What did you fly today?

[Turbinefancy]

Thanks to Cliff (dlktdr) for the open source head-tracker build! I am really enjoying the wireless head-tracker feature not worrying about tugging the trainer chord. I move my head a lot in flight. Smooth, fast, and precise tracking meaning not having to recenter HT at all during flight is great. I forget HT is there just feel I am one with the plane; dare I say like a fighter pilot

[EA-6B Geek]

I sure do admire you guys that jump into the turbine arena. I’m not there yet, but it sure is something that interests me. Congrats on getting your waiver 406!

First day of the year for me at out the field. Warmer, sunny, and light winds, too much to resist! Got in a few flights on this “rescued” Antic Monoplane, which was a winter project.

[Hugh Wiedman]

The weather broke for us here in Montana again. I was able to get out and finish my Turbine waiver flights to get signed off. It was a fantastic day. My buddy had his AMG / Mercedes 1.8M predator on and I had my 1.8M Ferrari Scheme Pilot RC Dolphin 1.8m.

Both Outstanding Birds! Congrats on finishing your Turbine waiver flights!

[406PIlot]

The weather broke for us here in Montana again. I was able to get out and finish my Turbine waiver flights to get signed off. It was a fantastic day. My buddy had his AMG / Mercedes 1.8M predator on and I had my 1.8M Ferrari Scheme Pilot RC Dolphin 1.8m.

[paulrkytek]

Back end looks like a T-34, front end looks like a super chipmunk. And landing gear is weird…

correct I rescued an old 1900mm Seagull models T34 C that was about to be burned by the owner, It weighed 6.2kg with a lot of lead in the nose. and few like a dog, The heavy weight and short triangulation of the original model wheels lead to it flipping over on taxi, .broke the canopy, bust the cowl etc and the owner got fed up with it so i decided to have a go at a taildragger version with extended nose and fixed gear, The canopy is made from the surviving bits of the old canopy with a rear scuttle in balsa added I reworked the cowl to fit the new model. I had the 4 oleos so I went for double oleo fixed gear as the oleos I had were not strong enough for single leg gear. I had a couple of unused analogue standard size servos for elevator and rudder and steerable tail wheel.(old used small oleo) New 5055 430 kv motor 1500watt, 62amp on 6s. ( about 150wattsper pound in old money ), prop, spinner 125 amp esc, coveriing , rods, horns main alloy wing tube etc etc It sort of evolved over winter. It now weighs 4,6kg, no ballast required, flys better, floats on in to the grass field and handles the grass up to 2 inch long in winter no problem

[Turbinefancy]

I brought out an FMS Bf109F from mothball to fly FPV from cockpit. Got all the bits installed but too chicken to fly FPV in it yet. All line of sight flights end with scraping the wing tip (protectors). Will need to toe out the gear to see if that helps.

By the way, the Bf-109 has got to be the least represented model in RC fields. They are the most produced fighter aircraft ever yet Flightline has no model of one. Flightline has two FW’s already: the FW-190 and TA-152H. The glaring hole is in FL line up is a Messerschmidt 109F or G to dogfight the Spitfire MkIX. I would love to see one from Flightline!

[Turbinefancy]

Back end looks like a T-34, front end looks like a super chipmunk. And landing gear is weird…

[paulrkytek]

The waters have subsided so its back to flying next week. I have just finished my latest reincarnation of an old classic. Can you name this plane ?

[Turbinefancy]

"keeping up foreign relations" cause he was inverted

[paulrkytek]

Time to break out the floats!!!!

Man that's a bummer. Hopefully things didn't get to destroyed at your field. Fingers crossed for you!

We got the lawn mowers and field lipo charging batteries out just in time. It will be a few days before we can get in to clean up the cabins .I might dig out my first r,c model boat I made about 60 years ago, a WW2 RAF air sea rescue boat the 28 inch long ply and balsa Vernon Vosper

[406PIlot]

Here is a photo of our club field, oops better make that Lake. It might be a while before we fly again.

