What did you fly today?

[Elbee]

F106DeltaDart

Love the Typhoon, I have a short kit of Brian Taylor's .60 sized model that needs my attention (bucket list).

I want the B-1B badly, just can't seem to fit one in yet. So awesomely cool, Sir.

Best, LB

[f4u ausie]

The b1 is so interesting. Had bad vibes early... Great pics overall

[F106DeltaDart]

Had an excellent day of flying. Brought out the Xfly B-1B, 500 Huey, and FMS Typhoon. Still getting used to how floaty the B-1B gets on landing.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Got out yesterday with a few, especially one of my F18'S that I just put an 8S fan in. Our grass runway has been getting plenty of rain/sun and even cut short, the F18 started to get difficult to get in the air. On the verge of stalling after hitting top speed on the thick grass runway. Cure: install the 1375 kv 8S 12 blade!!

Starting to become an 8S power junkie! For grass runways, the only way to go, not to mention how much better these edf's fly with more power, 25-35% going to 8S. May never get a 6S 90mm again. Now have on 8S, 2 F4's, Eurofighter, F16 V1 and 1 F18. The 2nd will follow soon. Easy installation, but the bank account hurts something awful!

Put together a short video of primarily the take-offs of the F18 and F4 (upgraded a year ago). All 8S fly on either a SMC 8S HiV 5900 or 4900.

You can see in the first photo our resident lawn mowers just ain't living up to expectations.
Would make sweet BBQ though.

[Elbee]

Now that is funny.

[f4u ausie]

Hugh not to mention Lotsa planes to transport in just one Kenworth

[Hugh Wiedman]

Got out again last Friday for a great, but HOT day of flying a few favorites. All flew great as usual but the summer grass is making the F18 difficult to get off. In late fall/winter/early spring, the grass (bermuda) is not as thick and F18 gets off fine. In summer, though cut to the same length, it's much lusher and thick, seriously inhibiting the take off run. Just gets off, but very near stall speed, causing a violent roll usually left but occasionally right. Just barely able to save it, but always need to change my shorts. Both my F18'S have the older 6S 12 blade, but just ordered one 8S setup that's in my 2 F4's and F16 V1 to try in the F18. The extra weight won't be welcomed, but the additional thrust may help summer flights. On 6S using a HiV SMC 5900, get over 5 minutes, but now with the extra long take off run that sure ate into that. Will try an 8S HiV SMC 4900 (use in my 8S Euro fighter) and maybe get 31/2 to 4, or it will be a total disaster.

[davegee]

Great story Dave, always nice to hear about personal encounters with those we loved watching fly. Was deeply saddened when he went down, but at least it was when doing something he loved.

Yes, it was definitely a passion for him and his girlfriend that I knew through a training trip. It was dangerous, though, and they knew and appreciated that the worst could and did happen, more often than they liked to think about it. They lost several friends who did aerobatic perfomances on the circuit.

Bryan loved the airplane that you have the rc model of. In the short period of time I had to visit with him on the flight deck of a 747-400 parked at the gate, he showed me a photo book of his beautiful "The Beast" that he had taken at various times of the day, including the "golden hour" early in the morning and right after the sun set, which is arguably the best time of the day to photograph things, including aircraft. I was impressed by his photography and his incredible aerobatic flying. He's been gone for 14 years now, and I still think of him sometimes. I know he would have loved that you have a beautiful aerobatic RC model of his plane.

Davegee

[Hugh Wiedman]

Great looking airplane, Hugh. I always get a slight twinge when I see one, after its pilot was killed in what might have been the only type of this aircraft in an airshow in Kansas City back in 2011. I did not know the owner and pilot Bryan Jensen very well, but was checking out his girlfriend as a new first officer on the 747-400 aircraft not long before his unfortunate mishap (she was also an accomplished aerobatic pilot.). I got to talk to him briefly and answer a few questions for him about his upcoming checkout on the 747-400 as a captain, and that was the only time I met him. He was a very capable pilot and really wrung out his "The Beast" with impressive aerobatics. We were all saddened to hear of his passing. I'm glad you are flying an r/c replica of his airplane. I think of him every time I see a picture of it.

