You bet Davey and yes perhaps an .049 with shorter lines may very well increase your comfort level. Personally mentoring the folks I have helped I prefer a little different approach and that is to bypass the 1/2A route altogether but instead; Using larger airplanes that can be powered with .25 to say .40 and use RC engines.


There is a plethora of .25 to .40 engines out there that take only a rubber band to lock the throttle open for controlline use. They work fine. You will find that the larger airplanes will carry sixty foot line quite well and this will dramatically reduce your rotation rate. This is a big bonus for a new flyers. Something like a profile magician, sig Skyray and a number of others. Another plus is most of these type airplanes have a sufficiently long nose to allow the use of a conventional RC clunk tank eliminating the experimentation usually associated with properly plumbing a uniflow tank. Conventional clunk tanks work just fine and quite simple.

John