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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 5/26/2006 12:58:32 PM   
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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 5/30/2006 3:27:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		A true beater plane is, one that your buddy lets you fly when you want!

He has a US Aircore Corostar or something like that name. It has been through hell and back at fun flies and what not. It had a pretty good accident a few years ago back on a fun fly called the looping limbo, just the name of that fun fly say's it all. We had to try and loop it around a PVC pole stretched across the runway 10 feet in the air the one that could do the most loops around the pole in 10 minutes was the winner! The Corostar ate one of the vertical poles holding the horizontal bar. It ripped about 10 inches off one of the wings, but with some dental floss stiching and contact cement it was up and flying the next weekend. It is a true beater!


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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 6/2/2006 4:51:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Skater - The Slow Poke will take a fair amount of wind. Nice thing about it is that when the wind is blowing you can take off and land crossways on the runway if ya' like! There have been days when I did that with it due to too much crosswind on the runway. Have had it hanging almost motionless into a good breeze. With 1,050 Sq. In of wing you can definitely have some fun with it.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 6/16/2006 4:51:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I got a couple of beaters,ones a tufflight 4-D witch can take a very lot of abuse and the other ones aMiniUltraStick that i stripped off everything i could off it ,i'll tell you what,them 2 are the funnest planes in my hanger! im gettin pretty good at flying in the wind

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/7/2006 12:29:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Beater ???? Hummmmmm ......
I guess this means you don't care about it, but it is still fun to fly and gets its fair share of airtime.
I guess right now for me it would be a high wing Sky Raider 40 ARF (only $76 including tax) flies real nice, will do some tricks.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/15/2006 9:12:28 PM   
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You just descibed the perfect airplane.

turbo

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/17/2006 1:11:28 AM   
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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/17/2006 1:43:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I second the vote for SPADs. Beater planes by definition! My favorite is my own design. I call it the Simple Plastic Low Wing Aerobatic Trainer (SPLAT) for short. Thunder Tiger GP 61 on the nose, and everybody that watches if fly is amazed. If I crash it (and I have many times) I can rebuild it in about 2-3 hours (and I have many times!).

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/17/2006 2:03:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Aivstar Select I bought for our club as the trainer, I would have to say is the best beater. It has taken a bearbed wire fence 2 or 3 times, has hit the ground, and I just counted 14 patches on the wing, 4 on the fuselage, still no replacement parts were ever added, just used duct tape or some old monocote. As to the spads, Scott the owner of Brillelli engines is always out at our field with them. They are alot of fun, but he has cracked engines before on landing, because he was flying in 20 mph wind with his.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/17/2006 4:20:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		After three years and 400+ flights, my beloved Cor-Star 60 is still my favorite 'beater' plane. I've got 15 flyable airplanes, but if I had to give them all up but one, I would keep the Cor-Star. I just recently accidentaly taught myself how to flat spin with this plane last week. A friend counted 18 spins a few days ago before I finally pulled out 60 feet above terra firma.

It's the most fun I've ever had for $40 (cost of material in airframe).

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/19/2006 2:48:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: TimC

Here's mine. I bought it used in Vegas and don't even know what it's called. It is very stable and is really a nice flying little plane. The engine is an O.S. .30.


Tim, that design was my favorite all around flyer for years as well. It is an Ace 4-40, designed by Doc Matthews and kitted by Ace in the mid 80's. There was a construction article in MA also. They were designed around the low power 40 4 strokes of the day, which is why yours flys well on an OS 30.
At one time I had one with a Saito 45, and had buddies with them using the OS non-Surpass 40 and Enya 46.
All flew great...another kit I wish they still made.
They were also kitted in 20, 60, 120 and biplane 40 sizes.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/19/2006 3:54:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the info Lotus72D. I think mine is the 20 size.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/19/2006 10:17:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		An old SPad3DT that I made years ago. Take a licking and keeps on ticking.


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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/19/2006 10:24:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		My Vmar Apache 2 or as its known at the field "Patches" due to the multitude of colours covering holes. A great wee trainer I bought 2nd hand for next to nothing. Not the most agile but an absolute rocket with a .52 2 stroke.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/23/2006 8:08:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Before it decided it didn't love me anymore do to the Long John .40 and NextStar .40 arriving at the hangar, it was a SIG Kadet Senior w/ a GP/Magnum/Thunder Tiger .65 for an engine. Luckily I still have a ANIB one left otherwise I'd be . It just decided to fly away one day. .Prolly in Afghanistan by now being used as a drone or UAV

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 8/23/2006 10:55:15 PM   
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