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Old 12-19-2002 | 12:53 AM
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Default Hi Greg

These planes all fly good, I have not seen a Cyclone 3, but I built a Cyclone and have seen them fly, very nice. The starfire is a classic and I have seen many Interceptors fly nice and that 495 ARF price is going to be hard to beat.

IMHO the choice is yours.

The problem with your requirement is

1.) Cost - Once you gear up the deltas in cost between any of these options are minor. You will still be looking at 4-5 grand. I have never had a bang around 5 thousand dollar plane


2.) 350 foot runway - You can certainly fly any of these planes from 350 feet, and the Bandit as well. The problem is consistency. It will be hard to hit that time and again, so you need to make sure your run off area is good and the gear is very strong, and wire as well, I would not use struts. Again these 3 designs are very similar (foam wings I think) so the gear strength could be the same on any of them.