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Old 09-28-2011 | 06:41 PM
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Default RE: Top Flite Staggerwing

Denis,

10-4 on the torque flip when slow!! I've had quite a few of those bounces and go arounds, lately, and slow, easy throttle is definitely a must!! Wow.

Funny, after the last damaging crash, bending the left main gear, right after getting the second replacement, requiring ordering the 3rd one!! [X(], I told the plane, "You better not crash again, I'm NOT fixing you again!!" (Really, I did!) and it hasn't! I've had some close calls, including one where I lost motor power, from running to long, and it went in over a dyke, by a creek, landing on it's back three feet off the ground in high reeds!!! Missed going in water by two feet! It was listening!!
BTW, all the bent gears were caused by the dreaded tip stall on landing! I just had to learn to fly it down to the ground, instead of trying to hold it off and three point it. This plane does not like to three point!