Dynaflite Butterfly

| Wonder if any of you builders have had experience with the Dynaflite | Butterfly , I flew Sport RC from 1984 -1994 and then left RC , still have | radio gear for 6m and 72 , was thinking of getting back into the hobby and | would like something slow and also maybe Electric , a guy used to fly a | Butterfly at my club years ago , I think he tried to fly it too fast and the | wings would buzz at a certain speed , just wondering how much problem the | Electric mod. would be and any other comments would be appreciated .

I have one. It's a pretty decent plane. Mine has a 0.20 engine in it.

I'm hard pressed to think of how you could fly it fast enough to make it buzz :)

It has a very low wing loading (for a powered plane) and so it would be pretty easy to convert to electric.

I've gotten into gliders much more than when I first got the Butterfly, so if I were to go back and fly it more, I'd probably add some spoilers somehow (for a glow plane, it's hard to bring down) and remove the landing gear just to make it stay up longer.

"Doug McLaren" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@frenzied.us...

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The Butterfly is a model that I have always wanted to build and fly, but could never get around to it because of my interest in pattern competition. I even had the kit in my possession several times in the past, but ended up selling when I needed a new Rom nosegear, or something else for pattern. I have seen quite a few of them fly and each and every one of them lived up to my expectations.

I would think that this model is one of the best glow models available for electric conversion. It has everything going in its favor.

Ed Cregger

"Doug McLaren" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@frenzied.us:

Concur. This would be one of the easiest glow-to-electric conversions ever. Offhand, I'd say any 200W+ motor with a relatively low kV would work fine. Pair it with a 3S2000 battery and you'd have a plane that could probably putter around for close to an hour.

For gas, the spoilers would be handy. I useta have a big old gas old- timer that simply wouldn't land with the engine at idle; even at idle, there was enough thrust to keep it airborne. With electrics, not a problem.

As for the landing gear . . . well, it's not a true powered glider, and you really should be able to get it to fly for around an hour on a

3S2000 battery, so I'd keep the LG. Again, if it was glow, and I was doing a climb and then shutting off the motor, I'd feel differently.

"Doug McLaren" wrote

That's what flat spins are for!