Path: jabba.kesmai.com!usenet From: Jim Shafer Newsgroups: bigweek.general Subject: Re: Too cheap so it must be a kit ??? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:08:40 -0700 Organization: very little Lines: 34 Message-ID: <37BB04B8.84826265@att.net> References: <37BACEDA.E52327E5@xoommail.com> Reply-To: eyebls@aol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 226.phoenix-08-09rs.az.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en There is a whole line of 1/2 sized war birds available as kit or plan built. They use 80 to 150 hp engines. Mostly the 100 or 125 lyc ground power units. There is a 50% P-51 here in Phoenix owned by a fighter pilot wannabe. When he saw my Rans S-10 painted like a Me109, he wanted to 'dogfight.' This is in a plane that has a roll rate like a C-172! I couldn't convince him that my kit plane was better than his P-51. So we did the simulated combat thing. (took me a long time to convince him to wear a parachute) Started left wing to left wing. At the 'fights on' call he cranked into a flat turn. I went vertical, rolled onto his six and called 'guns, guns, guns.' He didn't know where I was! He demanded another try, and another, and another. He had no clue about ACM. Finally I let him get on my six and track me through a few gentle turns. Then I said, 'Now I am going to your six without using the vertical.' He allowed as how I couldn't do that. Started a turn to the right, reversed, reversed etc. Took three reversals in a scissors to have him pop out in front. He doesn't talk to me anymore. Bottom line is that these airplanes look a lot like the original but are completely unlike the original in flight characteristics. eb Rotor wrote: > > Upper Valley Aviation Ltd. > > 1989 - F4U Corsair > > Price: $13,900 . . . Total Time: 39 Hours > > 101 since Certified Major Lyc. 0290 125 HP, Elec. Retract, Cleveland > Wheels & Brakes, Jacks, Full Neopryne Cover for Entire Aircraft, > Impeccable Workmanship.