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Old 09-08-2009 | 03:46 PM
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Default RE: New Piolot in need of advice.

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I love what you did with the crash. I love the name!! ''Flying Turd''. Why, may I ask did you call it that?


That is a very standoffish kitbash of the decathalon ARF into the Champion Lancer Twin Trainer of 1965. It actually was a full scale bash of the Champion Citabria/Decathalon into the cheapie twin trainer the Lancer. They were in short awful airplanes incapable of sustaining flight at sea level on a cold day at gross weight with one engine shut down. Fixed pitch props, fixed landing gear on a couple of 100 horsepower O-200's.

Around the flight school where I taught being on the bottom of pecking order I got stuck flying it all the time for the many ad on multi ratings we did.

Actually as a young macho instructor I loved it the back seat where the instructor sat had a stick with a coupla overhead throttles and the student up front had a column and two overheads.

As miseable as that thing flew I loved it being just cool to fly. I was in twin heaven that summer and yes around the flight office we called it the flying turd.

The kit bash RC acheved all the goals it does nothing very well and just flys around with an occassional loop or roll so Yup it flys just like a flying turd
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