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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: texastc316 on May 24, 2009, 02:43:38 AM
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Who all here flies RC planes? I just started at the first of the year, but Im having a ball building foamy scratchbuilds... Just wondering.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm155/jasonthehunted/funder2-1.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm155/jasonthehunted/img054.jpg)
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ok not a scratchbuilt but.......
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I dabbled in it briefly, crashed mine (wind pushed the horizontal stab into a field goal... :cry Main airfoil is still completely intact, very bizarre.) and have yet to buy and build another one. Mine was gas-powered however, and was very fun to fly while I had it. I like that 109! Looks good! :)
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mine are electrics. I havent got to fly muchm with the weather so far this year and of course a 3 month old that I have weekend duty of. Im flying today or tomorrow, looks like the wind wont be too much or raining, so I wil crash the red one and probably the 190. sigh. Ive got more foam on standby to make a profile F4F and maybe a Mig-3 or who knows what.
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is that a parkzone 190
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Here is my latest project. Nearly finished, just need to install the radio and engine, then glue on the vertical stab and canopy.
(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w220/Davis_Andrews/IMG_1478.jpg)
This is a scratch build from the plan sheet pinned to the wall. All balsa, when finished it will weigh in at just a hair over two pounds. My next project will be an F4U that is about the same size. I also have plan sheets for a P38, Mosquito, 190A3, P47, and Albatross DIII...
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is that a parkzone 190
its an ALFA fw190A8.
http://www.alfamodel.cz/
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Here is my latest project. Nearly finished, just need to install the radio and engine, then glue on the vertical stab and canopy.
(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w220/Davis_Andrews/IMG_1478.jpg)
This is a scratch build from the plan sheet pinned to the wall. All balsa, when finished it will weigh in at just a hair over two pounds. My next project will be an F4U that is about the same size. I also have plan sheets for a P38, Mosquito, 190A3, P47, and Albatross DIII...
very nice, havent built a balsa bird since my first go round at trying RC planes back in early 90's. Never got to fly back then, I couldnt afford all the equipment. And they were simple kits.
what size engine are you goin with the pony?
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very nice, havent built a balsa bird since my first go round at trying RC planes back in early 90's. Never got to fly back then, I couldnt afford all the equipment. And they were simple kits.
what size engine are you goin with the pony?
The P51 is going to run a .15 2 Stroke, so it might be a tad under powered. The Corsair I am building next will have a .25 2 stroke.
I love building balsa. Very relaxing for me. The plane I fly most often is actually a Sig Kadet LT40 that I built about 12 years ago as a club trainer. It's so stable that it's virtually impossible to crash (knock on wood). Not nearly as stressfull to fly as a Quickie 500 pylon racer or a high dollar war bird.
This is a good place to look for plan sheets. Plans aren't specifically for R/C, but a few minor adjustments and they're good to go. http://www.clevelandairline.com/default.asp
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Ill check that out. The planes Im building are basically foam profiles. Im pretty new so Im gradullay working up in difficulty, I just dont have a permanent workspace for any intricate framing. Plus my wife seems to not like all the foam sheeting Ive been hoarding....oops I said hoard, lyyyyyyyyyynch him!!!!
been getting my plans at rcgroups.com or just work from 3 views.
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I've got a Parkzone F27 (self-modified A model) plus a Typhoon 3d.
Great fun and tough, the 27's body has a crack almost all the way through and the entire engine assembly is held on with packing tape because of a crash 3 years ago that ripped it and about 6 sq. inches of foam out of the fuselage. I even hit a pole at some 50mph (inverted) with it and only hurt a servo :lol I've never really got a grip on the Typhoon, but its easy not to crash it. If you start losing control just point it straight up ad apply throttle. The control surfaces exist to keep the motor pointed in the right direction, not to actually fly....
My brother in law flies "real" planes; I know exactly how long one would last with my piloting so haven't tried yet. He is trying to get me slope flying though, we've got some great hills around here.
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Ill check that out. The planes Im building are basically foam profiles. Im pretty new so Im gradullay working up in difficulty, I just dont have a permanent workspace for any intricate framing.
I'll give you a little warning, it'll save your marriage if you ever start building balsa planes. When you get into balsa planes, build yourself a workbench either in your garage or basement (if you have an unfinished basement). Under no circumstances should you ever build a balsa plane in your house. All the sanding that you have to do will fill your house with a very fine layer of balsa dust that you can never ever really get rid of... The stuff is so light, that the slightest whiff of air gets it airborn again, so it's murder to clean up.
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Ill keep that in mind, Im using kitchen table now, Im up that special creek without a paddle most of the time as it is :devil
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Ill keep that in mind, Im using kitchen table now, Im up that special creek without a paddle most of the time as it is :devil
LoL Been there too. But coat your entire house with balsa dust and you won't just be up the creek without a paddle... You'll be up a creek getting beat with the paddle until you are unconscious and she holds your head under the water until you drown... :D
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yay my favorite post. Been flying for about 6 years now I have quite a few planes, heres the list:
88'' Spitfire
86'' Fiat G.55
92'' Hellcat
and my prize posesion a 101'' Do-335.
I have some pics on the boards, just search it.
