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Old 05-05-2010 | 04:02 AM
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Default RE: Entry Level verses National/International Designs

You could be onto something here.There appears to be a hugh gapping hole in the pattern market: the space between the small .91 sized and the new (HUGE) full blown 1.70 (&e) sized models.There are a load of used, super friendly 1.40's out there... OS 2 strokes and the excellent, easy to use, realiable YS 1.40s.They're now, to small for todays comp' planes, yet to large for the small .91 so called entry models.What's needed is a great model geared to those simple, cheap(ish) and realiable engines. considerably bigger than the .91s... yet smaller than the 1.70s.It'ld make an excellent, real class act entry model and beyond. A decent size, and powered by a motor that many of the pro guys down at the field have had experience with... and even possible have laying around for sale.It would also give us hobby f3A guys, somethin' to new, a decent modern design that we can use without having to refinance the house, simply using the "old engines" we have laying around.Doesn't need to be NASA high tec, a straight forward good lookin' modern design, (canalyser-why not) that really does the job.I'd guess, you could make one so good, the pro's would have 'em as cheap knock-around models.