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Originally posted by kallend View Post
or from the parlance of the time... Far Out Man!
I, for one, would like to hear more about this one!
Size?, construction?, launch method/landing gear?, channel count?, aerodynamic features? (i.e. washout, sweep angle?,) etc. But please, more pictures!
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We had a pretty rainy day yesterday here in Northwest Wyoming, and this morning, a lot of fog was around (pretty darned rare up here) but I still took my "Ole Cock" P-47D and my T-33 up for some flights. The fog essentially "erased" 8,500' MSL Heart Mountain that is usually in my backgrounds but today made for a look like a hardstand at Halesworth Air Base in England during WWII. I took a couple of pics after I flew. The bird is really flying nicely.
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Originally posted by Grossman56 View PostTurns out that the 'fog' that Dave saw was, in reality, smoke from fires in Montana and Idaho. What would Summer be if the smoke didn't show up?? I was just saying the other day how lucky we've been. Fortunately, the wind is blowing right back into Montana!!
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Took my Freewing F-4N and B-2 Spirit airplanes out for some flights this morning. Haven't flown these airplanes all that much, and it has been a month or two since I flew them last. But they are a lot of fun each time they take to the air. I completed a total of 28 flights on the B-2 to date, and 18 with the F-4N. I know that's not much to many of you who get hundreds of flights on their airplanes, but I'm pretty happy with each time a takeoff equals a landing with mine!
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Originally posted by DCORSAIR View PostThat is an awesome shot with the mountains in the background, great job.
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Cheers
Davegee
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Originally posted by DCORSAIR View PostSame here as for weather in Ca., test flew my buddies HSD F-16 and put 4 more flights on my A-4, light breeze blowing and nice and cool, we were out early so the lights on my buddies F-16 looked awesome as the sun was breaking through the clouds.
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Originally posted by davegee View Post
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Originally posted by DCORSAIR View Post
Yours looks great, I need to paint the gear on mine, I decided to stay with the big EDF jets for now and put mine up for sale, if I don't sell it I will do some weathering and paint the gear, it is a great flyer, one of the best Freewing jets around as long as you keep it tame and not set it up by the book, I find it lands so much better with a nose heavy CG.
I had it out flying one day a couple years ago at our field, which borders on a gravel quarry. I made a mistake of letting it get too far away from me with some pretty substantial winds aloft on downwind, and I ended up crashing it, at a pretty far distance, into the gravel quarry. I looked around high and low for it, but couldn't find it and gave up. The next morning, I felt I just HAD to find that airplane, even if it was just to harvest whatever wasn't destroyed in the crash. Well, again I looked all over the place, but when I turned around to face a very level area of the quarry, there was my plane! It didn't go nose in, it sorta skidded on that flat field or gravel and the red rotating beacon lights were Still flashing, over 24 hours later!
Turns out. I did replace the fuse and one wing, but everything else in that airplane flew again, and I am still using those undamaged parts from that crash in the plane you saw in that picture.
I totally agree with you to dampen down the throws. Even though the real "scooter" could do a 720 degree roll rate/second, I didn't want to approach anything close to that! I'll probably keep this one for a long time, still enjoy the challenge of flying it. I do like the larger EDFs, too. I have the B-2 Spirit bomber, pretty neat in size, it's just a cruiser, but has great presence in the air whenever I do fly it in almost calm winds and nil crosswinds. My Freewing F-4N is a lot of fun, fly fast! It has afterburner lights and electronic wheel brakes, which help on our rather short and bumpy runway.
Cheers
Davegee
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