Dyehard
Veteran
Location: Cedar Bluff, Va.
| Steve, Wayne has been a "Pro" since he started working for Miniature, that was his only sorce of income, even though it included more than flying. Since leaving MA, his sole income has been as a pilot, first for Sanwa and now Kyosho/Futuba.
Ken, you do get the good stuff. The reason that you have the all the good helis, radios and blades is because the top pilots helped develop those items in competition. What you can buy off the shelf now is very close to what the development pilots fly in competition, the changes on their helis are usually fairly small and made to optimize the heli for their own style of flying. Case in point, remember Cliff, the one who actually works for a living. His X-cell Pro was very close to stock, the biggest changes were the rotorhead, which was the older Fai head, which you can still buy, I think, and the tail rotor gear box, which was turned to the opposite side from normal, you can do that with the parts the come in the kit. Of course, there is the other side of the coin, if I remember correctly, Dobasi's Caliber that he use in the Worlds was almost completly custem, it didn't look at all like Wayne Mann's Caliber, but the next version of the Caliber may include some of those changes. The market being what it is, what you buy will never be too far behind what is being developed. If you keep your eyes and ears open, you can even buy or make the changes to your heli to make it into exactly what Curtis is flying. Of course, that will only last about twenty four hours. |
Mostly because I wouldn't care less if I stuffed it, cause there would be an unending supply of new parts to keep me happy. Man I can only imagine how steep my learning curve could be with unlimited parts! 
