Flew dusk patrol formation with my wingman last evening. A shot looking back at his Spitfire.
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Today's hangar: Two flights each on the Tiny Trainer, Simple Scout, and Stinger, and one flight each on the Storch, Versawing, and Bushwacker. First flight of the Tiny Trainer was done on FPV, using a mount printed by one of our club members, and both advice and assistance from the same (thanks, Jason!). I flew a second flight with the FPV rig on the TT a bit later, though I put the goggles off to the side on record mode, and just flew line-of-sight (by that time, those left at the field were packing up and heading out, so I wouldn't have had a spotter to keep an eye on the plane). For a relatively inexpensive FPV rig, I'm pretty happy with the performance, and that I didn't crash.
Only near incidents today were probably the ugliest take-off I've ever done (and actually made it into the air), when one wheel on the Storch decided to start binding, and flip the plane 180 degrees around. Other near incident was the final landing of the day with the Stinger. When I took off, there was only a bare wisp of a breeze coming from the south. Landing from the north, it seemed to not drop speed like I expected, and touched down with barely any runway left (rolled into a clump of weeds, but no damage). Turned out, the wind had flipped around to come from the north, and picked up a bit, so I was landing with a tailwind. I should have taken a final peek at the streamer across the runway.
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Finally got some decent weather after 3 weeks of high winds and rain so I got a few EDF's out. The A-10 and F-4 are a couple of my favorites. Still amazed at how well the A-10 maneuvers and lands. The SU-30 is still kind of a pig, especially landing as it definitely drops out unless you keep some throttle on landing (maybe I just need to get some more hours on it as I only have about 30 flights-and it definitely takes some time to get it off of grass), but in the air and on the ground it does look nice.
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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Today was a nice calm 40 degree morning. My older Brother and I want down to the long Fair Grounds parking lot we fly from. I Test flew my new E-flite V-1200 pylon plane, which has a 48" wing span, flaps and retracts. The Battery used was a RT 6c 4400, 70c. We got it on the radar gun at 147 mph. flying straight and level. WOW !!!!! this one rocks. reminds me of the Q 500's at 150 to 170 mph with the nelson 40. but still doesn't hold a candle to the Quarter 40 mustang. I ended up making 5 passes before I made the landing, with full flaps power off to get it down I am very impresses with this new Bird much faster than my other racer's. V-900 and the Skynetic Havok. the V-1200 is a sweet plane to land on a paved runway, beats the heck out of the belly landers you have to hand launch. then come in on the Belly. I give it Two thumbs UP. The V-1200 satisfices my need, my need for speed LOL!!!!!. My brother could not keep up with it to get a video on my iPhone X
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I put 2 flights on my V1200 today. Wind was 12-15mph but straight down our runway. The v1200 handles the wind like a champ and it's much easier to land with a head wind.
mshagg to bad you can't get your hands on a V1200. It's not a plane, but more like a rocket ship you can steer HAHAHA
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Originally posted by 406PIlot View PostI put 2 flights on my V1200 today. Wind was 12-15mph but straight down our runway. The v1200 handles the wind like a champ and it's much easier to land with a head wind.
mshagg to bad you can't get your hands on a V1200. It's not a plane, but more like a rocket ship you can steer HAHAHA
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Nice morn here. Free of lockdown. Yeeehaaa. So got out the mig 17. Which i finally have the setup good. Looks good on the air. Then the remaiden. With a new fuse of my f35. For anyone who cares i cut 1 inch off the inner part of the ailerons. Glued it to the wing.... Still only had. 10 or12 mm. Travel..... Funny thing. Was in control. This time. Its fast.. for me anyway. Just an intermediate pilot. Was fun ... Was not as bad on orientation as i expected. Thanx guys
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406Pilot. You are right about the the landing gear. it is a little week. I have not had any problems, YET. I have made 6 flights on it now and have greased every landing. Bouncing this plane in on the week landing gear may not be good, and tear the retract out of the wing. After the 6 flights, checking the tread on the main wheels the ribbed tread is almost gone have replaced the cheap tires with better wheels tail wheel is not the best either. I would not fly this one from a grass field especially a clumpy grass field. I believe grass OPs would prove detrimental. The V-1200 will make a great Club pylon racer for the Experienced Pilots in a Club. The V-1200 is my Top pick for a fast pylon style plane.
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Here's an entry for the Something a Little Different category. Yesterday was an epic flying day at our field. Mild Temps. Sunshine. Virtually no wind. I think that I did around 15 sorties. I think that my favorites were these rocket boosted gliders.
These RBGs are kitted by Dynasoar Rocketry. The two RBGs are The Man in the High Castle GNR SST and the Fireball XL-5. They boost on reloadable Aerotech E-6 motors ammonium perchlorate rocket motors (7 second burn, no ejection charge) and recover under RC elevon control. The flights are short, but they are fun.
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Alas, no flying this weekend (had to work yesterday morning), but I did take a drive to the Hobby Place at our local Ace Hardware, and dropped my birthday money from MIL, and some of the Achievement Award on last week's paycheck, on the Blade Nano S2 RTF helicopter. I hope to get some good flying in over the upcoming long weekend, with both the airplanes, and trying out the new heli.
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Was supposed to fly on sunday, but the wind was giving us a hard time. Today a few guys took the day off and flew since it was dead calm out. I got 4 flights in on my MotionRC F35 70mm & 6 flights on my E-Flite 1.5m P-51. Was a great day flying. Wish I had taken some time to get a few pictures. Was having to much fun in the air and forgot about pictures.
Flying RC best hobby in the world!
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mshagg. I have three A-10.s in my hangar The FreeWing Twin 80mm, The FMS Twin 70mm, and the E-Flite Twin 64mm. The two smaller ones I fly a lot more at the fair ground parking lot we use for a runway. For the larger FreeWing Twin A-10 80mm the parking lot is a little confined for it, but I do like to fly it at some of the smaller Airports in the area
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