Originally Posted by JackD

Before you fly the airplane, please measure the wall thickness of your wingtubes and post them here (or pm them to me). Wingtubes were upgraded a while ago and wings will fail with the old tubes and a 210/260. I'll measure mine and post it here too for people to have as reference.

The rafale will hit 250mph if you are not careful, so use power wisely. It is super fun to fly, and going from high alpha to vertical is a rush on this plane.

Also, be aware that it is and old school plane (kit came out 21 years ago) in the sense that it is a high wing loading, fast, power on type of plane, not the floaty style of airplane we are used to nowadays that you can just chop the power and glide it to the runway. It will keep you on your toes for sure. The BVM Rafale and BVM F100 are the two planes that after 30 years doing this, still get my heart pumping before take off

Enjoy!