Originally Posted by
All Day Dan
Whippy, I have a semi-scale Champ that has a wing span of 97 inches a wing area of 1200 square inches and it weighs 21 pounds. it is over powered with a 40cc engine. Dan.
I have a 1/4th scale Nosen Champ. It was a barn find with a 90 in it. I tried a 26CC wacker engine, too weak. I now use a CRRC 40 kit engine. Works great. IMHO making it "fly scale" is poor advice. You can always pull the throttle back to "fly scale". IF you have insufficient engine you can not do much about it.
The original airplane was pretty sedate. I would not emoulate it. They don't climb out very fast. In a RC you can not monitor your airspeed as well so stalling is easier to do.