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Old 8th January 2008 | 23:27
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Ken Wells
 
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From: BERKSHIRE
Luton Horror

This was one of the worst aircraft I ever flew.
It was a 1st prize at a PFA Rally and the winner would not fly it. We bought it for £3,000 in the mid ninties and flew it for about 4 years. I wrote about it for a mag. It did'nt take off, more like departed with the earth. The throttle was situated in such a poor postion you had to use your thumb to work it, and then it only seemed to work as a volume controll. I can remeber flying it from White Waltham to Cranfield for one of the legendery rallys and it took 1 hour 17 mins. the following year i took my pits G-Loop and it took 17 mins.




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