Wingo
04-30-2004 | 09:09 AM
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RE: Wingo
Alex Hilton will be able to help you.
I'm not sure, but he flew the plane and CRASHED every flight. He was using a Hitec Laser 4 FM with (I think) Feather reciever and servoes. He messed up in flying in a soccer field. The sad thing is that he flies in Sunapee NH, a resort, so it is fairly likely there is a flying field nearby.
He broke the tail boom and his dad deemed it unreparable. He never flies anymore but he paid $350 for the whole thing.
Talk about not having an instructor.
I'm not sure, but he flew the plane and CRASHED every flight. He was using a Hitec Laser 4 FM with (I think) Feather reciever and servoes. He messed up in flying in a soccer field. The sad thing is that he flies in Sunapee NH, a resort, so it is fairly likely there is a flying field nearby.
He broke the tail boom and his dad deemed it unreparable. He never flies anymore but he paid $350 for the whole thing.
Talk about not having an instructor.
04-30-2004 | 12:59 PM
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RE: Wingo
wingo is a neat little bird.[8D]
Very stable. Very durrable (except you can smash the front chin of the fuselage relatively easilly... that's why they now cme with a "chin guard" )
It can't handle much wind... too low a maximum airspeed.
They are nice introductory airplanes.
There is no such thing as crashing a Wingo and making it irreparable without putting it through a wood chipper. The things are darn near bulletproof.
The boom can be pulled and replaced... with a common dowel if nothing else is handy. A snapped wing can be glued back with some of the new polyurethane glue, and taped in place and the next day its good as new. Clear packing tape and 5 min epoxy can fix almost anything that happens to them too.
They get a bit hard to fly when you have doubled the airframe weght with all the glue and tape... But a bigger electric motor can cure that. (Radio Shack sells one that works nicely for about $5. I forgot the part number...) Yuo don't wear a Wingo out... you get tired of flying it.
Very stable. Very durrable (except you can smash the front chin of the fuselage relatively easilly... that's why they now cme with a "chin guard" )
It can't handle much wind... too low a maximum airspeed.
They are nice introductory airplanes.
There is no such thing as crashing a Wingo and making it irreparable without putting it through a wood chipper. The things are darn near bulletproof.
The boom can be pulled and replaced... with a common dowel if nothing else is handy. A snapped wing can be glued back with some of the new polyurethane glue, and taped in place and the next day its good as new. Clear packing tape and 5 min epoxy can fix almost anything that happens to them too.
They get a bit hard to fly when you have doubled the airframe weght with all the glue and tape... But a bigger electric motor can cure that. (Radio Shack sells one that works nicely for about $5. I forgot the part number...) Yuo don't wear a Wingo out... you get tired of flying it.
