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Old 08-16-2005 | 10:59 AM
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Dyehard
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Default RE: 40 size 3d monster?

Pro2K, if you are looking for something in the same size range as the F40, take a look at a Harrier 46. I flew a Funtana 40 for over a year, and while it was fun, it has one characteristic that I didn't care for. The F40 flew like it was constantly on the edge of a snap, and if you pulled full elevator, even in low rates, it did. In it's favor, it always started flying as soon as you got off the controles, but that snappy felling was still always there. It also was horrible in a harrier, the wings rocked like crazy, no matter what I did, and I never got confindent enough to harrier it close to the ground. The ailerons had very little effectiveness in a harrier and almost no effectivness in a hover. The Harrier 46 is just the opposite, very stable all the time, I can loop it even in high rates (I have all the travel that I can get in the surfaces in high rate), and it never snaps. Harriers are stable as a rock, I commonly bring it down to head high or lower and fly lap after lap just doing harriers. Every other manuever, tic tocs, blenders, walls, waterfalls etc. are at least as good or better than I could do with the F40, especially the tic tocs and hovering. The only real weak point I have found structurely is the landing gear and if you check the H46 posts you will find that is easily fixed. I have been flying a friends H60 (90 size) with a Saito 100 lately and at our field elevation of 2000 feet ASL, my H46 with a Saito 82 has a much better power to weight ratio. I think the small Harrier does most 3D manuevers better also.