What did you fly today?

[Hugh Wiedman]

Got a few out last week at was able to get some nice photos. No boring videos like I usually do! The F4's and F16 (just upgraded to 8S), the F18 Canadian, 8S EuroFighter and Extreme Flights FW 190 "Red Tulip". The F4's and F16 fly incredible on 8S (should've upgraded long ago), flying 5-6 minutes on the new SMC 8S HiV 5900 pack. A couple photos of each below, but for the full "Monty", go to the video.

[ridgerunner]

First real outdoor backyard session this year. 11 packs through my new direct drive micro heli fleet (Eachine E120S, Goosky S1 and S2.)

The S2


The S1

[davegee]

I just got back from the field to test fly my new Penrod and Sam makeover with the larger, more scale V3 Corsair prop. I also flew my "weathership" E Flite Beech 18 to test the air for turbulence, crosswinds, etc beforehand. I always do that before I put up one of my more valued birds. I was very happy with the flight results using the big prop today, which I also have installed on my other FMS P-47s. Couldn't have had a better flight. The winds are supposed to pick up now for the next few days so I'll probably be standing down from flying until next week sometime.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Man that is very nice! Great job on the paint and scheme!

Thanks, peajay5. It was a fun makeover and allowed me to detail some of my personal favorite things to do on these airplanes. I am going to add a few more photos taken just a couple hours ago when I got a flight on with the new V3 Corsair prop which is much more in scale to real thing. The stock prop works fine, I guess, but it looked a bit goofy to me when you look at photos of the real airplane! Flies beautifully on this larger prop.

Cheers

davegee

[Peajay5]

had a good morning flying today. I dusted off my B-2 in its foam crate, checked it out in my shop, and flew it this morning. Hadn't flown it since last fall. A bit rusty on takeoffs, but once it is in the air it is a thing of beauty, a real cruiser! I was doing circuits at around 50 percent power, got several presentation passes (couldn't take any pics since I was flying it and I was the only one at the field!) Got a reasonable, and safe landing out of it. This was the 32nd safe flight on this airplane.

Also brought my newly repainted FMS 1500mm P-47D razorback. I looked through my records, I flew it the last time on January 30 in the stock Bonnie paint scheme. After that last flight, I took it off of flying status and started working on the new Penrod and Sam paint scheme. So, it was only 3 weeks from start to finish and a new flight in the new scheme. That went pretty quickly, although I put a lot of hours into that 3 weeks to get it finished!

This was the 8th flight on this plane, the first in the new scheme. Flew exactly the same as before, with the short stock prop on it. I am going to remove that prop and put the V3 Corsair prop on it now, which is much more to proper scale. My other jugs have this prop on it and it works very well on them.

Here are some shots from this morning's flights.

Man that is very nice! Great job on the paint and scheme!

[Turbinefancy]

Elbee Thank you, Sir! - TF

[Elbee]

Turbinefancy, great video. Nicely done, Sir. Best, LB

[Turbinefancy]

One of the most beautiful aviation clips of all time in my mind is the closing scene in Top Gun movie, with zoomed-in shots of two Tomcats lighting their burners and barrel rolling into the sunset. I have always wanted to recreate that with RC planes. So I keep practicing formation barrel rolls any chance I get. Here’s the most recent attempt. Still pretty far apart, with way lamer planes, but I will get there one day

[davegee]

Look theirs that mountain again.. great shots and even better paintwork.. some of the euro theatre schemes were so colorful.. this one no excepption great job daveegee

Thanks, f4u aussie. I thought you'd like the positioning with Heart Mountain in the background again!🤣 I just swapped out the smaller stock prop with the larger V3 Corsair prop that we have both been experimenting with. Hoping to test fly it again tomorrow morning if the weather is suitable. Thanks again for your work in using the larger V3 prop on these airplanes. Maybe somebody else has done this too, but your posts were the first I saw on Hobbysquawk that inspired me to add this feature onto my P-47 warbirds.

