I posted a comment about a 90 size Capiche a while ago. I thought it would be a popular size, big enough to perform but small enough to be practical as an every day sort of model. (and maybe cheaper too.) Originally I was going to scale up the 50 as its a great model, but the barron got in touch and suggested a scaled down 140 would be better at that size.
Anyway after a few emails I was lucky enough to be a Capiche 90 guinea pig. Its built as per the 140, a CNC liteply kit thats slots together very accurately, and sheeted with light balsa. Its structure is very similar to the 140, the main difference is that the tailplane, elevators, fin, and rudder are built flat section like the Capiche 50. Otherwise its the same but a bit smaller.
The wings are two piece and use the same carbon tube joiner system as the 140 - strong and light, and beautifully made.
Wing span is 68 inch, fuzz is a similar length. Weight is 7 1/2 lbs. Power is an OS 90 FX turning an apc 15 x 6 at about 9300. Wing loading is LOWER than the 140 and the model has unlimited vertical
Servos are futaba 9206s all round, (just one on the elevator) and a mini on the throttle.
Flying - I thought the C50 was good, but this better. It floats around the sky. Someone said the 140 feels like the wings are filled with helium, I know what they mean. Because it flys so light you can get away with doing stuff I would have been able to with any other model I have flown, at a much lower height.
Its a great freestyle model, smooth aeros are done with ease, rolling circles, stall turns, snaps, spins etc. Up the rates and you can turn it into a 3D animal - walls, waterfalls, parachutes, elevators, harriers, hovering, TR, high alpha KE etc.
Prior to this model I couldnt TR, or do rolling harriers. This model makes these sort of manoeuvers much easier to do, and it makes you look like a pro. I'm a lot closer to doing rolling harriers with this model than any other I have tried.
I darent let anyone in my club fly it as they will soon realise I'm not the 3D torque rolling ace I appear when I'm flying- its the model that makes it so much easier to do [8D]
pics to follow..............