ORIGINAL: Jim Cattanach
The wow factor is, how many $$$ did you say this kit is going to cost me. My new car cost less than that
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I only partly agree with that. Sure... there is a "WOW" when you see someone drag out a $20k jet.... but I get a wow factor from my "Dollar Store" jets all the same. (I have well under $1500 into any one of my jets)
I think the "WOW" comes from the essence of what it is. It's a Turbine... it's small... and it actually runs !!!!! Also... unlike a little glow engine... it sounds, and smells like the real thing.
I'm right with Eddie on his performance thoughts. If jet's were hard to fly... I wouldn't do it. I would simply have an engine on a stand, and I would play with it once in a while. I'm not the typical Jet-Jock. I fly at half power most of the time, and keep it well under 100 mph. But watching my jets fly past... smooth... and then pull up for a full throttle climb out.... and nothing has put a bigger smile on my face in RC in a very long time.
I can honestly say.... the actual "JET" air frame isn't it at all. In my +30 years of flying RC... I've never owned a pusher-Jet, or an EDF. Neither one does anything for me. I have recently thought about an EDF... but every time I look at them... I think to myself... "Why spend the money?"
It's 100% the engine, and what it brings to the party. So... the Hart of the model, moves the Soul of the pilot.