park zone electric warbird

[wildoliver]

I was looking at one of the park zone planes the other day, was really quite impressed by it, looked nice and build quality seemed good, does anyone have one?

I might be tempted to stick the fusion on ebay to free some funds to buy one!

[roop]

I've got the Mustang. Great fun but definitely spend some on getting a Li-Po battery and charger (about another £100 or so for good ones) and be careful of tip-stalls - Lost count the number on new front ends mine has had...!

[wildoliver]

Right! many thanks, in hindsight would you buy one again? or go a different route? How hard are they to fly? I can fly but never a low wing before.

It's the FW190 I'd go for btw!

[roop]

They are great fun. Not really for the beginner as they are not very forgiving if you get it wrong. As mentioned, the Mustang tip stalls pretty viciously, departs into a spin and and will cmplete at least one and a half rotations before recovery is possible losing about 30 feet then you have the recovery from the ensuing dive, so you need 40-45 feet to recover. All this happens in about 3 seconds. I have been flying fixed wing and helicopters for many years now and it's caught me out a few times.

That said, they are really cheap to buy parts for which is a bonus. Given they are only about a hundred quid, I'd get the Bellanca thing they do (high wing red coloured plane) and practice on that. It's aerobatic and will do loops, stall turns etc. Once you are confident you can haul that thing round then get a warbird model. You can use the batteries from one in the other I think and if you accidentally smash the warbird, you can get out the old trainer and flap about with that while you wait for spares to be delivered.

[wildoliver]

Good advice there Roop thankyou, it makes a change to ask a question and not get treated like an idiot for not already knowing it!

From memory is the Bellanca made by the sister company hobbyzone?

[roop]

No worries, you're welcome. It's the same company. Plane is here :

www.parkzone.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=PKZ1400