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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hangtime on August 03, 2002, 08:33:46 PM
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Fairchild M-62 as flown at Wright Field, Sept 1939. Done outta the DynaFlite PT-19 kit.. 90" wing, 19 lbs. Zenoah G38 for power, B&B smoker, 6 servos.
Got 5 shakedown sorties on it so far.. two dead stick landings; one damn near fatal 'awshit' and 2 sweet 3 pointers. Got all the bugs worked out (i hope like hell i do, anyway) now and it's time to start pushin the envelope.
Takin it to Floyd Bennet Field tomorrow for a warbirds meet to really start wringin it out.. any bets on weather or not I bring it back in one piece? ;)
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'nuther shot
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...and functional oleo strut gear... (thank god) ;)
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looks like lil hangtime can fit into the cockpit while daddy shows him a ride. it's HUGE!!!!
Don't fly that thing near any buildings hang :)
CB
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Man, you sure do nice work. I really like that one. Looks like a super flyer, too.
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did the cat's chute get packed? :D
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Looks like a lot of work went into it.
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Nice..!
Bigger is better..:)
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I fail to see any cat-straps in that cockpit :confused:
Oh, this is just a test ride, right? :D
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Damn fine job Hangtime! She looks sweet!
What type of RC box ya got?
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Nice:D
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Skuz, it's flyin on a Fatoooooba Super 7, but a standard 5 channel box could fly it. It grooves really well, but feels 'heavy'. Not too surprising... this is also the first bird I've built with wingloads over 25 oz to the foot. Chop the thottle, it plummets fer the pavement with aclarity. :D
Fuzz and the Goof both distrust it hugely... for an entire evening, every time they got close to it to investigate I'd snatch up the Tx box and start jostling the controls wildly. They think it's possessed. Muahahhahha!
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Hangtime are you one of the old geezers who flies cubs and sits on the bench all day complaining about the 3D pilots?
:p
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Chop the thottle, it plummets fer the pavement with aclarity. :D
Very well modeled then, I'd say.
Looks very nice Hang. Come to Nebraska, I'll get you a ride in a real one. :)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Fuzz and the Goof both distrust it hugely... for an entire evening, every time they got close to it to investigate I'd snatch up the Tx box and start jostling the controls wildly. They think it's possessed. Muahahhahha!
atta boy hang!
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Now get that belly camera mounted and hit the nude beach!
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You are an artist Hangtime. Man, that's a beautiful model you built.
Couldn't help thinking about that movie "Flight of the Phoenix", where the German aeronautical engineer said he could help get the downed crew and passengers out of the desert by building a flying plane from the remaining useable parts of the wrecked aircraft. Everyone was enthusiastic until he showed them his company's catalog, which listed scale model flying aircraft. One of the passengers said, "This is a catalog of TOY airplanes." ...to which the German indignantly replied, "A toy airplane is something you wind up that rolls across the floor. These are miniature actual aircraft." Or something to that effect.
Congratulations, and keep up the good work!!! This plane deserves its own hangar.:D
Les
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Very nice , very nice indead . Now get that sidewalk edged :D
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LOL! Thanks Toad! You don't know how close I came to duplicating your PT19, right down to serial #'s and hubcaps. Only thing that stopped me was the incredible profusion of blue and yellow ARF PT19's cluttering the pit area at every warbird meet we go to. I felt it obligatory to do something a bit diffrent with the kit. ;)
Gurn, yer gawdamned sack of negative karma is overfull again! No, I ain't one of those Cub herding geezers with an underpowered latex house paint finished sack of sticks grumbling at the youngins hanging over the runway on their props with their Rooski-glow engined trick-sticks. My crowd flies big scale warbirds, and mosta the stuff we play with would give yah a stiffie, if yah had a salamander of yer own in the first place. ;)
When we see somebody hangin on the prop with a Lazer the fighter jocks light up the 1/3 scale Ponys and Jugs and start makin real fast close 150mph passes; in formation.... scares the hell outta the video game 3-d weenies. :D
This is my first BIG bird with a gas engine.. and I built it because I recognized I'd need the experience in building and flying highly loaded airframes with big gas engines before I moved onto a scale fighter.. and so far; every flight has been a learning experience. I ain't decided on the next bird yet, but I assure you it will be every inch of a classic WWII fighter and it'll knock yer socks off. ;)
Thanks fer the kind words gents.. fer a long time there I thought I'd never get the damn thing outta the living room. Feels good to get it in the air.. when I stop my knees from knockin and my hands from shakin it does wonders for my enthusiasim for warbirds to actually build one and fly it. This ain't a suitable pastime if yah dislike risk tho.. this past weekend at Floyd Bennett field I saw three spectacular ships destroyed.. one to engine failure, 2 to pilot error.. all on the crosswind approach for landing. Small errors in judgement and timing.. instant re-kit. :(
"This is a catalog of TOY airplanes." ...to which the German indignantly replied, "A toy airplane is something you wind up that rolls across the floor. These are miniature actual aircraft."