Cheers

Davegee

[f4u ausie]

Look theirs that mountain again.. great shots and even better paintwork.. some of the euro theatre schemes were so colorful.. this one no excepption great job daveegee

[davegee]

had a good morning flying today. I dusted off my B-2 in its foam crate, checked it out in my shop, and flew it this morning. Hadn't flown it since last fall. A bit rusty on takeoffs, but once it is in the air it is a thing of beauty, a real cruiser! I was doing circuits at around 50 percent power, got several presentation passes (couldn't take any pics since I was flying it and I was the only one at the field!) Got a reasonable, and safe landing out of it. This was the 32nd safe flight on this airplane.

Also brought my newly repainted FMS 1500mm P-47D razorback. I looked through my records, I flew it the last time on January 30 in the stock Bonnie paint scheme. After that last flight, I took it off of flying status and started working on the new Penrod and Sam paint scheme. So, it was only 3 weeks from start to finish and a new flight in the new scheme. That went pretty quickly, although I put a lot of hours into that 3 weeks to get it finished!

This was the 8th flight on this plane, the first in the new scheme. Flew exactly the same as before, with the short stock prop on it. I am going to remove that prop and put the V3 Corsair prop on it now, which is much more to proper scale. My other jugs have this prop on it and it works very well on them.

Here are some shots from this morning's flights.

[Peajay5]

I didn't fly today because it was way too windy here in vegas. I finally put all but one of my planes on the racks today.

[Peajay5]

Great scheme peajay.. have not seen that b4... i had all the dynam warbirds.. couple little probs,,, but overall great value,, entry level warbirds... all mine had the 650 kv ,,fast... anyway tday i put anther couple flight on fwing f4 phantom... feelin comfy with it now.. 2 greaser landings, bit fast,, but still good.... elev flap mix needs fine tune, but its close,,, flew at my local industrial estate,,, pics of that and spitfire over at(where do u fly) this pic a while ago... maiden day

Hey Thanks man! That F4 is nice! I was looking at that one on motion RC. I fly at McCool Field here in Las Vegas.

[Gravythe clown]

I have been putting flights on my new F-14, got 7 flights on it now, what a fun flyer, this is only my 5th one
so far over the years,. I have a habit of putting them together and selling them off quickly as I move on to something else but this time I want to really play with it and enjoy it a little bit now that I have a new Futaba 16IZ to play with flight modes, it flies great in swept mode and being all stock it flies great, I thought I was going to upgrade the power systems but I decided to spend the money elsewhere and fly it as is for now.

What did you get now? Could it be another helicopter?

Gravy

[ridgerunner]

Maidened the new S2 out in the backyard...

[DCORSAIR]

I have been putting flights on my new F-14, got 7 flights on it now, what a fun flyer, this is only my 5th one
so far over the years,. I have a habit of putting them together and selling them off quickly as I move on to something else but this time I want to really play with it and enjoy it a little bit now that I have a new Futaba 16IZ to play with flight modes, it flies great in swept mode and being all stock it flies great, I thought I was going to upgrade the power systems but I decided to spend the money elsewhere and fly it as is for now.

[f4u ausie]

Great scheme peajay.. have not seen that b4... i had all the dynam warbirds.. couple little probs,,, but overall great value,, entry level warbirds... all mine had the 650 kv ,,fast... anyway tday i put anther couple flight on fwing f4 phantom... feelin comfy with it now.. 2 greaser landings, bit fast,, but still good.... elev flap mix needs fine tune, but its close,,, flew at my local industrial estate,,, pics of that and spitfire over at(where do u fly) this pic a while ago... maiden day

[Peajay5]

Maidened My Dynam P-47. I did the "Balls Out" scheme from Callie Graphics and added my own finishing touches. 😎

[ridgerunner]

Pulled the trigger on a Goosky S2 Micro Heli. Its now the top dog of my indoor fleet (see below). Maidened her yesterday; 6 packs of crash-free, low head speed indoor hovering. 1st impression is that this is, hands down, the finest micro heli I've ever flown. I can see now what all the fuss is about with these new direct drive main motor helis.

[Turbinefancy]

Sharing footage from a couple of nights ago intercepting FW Eurofighter. The Nav lights make it really easy to spot in near darkness. Change resolution to 1080P to see better.