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Old 03-14-2002 | 08:06 PM
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stevezero
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Default Entry Level Pattern Ship?

I've flown them both (not much, but enough to see the differences). The freestyle has a longer non tapered wing, similar to a fun-fly wing on a pattern fuse. The majestic has a double tapered, thinner wing.The freestyle also has mammoth control surfaces, where as the majestic has smaller surfaces that are geared more towards precision. Depending on what you would want to do with the plane would really determine what youd want to purchase. The freestyle is a good bang around plane, would do great waterfalls, spins etc, whereas the majestic will do very crisp knifeedge 8's and other pattern maneuvers. The 200 sq inch wing difference is definately visible. The majestic will stall at a faster speed than the freestyle, and its snaps will be more violent, because it doesnt have the wing area to recover. The wing ribs are spaced farther apart on the freestyle, so its wing would theorhetically be weaker under the same stress loads.


I am looking at enlarging the elevator with counterbalances on my majestic, and building a new, larger wing with about 600 squares, and about 20-33% more aileron area. That would put it somewhere close to the seduction series of planes, or a 40 sized gtrick. I will wait till I smack it first before doing those mods.