What did you fly today?

[davegee]

Got out today with the Grumman twins! Haven't been able to fly anything light colored because of the smoke, but the last couple of days have been great!
Going back out tomorrow at 8:30 am, Dave if you can make it that would be great!

Grossman56

Hey Grossman 56: nice looking planes, there. I like the Tigercat in silver. I was at the field early flying my P-47D, plan to come out tomorrow morning to do a couple of test flights on my Corsair. Last go one of the main wheels came off on landing and fractured the retract housing slightly as it skidded to a stop on the runway. Got replacements yesterday in the mail from China, and hope it goes better this time. I'll be sure not to leave for home until at least 0830 if I don't see you earlier.

Cheers

davegee

[davegee]

Hey Grossman 56: nice looking planes, there. I like the Tigercat in silver. I was at the field early flying my P-47D, plan to come out tomorrow morning to do a couple of test flights on my Corsair. Last go one of the main wheels came off on landing and fractured the retract housing slightly as it skidded to a stop on the runway. Got replacements yesterday in the mail from China, and hope it goes better this time. I'll be sure not to leave for home until at least 0830 if I don't see you earlier.

Cheers

davegee

Hi Grossman56: I just looked at the weather forecast for our field for tomorrow morning. Might be more crosswind than I want to tackle for this test flight. I'll check it out tomorrow morning, but if I don't show up at the field tomorrow, Friday morning looks much better for me to fly with very light winds down the runway. If I don't see you tomorrow, happy flying!

Dave

[mshagg]

I havent had much of a chance to fly lately with the recent arrival of my first son, and it being the middle of winter. Made the effort to get out to a member meeting at the club this morning and took advantage of the picturesque winter's day. The club's field really does look wonderful at this time of year.

As an experiment the avanti was flying on 12,000mah of li-ion packs and landed after 14 minutes with more left in the tank. The F-22 has an FMS 1500kv setup in it, designed for 8S but is flown on 9S and 10S without issue. This creates some absolutely ludicrous performance. On 42v it's around 6kw of power and 6.5kg of static thrust (for as long as you're willing to torture your batteries for). Amazingly the raptor still excels in the slow part of the flight envelope and does all of the fun floaty stuff as well as it does on 6S.

[Grossman56]

Friday the 13th was an awesome day for flying, the smoke was starting to roll in again, but the breeze was right down the runway and just perfect.
Had My Little Gal II (Freewing P-51 out and man, I finally think I've got the cg worked out!! Moved it back to the rear edge of the little squares on the top of the wing (the plate that holds the landing light) and it worked great. The Spitfire was flawless as usual.
BTW, speaking of Spitfires, Sept 15 is Battle of Britain Day, would be cool if all who have Spitfires could fly them that day and send in pics.

Grossman56

[davegee]

Friday the 13th was an awesome day for flying, the smoke was starting to roll in again, but the breeze was right down the runway and just perfect.
Had My Little Gal II (Freewing P-51 out and man, I finally think I've got the cg worked out!! Moved it back to the rear edge of the little squares on the top of the wing (the plate that holds the landing light) and it worked great. The Spitfire was flawless as usual.
BTW, speaking of Spitfires, Sept 15 is Battle of Britain Day, would be cool if all who have Spitfires could fly them that day and send in pics.

Grossman56

Hi Grossman56: glad to hear you had some great flights. I'll keep September 15 open, as I have a Spit (a later Flightline Mk.IX, not like those used at BOB) but I'd be happy to fly it on September 15 if I am in town. Would be fun!

davegee

[paladin]

took the grandson out and he flew my gs cub and park zone albatross in the rain (both electric powered). first time with tail draggers, he did pretty well. specially with the cub it is very underpowered. he had problems with the mass and anticipating the extra time it would take for the ailerons to react at low speeds, and unloading the wing on takeoff but he flew it without my intervening.

Joe

[Twowingtj]

paladin
He's coming along nicely! Good to see him out flying again.

[WrightBrosRC]

Had several great jet sorties yesterday. This flight was one of the best. Several good air to air shots with close maneuvering.

[paulrkytek]

Had several great jet sorties yesterday. This flight was one of the best. Several good air to air shots with close maneuvering.

