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Limbo Dancer.

This has got to be one of the most fun aircraft I've ever flown! Ever since I first herad about the Balsacraft Limbo Dancer in '97 or '98 I'd always liked it. It was designed by a member of the Ripmax display team and he used it to compete in and win the Fun-Fly events at the British Nationals using a standard motor and standard radio gear with no mixing.

I have a Magnum .46AII with a Weston Genesis Pipe (which gives a fair bit of grunt) and lots of mixing using my Futaba FF6. Mine is definitely a Class 1 machine (as opposed to a class 2 machine). The difference between class 1 and 2 is that 2 has much tighter regulations. no engines bigger than a .40 are allowed with no pipes, and no control mixing is allowed. Class 1 is more or less unlimited.

This picture of mine is not great as it was a bit dark when I took the photo but it shows the principles of this type of Model. The wide chord wing, the short moment arm, the huge control surfaces and of course it is not the most aestheically pleasing model ever created. But that doesn't matter. What matters is that it does the job for which it was intended brilliantly. I love it!

At last here are some more pictures of it doing what it does best...Flying around the sky in whatever direction it likes, even pretending to be a helicopter!