New Wilga at H.K...... 1970mm... yum!

New PZL 104 Wilga 35 at H.K....... 1970mm w.s....... what a blooming beauty.............Cor!! [badass]
www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__4522...ite_1970mm_ARF_.html

thats nice, but i have no more room.

But it is all SO wrong at the front!
Don't get me wrong I love Wilgas but it just doesn't look right.... :pinch:

GeeW
Not quite sure what your complaint is.
The windscreen is wrong and the rear fuselage is missing the external stiffening strakes but the cowling does not look too bad .

....Yes.... not sure about the cowl observation... have you been viewing the Wilga 2000?? Thing is the next size of the PZL 104 is the Black Horse which is 2m span... a little too big, my Sapac Wilga & Easy Sky Wilgas are just too small at 1200mm & 1000mm respectively. Then theres the eStar Wilga which is 52 inches but doesn't have the nice scale u/c..... So, they either build them too big or too small. I'd really like a 60 inch model but then where do you get the counter sprung u/c. This H.K. one is too big for me really not having anywhere to fly such a thing....
Cpl.

The only complaint our tug pilots had about the Wilga was you could not get it down as fast as it towed gliders up! (under 3 minutes to 2000' from 'take up slack'). The problem was over cooling the engine during a rapid descent (on a typical UK winter day!). It took longer to close the gills (needed many turns of a handle) than it did to come down.
The STOL performance was that good the Wilga landed and stopped at a point it could pick up the next glider without back tracking. 1 Wilga did the work of 2 Chipmunks although that big radial had twice the fuel consumption as well :ohmy: but it sounded fantastic.

I'm trying to justify one right now! The problem is how to keep it a secret from Mary!

Take a tip from a 55 yrs old married man Kippy, admit all, as they always find out in the end. Now I had better take my own advise and tell her about the DX 9 :woohoo: :evil: [badass]

Garry

Depends on what you buy Mary at the same time as you buy the Wilga

Had a look and a drool. Got too much needing me to get up and go,, difficult to justify. Anyone got any spare "get up and go" spare? Or just half the enthusiasm I lack, would do.

Really does tempt me though.

Wish I could post you a bit of mine Bob, lets put it down to the winter weather Bob. ??

Garry

Flytilbroke wrote: Had a look and a drool. Got too much needing me to get up and go,, difficult to justify. Anyone got any spare "get up and go" spare? Or just half the enthusiasm I lack, would do.

Really does tempt me though.

sending you a huge bag of the stuff, get it and name it after Dot xxxxxxxx :kiss: xxxxxxxxx

Can you send me some too? all my 'get up and go' has just got up and went. :dry:

Come on Guys.... Winters on its way out.... give yerselves a good talking to!! So pleased there are so many fellow Wilga admirers.... everyone should have one!! Here's a little flight of my little Wilga....fitted some lights to extend the flight envelope as they say?