LOL Les! one of my favorite movies. And yer right.. we face all the same dilemmas faced by full scale designers.. and as pilots we have the added handicaps of not being in the plane to 'feel' what is happening, plus the added nagging difficulty of flying 'scale' planes in 'unscale' air. The planes are smaller, but the air molecules ain't, which is why flying 'scale' warbirds has as high or higher attrition rate in the learning curve as the full scale pilots experienced. I've been building and flying smaller R/c birds for 25 years.. and even with all that experience, flying a big model warbird with a 30oz wingload is a whole different experience!
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Gurn, yer gawdamned sack of negative karma is overfull again! :D :D LOL
I bet your next plane is the big beautiful Pat McCurry 1/4 scale Bf109G!
Am I right? :D
And Lazers? Who but the old timers flies a freaking Lazer these days? I bet they even got G62s in them. :p
Any 40% 150cc planes where you fly?
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Built an A-26 Invader one time... that sucker wasn't what I would call "fun" to fly, as it was the most unforgiving bird you could wish for. OTOH, it kept you sharp, and you had to fly it on the wing (it was pretty underpowered for as heavy as it was).
I made the mistake of handing the box to a friend of mine, a guy with years of experience, that thought a snaproll at 50' would be a good idea in the first 15 seconds of touching the stick...
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blah blah blah.... just show us the twisted wreckage a week from now Hang. But before that I like Fatty's belly cam over the nude beach idea.:)
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I bet your next plane is the big beautiful Pat McCurry 1/4 scale Bf109G!
ROFL!! never seen one. Suspect it's a POS, like most LW planes are. Besides, at quarter scale, a 109's smaller than my dork. ;)
OTOH, a guy in the club has a 40% Carden Edge 540 w/ a 3w150 in it. We've all had some stick time on it, and it's a freakin amazing plane, handles effortlessly, just think it; the plane does it. Damn thing has it's own trailer and a pit crew, all dressed alike; like they was goin to indy or somethin. ;) Like the guy that owns it sez, 'The only real challenge to flying one of these is to your wallet.'
Different strokes.. it's certainly nice, surely fun, no question it's demanding and certainly rewarding to compete in aerobatics cometition on the level those guys fly at... but they ain't warbirds... they don't give me goosebumps when they tear down the runway; engine straining as they lift off the grass, gear up; flaps in, otherwise long forgottin squadron insignia and markings flashing in the sun... nope; just ain't the same thing a'tall. .;)
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Just if Goof complains its too slow consider adding this little turbo option (http://www.amtjets.com/). It will not make P51D out of your toy but 254.5 mph is pretty fast :-)
(http://www.amtjets.com/pegasus_hp.jpg)
(http://www.amtjets.com/ghost_squad_gallery.jpg)
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gawd.. can't get away from the luftwaffles no matter where i go.. look at those gay weenies, all dressed alike, followin each other around.. ;)
Cha.. those turbines are spectacular.... spectacular price too. *sigh* lemme see, 2x $2,500 fer the powerplants.. a coupla grand fer the resta the stuff in the plane.. then there's the plane.. anutther 2 grand.. (nothin in turbines costs less than a grand) anutther grand per flight ta fit it out with JP3, taxi-tanks, ground support, and hotel rooms for the ground crew..
hehehehhee
but they do sound great; don't they?
..and make nice big spectacular divits when they auger in too.
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For that kind of engine you don't exactly need a plane per se. Even what you already have will do the job and the lighter it is faster it goes. Just apply some ducttape to make sure it stays in one piece. Two engines ? You want me explain what will happen when one of those two dies ? Only one engine and they may have used turbos a bit cheaper. This crazy guy may have some used parts. If he is still with us that is... :rolleyes:
(http://www.amtjets.com/cri_cri_10_gallery.jpg)
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oh... my.... god....
somebody is crazier than me!