Hi everybody,
Have been flying a Rascal 110 with my son now for a little less than two months. We are running a Saito 180 and a JR 8103. (Has the 811 digital servos and a 1400 JR battery) This is way overkill in the engine department but is a lot of fun. The 120, 150 and 180 are all the same physical size with different internals. The landings are a crawl-in affair and side slips are just too cool. As big as this thing is, you can slow-fly it in a phone booth! Knife edge is a hoot. I found out by accident that the Rascal can hover like our CAP. I got the plane to back down to the ground and touch. As I throttled up to blast out of the hover the engine quit at about 12-15 feet high. I'm about to commit model aviation history here...... Keep listening. When this thing quits I have visions of a multi-piece back end to this bird. (Kinda like a bag of balsa sticks from the trailing edge of the wing on to the back end!) I'm staring at this dead bird in a straight-up vertical and all of a sudden the tail starts to kick back and the whole thing comes in for a reverse landing! I wish I could tell you I did it on purpose but I was frozen at the sticks and it just happened in a split second. It did a 10 foot roll-out totally backwards, totally un-assisted and sat there without a scratch.... I Windexed the ba-jeevers out of this plane and headed for the house. I wasn't going to get this lucky ever again but I was getting to take it home in one piece. I have since taken the plane out and tried to duplicate the reverse tailslide-landing roll-out at altitude but it just does a plane old drop the nose manuever and starts flying again....... Ever see that old cartoon about the singing frog?? Our Rascal 110 can fly up a storm but it just ain't singing lately! Enjoy yours. We enjoy ours!
Iceman