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Been flying RC over 25 years. This is a combat sim forum so you guys should try slope combat:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=1355536
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Been flying RC over 25 years. This is a combat sim forum so you guys should try slope combat:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=1355536
Looks like fun. I've only done powered combat. But for the last few years, most of the guys flying 1/12th combat are using foam quick builds that they fully expect to crash. So they are reckless as all hell. Back in the day (lol, I sound like an old fart) we hand built balsa stick models that took many hours to complete. You fly such a plane a lot more carefully, and in my opinion the combat is better.
Heck, sounds like the difference between getting a good AH2 1vs1 and getting HO'd and rammed by some tard in a Spixteen. :rofl
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My older brother has several including an electric foamie close to the one in the video below and a very large balsa replica of the P-51 Cripes A Mighty. The P-51 has a huge gas engine but I forget the HP. He's also got several others, some from plans, some scratch built, most are balsa, some with gas, some with glo and some with electric engines. He has a basement workshop for this hobby.
Anyway, for the few who might not have ever seen this it's really too cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94
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wow. I think I just quit RC. incredible.
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Looks like fun. I've only done powered combat. But for the last few years, most of the guys flying 1/12th combat are using foam quick builds that they fully expect to crash. So they are reckless as all hell. Back in the day (lol, I sound like an old fart) we hand built balsa stick models that took many hours to complete. You fly such a plane a lot more carefully, and in my opinion the combat is better.
Heck, sounds like the difference between getting a good AH2 1vs1 and getting HO'd and rammed by some tard in a Spixteen. :rofl
Slope combat with (almost) crash resistant EPP planes like Zagis, Weasels etc. is a quite different sport than the 1/12th combat. Ramming is the norm despite streamers are often used and I think I have had over ten contacts in a single flight and my Zagi still landed intact; generally only a direct hit to the control linkage can cause fatal damage, otherwise combat wings just continue flying after a hit - if there is enough altitude to recover... if not, just run down there, launch and look for revenge :)
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if not, just run down there, launch and look for revenge :)
Definitely not doing that in powered 1/12th combat. :D
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Used to fly in my teenage years. Biggest accomplishment I think, beside from building experimental planes like x-wings etc, was winning the national fun-fly in -94.
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hhmmmmm........been flying r/c for abouit 7 years, but haven't taken any of them up recently.
my planes: p-51 76" wingspan ys 1.5 4 stroke.
extra 300 1.20 size with an os .91fx
icepoint with a 1.5(i think) os 2 stroke
super decathalon with os .50sx
workd models t-34 with os .50sx
hobbico twinstar with os.32 sx's
world models "candy man" p-51 with a .50(forget the brand)
world models a6m(in the works. it'll get an os .50)
world models p-40(also in the works, getting a .50)
hangar nine t-34 with os .50sx(slightly heavy for that engine, but she flys more scale with it)
alpha models f4u with an outrunner on it(electric)
flyzone t-28 electric(just bought this one)
raptor 50 helicopter with os .50sxh
hirobo shuttle 30 with os .46
2 t-maxx's and an e-maxx
it's not a hobby, it's an addiction. :aok
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Been flying since I was about 6 yrs old... so that makes is.. about 27 yrs.. holy crap I feel old now...
This is a list of my current fleet, of course many have come and gone, and I may have forgotten some hangar queens that are stored away lol
My planes:
Great Planes Giant P-51D, Kit based into a B
Hangar 9 46% Ultimate w/DA-200
Hangar 9 33% Edge 540 w/DA-85
Yellow Aircraft F/A-18 w/ P-120 turbine (Radar clocked at 211mph!)
BVM T-33 w/ P-80 Turbine
Top Flite Corsair w/ Supertigre .90
Scratch Built Bell X-1 w/ rocket engine. Is dropped from a fellow club members B-29. (No, not the Mac Hodges one, but very similar!)
Seagull Edge-540 w/Saito 120
Scratch Built 85" P-38J w/ 2 Saito 120
E-flite MiniEdge 540
Phase-3 F-16 EDF (this thing is cool! All foam w/ Carbon Fibre reenforcement, approx 24 inch wing, fly on a 4S1P 2800Mah 25C battery, has been radar clocked at 127mph!)
Helis:
Trex-450
Blade-400
Blade CP Pro
Raptor 30
Raptor 90
On the bench/design process:
"proof of concept" small foamie type plane to get the mechanics and electronics setup solidified for a build of a V-22 Osprey with functional VTOL
Have succesfully taken off, hovered, manuevered in hover, and transitioned to forward flight. Working on the transition FROM FF to hover, javing trouble with balooning as I rotate the nacelles. Estimate completion of test in about a month, construction of the actual V-22 to begin this fall, hoping to have it completed for Summer 2010
Sol
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(http://www.gardstad.se/stealth/sf121.gif)
This was one of the things I flew back then, the one on the left is mine. Still have one of these hanging around, litteraly, but with a proper profile wing instead of a flat balsasheet wing. This flat winged delta is fairly fast, about 160-180 km/h, over 100 mph, and can still fly slow and aerobatic well. These two were the prototypes and I helped the designer with the concept of the design.
It was fun days, and I'm considering getting back into it again as I have a couple unfinished models still lying around. :)