Cheers

Davegee

Great story Dave, always nice to hear about personal encounters with those we loved watching fly. Was deeply saddened when he went down, but at least it was when doing something he loved.

[davegee]

Got out the other day with an odd collection of aircraft and had a nice day, minimal winds and only 92 degree temps , quite cool for our summer! As always, the Corsair is just so much fun to fly, 12 minutes on an SMC HiV 5900! It has a sound card and speakers in it giving the double wasp engine sound and the M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun sounds that give observing members a chuckle. Occasionally someone always asks me if it is really an electric. Also got my long ago discontinued Beast BiPlane out. Don't get to fly it as much as I like since I do not take the wings off and it takes up a lot of space that way in the truck, but it is a blast to fly and performs aerobatics and hovers as easily as any of my other 3D planes. This was the 3rd aircraft I bough years ago as I was completely enamored with it (at the time way out of my league), and today still one of the few that's never crashed. It too has a sound system in it with a radial engine sound!

Great looking airplane, Hugh. I always get a slight twinge when I see one, after its pilot was killed in what might have been the only type of this aircraft in an airshow in Kansas City back in 2011. I did not know the owner and pilot Bryan Jensen very well, but was checking out his girlfriend as a new first officer on the 747-400 aircraft not long before his unfortunate mishap (she was also an accomplished aerobatic pilot.). I got to talk to him briefly and answer a few questions for him about his upcoming checkout on the 747-400 as a captain, and that was the only time I met him. He was a very capable pilot and really wrung out his "The Beast" with impressive aerobatics. We were all saddened to hear of his passing. I'm glad you are flying an r/c replica of his airplane. I think of him every time I see a picture of it.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Took my FMS F-86F and Freewing F/A-18C up again today. Yesterday, I took my F-18 up for the first time since last spring, so I was a bit rusty. The flight went pretty well, except one of the main gear would not come up all the way, but flew pretty well for that extra drag on it. On landing, it came down ok touched down on the left side of the runway, but I messed up a bit trying to keep it from going off the side of the runway rolling out. That didn't go so well, and it departed the runway and damaged the plastic nose gear mount. Other than that, it was remarkably free of damage, and I got a bonus in that the nose gear retract was not damaged and I didn't have to replace that! But I did spend serveral hours with it in the shop to try to fly it again today.

This morning, I took up both the FMS F-86 and the F-18 Hornet. This morning's flight went much better with the Hornet, and it flew very well (and quickly!) around the field doing a few aerobatic maneuvers, and this time actually staying on and stopping on the runway with the electronic wheel brakes that I have installed. My later airplanes all have reversible speed controllers for reverse thrust. Although not realistic with fighter jet aircraft, I do find the reverse thrust is very effective on keeping the airplane stopped before the end of our relatively short runway at 5,300 feet MSL. There is nasty sagebrush and rocks all around the runway so you do NOT want to go into the weeds with a foam airplane, if at all possible!!

This airplane has several 3D printed improvements courtesy of Elbee for extra details which are awesome, amd I think I got the STL files for the removable Sidewinder missiles on the wingtips from Thinigverse or Cults online programs. I"ve had those for a couple of years.


Cheers, Davegee

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[Elbee]

Hugh Wiedman

Good lookin' bipe.

Best, LB

[Hugh Wiedman]

Got out the other day with an odd collection of aircraft and had a nice day, minimal winds and only 92 degree temps , quite cool for our summer! As always, the Corsair is just so much fun to fly, 12 minutes on an SMC HiV 5900! It has a sound card and speakers in it giving the double wasp engine sound and the M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun sounds that give observing members a chuckle. Occasionally someone always asks me if it is really an electric. Also got my long ago discontinued Beast BiPlane out. Don't get to fly it as much as I like since I do not take the wings off and it takes up a lot of space that way in the truck, but it is a blast to fly and performs aerobatics and hovers as easily as any of my other 3D planes. This was the 3rd aircraft I bough years ago as I was completely enamored with it (at the time way out of my league), and today still one of the few that's never crashed. It too has a sound system in it with a radial engine sound!

