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Old 11-05-2002 | 09:30 PM
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Crashem
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Default Taking off?

all planes take off. If they did not they wouldn't be flying

There are basicly two types of take off for powered planes (helis and sailplanes not included)

1. ROG = Rise off ground this is exactly how a full scale aircraft takes off.. BTW the prop not the wheel are powered by the engine

2. Hand Launch/catapult launch = Throwing aircaft into wind with enough force for it to have sufficent airspeed to fly and not stall

Most large glow and electric powered models use method 1

small glow and electrics may be able to use either method 1 or 2

Some models are designed for hand launch only. These are easy to tell since they usually have no landing gear and are belly landed..


Again every question you have asked to date can be found by doing some research.

Do you know how to use this websites search feature? If you don't I suggest you learn you will be able to find literally tons of info with it also google is a pretty good search engine