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From: RAF Turnhouse 603 Squadron,
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Like I said, argued before. Why don't we close the thread now before it gets stupid ?
109 models are few and far between for many reasons,
One major reason is the tail unit when reduced in scale becomes very ineffective, it's just too small to start with. Designers try to cover this up by enlarging the tail, it then starts to loose it's scale appearence (Take that Graupner pic for example) Most early fighters (1936-40) had very small tails, idea being less drag, flew very fast but you will see that even the real ones had problems back there. The Spit is a great example, as she advanced from mark to mark, the tail got bigger and bigger. The 109 did this too, not as dramatic a change though, including airfoiling the vertical and rudder on ONE side to counter the engine torque.
Another is the ' unfriendliness ' of the landing gear arrangement, you RCU guys out there that whine about modern arf retracts and their mounting now, wait till you get an arf 109, they're gonna take a pounding. The key of course is to land properly.
Now as far as arf's, Graupner's and the old Kyosho are the only ones I recall, for those who think a glass fused kit is an arf, you can get the 1/4 scale PCM deal, pricey but a beautiful model when BUILT (Not assembled)
I have yet to see a pic of the YT deal, I assume KMP will distribute that here in the states. The Spit XIV was supposed to be along mid summer, guess it'll be a Christmas present this year.
Jlevin- Take your time advancing as I advised on your other post (I assume you are still following your post, you seem to post then never converse)
By the way Advent and DocD, we got the maiden flight on Bill C's Proctor Neiuport 28 yesterday, flew very well, a little climb problem, very similar to Gary's. The cool thing was the fact that you had to feed in down elevator to get the tail up (Here come the tail heavy post !) However, once the tail was up and flying, it stayed level, this is very much like flying the Stearman (Fullscale) after speed has increased, add a little up elevator and she's off. Throttle and wind caused more pitch up (the Proctor I understand has scale incidences and airfoils) but the elevator was saying balance was ok, not very touchy. Landing was straight forward, power on over the threshold, let the speed bleed off, cut power to a nice wheel landing, Great Fun ! 
Butler's Wild Hare flies spectacular too, very, very nice ! 
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. Man, I really do not want that thing anymore. What a waste of money.