>....somewhere between a Sig Ninja and a Sig Riser 100. (Kristopher)
I always thought a power plane was just a slope plane with an engine on the front -- you used a sort of "anti-crow" control on the radio to go up instead of circling the plane in the lift band. If the engine quits then its just like a sloper when the lift dies.
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I don't like movies with plane themes any more because the CGI planes are just not realistic. Older movies used real planes...... almost authentic ("Battle of Britian", "Tora, Tora, Tora") or reconstructed ("Blue Max", "Maginificent Men in their Flying Machines"). Movie crashes are too surviveable as well -- it might have been the case when the planes were wood and canvas and had the stall speed of a moped but you just don't walk away from most crashes. (There was an authentic plane crash on TV recently where a student and instructor were trying to bring a Cessna in for a landing "dead stick" on a golf course -- the plane lifted just as it was about to touch down, tipped over and hit a utility pole, something that would have caused irritating cosmetic damage to a model but in the real thing killed the instructor and seriously injured the student.)
Martin Usher
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