ORIGINAL: Flyfalcons
ORIGINAL: bdavison
Even the giant scale guys are switching the big 40% planes over to electric.
Gotta call BS there. Only the guys who are sponsored can afford to stuff their 40% machines with electric setups. The 40%ers that are powered are more of a novelty, to show off that it can be done, than anything else. I've been flying GS aerobats for a while and every 40%er I've seen across this country is gas powered. I know you're excited about electrics, and I am getting into them now beyond the park flyer/foamy stage but the cost for similar performance on larger models is exteremly high right now. It'll come down eventually but it's not there yet.
umm, not quite. I have seen a few threads about this in many of the internet 3D flying forums that I frequent. Sure, the people that we hear about doing the big electrics are sponsored.(Chip, Beavis, Animal, etc.)However, the E power option is just beginning to become viable for the giants. Soon you will be seeing more of them as more people are building new planes and installing the latest power options in them. Take a look at QQ's Turbine powered yak. It's the only one that I've seen. In another year, I'll bet that there will be a few more because he has done it. In five years, I think it will be fairly well known as another power option.
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