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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Bosco123 on November 07, 2008, 05:42:49 PM
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Remeber way back when, when my Do-335 looked like this?
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00884.jpg)
After about 4 or 5 months of work, here it is now
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00900.jpg)
We finally got it painted and everything pretty much everything is ready to go, almost ready for the test flight. Here are some more pics of it :D
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00895.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00897.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00898.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00899.jpg)
After a close observation of the third pic, like all the planes in the backround?
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Now all you have to do is fly it. Show us some pics when your done :aok
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That is nice tryjavascript:void(0); not to crash it. :aok
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Thats just beautiful. you best film the first flights or flight as it were.
zuii
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Great work man. Congrats. :aok
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Looks great, well done! Hope the first flight goes well, I know from personal experience that those first few seconds of flight on a new bird can be "exciting" to say the least.
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Awesome! :aok
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I really hope you don't crash it on her maiden flight.
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If you do crash it can i have the parts of it?
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Nice bird!
*sigh*, now THAT's a garage!
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Very nice Bosco :salute
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Looks great, well done! Hope the first flight goes well, I know from personal experience that those first few seconds of flight on a new bird can be "exciting" to say the least.
It can be exciting, but thats why I'm not doing the test flight. I maybe good enough to do it, but there are some people that are ten times better than me, although in my mind, I think I'm becoming one of the best in warbird class. I won't do the test flight, but I know I'm still going to *hit my pants when it gets off the ground the first time. It so big, it almost intimidtaes me.
We have been having problems tring to figure out what date we are going to test fly the plane. I want the test flight to be done before our Warbird event, in January. Then we have the guy that built it, that wants to fly it after the warbird event in January, because he wants to show it off. I want to show off it flying at the event, but like you guys say, what if the test pilot crashes it? Thats what our biggest problem is. I will post it, I'll have someone come to the feild, and record it.
Thanks guys, it truly is a magnificent plane.
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Nice bird!
*sigh*, now THAT's a garage!
Like it? its got a lot of money in there. :D
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When are you going to make a F/A-18? :lol
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Very nice..... <<<S>>> :aok
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beautiful
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Nice Boscoe, looks great! :aok :aok
I thought you and the fam built it... You said "the guy who built it wants to fly it". Who put it all together?
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Mathis
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Granpa did, I know you guys would appreciate this, so I posted it for him. I will fly it, don't worry about that, its just when.
I cain't wait to fly it :D
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lovely work :salute
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Fantastic!! It does an"ALMOST" ole mans' heart good, to see there are some youngn's out there, who actually care about something! Something that requires them to use tools and skills and dare I say it? Use their imagination! Your obviously a bright young man, and have alot more skills than myself. But at least your not stuck in the house on the X Box or computer! Look at the bad example I'm setting! Fantastic my friend! Maybe you can post a video of that thing flying one day? I'd love to see it!
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Bosco !
Buddy that is fantastic, if it flys half as good as it looks it will be an awsum success :aok
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That is very cool...and here I thought you were a run of the mill squeaker. You have earned my respect :salute
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Nice work bosco, if i were you i would have someone really experienced to do the first flight bro. :aok
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What's not to like about a garage with a spit, f6, P-47, and a DO-335. :aok
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Well done Bosco. What are you using for power, and are both ends powered?
I am just about finished cutting parts for a Ziroli Zero and have Balsa USA 1/4
Fokker D-VII that is close to being finished. Currently flying a Dynaflite PT-19
and a Topflite giant scale Corsair, robart retracts and a fuji 50cc EI engine gets
it over the corn at the end of the runway in fine style. 25 lbs takeoff weight.
Good luck on the first flight and don't forget to breath :D
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Wow! Looks great bosco, well done! :aok Hope everything goes well on her maiden flight. :salute
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Totally off the subject here.. but i picked u earlier :D
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Nice plane! :salute
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Those RLM colors are all wrong and the panel lines are not deep enough. Dirty it up some and show some oil leaks.
