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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hangtime on June 20, 2005, 10:39:20 AM
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Finshed.. at last. My first big 'stringbag'. Now I'm ready fer Rhinebeck!
Balsa USA Kit, span; 80". Weight 17lbs, power, Zenoah G-38. Documentation, 60 Squadron, November 1917, Billy Bishop's SE5a.
(http://www.hangtimes.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/SE5Static.jpg)
Flys and sounds just freakin GREAT!
(http://www.hangtimes.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/SE5flying.jpg)
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Wow, that looks pretty danged sweet!
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A friend of mine's gotta DR-1 in the same sale.. now I can dogfight his mangy butt.
"'Red Baron, my ass!"
Muahahhahha!
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Wow! That's beautiful. I'd ball it up in 30 seconds :)
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Have to admit it looks awesome and I am jealous.
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Way cool Hang.
I gotta ask. Where the heck do you keep all these planes?
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Oh and I always thought this was a "Stringbag"
Fairey Swordfish
(http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/navalair/fairey_swordfish.jpg)
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That is beauty!...Got all summer to fly it now eh?..Nice timing!:D
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WOW vvveerrryy nice Hangtime, it looks really great!
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Outstanding job hangtime.. WTG :)
Midnight has a point tho... the swardfish was nicknamed the stringbag if i remember it correctly.
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wow...me likey. That would look GREAT hanging in my office, but I wouldn't dare ever fly it. :)
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Looks nice!
Man after my own heart, choosing the Se5a :)
You need the streamers on the outer wing spars, would be awesome. If i had one i would quite simply have to get it in Ball's, McCudden's or possibly Mannock's markings
found a pic of one with the ribbon on the wing spars:-
(http://furballunderground.com/blueknights_pictures/userfiles/Furball/693322.jpg)
Se5's are beautiful.
When he uses the term "Stringbag" i think he is referring to a biplane. The Swordfish did have it as a nickname, but i guess that was probably due to a biplane being such a rarity when WWII came round and it adopted it as its name.
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Looks great Hangtime, I'm envious.
I have a question regaeding all electric RC planes. Does anyone have an idea where a rank beginner should go for that type of equipment? I am interested but don't have the space or resources to do the more traditional "gas" powered models. Since I'm a full time RVer I have limited space, storage and will need to find smaller places to fly so the all electric is likely my best choice.
I need recomendations as to what to get and what to avoid. I'm also on a very small budget. :(
Any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.
Note, that at no time did I confuse Hangtime with Ripsnort. Any claims I did are libelous lies lkely started by some person who lives on a small Island and snorts too much salt water......
PS any claims I edited my original post to make any corrections are also fabrications likely to be from some pink short wearing salt water snorting islander and should not be believed!
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Did Mav just call Hangtime Rip?
Yes, I believe he did.
:)
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Damn Mav, what did Hang ever do to you that was so bad? ;)
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That's way cool Hangtime. It looks like a full sized, real aircraft.
Nice job!
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Se5 s
Way back in the 1950s my father was an apprentice airframe fitter at RAE Farnborough. I dimly remember him telling me that his class built areplica Se5 that is now kept at the shuttleworth collection. This is it I think.
(http://www.rae-apprentices.co.uk/memoirs5ABP1.jpg)
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Thanks for the kind words guys!!
Yep.. in the 'hobby' anything flying more than one wing, equipped with flying wires and struts, having an open cockpit, and being finished with canvas and dope we'd just call a 'stringbag'. Not an Insult to the Swordfish.. just a tearm of endearment for all 'contraptions' from the Great War.
Like the 'streamer' Idea Furball.. will get something on it after I'm done trimming and adjusting decalage. Draggy beast already.. plummits like a shot pheasant when the power comes off..
where do you keep all these planes?
On my living room and bedroom walls. Who needs pictures on the wall? I got the real thing just resting on massive brackets.
Mav, electrics are a blast.. particulalrly for RV'ers. I'd assume you'd enjoy a lil speed 400 class sailplane.. lotsa stick time, easy to learn on. Some are desigined to 'knock down' and tote in a bow or rifle case. I'll do some digging and come up with a reccomended plane and setup.
'real inexpensive' almost always equates to 'real dissapointing', but I'm pretty sure we can get together a spiffy lil electric sailplane and system package for a reasonable amount. The planes are faily inexpensive these days.. the radio gear, motors, controllers, packs and chargers are the tuff nut. Good news is, most times; the gear moves to another plane after a tragedy. ;)
Now.. back ta work.. this plane sucked up better than half the day already (balky engine.. just rebuilt the carb) and nearly gave me heart failure on the first flight with a dead stick crosswind landing. I pulled the rabbit outta my bellybutton and got her back to the field.. but I need new shorts. ;)
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WTG Hangtime.... Looks awesome.
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I got one of those indoor/outdoor parkflyers(Slo-V from ParkZone)..I fly it off my driveway and do ciruits around the court..Great R/C fix (only $200 everything included)
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Originally posted by Skydancer
Se5 s
Way back in the 1950s my father was an apprentice airframe fitter at RAE Farnborough. I dimly remember him telling me that his class built areplica Se5 that is now kept at the shuttleworth collection. This is it I think.
Actually the Shuttleworth Se5 is not a replica. It's original or as original as a restoration can be. It was used for skywriting in the 20's and found in the Armstrong Whitworth factory in Coventry in 1955 and as you say restored by your Father's class.
One day when I win the Euro lotto. I will buy a replica of the Se5 among other warbirds, a Camel, Spitfire, F4U etc. :)
I actually saw WW1 biplanes dogfigting as a child. No I'm not that old! Two movies, The Blue Max and The Red Baron were shot near where I lived and we kids gots used to dogfights and overflying formations of German and British biplanes. Once I was the only person to witness, two aeroplanes indulging in a private ultra low level duel. You can imagine how that kind of thing influenced me to take up flying myself. One of of the two was definitely an Se5, probably a replica and it had streamers on the struts. I didn't know what an Se5 was at the time but recognised it when I saw a picture later. A fantastic and almost unique memory in this day and age.
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Originally posted by SirLoin
I got one of those indoor/outdoor parkflyers(Slo-V from ParkZone)..I fly it off my driveway and do ciruits around the court..Great R/C fix (only $200 everything included)
SirLoin,
Any chance you have a link for those things. I don't think I've seen them before but it sounds like the way to get started in it. I don't want to go "whole hog" into this thing, at least not right now. ;)
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Holly banana Hangman, she looks stuning. Great camo pick.
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Great job, looks like a real full size plane.
dago
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Hey... is that a french flag I see???
*faints*
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Aah thanx Cpxxx Thought I remebered at least half right. I will try to find out a few more stories from him when I next see him.
Great model by the way Hangtime. :aok
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Originally posted by Maverick
SirLoin,
Any chance you have a link for those things. I don't think I've seen them before but it sounds like the way to get started in it. I don't want to go "whole hog" into this thing, at least not right now. ;)
Another good source.. complete outfits, everything you need, package price.
Hobby Lobby (http://www.hobby-lobby.com/beginner.htm?c1=index&source=beginner)