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And these guys actually fly IN them. Wow.
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whistle.gif Greg:
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. But as an ole pilot I cain't see it. Course now we have an old saying "If you put a big enough engine on a Rock it gonna fly"! ---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. But as an ole pilot I cain't see it. Course now we have an old saying "If you put a big enough engine on a Rock it gonna fly"! ---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
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Anything you can perform aerobatic maneuvers in is a "real" plane to me.
Bonus points if you can attach a machine gun.
Bonus points if you can attach a machine gun.
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That's a Cri-Cri (Cricket). They were originally built in France but later built in Canada by Zenair.
That plane can actually maintain altitude with one of those engines, so they are pretty safe (they are either Hirth or Zenoah engines). The engines (2 stroke)make about 40 HP each, so that thing is way more powerful than my 65 HP Aeronca. You can see that it climbs out really well.
The real thing with those types of engines is that they are gas-hogs. You probably don't get more than an hour in the air (with a little reserve).
One thing that is noticable to me is the long rollout before rotating off the ground. Those wings are "skinny" and really better for high speed flying. That is not a plane that you'd want to fly "low and slow"....more of a "nervous" plane.
Some folks don't like the idea of a T-tail either (like the Piper "Traumahawk"), but I've never flown one.
I've seen an R/C plane roughly the same size, so that thing *is* small.
That plane can actually maintain altitude with one of those engines, so they are pretty safe (they are either Hirth or Zenoah engines). The engines (2 stroke)make about 40 HP each, so that thing is way more powerful than my 65 HP Aeronca. You can see that it climbs out really well.
The real thing with those types of engines is that they are gas-hogs. You probably don't get more than an hour in the air (with a little reserve).
One thing that is noticable to me is the long rollout before rotating off the ground. Those wings are "skinny" and really better for high speed flying. That is not a plane that you'd want to fly "low and slow"....more of a "nervous" plane.
Some folks don't like the idea of a T-tail either (like the Piper "Traumahawk"), but I've never flown one.
I've seen an R/C plane roughly the same size, so that thing *is* small.
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Stewart said:
Don't forget the King Air(s) too...but then again they keep adding weird crud on the bottom of the fuselage under the stabilizer too.