[Normy]

Do you realize that you are looking at about $14,000 worth of model airplane?

Each of those tiny jet engines are about $3000. Multiply by four. Add about $2000 [probably fairly conservative] for the airframe, and you get the idea.

-You don't "slip" a model airplane. Nobody is capable of looking at a small aircraft like this approaching at probably 50 mph and properly slipping it. Most model pilots hook up the rudder, but few use it because it is almost impossible to use it in a way that helps you. Model airplanes fly like house flies-they are VERY quick and constantly moving, and this fact makes them enormously [!] difficult to fly. How difficult? I consider a model airplane with a 50 inch wingspan 4 times more difficult to fly than a Boeing 747. I have spent years flying model airplanes, including Quicky 500 and Open Pylon racers. AND I am type rated on the 747 classic and have 1500 hours of experience on this plane, much of it as Captain.

heh! Model airplanes are the most unforgiving aircraft in existence. Ridiculously difficult to fly, the only sane model airplane owner in my view is one that hangs his planes from his den ceiling and buys a good model flight simulator. That guy that built that C-17 with four jets? He's either a billionaire or his wife puts on a bunch of leather and spanks him good each night cuz folks he's pretty much into pain!

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