alex,

If youre flying an underpowered plane, stick with kinetic maneuvers (snaps, spins, blenders, etc). The last thing you want to do is try and hang it off the prop low n slow, and not have the power to spare. If you can get your hands on a good funfly plane (magic, morris planes, etc) that has a good 36 or 46 two stroke, or a 63-72 4 stroke, have at it. It's alot cheaper if you dork one of those than a big gasser. Granted, the larger they are, the easier they fly, but you'll burn less fuel, and if youre low enough, you wont tear up a plane. You can also get away with standard servos as well. In the last 2 weekends flying, I have managed to plant my magic into the ground no less than 7 times trying to do tailtouches, and only broke one prop, and had to move my landing gear to a different spot after ripping it out. LOLOLOL. Talk about cheap entertainment.


Another alternative would be to build a PBF, Disc, Tennis Ball, etc. They are virtually indestructable, and cost a bout 10 bucks in material. Just make sure you buy plenty of props, because you'll be chewing them up. Do a search on PBF's. The round ones (disc/tennis ball) fly much better than the boxes. They will definately make you use the left hand (throttle/rudder).


Steve