by Phugoid » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:00 pm
to fly or display?
I hate to sound harsh or patronising but If to fly, put it in your cupboard for a while and buy a better kit for a newbie........
I would reccomend something with a high wing and slow flying perhaps a bird dog or something like that, or perhaps one of the series 4000 models.
The problem is that the real Stuka was designed to be fast (relatively) and manouverable (thus unstable). The problem is that free flight models want to be the opposite of this, ie they need to fly slowly and be stable as there isn't anyone at the controls.
This all sounds a bit boring I know. When I was 13 I wanted to build a Spitfire (still in my opinion the most beautiful aircraft ever built), The guy in the model shop said that I'd best be building a model of a small private plane like a Cessna or Piper but I did not listen and guess what? yep my spitfire flew....like a brick! Eventually I listened (a little bit at least) and I bought a "boring" kit (an Ercoupe i think) and it flew, not for long, and not very well but it flew......