The REGULAR Maxi-Alpha was much better than the Maxi Alpha 3 as it had WOOD fins instead of those DUMB easily breakable ring-lok plastic jokes.

The best would be to offer the ORIGINAL Maxi-Alpha (not 3) with either basswood or ply TTW fins that can take some REAL power.

Shredded the fins off my buddy's Maxi Alpha 3 on its 2nd flight with a Compsite Dynamics 24mm Pro-Jet F something in 1988. He was displeased with the 125' on a D12-3 and I handed him the Composite Dynamics 80 n-sec F that stuck out of the mount bottom by like 4". Fins shredded off at about 250' but kept going up fairly straight.
His response was "Geez, thanx !". I told him to GLUE some REAL fins on with epoxy and quit whining.

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