Lose sight of yours on the far turn? Fly with your imagination... It'll probably show up on the other side of the tree.
Midairs? Hah! They live for midairs... so do the pilots cuz flying doesn't stop when a plane goes down, the retriever/pilot just represents another challenge on the course.
Almost no wind? This is why they are so versatile. The 1-26 loves to fly in that "magic lift" when you can't feel the breeze and you'd swear nothing will stay up... but the 1-26 does. You may have to fly inches off the ground, but you can do it for hours. Get a handful of planes in the air for that and you have the recipe for forced formation flying where you hear nothing but servos, airflow over the plane and the taps of one plane on another. Oh... and laughter, lots and lots of laughter.
Last but not least, I've gotta say that the 1-26 is THE plane to take on a twilight run out to catch the wind behind a tornadic storm system?
Hey, now that I think of it, I think I've just summarized both my Most Fun Plane AND some of my Most Fun Experiences. And to think we did all of these during and after the Midwest Slope Challenge in 2004. A summary and lots of pictures are posted on Slopeflyer.com. http://www.slopeflyer.com/artman/publish/mwsc_2004.shtml
I gotta say, I'm glad Skyking RC Products is keeping the 2M 1-26 alive. I'd be lost without mine.
http://www.skykingrcproducts.com/rcplanes/DAW_kits.html
Rich
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:36:01 -0600 From: "Ed Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Louis Cimon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RCSE] Most fun plane Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Louis, that's an easy question for me to answer. I'd have to say I've had
the most fun with my Weasel Pro. It was a very well designed kit with very
complete and well written directions so that anyone can build this bird and
have it flying in short order.
I've flown mine is very low wind conditions and also 30mph winds with no
ballast. I've had it specked out in thermals while on the slope. It packs
small and can be in your back seat or trunk ready to fly or you can travel
with it by removing the tail. It's rugged and can tank the punishment that
a no pilot will give it.
I don't know of a better kit for the money and I'm in the kit business
myself. My only criticism is that it's not one of my products. I like this
kit so much that I built three of them. Two for me and one for my son.
Check out the web site at: www.flyweasel.com
Ed
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