Originally posted by Kyle Rickaway
Ya but not to disagree with you guy's but that's a bunch of BULL ****!! I have a hangar 9 1/4 scale cap 232 with an enya 1.55 and i got to tell you that is plenty enough power for a cap!! It hovers well, flips well, torque's well, and get this it tail touches well at just above 1/3 throttle. So don't give me a bunch of BULL about a 1.80-2.10 with that much power you'll rip that plane to pieces!! TRUST ME I'VE DONE IT BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not familiar with the stats on the Enya 1.55, i.e., weight, horse power, etc. I'm assuming its not too much different than the OS FX 1.60 which is 3.7hp and weighs 32ozs. As I've indicated above I believe the OS FX 1.60 would be an ideal engine for this airplane except for the fact that at 32oz the engine mounted on this airplane would require a large amount of lead in the nose to balance. By the time you get the lead on it you would have been better going with the Moki which is 4.1hp at 41ozs of weight. I also don't agree the Moki 180 is too much engine for this airplane. At 14lbs this airplane fits in the middle of the flight envelope for this engine. Now if your talking about a mythical Hanger 9 73" Cap that only weighs 11lbs then your probably right. I'll take what you said to heart though and keep my Moki 180 tamed while I'm flying this airplane. Another member of our club has this same plane with a Saito 180 on it and I'm looking forward to seeing the difference between his and mine.
After some discussion it came out that my CAP232 has a 79" wingspan. He thought it was less than that and then said that there may be two versions of it and that if I had the 79" version the 180 would be ok
Are you shure your talking about the Hanger 9 1/4-scale Cap? Mine has a 73" wing span. Hanger 9 also had a 27% Cap though I haven't heard much about it.