<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div>I'm going to take this in a different direction here. This is not to take anything away from the fine answers above, but simply because I thought of this in different terms when reading the OP.
Could any experienced poster explain the main differences, limitations and required piloting skills among those many models to those of us who have not flown such models yet?
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Well...he's not a poster here, but someone can and has...roughly 70 years ago.
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flyingby WolfgangLangewiesche
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Here's my take on the whole thing, and why I suggest that book. This advice is, of course, worth precisely what you're paying for it. *lol*
The guidelines and input above are certainly appropriate, and useful information. And they probably more directly answer the question the OP asked. I worry, however, about such "lists" for one very simple reason...
While "Warbirds are X" and "Aerobats do Y" is generally true...the moment you presume it's ALWAYS true, you will find an aerobat that couldn't do Y if its life depended on it...and you will discover this PRECISELY when its life DOES depend on it. The same will be true of the first warbird you buy, just KNOWING it must be X...right up until it NOT being X puts it in the ground.
They are what they are...guidelines. And worthwhile ones, to be sure.
However, there ARE some hard and fast truths that hold for any airplane...warbird, scale, aerobat, funfly, pattern, you name it.
For example:
Contrary to popular belief, an airplane doesn't have a "stall speed". It may have speeds at which it will stall in a certain configuration, but attitude, weight, and CG can ALL change that speed.
What an airplane DOES have is a given Angle of Attack at which it will stall. Whether you've added weight, loaded the airplane up in a turn, slowed down doesn't matter...exceed that AoA, and the airplane WILL stall...REGARDLESS of its airspeed.
Are there aspects to an airplane that will suggest to you what that AoA might be, how easily the plane might be pushed to that limit, or what sorts of activities might result in exceeding it? Absolutely. And they will hold true for EVERY airplane, in EVERY case.
What understanding them will allow you to do is look at any airplane, watch it fly in another modelers hands, see how it performs, and say "Hrmm...that airplane seems prone to stalling in X situation because of Y trait...and I am/am not prepared to avoid X situation, so I should/should not avoid Y trait in airplanes".
Will it be true that MOST, say, warbirds might have this trait? Sure. However, general "Warbirds do X" thinking will lead people to tell you, and you to believe, that warbirds aren't suitable for you.
Maybe you really WANT a warbird though! Knowing the specific TRAIT that you seek to avoid lets you look for a warbird that doesn't have it! These are MODELS...maybe someone has made a warbird completely absent our evil trait! You won't know until you look, and you won't know TO look until you understand WHY you're looking to begin with.
The book I recommended above will teach you these things. It will, imo, TRULY answer your question...it will help you identify the
main differences, limitations and required piloting skills among ANY model.
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