Wait.. wrong forum. Sorry. :noid
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I'll slap trojan next time I'm in game Bosco. WTG on the plane. BTMe62, if you look at the early pic, you can see the engine in the rear of the plane, should be front and rear powered. I'm thinking some vertical manuvers(spelling sucks) are in it's future. Can't wait to see the video's.
:rock :salute Little man
Need video of the JUG flying. Soon. :pray
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that is some nice work.
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Remeber way back when, when my Do-335 looked like this?
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00884.jpg)
After about 4 or 5 months of work, here it is now
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00900.jpg)
We finally got it painted and everything pretty much everything is ready to go, almost ready for the test flight. Here are some more pics of it :D
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00895.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00897.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00898.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC00899.jpg)
After a close observation of the third pic, like all the planes in the backround?
is that the hangar9 p47 in your garage?
that DO is friggin BEAUTIFUL dude!!!!!!
you gonna be able to get some airborn pics of her?
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Great job bosco! I'd be too scared to fly it for fear of crashing! :lol
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Nice job.
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looks arse heavy bet rear instabiltiy and the power lines, dang good job though :rock was into rockets at 15 yrs old.. hobby town stole my money <S> again
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Wow!! Wtg!! That's a good looking plane :salute
Cheers
gusman44
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looks arse heavy bet rear instabiltiy and the power lines,
I think a front engine out in flight might be a bit scary. I'll bet it gets very squirrely on just the rear engine. I'd be really interested to hear what the planes flying weight is and what the wing area is. If it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'm curious as to what engines are installed?
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Most of you guys are right, If that front engine goes out in flight, I am going to have a massive problem trying to land it. It will almost be like landing it deadstick, which you guys know, sucks. Our theory was, its a heck of a lot better to have and engine die on this plane, then to have an engine die out in maybe a P38.
Its powerd in the front with a Quadra 100, or 100cc motor. The rear is powerd with a Fugi 32, or 32cc. Obviously, there is a large diffrence there in between the motors. Its a scatch kit from Don Smith and is 101 inches. Yes Fencer, the colors are probably off by some, but do you know how hard it is to find the exact colors from lets say, a paint can? Of course, we did not buy it from a paint can, we bought it from a guy that make a water-based paint, that lives in California or Washington, cain't remeber off the top of my head. We don't want to get too crazy with, because id we do crash it, we spent all this money on rivets and paint detail, crap like that to see it go into the ground? No way.
On to the other questions, yes, that is a Hangar 9/ Horizon Hobby P-47 ARF hanging in the backround, the one on top of that is my pride and joy, the pretty blue hellcat. The one to the right is the fairly new one, the Spitfire. I still have two others in a trailer that we haul back and fourth to the feild on Sundays.
Any other Qustions that I missed?
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Awesome. :aok
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Just superb! :salute
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That is brilliant :aok :aok :O :O :O :O :O
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Nice work, what a lovely model. :aok
I must confess i have never seen that plane before. Did they ever see combat?
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Yes Fencer, the colors are probably off by some, but do you know how hard it is to find the exact colors from lets say, a paint can? Of course, we did not buy it from a paint can, we bought it from a guy that make a water-based paint, that lives in California or Washington, cain't remeber off the top of my head. We don't want to get too crazy with, because id we do crash it, we spent all this money on rivets and paint detail, crap like that to see it go into the ground? No way.
It was a JOKE, like it was a skin... in the skinners forum, everyone always complains about the RLM colors not being right... And that its not dirty enough.
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<S> bosco123, thats a friggin beaty. hats off. :salute
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beauty :noid
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It was a JOKE, like it was a skin... in the skinners forum, everyone always complains about the RLM colors not being right... And that its not dirty enough.
I know :P
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Awesome Bosco :aok You did a terrific job on that! :salute
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Core she's a beaut !
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oh baby that is evil. I want the whole garage.
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Really great job, beautiful looking plane! :rock :salute
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I used to live near a park that had a model flight field built specifically for it. I used to walk my bird dog there and watch all the modelers fly about everything under the sun. At the time I had no idea this sport was so big or so awsome. I used to sit out there for hours watching them fly and talking to the guys. They tried getting me into it, and since I used to love building models I was really interested in it. But I just didn't have the time. This Bosco model I'd definatly take a drive to see. To bad you dont live in my area or I'd take out my XL-2s and shoot a video of it.
