight up. I'd love to try one with a piped 40, maybe this winter.
The biggest expence of cutting foam is the power supply, but some use a 12v battery charger, $20 at Autozone?? You probably have one already.
Where I live its always over 85 in the summer.
