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Old 27th May 2009, 17:45
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stiknruda
 
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My aversion to the Tiger is that it just isn't a great aeroplane. The people who rave about them are the ones who currently own them!

Sure it is nostalgic and quite pleasing visually. I find it a pain to handle on the ground and not particularly responsive whilst flying - huge adverse aileron yaw, despite very ineffective ailerons. Its performance is a long way from cosmic!

The Stampe was twice as nice to fly and the Jungmann almost twice as nice as the Stampe. The Jungmann's party piece is a delightful flick-roll.

I've flown both the 220 and the 450 (four aileron) Stearman and they were "agricutural". I ought to fly the Waco, I was once offered the opportunity in the mid-West but can't remember what occured to prevent me.

Someone once said about the Tiger something along the lines of, "The Tiger a superlative gentleman's aerial conveyance but it will never beat the aeroplane!".
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