What did you fly today?

[davegee]

Thanks for taking the pics for Ron and me Dave, I don't think I have any of the RV8 flying as well as BBD, now at last, I do!



My smashed and trashed Bearcat, resurrected and flying amazingly well with the stock prop, a 3948 - KV760 and a 85A Mantis ESC. Very simple mod and the result has to be seen to be believed when she goes vertical, energizer bunny style, she keeps going and going and going...
Speaking of resurrected birds. the Tigercat back in the air as well, first shots of her flying since Nefi 2018. Original wings and tail plus one nacelle. All retracts, motors ESC's and servos are original.
And the oldest Gal in the fleet, BBD, in her one and only flight picture. Hope to rectify that soon....

Grossman56

Hi Dan: I'm awaiting my new replacement Photoshop app in the mail any day now. When I get it, I should be able to take a good look at several of your BBD shots that I took and blow them up to the point that they are usable to look at. We'll see. I'll keep you posted and send any worthy ones to you when I get them. Should be within the next two weeks.

Cheers

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Thanks for taking the pics for Ron and me Dave, I don't think I have any of the RV8 flying as well as BBD, now at last, I do!



My smashed and trashed Bearcat, resurrected and flying amazingly well with the stock prop, a 3948 - KV760 and a 85A Mantis ESC. Very simple mod and the result has to be seen to be believed when she goes vertical, energizer bunny style, she keeps going and going and going...
Speaking of resurrected birds. the Tigercat back in the air as well, first shots of her flying since Nefi 2018. Original wings and tail plus one nacelle. All retracts, motors ESC's and servos are original.
And the oldest Gal in the fleet, BBD, in her one and only flight picture. Hope to rectify that soon....

Grossman56

[davegee]

dupe post for some reason

[davegee]

Had some fun this morning flying out of our field just outside Cody with perfect weather conditions with two friends. I flew my Beech 18 and my I Wanted Wings P-47D razorback a few flights. I noticed that even though the landings on the P-47 were decent, the right main gear was loose in its plastic mount to the wing. I pulled it up some and have to squirt some epoxy glue in there and then it will be back to flying shape again.

I'll let Dan Gross post the pictures of his Bearcat and Tigercat that I took while he was flying this morning. Came out fairly well, I thought.

[davegee]

Just love that dirty dusty look on the corsar,, awsome. Looks real

Thanks, F4U Aussie! It looks better when you see it up close versus from a camera lens. They (cameras) always seem to leave some stuff out in pictures that the naked eye can see and appreciate.That "look" took months to get pretty much where I wanted it. I still occasionally do a little touchup here and there, like a canvas on an easel.

Those poor Marine Corsairs; being on the end of the supply chain way out in the South Pacific in WWII, the mechanics had to just deal with keeping things running as best they could, and pretty much zero importance on how they looked. A good friend of mine's dad was a crew chief on Corsairs out there in WWII. It was pretty tough living for all, and they got real skinny during their combat tours!

davegee

[f4u ausie]

I just had to take advantage of this beautiful late summer weather to fly again this morning. I had an "interservice fly off" with the USMC Corsair and USAAF P-51D. Both flew beautifully and takeoffs equalled landings with no damage, so that is a good thing!

Just love that dirty dusty look on the corsar,, awsome. Looks real

[davegee]

Yours looks great, I need to paint the gear on mine, I decided to stay with the big EDF jets for now and put mine up for sale, if I don't sell it I will do some weathering and paint the gear, it is a great flyer, one of the best Freewing jets around as long as you keep it tame and not set it up by the book, I find it lands so much better with a nose heavy CG.

Your comments on weathering, paint, markings, etc., make sense. I had one of these I put on the stock markings, same as you have on yours, years ago. When we moved about four years ago, I sold it to someone in our club, regretfully. I didn't think I'd be flying one of these again at our new field in Wyoming, but sure enough, I bought this new one and used Callie's markings for it, as well as painting the gear white, and other minor details.

I had it out flying one day a couple years ago at our field, which borders on a gravel quarry. I made a mistake of letting it get too far away from me with some pretty substantial winds aloft on downwind, and I ended up crashing it, at a pretty far distance, into the gravel quarry. I looked around high and low for it, but couldn't find it and gave up. The next morning, I felt I just HAD to find that airplane, even if it was just to harvest whatever wasn't destroyed in the crash. Well, again I looked all over the place, but when I turned around to face a very level area of the quarry, there was my plane! It didn't go nose in, it sorta skidded on that flat field or gravel and the red rotating beacon lights were Still flashing, over 24 hours later!

Turns out. I did replace the fuse and one wing, but everything else in that airplane flew again, and I am still using those undamaged parts from that crash in the plane you saw in that picture.

