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Old 07-13-2004 | 02:38 AM
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dorset john
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Default RE: RIPMAX JUPITER

Yeh, I've got one,
It's a zippy little plane with an Irvine .53 up front. An extremely good 1'st low winger due its tough (and I mean TOUGH) ABS plastic construction.
Recovers from almost any mistakes very quickly (try flat-spinning it from an inverted stall, it's wild).
The only thing you might want to do is to tie-wrap (zip-tie if you are a yank) a thin piano wire reinforcement to the plastic undercarriage, which will stop them from breaking on a very sloppy landing. Also keep an eye on the rudder hinges, they will fail eventually, but are a cinch to fix.
You need a fair bit of speed to maintain a knife edge due to the rounded fuselage. Low speed handling is impecable.
Hint, if you are going to spray paint it, do it when its new and not after you've covered it in oily crud and flys.
If you have a bigger engine available (.60+) or want to move up, then try the Jupiters big brother (the Carosel), its superb.