Rc banner tow plane

Phin G

Elite member
Hi i am looking at getting a cheap but powerful plane to tow banners around my flight feild. I have been looking to see if there are plans for a cessna 172 but i have found a cessna 182 for £130. I think I would use the eletronics from my first plane but upgrade the ESC and motor. Any suggestions on which to buy. I have made 2 scratch builds that have turned out well but they aren't pretty. Any help will be much appreciated.
Phin,12 uk
 

Piotrsko

Master member
You want something that can happily fly slow and has a large diameter prop for lots of excess thrust. Full scale Cessna and Piper aircraft can, not so much for scale planes mostly because the installed motors and battery packs are small for cost savings. Any banner has huge amounts of drag that needs to be overcome for decent flight
 

Phin G

Elite member
Just had a flight with a uk flag attached to a 500mm parkflyer. Had quite a croud. I let my brother have the sticks and he flew it into a tree 14feet up. It is now with us but has dents from pine cones as we were hitting it out of the tree
 

Phin G

Elite member
It is back
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