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Apparently they have a BORING RSO that dislikes POWR-PRANGS.
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I built an Invader when it came out in the 60s. It boosted nicely and glided back doing nice lazy circles of the launch field. A friend built one at the same time. His had no dihedral, and glided back inverted.
As an adult, I built another using my original plans and templates. Power Prang! Apparently I lost my childhood gift of building great flying gliders.
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That was my suspicion...
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True Invader Prang-Action Earth-impaction RRRRRRRRRRAMPAGE !
Anyone got video ?
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I can try to get some this weekend. I've got a C5-3 around here somewhere.
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A C5-3 may rip that thing apart.
About the only worse choices would be a vintage REAL B14 or an Aerotech D24. Trying a 1/2A6-2 would probably be best or a 1/2A3-2T. An old A5-2 may be good if you have any.
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An Aerotech D21 would be more than enough to do the job real good.
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In case anyone is interested there are two paks of vintage A5-2S motors on ebay right now.
Perfect for the Astron Invader.
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I flew my Flying Jenny biplane glider on a B14. Exceeded the speed of balsa. The first few hundredths (tenths?) of a second were not too bad, then balsa fragments shredded off in the blink of an eye. I may have taken home a body tube and nose cone. That was over 50 years ago, so I’m not sure.
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Too bad you din't have a video of the jenny shredding! - Nice thing about today's technology.
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