[LASS Soaring] Electric Plane

[Nex12Go at aol.com]

You all remember early on in my devastation I owned a couple of electric  
planes.  I am speaking of the Hobbizone X-Treme (Big Yeller).  It was  a great 
plane.  It climbed quickly, actually soared well at high altitudes,  and was 
fairly durable.  Of course it only had V-Tail controls.  Well  evidently it has a 
sister now called the Swift.  Slightly less powerful  motor (480) but it has 
aileron control and they actually use push rods now for  the V-Tail instead of 
the monofilament pull-pull system.  I found the  PP system to be a nuisance. 
Also a great improvement I think is the two  piece wing.  It attaches to each 
side of the cockpit via a spar  as opposed to the one piece over the cockpit 
wing that was held on by rubber  bands.
 
Slightly less than the X-Treme at $169 but betting you can get this from  
Brian at $152 or so.
 
If it flies anything like the X-Treme flew and you add aileron control  then 
it would be one nice ship.
 
The only draw back is that you are locked into buying the plane with their  
onboard receiver and radio.  While it worked well on the X-Treme I would  have 
preferred not paying for the xtra and used my own equipment.
 
Santa may just bring me one of these.

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