What did you fly today?

[seaviper]

way to go Jack! Good luck with the Avanti

[jackcutrone]

Seaviper - thanks, am looking forward to it.

[jackcutrone]

WVRailfan - here is one of my planes, which I call the Woflie plane along with Wolfie. Also a closeup of the cockpit with Wolfie (not quite to scale) and a pilot figure on which I painted my grey-black moustache. Love that dog.

Jack

[Oxotnik]

Awesome, Jack! I love it.

[TiredIronGRB]

That's pretty dang cool...I may have to do a "Spanky" plane.

[crankestein]

Great deal Jack.

Nice jet.

[Hardway]

Flew the Convergence VTOL last evening. This is a new airframe, after the old one just decided to fly into a fence at full throttle and a 45 degree angle.... I am going to do this one up like a Star Wars shuttle.:Cool:

[wvrailfan]

It is going to be soggy in WV for the first half of the long weekend, so I cut grass at the flying filed and

snuck in a couple of flights with the Dynam WACO yesterday.

[TiredIronGRB]

Day 406: Got in an early flight on the Flightline F8F, what an awesome plane.

[seaviper]

I flew the Goshawk yesterday. Maiden voyage + two more flights. Hope to get in some good flying this weekend before the rain.

[TiredIronGRB]

Day 408: Gorgeous day at David Crockett campground flying the Crack Yak.

[seaviper]

TI that Bearcat looks good

[TiredIronGRB]

TI that Bearcat looks good

Crazy good flying plane!

[seaviper]

Flew the T-45 again today for three more flights on stock power. Excellent.

[Oxotnik]

Seaviper, your T-45 flights looked great. It looks like it struggles a bit to get off the grass. I've been thinking off and on about getting a T-45.

I had a great day at the field today. Coached my daughter, flying her UMX Cub J-3. She doing well, but still lacks self confidence more than anything. I flew my QQ Extra 300, five or six times, my Schwalbe three times, and my P-38 once. I screwed up my P-38 landing and let the plane get a tad too slow; it stalled a wingtip about 3 feet off the ground and touched down nose-gear first. That little mistake will cost me a nose retract/trunion unit. Grrrrr. The stupid mistakes hurt the worst... my pride more than plane. :-/

Here's a composite of my three Schwalbe sorties today. I really, really love flying this plane!!

[seaviper]

No struggles now. It gets airborne in about the same distance as my 80mm Super Scorpion did. Somewhere around 150ft. It has positive acceleration in the climb out too with stock power. I was going to re-power it but have since changed my mind as today's flights were fun and no stress on takeoff. Everything got better after I cycled my new Admiral 6s 5000's about 4 times. Before that it was rather weak.

I love the Schwalbe. Good bird. I have a couple of my Schwalbe flights on the youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9CuajK41nw5T0SdwVXTWCw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

[Oxotnik]

Seaviper, you must have the 12-blade higher-kV powerplants. Your Schwalbe takes off with much more authority than my 6-blader. Isn't this plane an absolute joy to fly? If I were videoing my face during the flights, I'd probably be grinning ear-to-ear the whole flight.

[seaviper]

yeah in the video its the newer one with the 12 blade fans. I think it takes off in like 20ft. It's really a nice bird. The thing I that I didn't like about it was the warped wings and split flaps. Also I modded the nose for a little more support. I am sure I posted details here somewhere on the board. It's a really good flyer. You will enjoy it.

[Oxotnik]

I probably have nearly 2 dozen flights on my 262 by now. I'd picked it up at a swap meet for a heck of a great price. The original owner had broken and repaired the nose. I reinforced the nose better, and it's been flying like a champ. It struggles a little in the summer grass on our field, and I had to remove the gear doors, but it's never failed to rotate. Once airborne, she purrs.

[Aros]

FINALLY got my A-10 back on her feet with the new nose gear. Uneventful flight and landing. The best kind.