Sweet landing shots and the bright sunshine works wonders for the sabre. Not quite so bright here in the uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCUGzz3e_k

[WrightBrosRC]

Sweet landing shots and the bright sunshine works wonders for the sabre. Not quite so bright here in the uk

Nice flight I'm pretty sure I saw a few patches of blue sky there... lol

[rifleman_btx]

It was a Lockheed kind of day today

[Grossman56]

Don't you just love the drive back home after a totally great day at the field, your favorite theme music playing in your head as you feel that you crossed another plateau and your flying just got a whole lot better? That was my day today. Tweaking a few things and seriously looking at mistakes made and why for the past couple of weeks has produced tangible results and today proved it.

Ahhhh

Grossman56

[Twowingtj]

I had a chance to fly the Black Horse Do-335 at the Warbirds over Chenango Bridge event this last weekend. My wife was able to get a pretty good video.

As I mentioned before, this plane has a very unique sound. Most of it is generated by the rear prop positioned behind four flying surfaces.

We were dealing with a fairly stiff crosswind. I wound up with a bit more of a flare than planned. Luckily, I had reinforced the lower rear fin. No damage.

https://youtu.be/zCYN_KHHbdc

[F106DeltaDart]

Got in a few flights today on my latest project, a 500 size UH-34 Choctaw finished in the scheme of the aircraft that retrieved Alan Shepard's Mercury Capsule. Flew excellent! Looking forward to getting it out flying some more.

[ridgerunner]

Got in a few flights today on my latest project, a 500 size UH-34 Choctaw finished in the scheme of the aircraft that retrieved Alan Shepard's Mercury Capsule. Flew excellent! Looking forward to getting it out flying some more.

Bitchin'!

[Turbinefancy]

Had several great jet sorties yesterday. This flight was one of the best. Several good air to air shots with close maneuvering.

I always enjoy your mock dogfight 360 videos. The only downside are the planes appear further (smaller) than they really are in the wide angle cameras. The Sabres must look pretty close when you were flying. I need to get the 360 cam and try it out.

I did a FPV escort mission with a giant 1:3 scale scratch-built T-38 by Corsair Nut. It’s beast with 2x 120mm EDF, powered by 13s batteries and weighs in at 45 lbs! It dwarfs my FW MiG-29 lol. Editing seems to take longer and longer…

[Hugh Wiedman]

I always enjoy your mock dogfight 360 videos. The only downside are the planes appear further (smaller) than they really are in the wide angle cameras. The Sabres must look pretty close when you were flying. I need to get the 360 cam and try it out.

I did a FPV escort mission with a giant 1:3 scale scratch-built T-38 by Corsair Nut. It’s beast with 2x 120mm EDF, powered by 13s batteries and weighs in at 45 lbs! It dwarfs my FW MiG-29 lol. Editing seems to take longer and longer…

Now that's what I'm talking about for "Freewing's Next Big Jet", a twin 120mm 13S. Sign me up IMEDIATELY! Outstanding video, who'd have thought the Mig would have been an FPV escort for a T-38, outstanding video!!!

[Turbinefancy]

The T-38 is awesome no doubt! But I would settle for a single 120mm or 90mm EDF F-20 from Freewing/Motion RC. The single nozzle would be more efficient. And I really appreciate the single 6s simplicity in setup. I have been flying the new E-flite 90mm Viper. While I don’t really care for the sport Jet look, its large size/presence, performance and efficiency has simply been amazing! 5 minutes spirited flights from 6s 6000 are fun! And can stretch 40% cruise flights to 10 minutes.

[Grossman56]

WWII day today at the field. Beautiful day and great conditions so, of course, no one was there!
Had the field to myself for the most part, Jeff dropped in for a couple of flights...

two of my oldest birds BBD and the P-40 with my newest, Bearcat#3. Each one is an outstanding flying airplane and I love them. The poor old P-40 is showing her age, only one gear door and gatored. (My fault). I went back to a gloss finish in her because I feel it does a better job of protecting her from the sun and just because I like the look

Grossman56

[paladin]

well my grand son is on his way home but over the last three days we flew h9 Fokker d7 (original), 2x edge 540, sport, e-flite t-28 2m, e-flite draco, and Taipan. his plane was the Sport he started 3 weeks ago with 4s batteries turning a 12x10 and ended with a 12x12 on 5s, he flew from takeoff to landing one of the edges (the slower one, mine), the t-28, and the Draco was his first tail dragger.

it has been raining here all weekend so we put the lights on the Draco to good use, he landed the 540 in a driving rain.

Joe