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Old 03-07-2006 | 07:55 AM
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Default RE: 3 blade prop...help!


ORIGINAL: torque wrench

I use three bladers almost exclusively and have never had a plane fail to fly.
Not even close. That less effeciency stuff is a load of it.
I tried a three blade once, and I mean once. It was a Super Kaos with a K&B .61
in it. It took-off OK....I flew it two laps, and brought her down....it was barely
flying....I'm not kidding. I still have the prop, it did look cool. I put the normal
11-7 1/2 MAS on it, and it was great. That was about 15 years ago, I never
bought another three blader since. The performance of the three blader was so
poor, I thought it was in danger of falling out of the sky. [:-]

I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true.

FBD.