New to me Planes

An old bike racing mate of mine who lives in the city also flies CL planes and flies with a club in Adelaide. He was scoring at the South Oz CL titles this weekend and managed to score me a pair of Ukrainian Combat planes. He got the pair for me for $100 Ozzy, about $70 US. Complete and ready to fly, I just need to add the engine, lines and fuel and Im off.



Hopefully they will fly ok on with my OS 15 and Enya 15 glow engines, might have to fly them on 40/42 ft lines as I think engines might be a fraction underpowered. But I am very excited as these will be the first really good combat wings I have owned and can fly since I was young and I know these planes definately perform! These I will be able to do Lazy 8s and inverted on and if not it will be me thats the problem not the plane. Hopefully I can fly them on 52 ft wire lines. That would be really cool if I can.

Hardest part will be launching, either I wait quite a while to fly them in adelaide with someone to hand launch them or I mod the planes and my launch table to be able to launch them from the table. I havent launched any planes with 15s from the table. Should work just as well as it does with my 049 engines. Just might need to secure the table to the ground a bit better. Will have to wait for new lines and a new handle so probably wait till I can get to the city and get them hand launched. But I am quite Excited to be going to have a go at flying some proper planes instead of the rough jiggers I build and fly.