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09-23-2003 | 11:18 AM

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SwampFlier-RCU

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From: San José, Costa Rica

RE: aircore trainer or a alpha?

I started the journey with an Aircore (not the trainer... the Colt) and I did build it unsupervised so one day I just arrived at the field with my coroplast "monster".. after all the members cried "NAY.. that abbomination would never compete wit our beautiful balsa/ply fliers..." One of them was brave enough to look thing over and take her to the skies..."it does fly decent" HE said and then put it through its paces..
I started to learn then (no buddy box) and then is where things started to change...for the Colt; one day I was way too far away, got confused and planted it full bore on a palm tree.. went to retrieve it looking for the worst....; but the worst was a loose clevis and a crumple on the wing.
After several cartwheels, fake take-offs crash landings and such, one day we had three accidents on tha same day... a member who seldom came lost control of his cessna.. tore teh empennage out and some ribs in the wing... an extra lost a wheel and careened to a stop (asphalt runway) amidst flyng debri.. and i got bittten by a tree that jumped in front and grabbed my plane... sure enoguh i went down picked up the plane cleaned the dust, refueled and took off while the other two were packing out.....
That Colt properly balanced flew very wwell at one point my instructor trimmed and set the transmitter on the floor for about wo minutes while the Colt did lazy circles above... UNfortunately I lost it.. dumbthumbed it inot the swamp to the north of the field and to this day has not been found RIP
Since then I have crossed over to the balsa-plywood world, but now that my sons (12 and 11) are ready to solo on their eagle II, we are looking into a colt type plane for a 2nd plane (SPAD or Aircore) so don't be afraid of them coroplast ones they are different but are resistant which is a BIG plus for newbies

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