RE: ANYBODY FLYING A DYNAFLITE BUTTERFLY ANYMORE?
Hey does this qualify? Near as I can tell this is a Drifter II. When I got it it had tricycle landing gear and an enya .09 engine. I first put a geared speed 600 motor on it with a huge 8 cell NiCd pack. It flew well but was heavy. I just put the brushless motor on it but have only tried it on a really windy day and could almost NOT get the plane down. This is the original covering job from the '80s. A guy was retiring from RC and gave me all his planes to help out a Boy Scout troop. He said either give them to kids that want to learn to fly or sell them and give the money to the scouts. My kids went with me to pick up the planes and they got first choice. My daughter chose this big blue bird. It hung on her wall until she got into high school. The whole family ended up learning to fly RC because of this kind hearted gentleman.
I thought I would get this model up and running because I had some cub scouts show an interest in flying.