Originally Posted by
cap3Der
Ouch, poor dog, he looks like Indian Chieftain, I hope he/she Ok and well by now...
How is your experiment with building 13-14Lb Decathlon going? Did you finish building? Did you fly it already? I've got DL-50 laying around, so doing research before I buy kit... Love the way Decathlon fly, awesome plane. Any opinion on that?
Here what inspired me to look at this Decathlon kit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIT5c-99ung
Not sure what kind of kit is that, but SPE-40 is defiantly is not enough Omph to hover, but Ok to fly around, so thinking that DL-50 might just "fit the bill". Any thoughts or comments is greatly appreciate.
Thanks, the dog is fine, we spent the night in the puppy ER... but he was fine less than 24 hours later.
Still building...I haven't weighed anything lately though... but I still think I'm going to be under 15lbs when its all done.
DL-50... the plane was originally designed to fly on a 1.20 four stroke... which is 2.5x smaller than a DL-50. For the weight you add going to a DL-50 I'd start worrying about the wing loading.