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why so overpowered? - 6/27/2003 1:32:20 AM   
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The only thing uglier than a profile is a S.P.A.D. profile...


Four and a half pounds of ugliness...with 7 pounds of thrust bolted to the front...beauty is in the power of the throttle stick

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why so overpowered? - 6/27/2003 9:31:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Certainly, everyone should feel free to overpower their planes, as long as they don't endanger anyone else. I sure like to, as long as the weight stays reasonable. One argument that I sometimes see against overpowering is that it isn't 'scale'. For a P51, that's not really true. The P51, and every other fighter from that period, had as much power as they knew how to jam into the thing. It also had to land hot, and was kind of a bear if you stalled it. We just happen to have the luxury of higher power-to-weight ratios, but the original P51s would have had that if they could have. What I think is really 'nonscale' is a high-wing trainer that starts out with a low wing loading, and then has flaps added so it can fly even slower. If those guys like playing with flaps, that's great, but it's no better or worse than putting a huge engine on a plane. Personally, if I wanted to mess with flaps, I'd put them on a hot plane that really needs them to reduce the landing speed, so I could deal with the huge engine. To each his own.

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