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Old 05-30-2009, 10:44 AM   #39
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Default Re: Hempel 50% Cub or Pilot Decathlon

Quote: Originally Posted by 2walla
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I was toying with buying the Decathalon. The old 25% Pilot kit from years ago flew awesome and would fly circles around a flat bottomed wing cub. At the 40-50% size though the wing loading is so low on any of them that they should fly great! What I would like to see is 35% Swick Taylorcraft-- Size it so that DA100 afits in the cowl and build the rest to that size and keep the airframe light- somewhere in the 25lb range.. That would be awesome....

hempel's 40cent cub is designed around the 100cc engine. ours weighs in at about 43lbs and our AERA 102 yanks it around like a redneck mom pulling her youngin' thru the grocery store!

when i realized the weight of the BH 40%'er i was VERY concerned about powering her with a 100cc.... Man was i worried about nothing! this is a tremendous combination and i would venture to say that it is every bit as good, if not better, in the power to weight ratio than the 50 and 60 centers.
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