clolson
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Joined: 5/10/2004
From: Blaine,
MN, USA
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I have a Kadet Senior and overall thought the quality was really good. You are right though, it's designed to fly through the air, not hit the ground. Definitely is light weight construction for it's size, but it has held together for me very well, even in very windy conditions.
I also have (well not my own but helped with) a Sig Rascal 110. Construction is very similar in just about all respects. I tried to fly that one through the ground at a pretty rapid speed and destroyed/shattered everything forward of the wing leading edge. What I ended up doing to rebuild it was to piece together the shards of the different pieces and use those as a templates to create all new pieces. I am really satisfied with the result ... you have to look pretty close to see that it was ever crashed.
So I agree that Sig doesn't build tanks, but boy do they fly sweet. Part of that sweetness comes from their light overall weight so I guess you buy that feature by sacrificing tank-like structure. But still, they have plenty of structural integrity for anything you can throw at them in the air.
I would think that buying a crashed anything could be a tough road to plow, no matter what manufacturer, and for the kadet senior, with almost no sheeting on the wing, I could see that it could accumulate a lot of damage quickly.
For what it's worth, the Kadet Senior isn't going to do a lot of fancy aerobatics, but I converted mine to a tail dragger and doing slips on approach to control the decent rate is classic stick and rudder stuff. It has by far the most realistic and sweet looking slips and approaches of any aircraft I fly ... it's almost worth it just to fly really cool approaches. Had mine out on a 15-20 mph windy day and had to walk it out to the runway to fly, approaches were at 3/4 throttle with about 1/2 nose down elevator to make headway against the wind and still decend ... add about a 30 degree gusty cross wind component and I had my hands full. But the kadet sr. is big enough and reacts slow enough that I could stay ahead of everything and really had a blast flying that day.
So I'm not expecting the Sig Waco to be perfect for everyone in all respects, but if it matches what I've seen of other Sig ARF's, I'm expecting something that's substantially better than average ... both in terms of construction and in terms of flying qualities ... the designers at Sig really have managed to tap into how to make an R/C airplane fly sweet.
Curt.
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