This is an awsome looking model.
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Thank you guys, this is truly one of the best ones we have ever built. Thanks Rich, I would love to have this professionally video taped, but we have someone in the club that would do it for free so, we will take it for free. We still havn't decided when we are going to fly it, but by latest it will be at our Warbird Event, 16, 17 and 18th of January. It will either fly that weekend, or will have already been flown, and will be flying during the meet. We will not fly it during the meet, because ut needs to have 5 flights to be allowed in the meet. If we fly it that weekend, it will be sometime after the meet, around 3 to 5. If you guys want to come out, PM me for details. Its in Cape Coral Florida, BTW.
Thanks again guys. :salute
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Good news! Its planned to fly tommorrow. Of course, pending on weather, we expect it to fly sometime in the afternoon tommorrow. We have the camera guy ready, so we can take a film of it.
Cross your fingers! :pray
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I'm gonna be tuned to Drudge Report all afternoon waiting for, "UFO Sighted Over Florida Town."
Good luck!
:aok
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lol Stang.
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And all I have is an Esky Dauphin 4ch helicopter that just came in today. :cry
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Fingers crossed for you Bosco Good Luck
:salute
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Best of luck, we'll be waiting on that vid :aok
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Man, that is Hot! :aok
What a nice job!
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Awesome plane,Awesome garage, bad choice of when to fly it. All big college rivalry game are tomorrow. Unless you have tivo :lol
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:pray
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Looks excellent. I had a model of a P-51 that my father and I built about 11 years ago or so...I can remember we crashed it on its first flight, what a bummer that was, months of work gone. Hopefully you don't suffer the same loss
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Didn't fly it today, was a heavy cross wind, which was no good. Hopefully we get to fly it sometime this week.
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Well, it finally flew. Don't know if the person that filmed it, can put it on the web so I'll tell you what happend.
Out of the spur of the moment, we decided to fly it today, after I just got back from camp. We got the two engines working well with eachother so we decided to fly it. We got it rolling and it was rolling perfect. We had some negitive incidence on the nose whel so it wasn't getting off the dround by itself, just like we had planned. The test pilot bumped the stick and off it went. When we went to put the gear up though, the gear door began to flex which caused the gear to not go up properly. So we decided to put the down and leave it, were we encounterd another problem, the nose wheel was turned about 45 degrees and was not able to lock down. So we left the gear down, knowing that the gear couldn't go up or down, and hoped that we didn't damage it too much.
He set up for the landing, and just as we began to set it down, one of the wheels on the mains fal off. So he gets it down with two broken gear, the nose and the left main. From what I saw wile it was flying. it seemed a little slow, but it could be that it was that gear door that was slowing it down. It defintly looked heavy, which is what the pilot said it was.
So I can say it was about a 60% succsess, we are going to fix it, probably within the next two weeks and fly it again before our Warbird event, so that we can have a succsessful flight, before our event. I can say that I'm happy that it flew, but I'm a little dissapointed that we had some damage at the end there, but there is nothing I could do. Oh, and BTW, my camera guy that was supposed to do it, was up flying 747s in RL.
Hopefully, I can get a video of it, one of these times.
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it looks like a complicated bird, bound to be a few bugs, you'll get them worked out and it will be awsum :aok
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wow, that is really cool.
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Nice work you SWEEB! ;)
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Wow, that's really nice work. Excellent job! Hope all goes well in the test flight - get that G.I. Joe test pilot home safely! :aok
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looks good :aok
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Brought it up again. Finally got the video uploaded of the test flight. The video quality is poor so bear with me on this one, the next flight will have a much better camera and will look much better. But here is the test flight, like I said, we did have a little damage, the wheel fell off at the end of the video if you watch closely.
Well, it finally flew. Don't know if the person that filmed it, can put it on the web so I'll tell you what happend.
