Tiger Moth vs. SE5a
...Hopefully this one won't be any different. Still...why buy this for $250 when you can buy the 76" Tiger Moth from Nitro Planes for less than $200!
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Havent seen many grass take off and landing on the SE5a, and the two i actually saw (youtube) ended up on the nose on landing. The plane seems to have a very light tail or maybe it was just the one i saw, guess i have to try by myself.
And about the Moth, well it is a nice plane, no doubts there, but still there are a few problems with it too...at least from my side of few...
1. Its a very big plane, hard to transport with my tiny tiny car.
2. I guess i have to show you a few pics of our flying field here, its a challenge to fly there to say the least, specially with a plane that size, and weight.
3. I probably need new lipos becasue the biggest one i have in use now are 4s packs, and i doubt that that would be enough for the Moth, looks more like say 6s, and gas/nitro is no alternativ, because its not allowed here, you have to go to and rc-club-flyingfield to do that, and i dont wanna do that, closest one is a 40 minutes drive you know. Next public rc-field is less then 10 min. away.
4. And i would love to buy from Nitro Planes (and not only the Moth) but thats also not that easy, 200$ for the plane + about 150$ for oversea-shipping, probably another 70-80$ for taxes and customs, then change everything into euro with a factor of, lets say 1,28, and you end up with round about 335,93 Euro, and i guess thats just for the kit right...sound like a little bit more then for the Parkzone Bird which they sell for about 149,- Euro (PNP) around here.
Still i can see why you like the Moth, looks fantastic and its a real plane, balsa and everything, not puffed up foam. Dont get me wrong i like my foamies because i can use them around here with ease, and i doubt that i could do that with a real (balsa-plane).
I would love to fly a nice Hawker Hurricane for example, specially after i saw the first videos of the e-flite one on youtube yesterday
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So i guess that were enough excuses for not buying the Moth
, didnt wanted to turn this in to a novel.