DId someone mention wind...??

No better place on earth for some wind than the Cape of Good Hope.
If we don't fly in the wind we will never fly at all. (althoughthis past winter has been good to us offering near windless days nearly every weekend)

Plane I find fly well in the wind have ethe following characteristic:

1) Rounded Fuselage with a long tail moment

2) Thin airfoils, Asymmetrical, flatbottomed, symmetrical makes no difference as long as they are thin

3) have low drag ( so no not a bi-plane)

4) are stiff, i.e they exhibit little torsion or flex in the fuselage or wings


Now generally these have been Pattern Aerobatic planes but also some  warbirds that are stiff like a P-51and even the Me 109 from ESM and the Hangar 9 Spitfire 60.

Stik type airplanes fly well in wind too due to the stiff wing and fuselage it simply rides through the turbulence.

Fast is not necessarily great because at some point that plane has to land and this is where skill, reactions and tail moment seems to pay dividends</p>