Interesting comparison

I saw that in this mornings email from Hobby King, there's no mystery, Hobby King used to call it a Seniorita. I also think its the very same 'RTF' that Sig imports and sells.

Mark Boesen wrote:................... I also think its the very same 'RTF' that Sig imports and sells.

Initially, I thought so too, but SIG doesn't appear to list the Seniorita as an ARF --- it still is carried as a kit, however.

yep, did some surfing after my post, i noticed Sig no longer sells this version, but still think its from the same factory as Sig imports all their RTF/ARF planes.

Here's the first Kadet, best R/C plane ever...i still fly mine.

Mark Boesen wrote:yep, did some surfing after my post, i noticed Sig no longer sells this version, but still think its from the same factory as Sig imports all their RTF/ARF planes.

Yes, I completely agree.

That was my somewhat hidden agenda, i.e., SIG provided the design and likely paid for the construction and setup of the building jigs and cutting files, and now the plane is being offered at a price significantly below what SIG would need to be profitable. It makes it tough for a US company to compete in the ARF market with their own design.

The SIG planes are hard to beat --- the Kadet is certainly no exception.

yep, welcome to free enterprise...

Mark Boesen wrote:Here's the first Kadet, best R/C plane ever...i still fly mine.

AGREED !!!!

My MK 1: The hardest-flown, most-tortured plane in my livery! Now awaiting it's 4th rebuild after an unfortunate glide-towing incident. I'd extended it's span by two rib bays, added a bomb drop/tow hook release, and made the tail feathers removable to make it more travel-friendly.

The extra wingspan allowed it to do a "trick" that was almost totally unappreciated by everyone but me: If I carefully slowed it to the ragged edge of stall, I could fly it around the field, slapping it's rudder from side-to-side with no affect on it's track. The high angle of attack caused the fuselage to almost totally block the little rudder, but control could be instantly regained with a burst of power, or a punch of down elevator.

Intending to fly it places no other R/C plane had been, I named it "Mud Dabber"...after the way my grandma pronounced the name of the little dirt-packing wasps.



Cross-Country Fund Raiser for United Way in 1982



Banner and flag towing at Airport 4th of July Cook Out











My first baby-steps at aerial photography after taking off it's "training wheel", making it a tail-dragger:



And then, there was that glider-towing incident...

I have a Kadet Seinorita EP ARF NIB when Nitro Planes was closing them out a few years back. It in fact has Sig blacked out on the box and in the instructions so these are either rejects that Sig would not purchase or Sig was in dire straights and couldn't afford to sit on inventory. The factory in China did what it did to relieve inventory.

Kim, you sir are a legend! way cool!

I think the Mk. I and probably Mk. II and the later ones flew so well in part to the high lift flat bottom airfoil. One of my 'things' was to get'er up to 250-300' and kill throttle, I once had a 2:45 dead stick/glide catching a couple thermals.

Looking at your photos i wish i hadn't bashed mine.