ORIGINAL: Bill Martovich
One of those Se5's shoewd up at our field 2 days ago. in the "normal" electric condition. Flew like a brick. In a gentel breeze it was a bear to fly in nice gentle arcs like it is supposed to fly. instead it was jerking all over. On landing, because of this, it made a slight bounce and broke the landing gear, which was quite ridged. Other that that it looked nice . Well made arf and quite light too.
It could be that I am just so used to flying sport aerobactic/3D that these Scale things look feeble.
I'm not sure any increase in weight would be tolarable.
Bill
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Biplanes suffer tremendously from drag, as you can imagine. Several of mine had the glide angle of a dropped manhole cover when the engine quit and required lots of down elevator instantaneously to prevent them from stalling and spinning in. Once you were used to that, you could discover some of the fun aspects of biplane flying. I was used to sleek pattern ships, so you can imagine the paradym shift that I experienced with my first biplane. Still, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. Nope, not crashes - but that was more a matter of luck during the initial flights.
I am a control freak. If the original model's control surfaces look too small to me, I usually double their chord, where possible.
The "new" micro servos offer us an opportunity to fly these models with unprecedented light wing loadings.
Now to find a Diesel conversion head for my two NIB Enya .15 glow engines. This is my favorite size for a Diesel engine. I didn't see any mention of Enya engines in DDD's listing of available conversion heads. Guess I'll have to call.
If I hadn't spent all of the money that I allocated for this year, I would have one of these little DVII's on its way to me right now.
Ed Cregger