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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 1:57:04 PM

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I know what you mean about scale. At my field the are some 35-42%ers. When those planes are there, my bird looks tiny, but after they pack up, I'm one of the larger ones there. I have an Aeroworks Katana 28% (84" wingspan), but I havent flown it yet. What I really want is a 33-35%er. Chief Aircraft is selling the new TOC/SD Models Katana 35% for under 600.00! I'd love to buy it, but my wife would gut me.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 1:57:08 PM

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Don't worry too much about the scale thingy. Very few planes out there are within the 10% rule for IMAC or anything else. The true thing is if you are happy with it. As far as the Graphtec gear, good gear and worth the time to have to drill it out to fit. If you go to an IMAC meet, you will quickly find out that most planes are Extra's. There will almost certainly be a Yak or two and the odd Cap and maybe an Edge but the Extra series of planes are solid precision machines.

I'm sorta like you, I like being a bit different and since I'm a huge Cap fan I'd love to get one that is as capable at IMAC as any Extra. I tried the GP Cap232 and though I knew the plane well and had it trimmed well, it just did not cut it. I feel it was too light. I am now in the middle of recovering a 40% Carden Cap232. The previous owner/builder won several IMAC contests with it so between my C-Arf 3.0M 260 and the Cap, I hope I will end up with 2 decent IMAC planes for next season.

I've flown the H9 Extra on a DA50. It's a blast with more than enough power, almost to the point it's too much for 3D and too light for IMAC. The one I flew would not stop TQ'ing because the ailerons were not big enough to stop the rolling, but if you want total ballistic power straight up, then you will get it.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 2:00:40 PM

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I wish I had some big planes. But with tiny balls, it aint gonna happen anytime soon.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 2:03:20 PM

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Here is the page with some pretty cool prices from Chief Aircraft.
http://www.chiefaircraft.com/rcmsec/Models/Model1.html

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 2:09:17 PM

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In Dayton one guy had a 70% Staudacher but it was too big to fly because it weighed almost 400 pounds and they didn't get a waiver for it in time. They did start it though. Quique had a turbo prop Yak and a 44% Python Bipe among others there... some nice jets and even a few heli's also.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 2:14:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: Doppelganger

Here is the page with some pretty cool prices from Chief Aircraft.
http://www.chiefaircraft.com/rcmsec/Models/Model1.html

Steve

Now there's irony! I ordered the DA through them. I got the Extra for $329 at the show which is why it was too hard to pass up

Their combo deal with a DA-50 does me no good because I need a Canister muffler on mine so I'd have to buy that extra and $329 +$595 is still less than their combo because the combo includes a muffler I can't use. It's good to see someone recommend them though. I've never ordered from them myself before and the DA order is a pricey one for me.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 4:31:53 PM

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Nah, I was talking about that 35% Katana. Has to be a catch.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 4:50:35 PM

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WOW that is cheap for that size...

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 6:14:57 PM

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Then again at the same show I was at there was one booth that had the 33% Cap 580 for $550 My wife wanted me to get that one but it's too big to fit in my truck so I couldn't even get it to the field if I built it.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 9:16:18 PM

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Then again at the same show I was at there was one booth that had the 33% Cap 580 for $550 My wife wanted me to get that one but it's too big to fit in my truck so I couldn't even get it to the field if I built it.

Thats a bummer.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 9:25:06 PM

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Oh btw, you have the coolest wife ever.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/4/2007 11:04:29 PM

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Yeah I know

The guy selling the Cap 580 (an older gent) offered to take her off my hands because his wife is just the opposite.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/5/2007 2:25:54 AM

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Does she have a sister? Cousin, 2nd or third, doesn't matter. Maybe a close friend that thinks alike. What about her mom? I'm desperate man!

She placed a moratorium on my spending. I'm now suffering from depression and I have this annoying nervous twich. I need help.

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/5/2007 3:24:11 AM

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None like her... Not even in her family... Not even close...

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RE: Giance Scale Newbie looking for experienced advice. - 9/5/2007 4:52:06 AM

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Dayum

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