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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazin View Post
    Tired of building even though I have a hog bipe 90% done
    Read this right when I woke up and was having trouble getting my eyes to focus. I was really surprised since I never pictured you as a guy who was into bag pipes.

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    Oh I have the heritage for it but I was speaking of this....



    Modified for electric power looking to pull 1800 watts per pound (@13lbs finish weight running a 6s 5000mah battery)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazin View Post
    Oh I have the heritage for it but I was speaking of this....



    Modified for electric power looking to pull 1800 watts per pound (@13lbs finish weight running a 6s 5000mah battery)
    Honestly nice models like that scare me. Hours of work and one mistake and you have scrap.
    I have a 2m Amigo glider that I bought in early 80s that my pops and me put together last year. Yep 30 years later. I am afraid to go fly it. Old school balsa stick construction, very nice plane, just scared to fly it. I am not a great pilot so that?s probably part of it but still.

    I did find a mini super cub with 27mhz transmitter in the basement. Will get a battery today and go crash it, I mean fly it later today

    Mazin you got suggestions on what to do with crashed planes other than trash?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Erni View Post
    Honestly nice models like that scare me. Hours of work and one mistake and you have scrap.
    I have a 2m Amigo glider that I bought in early 80s that my pops and me put together last year. Yep 30 years later. I am afraid to go fly it. Old school balsa stick construction, very nice plane, just scared to fly it. I am not a great pilot so that?s probably part of it but still.

    I did find a mini super cub with 27mhz transmitter in the basement. Will get a battery today and go crash it, I mean fly it later today

    Mazin you got suggestions on what to do with crashed planes other than trash?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Erni View Post
    Honestly nice models like that scare me. Hours of work and one mistake and you have scrap.
    I have a 2m Amigo glider that I bought in early 80s that my pops and me put together last year. Yep 30 years later. I am afraid to go fly it. Old school balsa stick construction, very nice plane, just scared to fly it. I am not a great pilot so that?s probably part of it but still.

    I did find a mini super cub with 27mhz transmitter in the basement. Will get a battery today and go crash it, I mean fly it later today

    Mazin you got suggestions on what to do with crashed planes other than trash?


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    Oh I hear you brudda. I started in this stuff when i was about 8 with my grandfather and after he passed I had about 45 planes, I've since decommissioned most due to glow fuel soaked into the balsa. Gliders takes a real pilot where as the powered stuff I think is a little easier. If you do ever fly it and need some balsa or parts hit me up. That bipe is about 7 years old and I've done 90% (about 140hrs of work / design and planning) of the building last winter. Still have a topflite p51 gold and 2 sig kadets in kits to build as well. I figured on a spring maiden flight but just got burned out so its up in the rafters of the garage now.

    Seriously anyone wanting to get into RC planes hit me up first i have so much stuff that i doubt ill ever use. As sad as it is I'm actually thinking about culling most of my stuff and just doing quads.
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    For crashed planes that can't be fixed I just keep whatever electronics. Motors or hardware I can. I have jewel cases full of nuts, bolts, servo arms, control horns etc. You can always use that stuff later on with other airframes.

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    The only way to build the skills as a pilot is to fly. You fly RC you're going to crash at some point the biggest thing is learning from your mistakes and to also how too crash "lightly".

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    If your interested these deltas are easy as hell to build and fly really well. The material cost is about $6 for the foam insulation board and again if you need electronics hit me up.


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    Good shipping tape skin and I've nose dived these into the ground at about 70 mph and all they really do is dent.

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