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Old 04-30-2004 | 12:59 PM
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Default RE: Wingo

wingo is a neat little bird.[8D]

Very stable. Very durrable (except you can smash the front chin of the fuselage relatively easilly... that's why they now cme with a "chin guard" )

It can't handle much wind... too low a maximum airspeed.

They are nice introductory airplanes.

There is no such thing as crashing a Wingo and making it irreparable without putting it through a wood chipper. The things are darn near bulletproof.
The boom can be pulled and replaced... with a common dowel if nothing else is handy. A snapped wing can be glued back with some of the new polyurethane glue, and taped in place and the next day its good as new. Clear packing tape and 5 min epoxy can fix almost anything that happens to them too.

They get a bit hard to fly when you have doubled the airframe weght with all the glue and tape... But a bigger electric motor can cure that. (Radio Shack sells one that works nicely for about $5. I forgot the part number...) Yuo don't wear a Wingo out... you get tired of flying it.