What did you fly today?

[shortround91]

Love the J-10 and my Mirage, just did a refinish on the J-10 to make easier for me to see. Both sweet flying planes

[Elbee]

Once again up early on my day off work so I able to get some flights on the old F-86 and the F-14.

Happy Memorial Day

DC, and the same to you, Sir. Rreat lookin' pair of fighters. Best, LB

[DCORSAIR]

Once again up early on my day off work so I able to get some flights on the old F-86 and the F-14.

Happy Memorial Day

[Hugh Wiedman]

Hugh, how do you transport your planes?
How do all of you guys transport your planes?

With wings off, 4 fit in the bed of my truck and the 5th (or 6th if I'm desperate to fly) in the back seat of a crew cab along with wing bags. Easy peasy. Learned long ago to take as many as possible in the event of an early mishap potentially shutting down my flying. This way I can have 5 mishaps before heading home. 🤣

[DCORSAIR]

Another early morning flight, lights looked great before sunrise, 5:45am-6:00am is the best time to fly here in CA., slight breeze down the runway and just the right temps...

[f4u ausie]

Thats funny lb,,, davegee 8s i like putin a blower on ya big block chevy, best bang for buck upgrade possiblean extra gear

[Elbee]

Hugh, how do you transport your planes?
How do all of you guys transport your planes?

Easy-Peasy. Best, Elbee

[Coconut]

Hugh, how do you transport your planes?
How do all of you guys transport your planes?

[davegee]

Great you got out to do some flying with your fleet. You have such a nice field to fly from. I have never done a 8S battery set up yet, and at my field elevation of 5100 feet, not to mention what the density altitude becomes with hot summer weather coming on, I might like to do a test airplane someday on one of my jets to see if it improves performance much for me.

I just got a new Freewing F-15. I had one a long time ago, but forgot how cramped the fuselage is for batteries and electronic stuff. I have electric brakes and afterburner lights set up and, talk about putting 10 pounds of stuff on a 5 pound bag!!! But it did barely fit in. Maiden next week.

cheers

davegee

[Hugh Wiedman]

Here's a pic I took of my B-2 back on its maiden flight 2 years ago. It was "lost" in my computer files and I just found it. I had a friend actually fly this flight while I manned the camera. It has great presence in the air. Up here, it's hard to take inflight pics as I am usually flying the airplane and I don't have a camera man with me.

Davegee

Great Shot Dave! And paulrkytek outstanding looking Panther.

Got out yesterday after a long time not flying due to miserable and windy weather. Had a rather odd bunch of planes to see if I could remember which direction on the TX was up. The Euro/F16 & F4 are all 8S, flown on SMC HiV 8S packs. Still feel the 8S F4 is one of the best flying aircraft in my hangar. The FW 190 is balsa made by Aces High/Extreme Flight and flies incredibly well for 12 minutes on a SMC 6S HiV 5900. I also put 2 speakers and the Model Sound System in it and that sounds great, even has the 13mm guns and 20mm cannon sounds. Unfortunately, he's no longer in business and has closed down like the other sound guys. The SU-30 flies on 2 SMC HiV 4400's for over 5 minutes, which makes it worthy to take out to the field, although it is still not has nice to fly as the FW Mig 29 with TV. Fortunately, no mishaps this time around, but there's always tomorrow.

[Grossman56]

I'm hoping for a windless Monday as well, time to put BBD back in the air for a salute to the vets. She always does such a great job and she's my reminder of exactly why I got into this hobby in the first place. Don't forget that June 6th is the 80th anniversary of D Day as well!

Grossman56

[davegee]

Whilst waiting for our main field to dry out enough to be able to cut and roll the grass before I can fly my warbirds or edf jets I have been flying the Havok and a couple of scratch build chuck and ducks. ( 630mm edf with 40mm 12 blade 4s fan and a 570mm delta.) Also the Panther hand launch. It looks like a couple of weeks yet before the field will be ready to cut!!!

Planes look great, paulrkytek! I especially like the Grumman F9F Panther. I hope they come out with a larger scale version of it someday, I'll buy one.

Cheers

davegee

[paulrkytek]

Whilst waiting for our main field to dry out enough to be able to cut and roll the grass before I can fly my warbirds or edf jets I have been flying the Havok and a couple of scratch build chuck and ducks. ( 630mm edf with 40mm 12 blade 4s fan and a 570mm delta.) Also the Panther hand launch. It looks like a couple of weeks yet before the field will be ready to cut!!!

[davegee]

Here's a pic I took of my B-2 back on its maiden flight 2 years ago. It was "lost" in my computer files and I just found it. I had a friend actually fly this flight while I manned the camera. It has great presence in the air. Up here, it's hard to take inflight pics as I am usually flying the airplane and I don't have a camera man with me.

Davegee

[Elbee]

davegee a fitting tribute, Sir. Best, LB

[davegee]

Last couple of days I've gotten in a few flights. I took my B-2 Spirit out yesterday as the winds were pretty light (the only conditions that I'll put it up in the air) along with my T-33 as my faithful "weather ship."
This morning, I flew my FMS Penrod and Sam and E-FliteThe Hun Hunter from Texas. Both flew great, although I had a crack in the plastic mount for one of the main gear on P&S that cracked on landing. Shouldn't have done that, I was trying to execute a two-wheel, tail low landing, which I screwed up and converted it to a three point, which probably put a little more stress on the gear. I think there had already been a crack in that cheap plastic part that finally gave, but I have it glued up now and should be ready for another flight next time I take it up.

Being that next Monday, May 27 is Memorial Day, my flight with the B-2 Spirit took on a little bit of personal meaning for me. I changed the markings on the main gear doors from the stock to Spirit of Missouri, which is based (as all B-2s are) at Whiteman AFB Missouri. I was born nearby in Warrensburg while my dad was stationed there as a B-47B Stratojet pilot in the 1950s during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. If the weather is nice on Monday, I might take it out again to fly it. It's just a cruiser, but really looks great flying past in the air. I logged my 35th flight on it yesterday.

[Wild Man]

This is what I flew TONIGHT My new mini Draco night Flyer LOL!!! needs a couple more lights on the tail like big brother Draco has

[Wild Man]

I took these three out to fly today and set all three up to use as Instructional Aircraft. My older brother helped with the Three to make sure I had them correctly slaved to my IX20 as Master and a DX9 for the slave all flew great and my brother got a little time flying the B-25. just getting ready for the Season. An older gentleman out riding his bicycle stop by and I gave him a couple flights with the Aero Scout. We had a light North wind of 8 to12. I took up the little mini Draco, a Little breezy and I landed it in 3 feet the mini Draco is a blast.

[Wild Man]

I flew this bunch of goodies today had a blast

[davegee]

Hi Dan: proper scale weathering has always been important to me, as it has undoubtedly been for you, too. The story I always allude to was when I was in a competition for the US Scale Masters many years ago. The guy parked next to me had a nice P-51D gasser. Unfortunately, he weathered it so much that it looked like it had gone through an Earth reentry from space! It was hideous. Of course, I didn’t say anything to him about it, but it is true sometimes that “less is more.”

My take on UK based RAF aircraft is that they didn’t suffer as much weathering as planes from other theatres, like the South Pacific, did. And, they had access to paints and repair on the ground to keep them somewhat presentable for their pilots. I haven’t seen any photos of UK Spitties that look like hell. I think if you go easy on it and make judicious use of weathering in the usual places, based on photos and any other supporting sources, it will come out great!

If I can be of any assistance, let me know.


davegee