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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 1/9/2007 1:44:23 AM   
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Currently an all built up lightened yamamoto pictured with my scaled down version.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 1/9/2007 5:49:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		mine is a gee bee kit tiger moth with a os 46 weighs 4 pounds and has unlimited vert. can do any thing that you want to do.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 1/10/2007 2:36:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I bought this ACE Big Bingo for $200 bucks . It was covered with cloth and is so bloody strong . Ive crashed it 7 times and only nicked up the wing tips. I have broken the fueslage in 1/2 several times , but each time was a easy fix. One of my crashes was so notable they gave me a trophy for it. I misjudged a landing and flew it into a fully loaded 55 gal drum garbage can. The Bingo just knocked it over and sat on it. No damage. I just recently desided to re cover the wing as it was getting a little dog eared from all the crashes. I saw where it's stregnth come from. The entire wing is made of Plywood with a 1/2PVC pipe for a leading edge. If you want a big easy to fly plane I recomend one of these, virtually bullit ptoof.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 1/18/2007 4:51:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, when I built kits my favorite was the Bingo 60. Just a wonderful flying plane with lots of glide and plenty of fun. I had well over 100 flights when the switch decided to fail. I noticed it didn't like to fly itself very long. Nice spinner, one-point landing though! I don't think I found enough pieces of the K&B 65 to make a spoon!

For ARF's I love the Great Planes Slinger. EPP foam and flies great. Stick a 11.1 v lipo in it and use the heck out of the stock speed 400 can motor. For $49.00 bucks and about an hour of work you have a great flying plane. I use it to keep the rust away and to keep my dogs exercised. They just love to chase that plane. I fly it slow and they probably think they are close to catching a goose in flight.

We have plenty of the real ones stopping by on migration.


Dan

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 2/8/2007 2:38:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just love to fly the wheels off my Falcon III. It's a ball in the air -very suprising the punishment that plane can take and still come back for more.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 2/9/2007 5:00:46 PM   
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My Hanger 9 Ultra Stick 40,I have flown the cover off of it in places and it still keeps flying.I may recover it one of these days.


That's become my favorite beater plane as well. Winter flying, on floats, or in wind that I wouldn't risk anything else...this things fills the bill. Was good with an OS 50SX, even better now with a Saito 82.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 2/17/2007 7:37:04 AM   
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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 4/3/2007 12:34:14 PM   
Ken Bryant



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Sig 4 Star 40
Twist 40
Aresti 40
Goldberg Skylark (Hands down the absolute best all around fun beater on my list)
Ultra stick 40
MoJo 40 (great horse around goof off, try anything plane) Still active and flying.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 4/7/2007 5:16:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		SIG Kougar is hard to beat for an all around sport plane. My favorite high wind plane, I have flown it in 35+ mph winds. SuperTigre 75 for power, 100+ MPH but will slow down for nice controlled landings.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 4/7/2007 6:52:03 PM   
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SIG Kougar is hard to beat for an all around sport plane. My favorite high wind plane, I have flown it in 350+ mph winds. SuperTigre 75 for power, 100+ MPH but will slow down for nice controlled landings.


If you fly in a tornado you should put your antenna down so you dont get stuck by lightning

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 4/8/2007 2:38:20 AM   
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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 5/1/2007 2:58:36 PM   
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SIG Kougar is hard to beat for an all around sport plane. My favorite high wind plane, I have flown it in 35+ mph winds. SuperTigre 75 for power, 100+ MPH but will slow down for nice controlled landings.


ST .75 on a Kougar? WOW!

My favorite beater wa a Sig Kougar that a guy gave me when I bought a PT-20 (w/futaba radioa and OS .320 FP) and a Airtronics VG 6, and a Fox .40 from him...threw in the kougar for free.

I in stalled teh Fox .40 and VG 6, LOVED IT!!! I got crazy with that plane, at demonstrations I would do full throttle inverted passed at knee level, and once I drug the landing gear through some tall grass at WOT .......that is when my cousin (and the guy that taught me to fly) came to me on the flight line and said "Dave, you don't have to crash your plane to impress these people...."

Alas, the plane is no more, was flyin at a demo on July 4th a few years ago, the wing foldedwhile doing a tight loop.....

I aguired another, put an Enya .40 that someone had given me, motor died in maiden voyage too far away to get it back to the runway.

I have recently aquired another, am putting a TT .46 on it, hope to find time to fly in next couple of weeks. (I have not flown for 7-8 years, getting back into it again.......)

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 5/1/2007 3:36:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		You know, I think there is something built in a Kougar that forces people to do inverted low passes. At first I thought it was just me, and liking to do inverted low passes, but it seems that most people flying a Kougar at one point or another ends up with the wheels on top going 100mph 12 inches off the runway.

I thought about getting crazy and putting a ST 90 on it since the weight is the same as the 75 and adding retracts, but just haven’t had the opportunity yet.

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RE: What's your favorite beater plane? - 5/1/2007 3:40:36 PM   
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