Elbee , These poor planes are no longer airworthy they were great flyers but no longer. The B17 parts were put into a new B17 and the Bearcat has been replaced with a new one. Arizona would be a long drive.
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Happy 4th Everyone!! . Got 12 flights in yesterday on the American "pre-birthday" fly in and barbecue at the field. Took 3 of my "low stress" flyers, the Beast 60 Bi-Plane, MXS 62" Heavy Metal and the sweetest flying warbird there is, the FW Corsair. Would have gotten more flights in but a bunch of us decided to "celebrate" early with homemade 5 alarm chili , kielbasa and big boy dogs. All in all, a great day. The only thing I would have enjoyed better was to be at the celebration at Mount Rushmore with the Blue Angels and incredible fireworks, but I'll take the "sloppy seconds". Of course after the chili, anyone with an open flame had to stay at least 6 feet away from us, social distancing the old fashion way.
Hugh "Wildman" Wiedman
Hangar: FL/FW: Mig 29 "Cobra", A-10 Arctic, F18 Canadian & Tiger Meet, F16 Wild Weasel, F4 Phantom & Blue Angel, 1600 Corsair & Spitfire, Olive B-24, Stinger 90, Red Avanti. Extreme Flight-FW-190 Red Tulip, Slick 60, 60" Extra 300 V2, 62" MXS Heavy Metal, MXS Green, & Demonstrator. FMS-1700mm P-51, Red Bull Corsair. E-Flite-70mm twin SU-30, Beast Bi-Plane 60", P2 Bi-Plane, P-51.
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Looks like a fantastic day Hugh!
Got in some flying this morning at our clubs annual July 4th Funfly and had a blast. Took up the Corsair, UH-1N, and Bell 47 for a few flights each. Calm winds but hot. It is soon going to be “Texas Building Season” as temps start to push over 100.2 Photos
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Had a great time today. Here are a few of the planes I flew this afternoon right up to and just after sunset. I got in four more flights on the T-33 and I test flew the E-Flite 70 mm F-16 for a student of mine and got three more flights with him on the Wireless trainer set up. Then We Flew a Few Choppers and a few other planes. Also while I took a break from flying I got this short video of my flying buddy Don, flying his Blade 160 S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trs2Ph4x1Gk
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Here's a compilation video of what I flew yesterday. Mostly, it's just take offs and landings, with a flightline pass or two.
FMS 1.6m P-51D
Hobby King 1.8m B-17
Flightline Spit IX
Freewing T-33
EFlite 1.2m F4U
Seagull 63" Junkers CL-1G Tin Donkey monowing
Had a fun flying day, with no garbage bag recoveries. LOL
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Originally posted by Oxotnik View PostHere's a compilation video of what I flew yesterday. Mostly, it's just take offs and landings, with a flightline pass or two.
FMS 1.6m P-51D
Hobby King 1.8m B-17
Flightline Spit IX
Freewing T-33
EFlite 1.2m F4U
Seagull 63" Junkers CL-1G Tin Donkey monowing
Had a fun flying day, with no garbage bag recoveries. LOL
Hugh "Wildman" Wiedman
Hangar: FL/FW: Mig 29 "Cobra", A-10 Arctic, F18 Canadian & Tiger Meet, F16 Wild Weasel, F4 Phantom & Blue Angel, 1600 Corsair & Spitfire, Olive B-24, Stinger 90, Red Avanti. Extreme Flight-FW-190 Red Tulip, Slick 60, 60" Extra 300 V2, 62" MXS Heavy Metal, MXS Green, & Demonstrator. FMS-1700mm P-51, Red Bull Corsair. E-Flite-70mm twin SU-30, Beast Bi-Plane 60", P2 Bi-Plane, P-51.
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Originally posted by Hugh Wiedman View Post
Very nice collection and nice flying Chuck, great way to give tribute and spend the 4th!!!! Love your B-17, isn't it about time FL comes out with a 2000mm (or larger) iconic B-17? I think the modifying crowd here would have a field day, not to mention keeping Callie busier than a one arm paper hanger!
No matter what planes I bring to fly and no matter that the B-17 doesn’t do much more than circuits and figure eights (if will do a loop and a roll, if I have tons of altitude to trade), I always have more telling me how much they enjoy watching the B-17 fly, compared to the others. I have differential thrust on my B-17, and that makes flying and ground handling a lot more fun.
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I got in a lot of flying today this morning I took out my My E-flite Spit-fire, AT-Texan, PT-17 and the Air Tractor. In a hurry and forgot my phone and GO-PRO. Went back out just after 6:00 pm This time I took my E-Fite F-4 Phantom, Flight Line B-24, and my Blade 250. I did get a nice Hat cam Video with my GO-PRO of the second Flight I have made with my B-24 Liberator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqANnXgRDM&t=10s
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Originally posted by Grossman56 View PostDang wind has been blowing steady for a couple of weeks now!!!
I've never seen it like this, batteries charged and raring to go. I keep waiting to fly the Hardway P-40B but the conditions haven't been what I want for a maiden yet. Patience I guess
Grossman56
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My Brother and I were out again this morning early Put another 1/2 hour on my Blade 250, and two flights on my F-4 Phantom, going out again tonight with a few planes jets and Choppers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azmEPvmIH5E
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Got 20 flights in today on 4 planes, it was an absolutely beautiful 95 degree summer day with winds of only 8-10 mph. I brought out sort of an odd collection because our lawn mowing equipment broke down and we haven't been able to cut the grass for a week, which is never a good thing during the summer in Florida. I was hoping to take out mostly jets, especially my F-16 and SU-30 to try out my new Hobbystar 8000 mah batteries, but since the grass was longer than normal, I wasn't sure if either one would get off the deck with that extra weight so they stayed in the Hangar for now. I'll have to wait until at least next week to try those batteries out if we can get the machines fixed. I did some bench testing on that battery and it was actually pretty good, an actual C just barely below the Roaring Top 5500 70 C and the HRB 6000 50C (both of those tested out at virtually the same C on the IR meter). We'll see if the $179 per battery is worth it, but in simulated flights on the bench, it gives both of those jets an extra 1 and 1/2 minutes or more (which for me is a life time on EDF's) and the Amp and Watts drawn on the GT power meter are almost equal to those other batteries I've been using!
Hugh "Wildman" Wiedman
Hangar: FL/FW: Mig 29 "Cobra", A-10 Arctic, F18 Canadian & Tiger Meet, F16 Wild Weasel, F4 Phantom & Blue Angel, 1600 Corsair & Spitfire, Olive B-24, Stinger 90, Red Avanti. Extreme Flight-FW-190 Red Tulip, Slick 60, 60" Extra 300 V2, 62" MXS Heavy Metal, MXS Green, & Demonstrator. FMS-1700mm P-51, Red Bull Corsair. E-Flite-70mm twin SU-30, Beast Bi-Plane 60", P2 Bi-Plane, P-51.
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I went out early this morning 5:am to fly a few of my Jets and a couple Choppers. I made the first 4 flights on the SU-30 WOW what a Pig compared to all the other;s I have, The SU-30 should have Twin 80 mm fans in it. Other than that the SU-30 is fun to fly made 3 flights each on the others and 5 flights on both my Choppers Blade 250 and my Blade 550. I must admit Choppers are another learning curve LOL!!!!
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