Out of the spur of the moment, we decided to fly it today, after I just got back from camp. We got the two engines working well with eachother so we decided to fly it. We got it rolling and it was rolling perfect. We had some negitive incidence on the nose whel so it wasn't getting off the dround by itself, just like we had planned. The test pilot bumped the stick and off it went. When we went to put the gear up though, the gear door began to flex which caused the gear to not go up properly. So we decided to put the down and leave it, were we encounterd another problem, the nose wheel was turned about 45 degrees and was not able to lock down. So we left the gear down, knowing that the gear couldn't go up or down, and hoped that we didn't damage it too much.
He set up for the landing, and just as we began to set it down, one of the wheels on the mains fal off. So he gets it down with two broken gear, the nose and the left main. From what I saw wile it was flying. it seemed a little slow, but it could be that it was that gear door that was slowing it down. It defintly looked heavy, which is what the pilot said it was.
So I can say it was about a 60% succsess, we are going to fix it, probably within the next two weeks and fly it again before our Warbird event, so that we can have a succsessful flight, before our event. I can say that I'm happy that it flew, but I'm a little dissapointed that we had some damage at the end there, but there is nothing I could do. Oh, and BTW, my camera guy that was supposed to do it, was up flying 747s in RL.
Hopefully, I can get a video of it, one of these times.
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Here you guys go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgVXeTUH3M
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Wow, Way to cool!
thanks for sharing that.
congratz!
zuii
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Yeah thats an awsome airplane. You'll get the kinks worked out, just keep at it.
As for video using a tripod will help a lot. That and use manual focus and just back-focus the field. I'd also go easier on all the zoom and shoot a couple of shots where the airplane goes in and out of the picture, instead of just chasing it around with the cam all the time. Get a few shots of the operator, crowd...ect Wish you lived near me I'd come out with my pack and shoot the video for you. We had a park dedicated to flight enthusiasts near where I once lived and I use to sit out there for hours watching them fly. Just a great hobby.
Congrats on a great airplane. Please keep us updated on it. :salute
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Zuii, You will get to see it, if you come out on the morning of the 17th.
We will have the fancy equipment for that even so people can acually see the airplane this time. I think we got the kinks out of it, hopefully, I will be flying it for that event, insted of the guy that did fly it.
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Bosco it is absolutely gorgeous. I seemed to handle well even though the gear was stuck.
The pilot did a good job bringing her down. Looks like very limited damage occured.
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Bosco, is that film small enough to be e-mailed? Youtube doesn't work on my computer, but I really want to see that flight. :pray
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Bosco - did you guys do a rolling retract test? I'm still an RC newbie of 20 years (LOL) but from what I've heard, you always do a roll or 10 on the runway, pickup the plane and hit the retracts a bunch of times to make sure everything is still working.
I was glad to see the video, a bit painful to watch as it was VERY low quality....even more painful to see that beautiful bird have to land in the grass at that speed with gear issues :(
How did it take it? Pics?!??! :)
I'm transitioning to a sport plane right now. I get very nervous flying, my face actually starts twitching hehe.
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Looks excellent. I had a model of a P-51 that my father and I built about 11 years ago or so...I can remember we crashed it on its first flight, what a bummer that was, months of work gone. Hopefully you don't suffer the same loss
Those are the risks you have to take to fly new and harder planes. It's always better to find a plane that someone else has that will fly it for you the first flight though. My club has very few people and a very very short field with trees and joggers all around. We have to keep our planes to a minimum but there are still some good sticks that can help out esp if it's just a 'normal' plane.
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Brought it up again. Finally got the video uploaded of the test flight. The video quality is poor so bear with me on this one, the next flight will have a much better camera and will look much better. But here is the test flight, like I said, we did have a little damage, the wheel fell off at the end of the video if you watch closely.Here you guys go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgVXeTUH3M
hey!!!!
that landing almost qualifies for a SAPP landing!! :D
seriously......beautiful plane. looked good in flight too.
WTG dude!
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Bosco - did you guys do a rolling retract test? I'm still an RC newbie of 20 years (LOL)
I'm transitioning to a sport plane right now. I get very nervous flying, my face actually starts twitching hehe.
