Winter projects

[Thomas C. Weedon]

I will be building a Tiger Two, 60 size, with my grandson over the Christmas
break. Other than that, I will be slaving over my wife's house; that's where
she lets me sleep so long as I do what she tells me. Am I happy, or what?
;-)
Tom W.

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Atwood, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:42 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org; discussion at nsrca.org; discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: Winter projects


I'll chime in since I JUST bought an arf for my 7yr old son for christmas
yesterday...  I'll be more generic though...focus on the airfoil, and avoid
the flat bottom trainers.  I went with a Great Planes Stik, just because it
was convienient, but I think any shoulder wing semi or full symmetrical
airfoil is your best bet for that age.  I had my son on a buddy box twice
last year...total of 25min flying time...and after 5 minutes of pure hell
(him mashing the sticks to the corners) he settled down and on the second
tank, flew virtually the entire flight doing both loops and single rolls.

It will take a bit to get him landing...but they're sponges at that age...I
think he'd outgrow a flat bottom airfoil in a HURRY.  So I decided to trade
a small amount of stability, for a HUGE increase in potential aerobatic
performance.

By the way those flights this past year were on a Hobbico Avistar...flew
great....the covering was cheesy (stick on...an older arf...that may have
changed) so I went with the GP arf which is monokote.

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From:	Jeff Hughes [mailto:jhughes at hsonline.net]
Sent:	Thu 12/18/2003 7:28 AM
To:	discussion at nsrca.org; discussion at nsrca.org
Cc:
Subject:	RE: Winter projects

John,
Your right about a lot of reccomendations! I taught a 55 year old guy
to fly a sig kadet ARF this summer. He soloed after 3 flights on the
buddy box! That plane will land itself.
Jeff


> Nat –
>
> You will probably get a lot of recommendations, but our club’s
> experience over the past 5-8 years is that you can’t beat the Hobbico
> Avistar. Semi symmetrical wing so you can get to inverted flight on
it,
> yet it flies and lands as slowly as you could want. Get the one
without
> the engine and add an OS or TT .46 bb engine instead of the cheap .40
> that comes with the more complete setup.
>
> John Petterson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-
request at nsrca.org]
> On Behalf Of Nat Penton
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:52 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Winter projects
>
> It is getting late in the game, but regardless, I need to buy a
present
> for a 7 year old. Who makes the best quality ARF trainer ?
> natpenton at centurytel.net
>
>

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