[RKDinOKC]

So THATS where they got the aluminium for those crappy ASP engines when I was into R/C planes. I didn't understand how ASP was able to sell their engines, Not only were they cheap and made in China, they were direct copies of other manufacturers engines. The castings were much rougher and the engines didn't last at all. Only engines I ever saw the castings break just from normal usage.

There were a couple of guys in the local club that thought ASP engines and Airtronics radios were the absolute best and bragged on how great they were. Yet they would spend hours trying to get their ASP motors running then once they did would end up crashing the plane due to some radio glitch.

Was so glad when first starting bought the motor and radio the other local club guys recommended, Super Tigre and JR. The one time I couldn't get my engine started within minutes one of the other guys had it running a tuned perfectly. And I never had any radio glitches except for that one time I forgot to extend the antenna and lost my Super Chipmunk because I flew it out of the very short range the radio had without the antenna extended.

Was one of the first guys to get the fancy computer programmable radios. Did all kinds of fun stuff on my planes. The main thing was putting a servo for each aileron and set it up to work both as ailerons and flaps, flaoerons. The older guys in the club commented it was just more stuff to go wrong. But within a month or so they had a computer radio and were touting how cool they were.

One of the fun things with the flaperons was being able to fly on windy days. You could set it for reverse flaps and with the downforce created could taxi around in quite more wind than normal without the plane blowing over. A must have for windy Oklahoma. During take off roll you just flip the flaperons back down to normal ailerons and up and away it went. The same thing on landing. As soon as you touch ground flip the flaperons up and the plane would stick to the runway like glue.