ORIGINAL: spadstick
Tall Paul, is that a Quique ARF Yak54 that you have on your Avitar? i was checking them out at toledo, they looked great how do your like it?
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That's probably the last flying GP CAP 232 EX ARF.. The CAP and its companion Extra had a brief career of popularity locally a few years back.
Extras flew well, CAPs, well they flew like CAPs. The "CAP snap" was their speciality. Mine survived a few years longer than most, mostly by not flying.
OS 70 Surpass.. I got interested into seeing if the snap problem was curable... Played with the horizontal.
Tried removing it altogether.. the plane nosed over on takeoff a couple times because there wasn't sufficient elevon surface in the prop slipstream at low speeds to keep the tail down.
Replaced the horizontal in line with the wing, and it was flying OK, but the receiver battery died... and so did the plane.
I'd like to try it again with another ARF, if I could find one.
Flying AND photographing a twitchy manverer can get "interesting"
