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    Beautiful day for a Maiden

    Temps in the middle 60's, sunny, and light winds today so I loaded up my shiny new Freewing 80mm F-86 (and a few old veteran flyers  :rolleyes: ) and headed for the field.



    Maiden on the F-86 could not have gone better.  Tracked straight and lifted off with one notch of flaps, raised the gear and flaps and three clicks of right aileron and she was rock solid. Did a few passes and a couple of split-s's and then slowed her down, dropped flaps and gear and did a pass to see how she handled at low speed (rock solid again). Made my first approach a little to fast and bounced up about a foot so just eased into the throttle and went around again and second attempt was still slightly fast but touched on the mains with no bounce and settled right in  :D .

    This is actually the second flight and was taken with my Samsung S5 phone so I apologize for the quality and occasional out of focus, but you'll get the idea.... the sound is great though and even better than I expected  :cool: .  My buddy did use a better recording device for the maiden and I'll post that when he gets it uploaded to YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXeHi67Ir0
    AMA 95495
    Freewing P-51D Iron Ass
    Freewing F-86 80MM
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  • #2
    RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

    Greetings RC,

    Congrats!! On a successful maiden!!!

    Those are always a great feeling!!


    Bill L.

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    • #3
      RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

      Originally posted by rc-eflyer
      Temps in the middle 60's, sunny, and light winds today so I loaded up my shiny new Freewing 80mm F-86 (and a few old veteran flyers  :rolleyes: ) and headed for the field.



      Maiden on the F-86 could not have gone better.  Tracked straight and lifted off with one notch of flaps, raised the gear and flaps and three clicks of right aileron and she was rock solid. Did a few passes and a couple of split-s's and then slowed her down, dropped flaps and gear and did a pass to see how she handled at low speed (rock solid again). Made my first approach a little to fast and bounced up about a foot so just eased into the throttle and went around again and second attempt was still slightly fast but touched on the mains with no bounce and settled right in  :D .

      This is actually the second flight and was taken with my Samsung S5 phone so I apologize for the quality and occasional out of focus, but you'll get the idea.... the sound is great though and even better than I expected  :cool: .  My buddy did use a better recording device for the maiden and I'll post that when he gets it uploaded to YouTube.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXeHi67Ir0
      The F-86 is one great flying plane.  I happened to love this one and my ME-262.  Both are great flyers.  Congrats on a great flight.

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      • #4
        RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

        Originally posted by Rocketeer
        Greetings RC,

        Congrats!! On a successful maiden!!!

        Those are always a great feeling!!


        Bill L.
        Originally posted by Pheonix
        Originally posted by rc-eflyer
        Temps in the middle 60's, sunny, and light winds today so I loaded up my shiny new Freewing 80mm F-86 (and a few old veteran flyers  :rolleyes: ) and headed for the field.



        Maiden on the F-86 could not have gone better.  Tracked straight and lifted off with one notch of flaps, raised the gear and flaps and three clicks of right aileron and she was rock solid. Did a few passes and a couple of split-s's and then slowed her down, dropped flaps and gear and did a pass to see how she handled at low speed (rock solid again). Made my first approach a little to fast and bounced up about a foot so just eased into the throttle and went around again and second attempt was still slightly fast but touched on the mains with no bounce and settled right in  :D .

        This is actually the second flight and was taken with my Samsung S5 phone so I apologize for the quality and occasional out of focus, but you'll get the idea.... the sound is great though and even better than I expected  :cool: .  My buddy did use a better recording device for the maiden and I'll post that when he gets it uploaded to YouTube.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXeHi67Ir0
        The F-86 is one great flying plane.  I happened to love this one and my ME-262.  Both are great flyers.  Congrats on a great flight.
        Thanks Rocketeer and Pheonix. Funny you should mention the ME-262, there was a gentleman flying one today and he had a big boombox setting next to him playing German patriotic anthems during his flight :rolleyes: . It did fly very nicely though.

        Steve
        AMA 95495
        Freewing P-51D Iron Ass
        Freewing F-86 80MM

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        • #5
          RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

          Originally posted by rc-eflyer
          Originally posted by Rocketeer
          Greetings RC,

          Congrats!! On a successful maiden!!!

          Those are always a great feeling!!


          Bill L.
          Originally posted by Pheonix
          Originally posted by rc-eflyer
          Temps in the middle 60's, sunny, and light winds today so I loaded up my shiny new Freewing 80mm F-86 (and a few old veteran flyers  :rolleyes: ) and headed for the field.



          Maiden on the F-86 could not have gone better.  Tracked straight and lifted off with one notch of flaps, raised the gear and flaps and three clicks of right aileron and she was rock solid. Did a few passes and a couple of split-s's and then slowed her down, dropped flaps and gear and did a pass to see how she handled at low speed (rock solid again). Made my first approach a little to fast and bounced up about a foot so just eased into the throttle and went around again and second attempt was still slightly fast but touched on the mains with no bounce and settled right in  :D .

          This is actually the second flight and was taken with my Samsung S5 phone so I apologize for the quality and occasional out of focus, but you'll get the idea.... the sound is great though and even better than I expected  :cool: .  My buddy did use a better recording device for the maiden and I'll post that when he gets it uploaded to YouTube.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXeHi67Ir0
          The F-86 is one great flying plane.  I happened to love this one and my ME-262.  Both are great flyers.  Congrats on a great flight.
          Thanks Rocketeer and Pheonix.  Funny you should mention the ME-262, there was a gentleman flying one today and he had a big boombox setting next to him playing German patriotic anthems during his flight  :rolleyes: .  It did fly very nicely though.

          Steve
          The next time you fly and he is there, take out America (Ray Charles) and play for him

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          • #6
            RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

            Nice maiden!

            And I love that field!

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            • #7
              RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

              Lovely F-86. Congratulations on a successful flight.
              Off with one helluva roar!
              AMA 1085465

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              • #8
                RE: Beautiful day for a Maiden

                Thanks everyone for a the nice comments and I like the Ray Charles idea ;) . It is an excellent place to fly even though it's about a 45 minute ride.

                Steve
                AMA 95495
                Freewing P-51D Iron Ass
                Freewing F-86 80MM

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