[Evan D]

Thank you very much!

Thanks, Evan. I had the Freewing F-86 for about 5 years. It was pretty well worn out before we made our move to Cody in 2020, but I flew the hell out of it and really enjoyed it. When I became aware of the FMS F-86 fairly recently, I debated buying it, but chose to pick one up. I loved the Freewing F-86, but I think I like the FMS version a bit more. I like the operable speedbrakes that I routinely use for landings at this altitude (5300' MSL). Even at this altitude and thinner air, I find it flies great, and really looks like the real thing. I was disappointed that FMS did not include scale retracting and extending gear doors like the real plane had, but RC Geek's ingenious modification using strong fishing wire or cord allows for the main gear doors to operate in a scale manner. It has great presence in the air.

I think you would like this plane, mods, or not.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

That is very sharp. The add ons really look good.

Have you flown both the Freewing and FMS F-86? With the FW being discontinued I may be looking at the FMS.

Thanks, Evan. I had the Freewing F-86 for about 5 years. It was pretty well worn out before we made our move to Cody in 2020, but I flew the hell out of it and really enjoyed it. When I became aware of the FMS F-86 fairly recently, I debated buying it, but chose to pick one up. I loved the Freewing F-86, but I think I like the FMS version a bit more. I like the operable speedbrakes that I routinely use for landings at this altitude (5300' MSL). Even at this altitude and thinner air, I find it flies great, and really looks like the real thing. I was disappointed that FMS did not include scale retracting and extending gear doors like the real plane had, but RC Geek's ingenious modification using strong fishing wire or cord allows for the main gear doors to operate in a scale manner. It has great presence in the air.

I think you would like this plane, mods, or not.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Had to add a second post for the F-18 pics. Not sure why I couldn't put them all together...

[Evan D]

That is very sharp. The add ons really look good.

Have you flown both the Freewing and FMS F-86? With the FW being discontinued I may be looking at the FMS.

[davegee]

Took my FMS F-86 out for a flight this morning. I think I have got this thing dialed in for my tastes as well as I can get it. Really a smooth flyer, and using the speedbrakes full open on final approach to landing and keeping some throttle in to touchdown makes for some very smooth, manageable, and pretty landings. This is rapidly becoming my favorite jet. You can see from the attached photo of it on the ground that all the gear doors are retracted as they would be with hydraulic power on the airplane. (The nose gear does have a mechanically controlled gear door that is in this position with the gear down.) I copied the idea from Chris Wolfe (RC Geek) and it works out great!

I also brought my Flightline F/A-18C for a flight, although a strong crosswind came up and I opted not to tempt fate, at least for me and my skills. Still, I did all the ground tests that I could since I have not flown it since last spring, and it is fully ready to go possibly tomorrow morning.or in a few days.

The F-18 is painted up in the markings of the VFA-146 Blue Diamonds, which was the default pre-painted paint scheme of the OEM model. However, I did add some scale embellishments: a servo movable tail hook and wheel brakes. In addition, I have the OEM cockpit that I improved a little bit, but a second cockpit that I fly with sometimes that is very scale, although a little heavier. I call this second cockpit my "deluxe Elbee cockpit" as he funished me many STLs to make parts to improve it to look more scale. Also, although you can't see them all that well in the photo, I printed up some very scale looking AIM-9 Sidewinders for the wings. The OEM ones were very cheesy and bent due to the airflow during flight causing a few minor controllability issues.

Cheers

Davegee

[Elbee]

can one of y'all help me find a transmitter and receiver for a submersible?

https://www.youtube.com/@RCSubGuy

https://www.rc-submarine.com/shop

Mr F,

Check out RC Sub Guy's Channel.

This is the quintessential spot for submersibles.

Also, post in the boat or submarine thread with this type of question, please.

Best, LB

[xviper]

can one of y'all help me find a transmitter and receiver for a submersible?

Wrong thread for this.