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Originally Posted by birchhaven
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Trust me, I have thought it out many ways, but just to put into perspective. The turbines on that B-52 cost roughly $5,000.00 EACH, then add the cost of the build on top of that and you are looking at around a $50,0000 dollar investment. The Beaver will be around 10% of that, the time investment will probably be about the same. But many of these large jet models have multiple owners. All it takes is one $150.00 servo to not respond and all that time and money is gone. Jets are also extremely complicated birds compared to the DHC-2, the most complicated thing on the Beaver is the scale pully linkage from the rudder to the floats.
The utter feeling of emptiness that the owners or pilots of these planes feel, must be overwhelming.