Old kit, New Tech ver 2.0

[F22trainer]

She is still flying regularly. The old non-gyro receiver got replaced with a AR630 and AS3X is programmed to dampen all the tricky aspects of a normal landing.
But now she will soon share the hangar with a big brother.

[Hardway]

Great job and congratulations Bro

[F22trainer]

She’s back and better than she was before. Was able to teak the gear forward a bit to help prevent the nose overs on landings.

[F22trainer]

Not very pretty at all, but definitely could have been much worse. Everything flexes and lines up nicely for gluing and clamping. Going back together and setting up now. Landing gear straightened out easily, and I am going to try out a set of the Phoenix model gear pants - same size model. Also scored a fully built, never flown Ryan, which will make a nice parts plane. Thought about getting it airworthy but too many issues to change - was built according to prints for gas and has bell cranks with soldered linkages everywhere and sloppy control surface fits, along with the unknowns.

[rifleman_btx]

Well that would indeed explain alot

[F22trainer]

It was sure fun to watch this bird fly and to fly with you again, my son also enjoyed the time with yall! Great group, great club!

X2. Found some tweaks that needed doing that helped with landing - today was nice. Let’s just say some pushrods were flexing at bad times...:Sick2:

[Hardway]

It was sure fun to watch this bird fly and to fly with you again, my son also enjoyed the time with yall! Great group, great club!

Love it!!!! God blesses us with good friends for sure!!! :Cool: Nice! Jerry

[rifleman_btx]

It was sure fun to watch this bird fly and to fly with you again, my son also enjoyed the time with yall! Great group, great club!

[rifleman_btx]

Looking forward to seeing this bird live tomorrow!

[F22trainer]

From the One Eighth Air Force Newsletter. Honored I was invited to join.

[F22trainer]

Had a hard time finding this thread - how did I get classified (demoted?) to Miscellaneous?:Thinking:

[F22trainer]

Finally!

[F22trainer]

Can’t post pics...gggrrrrrrrrr!

[F22trainer]

:Not-Talking:I wish I I knew why this blasted things locks me out of my photos...:Angry:

[F22trainer]

While the glue dries on the symmetrical fuselage sides, trying to figure out:

wing mounted servos
scale hinge mounting for flight surfaces and actuators

strange the fuselage is built from outside inward.

It was exactly one year ago, she looked like this.
I think she needs to go fly Saturday morning. I’ll drag the “for sale” queens along too, and hopefully get the contributions started for the Meridian. Drawings are coming along though.

[F22trainer]

Hey Trainer. Just wanted to say hi.

Woodcock

Howdy back at ya!:Cool:

[Woodcock]

Hey Trainer. Just wanted to say hi.

Woodcock

[Twowingtj]

Good to know. Thanks!

[F22trainer]

Didn’t get any video, but for those wondering about the motor / prop combo - here’s something I didn’t expect. As you know I have been using 14 x 6, and went to a 14 x 8 after the maiden. Both were wood props and I did like the appearance and the performance was good. Battery life was super as they never got below 80% for a 6 minute flight. A scale prop would be about 16 inches in length, which is what I ordered from Master Airscrew to make a static display prop. I also ordered a few e-props and figured I would start with 16 x 8E. The seven minute flight - a delay on the runway caused me to stay up until clear and had to do a go around, left 46% battery and she trimmed out at 1/2 throttle nicely. She acts a bit tail heavy again - should have checked the prop weight difference. But it wasn’t a frightening surprise and trim was adequate to compensate, and it did help on landing - no chin scuff marks to touch up!

[F22trainer]

Been holding off on a few other details I wanted to add, so here’s a hint of what Callie is working on.
I did get my scale-ish looking prop finished. May get her out on the flight line tomorrow.