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Old 02-20-2008 | 02:18 AM
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Default RE: After mastering a "second plane", what next?

I would say yes. There is a lot of hype out there that discourages people from biplanes. My first bipe was a World Models Ultimate 40. It was maybe my fourth plane. I never crashed it. The thing to remember about a bipe is that they have an extra wing wich means more frontal drag. so they slow down very quickly when you drop the power or dead stick. They have a much steeper glide slope than what you are used to. You will land a bipe above idle whenever possible. The other issue is that with the two wings people have a tendancy to get disorientated more easily than with a conventional monoplane. Having flown both Aerobatic bipes and aerobatic monoplanes I find the monoplanes more capable of a wider variety of manouvers while the bipes tend to atract more of an audience when flown.

It seams you like to build! Try a Sig Hog bipe maybe as a first bipe. (RCKen is the resident expert on this plane) I still have one new in box that I look forward to building but I also have a 1/4 scale Cermark Pitts S2B ARF that I need to get together and fly. As far as monoplane aerobatic. If you might like an ARF I recomend the Funtana series from Hanger 9. I have the Funtana 40S and the FuntanaX 100 both are impressive flyers.