When you've been in the hobby for a while you have a list of things that you want to be able to accomplish. Ihave several maneuvers that I've tried at times to do and haven't been able to do them. The one that has been at the top of my list to try and do is the Knife Edge Loop. I've had many planes including the Ultra Sports and the Dave Patrick Ultimate and I've never been able to do this maneuver. When Ihad the Ultimate Iwas still pretty new and didn't know what the heck Iwas doing so Iwas never able to really do it. Well today I finally accomplished this maneuver. And what plane did Ifinally use to do this with?An Ultra Sport?An Extra? An Edge? Nope, nope, nope. Idid it on my Great Planes Escapade, OS46 FXand standard servos all around. We have finally gotten some flying weather here and I finally got to get out and fly this plane as Ihaven't been able to fly since I did the review on it. So I was playing around with it and Ifound that it would climb very well in a knife edge. So when Igot to break over at the top of the climb Iknew Ihad a possibility. Ikept after it and after a few more tries Igot it to do the knife edge loop. It was a bit ugly, but it was passable as a knife edge loop. Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke Idid it again, 3 more times in fact!!!! I'm pretty pumped up about it.

So, what's the purpose of this post??To toot my own horn? Maybe a little bit. Ok, a bit more than a little bit. But moreover to show that you don't always need to spend huge bucks to be able to do these types of maneuvers. The Escapade runs $99.95 andthe OS46 FX runs $129. So there you go!!Now Ican't wait to get back and and see what else this little surprise of a plane can do!!!!