What did you fly today?

[Hugh Wiedman]

Amazing Hugh, is that the 80mm?

No, that's the Freewing 90mm. I installed a Castle 130 Amp ESC and the 12 blade 4068-1835 Kv Inrunner that I fly using a SMC 8100 mah graphene battery, weight 903 gr. Gives me easy 5 minutes of flight time and since SMC's have some of the highest actual C (forget the labeled C), I get maximum thrust drawing about 121 A and 2990 watts. I always liked the "Wild Weasel" tail and was usually the only one flying it until HH came out with the 80mm F-16 with that tail, and it kinda teed me off (I like to have something no one else does). A friend I fly with has a Freewing F-16 (on 8S) and the E-Flight 80mm F-16. He loves the FW F-16 (as I do) but his E-Flight F-16 is a bit of a problem child. Probably doesn't matter, I'm sure HH will discontinue it soon, like they do everything else.

[Coconut]

Amazing Hugh, is that the 80mm?

[Hugh Wiedman]

Maiden, plus 5 today with my F-16. Felt very good flying it after the 3rd flight. Got it all trimmed out by then.

What to do when you just can't pick one livery. Like my HP printer, go with a 4 in 1! My solution for inflation! Takes 5 minutes to change "clothes" at the field.

[Elbee]

No repaint. Stock.

My mistake, Sir. In any event, very nice work, she's a beauty. The vertical graphics are amazing for OEM. Best, LB

[Lon]

Lon, nice repaint, too. Lookin' good, Sir. Best, LB

No repaint. Stock.

[Coconut]

I don't think that's a repaint. It's stickers that the plane came with. I put the Wild Weasels South Carolina ones on mine.

[Elbee]

Maiden, plus 5 today with my F-16. Felt very good flying it after the 3rd flight. Got it all trimmed out by then.

Lon, nice repaint, too. Lookin' good, Sir. Best, LB

[Lon]

Maiden, plus 5 today with my F-16. Felt very good flying it after the 3rd flight. Got it all trimmed out by then.

[Elbee]

Hah, I knew it. You are really an American spy infiltrating the Luftwaffe. Very clever, but your rank should read "Hauptmann" Weidman lest you be unceremoniously shot at sunrise. Check 6, Brother. LB

[Grossman56]

Actually had my E flite 1200 mm Spitfire up today for the first time in nearly two years. I replaced the useless stock receiver with a Lemon 6 channel with built in gyro. What a difference! Flew great!
Programming the gyro is kind of weird and I assume they've made changes in it since I bought it three years ago. There is a 'gear' plug, but you can't plug anything into it as it's the gyro channel, but you can plug the gear into the bind plug which becomes Aux2. With some switch 'switching', I've got it set up so the radio switches are the same as my other planes, which is awesome.


Also, I go my first look at the new clubhouse, a great step in the right direction



It was a great morning for flying, the afternoon 4 o'clock, turned into a thunder storm/deluge, that's why everything is so darned green here in the high plains desert.



Well, I won't have to turn on the sprinkler system for another two weeks at least


Grossman56

[Hugh Wiedman]

Viel Spaß bei der Jagd, Oberst Weidman. Ich werde in den Wolken auf Ihre Rückkehr warten. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Major LB

Bis wir uns in den Wolken treffen! Bis dahin bin ich mit Red "Snoopy" Baron da oben!
Haupt Wiedman

[ridgerunner]

Got out yesterday and had 4 flights on my ZOHD Drift motor glider. I'm loving the auto-launch/return-to-home feature of the ZOHD Kopilot Lite flight controller. Total airtime was 41 minutes on a single charge - (2 cell 18650 LiIon pack). Next up - FPV!

[Elbee]

Achtung, ich fliege jetzt vorübergehend für die gefürchtete Luftwaffa, also P-51's, Spitfires, B-24's und B-17's, passt auf euch sechs auf.

Viel Spaß bei der Jagd, Oberst Weidman. Ich werde in den Wolken auf Ihre Rückkehr warten. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Major LB

[xviper]

Hugh Wiedman You always have a way with your planes. They look so much better than when they came out of the box. Even planes that I would not have chosen for myself, I really like yours.

