Hmmm... I always thought helicopters were "the dark side".

At least, that's what all the old farts said back when I was flying helos.

Now that I AM an old fart (and haven't touched a helo in over five years), I'm getting good-natured grief from the scale guys at my club over my foray into e-power.

Of course, as far as these guys are concerned, if it isn't a scale model of a WW II airplane, with a two-ton-per-square-inch wing loading and sometimes-functioning retracts, it ain't a real model airplane...

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