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01-06-2016, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by H5606

Hey, wait a minute - I got to thinking about those standard, non-modeler, bystander questions - you know the ones: "How fast can it go?" "How high does it fly?" "How far away can you fly?" and thought therein lies the answer: 'Even If I tried to fly my half-scale model up to 400', it would become so small, I wouldn't be able to see it and then it wouldn't matter so therefore I never even get close.' Add to that: 'Anything any smaller can't even come close to approaching half that height without losing sight of it...'

The stress was taking its toll on me - I had several beers when I wrote the reply; I'll review it when I'm more clear-headed.

Don't know about all y'all but I used to answer those "innocent" questions truthfully - no longer. Fact is that NONE of my acft are capable of much more than about 70 mph, so that's OK for me. But the "how high" will now be answered by 399 feet, and "how far away" will always be 500 feet.

Let them prove any different.

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