ORIGINAL: rjm1982
ORIGINAL: B.L.E.
If small is so terrible for flying, then why are birds, flying insects, and flying mammals, mostly tiny?
Because if your trying to fly YOURSELF without the ability to just add fuel, it needs to be efficient...and a smaller, lighter object being flown through the same size air molecules is easier to keep up...
RJM,
While I understand what you are saying, it's just way too technical for my brain this early in the morning [&:]
The original starter of the thread has responded but there are some very good point being delivered here since then.
Maybe a good choice for him to get ready for the scale Cessna might be the Hangar 9 Value series 40 size Cessna. While I have no experience with this plane. I was just reading through the manual online, and it looks like it's a dressed up trainer with similiar characteristics to the World Models Skyraider series. More aerobatic, light weight. He still gets a similiar look to the scale model and most of the handling of a trainer but more aerobatic than the scale Cessna (Wing shape is semi-symetrical)
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Shop/ByC...ProdID=HAN1600
Just a thought!!!