[Hugh Wiedman]

As far as I could see, I think Flightline discontinued. They just selling the last of their inventories .

No doubt, I spoke to them about it and that seems to be in the cards and they only have 1 left and a few spare parts. Too bad, it was definitely worth picking this one up. I was eyeing it for some time but hoping MRC would do a German warbird in this size but since they haven't yet, I couldn't let this go extinct without grabbing it, especially in the scheme of undoubtedly one of the top Aces of all time.

[Coconut]

As far as I could see, I think Flightline discontinued. They just selling the last of their inventories .

[Hugh Wiedman]

Got out yesterday and flew a rather odd collection of 5 aircraft. First decent day in a while as it's been windy and beginning today, we expect 4 days of major rain (20 inches forecast so expect to see Noah cruise by) from a tropical depression coming up from Mexico (that's my usual complaint, I'm tropically depressed). Got to test out an "idea" on the SU-30 to get more flight time with an SMC 8100, and it worked great (I'll give more details in that thread, since most are really not interested in this "extinct" HH aircraft-not sure I am either).

Best part of the day was I got to maiden my Extreme Flight-Aces High 62" Focke Wulf 190 "Red Tulip" flown by German Ace Hermann Graf, who shot down over 200 adversaries in 830 missions! Still need to finish out the cockpit and pilot and am adding 2 speakers from Model Sounds (a great system and David did me a great favor and programmed my card for the authentic 190A sound and programmed the 2 guns for one 3 position switch), but couldn't wait to get it in the air. I have a spare MR RC sound system in it for a temporary solution (added foam walls to the balsa) as I just can't bring myself to fly a WWII aircraft without sound. Actually worked pretty well, as good as those in my foam warbirds, but the speakers will take it to another level along with a 13mm gun and 20mm cannon! All I can say is that this aircraft flies absolutely spectacularly. Very little right rudder correction needed on take off, lifted off smoothly at 1/2 throttle with no flaps and just flew incredibly well, even better than the Flightline Corsair which I think is one of the best. And landing with just the mains touching keeping it level was the easiest of any I've tried, and it did not even try to nose over like some 190's. Our grass runway was rather thick and bumpy, but it hardly affected her. I did change the foam wheels to larger Robarts though, which no doubt helped. Very little trim needed and easily cruises below 50% throttle, giving me over 10 minutes on an SMC 6200 (needed the weight all the way up in the nose, so it might as well be useful weight). It had a few quirky things to work out in the build (which I found solutions to) but I fear that Extreme Flight is going to discontinue their whole Aces High division, as it seems they haven't sold well (probably because most of their customers are into 3D planes and not looking for 62" wood ARF WWII warbirds). It flies on either an Xoar 2 blade or 3 blade prop and I really wanted to use the 3 blade and the "authentic" rounded 3 blade spinner, but unfortunately, the spinners were almost impossible to find. Finally found 2 at a hobby shop in Belgium and order them (the last 2 on earth as far as I could tell), and the shipping cost as much as the spinners did, but they got here in less than a week. Too bad if they do close out the division, because like all their aircraft, nothing flies like them and I have 5 of their 3D planes-the "Gold Standard" in the industry! Now at least I have an adversary for the Spitfire! Would love to see FL do a BF 109 or Stuka. There's only 2 companies I'll buy aircraft from these days, Extreme Flight and MRC, so come on Alpha, get busy, stop resting on your B2/Gulfstream/Mig 29 laurels! What have you done for us lately (I mean since a few weeks ago).


Achtung, ich fliege jetzt vorübergehend für die gefürchtete Luftwaffa, also P-51's, Spitfires, B-24's und B-17's, passt auf euch sechs auf.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure its was just: "I'm your huckleberry"

Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.

[paladin]

son flew H9 P-51D (Maiden), H9 109, Fl Corsair, FW A-10, i flew HK Yak-11.

[Elbee]

...I'm just finishing the Extreme Flight Aces High FW-190 "Red Tulip"...

You devil, you. Cannot wait for the pictures of this adversary!
Okay, Herr Hugh-Meister, bring it on .
I'll be waiting for you, Mein Freund. Remember to just keep checkin' your 6.

Alles Gute, LB