The de Havilland DHC-2 Beouer has its own unique aesthetic. It is not a graceful plane, more a pug-nosed cross between a pickup or a small dump truck. Its beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. But its long lived, continuing service-it was first produced in 1948-and many of the 1,6757 planes built still find very useful employment in the water and bush areas of the world. When de Havilland first concocted the plane here's how it all began: "Almost without variation, the pilots asked for tremendous extra power and STOL performance in a design that could be easily fitted with wheels, skis, or floats. When de Havilland engineers noted that this would result in poor cruise performance, one pilot replied You only have to be faster than a dog sled", -from Wikipedia Flyzone's Beaver offers a lot of the same versatility that the real plane has. This all-foam plane comes with landing gear and the optional floats. So with only a minimal amount of effort the land version can be switched to a float version and the necessary provisions for that have been included in the model. It can be purchased as either the ready to fly (RTF) version, with its own transmitter, or as the increasingly popular Tx-R version that has all the radio gear installed and only needs a transmitter that can operate Tactic Radio's AnyLink interface. More about this later.
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