I totally agree with you to dampen down the throws. Even though the real "scooter" could do a 720 degree roll rate/second, I didn't want to approach anything close to that! I'll probably keep this one for a long time, still enjoy the challenge of flying it. I do like the larger EDFs, too. I have the B-2 Spirit bomber, pretty neat in size, it's just a cruiser, but has great presence in the air whenever I do fly it in almost calm winds and nil crosswinds. My Freewing F-4N is a lot of fun, fly fast! It has afterburner lights and electronic wheel brakes, which help on our rather short and bumpy runway.

Cheers

Davegee

[DCORSAIR]

Cool! I've had my A-4E for a few years now, great flyer. Took it up last week. Mine is painted in colors of VA-152 flying off of the USS Shangri-La during the Viet Nam war in the late 1960s. Cool plane, one of my favorites!

Yours looks great, I need to paint the gear on mine, I decided to stay with the big EDF jets for now and put mine up for sale, if I don't sell it I will do some weathering and paint the gear, it is a great flyer, one of the best Freewing jets around as long as you keep it tame and not set it up by the book, I find it lands so much better with a nose heavy CG.

[davegee]

Same here as for weather in Ca., test flew my buddies HSD F-16 and put 4 more flights on my A-4, light breeze blowing and nice and cool, we were out early so the lights on my buddies F-16 looked awesome as the sun was breaking through the clouds.

Cool! I've had my A-4E for a few years now, great flyer. Took it up last week. Mine is painted in colors of VA-152 flying off of the USS Shangri-La during the Viet Nam war in the late 1960s. Cool plane, one of my favorites!

[DCORSAIR]

Same here as for weather in Ca., test flew my buddies HSD F-16 and put 4 more flights on my A-4, light breeze blowing and nice and cool, we were out early so the lights on my buddies F-16 looked awesome as the sun was breaking through the clouds.

[davegee]

I just had to take advantage of this beautiful late summer weather to fly again this morning. I had an "interservice fly off" with the USMC Corsair and USAAF P-51D. Both flew beautifully and takeoffs equalled landings with no damage, so that is a good thing!

[davegee]

davegee Beautiful shot, Sir. Your Phantom is gorgeous. Best, LB

Thanks, Elbee. The paint scheme is based off of a real airplane that flew off the FD Roosevelt about 1975, or so. I like that the tradition of the Jolly Rogers in naval aviation history goes back to WWII, the brainchild of skipper Cdr. Tommy Blackburn and his famous Corsair squadron VF-17.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

That is an awesome shot with the mountains in the background, great job.

Thanks, DCorsair. Not hard to get a decent picture with beautiful Heart Mountain in the background. I haven't summitted it yet, have to be careful as parts of the year it has grizzlies up there! We're going to try later this month, weather (and bears!) permitting

[Elbee]

davegee Beautiful shot, Sir. Your Phantom is gorgeous. Best, LB

[DCORSAIR]

That is an awesome shot with the mountains in the background, great job.

[davegee]

Took my Freewing F-4N and B-2 Spirit airplanes out for some flights this morning. Haven't flown these airplanes all that much, and it has been a month or two since I flew them last. But they are a lot of fun each time they take to the air. I completed a total of 28 flights on the B-2 to date, and 18 with the F-4N. I know that's not much to many of you who get hundreds of flights on their airplanes, but I'm pretty happy with each time a takeoff equals a landing with mine!

[davegee]

Turns out that the 'fog' that Dave saw was, in reality, smoke from fires in Montana and Idaho. What would Summer be if the smoke didn't show up?? I was just saying the other day how lucky we've been. Fortunately, the wind is blowing right back into Montana!!

I think there was probably some fog mixed in with all that rain we got last night at least at 8 am when I was there. My thermometer showed a humidity reading of 90%, pretty moist air, along with that Montana fire smoke!

[Grossman56]

Turns out that the 'fog' that Dave saw was, in reality, smoke from fires in Montana and Idaho. What would Summer be if the smoke didn't show up?? I was just saying the other day how lucky we've been. Fortunately, the wind is blowing right back into Montana!!

[davegee]

We had a pretty rainy day yesterday here in Northwest Wyoming, and this morning, a lot of fog was around (pretty darned rare up here) but I still took my "Ole Cock" P-47D and my T-33 up for some flights. The fog essentially "erased" 8,500' MSL Heart Mountain that is usually in my backgrounds but today made for a look like a hardstand at Halesworth Air Base in England during WWII. I took a couple of pics after I flew. The bird is really flying nicely.

[ridgerunner]

Today I flew my 51 year old Delta 707. I built it in 1972 from Aeromodeller plans. It is loosely based on the Avro 707 research delta from the late 1940s. I converted it to electric some years ago.

*Very* cool!
or from the parlance of the time... Far Out Man!
I, for one, would like to hear more about this one!
Size?, construction?, launch method/landing gear?, channel count?, aerodynamic features? (i.e. washout, sweep angle?,) etc. But please, more pictures!