Time to break out the floats!!!!

Man that's a bummer. Hopefully things didn't get to destroyed at your field. Fingers crossed for you!

[starcop]

Got out today and was fortunate enough to maiden my first turbine jet. Pilot RC Dolphin running a Swiwin80. It was just fantastic! The Maiden went well and the weather was good enough to do it in Montana in February. Had to take advantage of it while we had it as now 8 hours later we have 4-6 inches of snow and it's only 15-20 degree's out.






Yes I had two waivered turbine pilots one of which is a CD with me doing the buddy box. Everything for my Turbine endeavor is 100% following the guide lines to avoid any issues!

SUPER COOL! That's a nice jet Sir!

[starcop]

Sometimes you need to make sure your throttle trim is all the way down and if that don't work maybe lower your throttle end points, if that still doesn't do it, reverse your throttle channel and see what happens, I just set mine up and did have to lower the throttle trim to get the ESC working, I fly with Futaba and thats all I had to do, got 18 flights on it now, flies great.

Sweet Aircraft! That looks like a fun one to fly. Very nice.

[paulrkytek]

Here is a photo of our club field, oops better make that Lake. It might be a while before we fly again.

[406PIlot]

Got out today and was fortunate enough to maiden my first turbine jet. Pilot RC Dolphin running a Swiwin80. It was just fantastic! The Maiden went well and the weather was good enough to do it in Montana in February. Had to take advantage of it while we had it as now 8 hours later we have 4-6 inches of snow and it's only 15-20 degree's out.






Yes I had two waivered turbine pilots one of which is a CD with me doing the buddy box. Everything for my Turbine endeavor is 100% following the guide lines to avoid any issues!

[F106DeltaDart]

Had an excellent evening of flying at Thunderbird Field today, including the a few flights on the newly completed 500 size SA-341 Gazelle featuring a fully 3D printed fuselage.

[Turbinefancy]

Engaged in some dogfight action with an L-39 in a Sirius. The jets are hard to see in a head-on merge, so small and flash by in a split second. My brain did not even register fast enough to turn my head on the fast pass

[Hugh Wiedman]

Finally Marvin put the video/photos together that I shot for the Banana Hobby Gulfstream website. I didn't want to put this in the PJ50 thread, but these 2 aircraft are almost identical (except the BH comes with a gyro) and I am quite confident that they will fly almost identically. This airframe's slow flight and overall stability is outstanding and seems to land like a kitten, possibly quite different from the AL37. We ended up getting over 10 minutes of flight time on an SMC 6200 and if I remember correctly, about 7:30 on an SMC 5300. Those of you waiting for your delivery of the PJ50 should definitely be excited. I know xviper already has his and posted a nice video so check that out as well if you're interested to see how your "incoming" Freewing Gulfstream will most likely fly.

[paulrkytek]

About 7 years ago I bought my first foamie Mustang a 1450mm wingspan version in silver by Lanyu models.( they probably do not exist anymore) It came with fixed gear and no flaps and it has flown as a trouble free all year round flyer since.. The last couple of weeks have been cold and windy so I decided to repaint . This coming Easter we are having an Easter Fun Fly at DDMAC complete with target egg bomb drop and I have adapted the model to do same and had my first three successful bomb run flights today on a calm sunny day with a steady 3 deg C temperature. I am now putting together a crack aerobatic team, the Red Friars(photo below). The facial expressions could be because I stuck holes in them and blew out their brains with a straw. It worked however as there were no breakages as the Friars hit the target field. The shells weigh around 8gms each . Of course not only do I get a crack non parachute team but I also get a cake and some scones from the donated brains

[Turbinefancy]

Flew the MiG-29, climbed to altitude to see second sunset and checkout the mountain ranges using head-tracking FPV, then lazy acro to wind down the day, enjoy:)