LOL sincraft
Now how cool was that fellas? I liked it very much. Don't care about the film quality much and glad it made it down ok with those gear probs. Seemed like they just didn't want to go all the way up and not sure they made it all the way down. You guys will get it :aok Thanks for the update.
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We did it about 3 or 4 times before that flight. I think our mistake was that we used rubber bands to support the wire that turns the gear, so it's steerable. We believe that i broke in flight and thats why it didn't turn back to being stright. After the flight we are using coil springs, and we did it about 20 times, so we hope to have that set for the event. My honest opinion, if I saw that wheel fell off, I would have went around, and put the gear up, so when it hit the nose gear, it only would have hurt the scoop on the bottom of the plane.
From what he said, it was heavy. I'm not sure if it was just heavy in general, or was it because of the floppy gear, and the gear door that kept flexing in flight. I guess we didn't make the gear door strong enough. We made it out of fiberglass covering, which is realy soft in itself. As for the next flight, we don't realy have a good enough reason to use him, other than the experience, but I think I'm more than qualified to fly that, after what happend yesterday. My Hellcat had an aeiloron the started to flutter in flight. Saved that with no damage, other than the aeiloron of course. :)
I can send that out in an E-Mail, you will just have to give my your adress. I cain't wait to see that fly again, as much as you guys do. :D
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An update on the DO. Flew it today, myself, and landed it with very minor damage. I guess there was some damage in the accident before that flight (the video crash) and when I landed it (which was perfect) there was some craks underneath the wing were the retracts were.
The plane is an easy plane for me to fly. I don't have a problem with it, and Its not heavy at all. It is hard to tell which side is up though, with the cuxsificial tail, you cain't realy tell which way is up or down.
It flies great though. For you guys that might come down tommorrow, the DO will be there, and I will be the young kid either with the DO, or the Hellcat. I will be flying the Hellcat the most.
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Finally got the vid to work (through the dutch youtube mirror site), looks great! And fast!
Thing looks like it'd be a hell of a racer.
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How long did it take you to build that? I know i dont have the skills to do that.
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Nicely done, bosco. :aok
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I came
you
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hero!
<EDIT> you mentioned it was "slow" it looks like it needs bigger props, but I could be wrong
<2nd EDIT> please please give whatever schematics you may have to HTC, we NEED this plane in AH!!!!!!
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More pics soon to come. :aok
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQpia-xpjw&feature=related
this would've been a better way too land that baby :rock
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Some pics! Looking at the pics, we now know that the left gear was hanging out in flight, so we may have to do some contruction on that side, along with the damage on the right side.
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/scan0001-1.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/scan0002.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/scan0003.jpg)
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nice :aok
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Bosco thats awsome :rock Hope to see you soon on AH bro! :salute
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Here is the video of last Saturdays flight. As you can see, its much better flight than the last one. The video quality is also much better than the last one. Diffrent camera works a lot better than that one that we were using. Here you go. (Yes I am the kid taxiing it back)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQTaXUSEwM
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Very scale flight profile, excellent. :aok
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you ve inspired me to try to get into RC planes again. Bought a RC sim a couple of weeks ago. nice plane.
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gorgeous
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Just simply excellent.
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Just simply excellent.
:aok
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That is simply cool
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Fantastic------------ :noid :salute :rock
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Here is the video of last Saturdays flight. As you can see, its much better flight than the last one. The video quality is also much better than the last one. Diffrent camera works a lot better than that one that we were using. Here you go. (Yes I am the kid taxiing it back)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQTaXUSEwM
Impressive Bosco nice job! Looks like it fly’s very smooth .
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Looks like you got a good looking plane there Bosco.
Hope you get all the bugs worked out and zip her around some more.
<S> GGHOST
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Nice Bird and good to see it landed with little damage. Thanks for the Video (page 5) :aok
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Awesome plane! Is that airfield the one north of Kismet out in the North Cape. I didn't realize there was another local Aces Higher.
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My God, that things is massive! Great landing Bosco!