Posted for "Robert Smiley" <rsmiley@centurytel.net>:

Randy,

This is about what you get when you build the Legacy kit  today as compared to the early serial number 320s like my bird. Balsa wood models are more
complicated today.  For example I am building a Precision Aerobatic control-line take-a-part competition plane.  The take a part feature will add about 7percent to the body weight and have about 80 extra parts.  The wing halves, stab, rudder, stab, wheels, motor and pipe all come apart so I can stow it in the Lancair and back in the empanage for the lighter stuff.  Can't transport it in one piece.  The guys want me to buy a Cessna 210 (obstensibly so they can also fly to the contests with me) but I graciously decline saying it is a faster trip and more cost effective to be in a 360 Lancair.  There is also the buzz factor when you fly to a contest site at an airport and the guys drool at the big model.  Some of the fellas joke and ask where are the leadout lines or how large a circle do you need, or does it do the stunt pattern and stuff like that.  But mostly they want a ride.


Bob Smiley
N94RJ