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Offline Bosco123

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Check out what I did today
« on: September 27, 2009, 01:20:08 PM »
Well to start off, I have my fairly new Hawker Seafury, that I have flown a couple of times, and I finally have some photos of the airplane. It's all done in Aluminum fininsh, and yes, that is a scale paint job, if that's what you call it. The airplane is 96'' and weighs about 45-50 lbs, and has a 80cc engine in it
Here are some pics:






The other, one of my great friends, after a year and a half of building, finally put his A6M together and decided to fly it. He didn't relize that it was severly under power, until we flew it, but then it became clear. The airplane is 108'' and weighs about 40-50lbs, and it has an 80cc engine in it, but they were thinking of putting a 150cc radial in it!  :O we will have to see. Here is the video of the maiden flight. (BTW, video is not all the great.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWY4RS4jiNM
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2009, 01:44:38 PM »
Pretty Cool!!   :aok
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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2009, 02:01:12 PM »
Nice job! Be careful with that 150cc possibility. Don't torque-roll it. :)
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2009, 02:36:25 PM »
Idk really how a Radial works, but I think it's actually less than the real cc's.
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2009, 02:55:09 PM »
Well to start off, I have my fairly new Hawker Seafury, that I have flown a couple of times, and I finally have some photos of the airplane. It's all done in Aluminum fininsh, and yes, that is a scale paint job, if that's what you call it. The airplane is 96'' and weighs about 45-50 lbs, and has a 80cc engine in it
Here are some pics:
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The other, one of my great friends, after a year and a half of building, finally put his A6M together and decided to fly it. He didn't relize that it was severly under power, until we flew it, but then it became clear. The airplane is 108'' and weighs about 40-50lbs, and it has an 80cc engine in it, but they were thinking of putting a 150cc radial in it!  :O we will have to see. Here is the video of the maiden flight. (BTW, video is not all the great.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWY4RS4jiNM

dude, you keep this up, and you;re going to end up being one of those pilots that people seek out to fly their warbirds. :aok :aok
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2009, 03:11:55 PM »
That is awesome!

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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2009, 03:40:37 PM »
dude, you keep this up, and you;re going to end up being one of those pilots that people seek out to fly their warbirds. :aok :aok
lol yea, I pretty much did the test on the Seafury as well, other than I didn't do the landing.

Tell you what though, that Zero flight had to be one of the most scariest flights I've ever had to do. Was at a constant stall the whole time, that landing was tough too, becasue I had to keep it at half throttle the whole time lol. It's a good thing that zero's had a lot of wing area, becasue if that were somthing like a mustang, I wouldn't have been able to get it off the ground.

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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2009, 03:52:13 PM »
hows the dornier doing? havent done much of the RC since my kid was born. Will get back in it after we buy a new house.
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2009, 03:56:07 PM »
lol yea, I pretty much did the test on the Seafury as well, other than I didn't do the landing.

Tell you what though, that Zero flight had to be one of the most scariest flights I've ever had to do. Was at a constant stall the whole time, that landing was tough too, becasue I had to keep it at half throttle the whole time lol. It's a good thing that zero's had a lot of wing area, becasue if that were somthing like a mustang, I wouldn't have been able to get it off the ground.

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yea..i was listening to the engine, and it was working way too hard for the speed that plane was flying at.
 even the take off roll seemed pretty long. you had a lot of balls, and showed a LOT of skill flying her and making her look as good as she did. i thnik the only thing i saw wrong with the landing, was at one point it sounded like you chopped the throttle to idle, and the plane almost dropped on ya?
 other than that, it was actually a beautiful landing.

 it would be awsome to hear her with a radial engine.
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2009, 04:00:12 PM »
See Rule #6
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2009, 04:40:46 PM »
Yea Cap, I cut back a little and it dropped like a rock lol. I've done that in the past and at that sink rate I usually lose it, but this time I remebered and put some thrrottle back to it, and it just made it to the runway. You can see the take off, I went from halfway down the runway with the tail up, all the way to the other end before I pulled up, and I just barley had enough to get off the ground. You cann see my first turn almost found me in the trees, and from then on I was ok, but it was tricky.

Baron, With the new technology called Specktrum, we can go as far as the eye can see and still have range. We can probably go up to at least a mile with no trouble at all.
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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2009, 04:45:16 PM »
Time to build a G14....... :D
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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2009, 04:48:56 PM »
We're thinking about it. :)
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Re: Check out what I did today
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2009, 01:07:59 AM »
who is the giant person in the second pic?   

That guy is HUGE!    surely he must be in the guiness world records somewhere.....
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2009, 02:25:44 AM »
^winner of the "I spent my whole WE at the pub" ;)