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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Bosco123 on September 27, 2009, 01:20:08 PM
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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:
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John1.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John3.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John2.jpg)
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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Pretty Cool!! :aok
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Nice job! Be careful with that 150cc possibility. Don't torque-roll it. :)
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Idk really how a Radial works, but I think it's actually less than the real cc's.
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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:
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John1.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John3.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/John2.jpg)
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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That is awesome!
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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.
<S>!
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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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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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See Rule #6
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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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Time to build a G14....... :D
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We're thinking about it. :)
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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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^winner of the "I spent my whole WE at the pub" ;)
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Thats awesome looking I thought it was a real plane at first :salute
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The SeaFury looks very nice.What kind of paint did you use for it?
Pipz
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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.
the first time i flew my mustang, i did that. i'm used to my sport models, where i can idle them all the way down final. turn final with the stang, chop throttle, and it's a big "YIKES!" as she instantly drops. got the throttle back in, a teeeny(i think about 10 degrees) bit of flaps, and maintained between 1/4 and 1/2 throttle till i crossed the "fence".
i did notice the rather wide first turn too.
the spektrum, i think uses 2.4GHZ technology. a lot of the guys at our club are going to that, as there's no more waiting for someone to clear your frequency.
even with the old 72(i think) mhz radios, they had a "line of sight" range of approx. 3 miles. i don't know what the range is with the 2.4ghz, but with either one, it's kind of irrelevent, since they can both take the plane out of sight.
one rather crappy day, one of our pilots was fllying a world models t-34(they're sport models). we use em for racing, formation flying, and a few other stupid things, as they're easy to fix. and hard to break. anyway, there was no one flying at the airport across the street, so this guy decides to see if he can get his model into the clouds. he got it in them. we were surprised, and falling over laughing. we called the AWOS, and the clouds were being called out at 2,000 ft. :O :D
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The SeaFury looks very nice.What kind of paint did you use for it?
Pipz
It was an aluminum stick on, like the AC stuff you find in Home Depot. Took about a roll and a half to get it all together. The tail we used just regular flat car paint.
Cap, I've been in the clouds a few times when they were low and if you don't know what you are doing, you put yourself in a spin and you are not getting out of. It's scary to go through the clouds, but I was going through one one time and if someone was videoing it, it would have looked like battle of britain, as my spit comes diving out of the clouds to do a low pass. You can't see it then there it is, disrupting the cloud layer.
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Nice job :salute
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When you install one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzshkg9LJ0&feature=player_embedded), and install a ignitor mechanism to light the fuse on one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-80_(explosive)), then a release mechanism to drop it, call me, ill buy it for $1,500.00.
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The video was great , and nice job flying to go with it . I look forward to your posts of what your building next .
Nutte :salute
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mannn.....i just can't control myself dsometimes.
one of the guys in our club comes into the shop today.
he has 2 electrics. a t-28 trojan, and a t-20(i think?) tigershark. both foam, both electric. about 30-40" wingspans. the trojan has fixed gear, the t20 has retracts, and a 70mm electric ducted fan.
they're mine now. :rofl :D
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Very nice! The aluminum finish is impressive! There was some mention of being underpowered, but it seems to me you might be runnin too small a prop. The prop barely extends past the cowl, theres got to be a lot of pressure in front of that cowl disturbing the bite the prop gets. A bigger 3 blade would be the final detail to make this plane scale and i suspect even perform better. Very Nice plane!