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Post by Gabe on Feb 24, 2010 8:06:20 GMT -6
Ha ha! Charged all my batteries before I left for the weekend. My wife tells me there's no wind and clear skies today. Sitting on a plane in Cininnati about to head back to Tampa...to fly!
BT- just got my cape back from the cleaners!
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Post by BTCat on Feb 24, 2010 8:41:20 GMT -6
Ha ha! Charged all my batteries before I left for the weekend. My wife tells me there's no wind and clear skies today. Sitting on a plane in Cininnati about to head back to Tampa...to fly! BT- just got my cape back from the cleaners! Take all your batteries down and keep all your helis and planes up. Hope you have a blast |
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Post by 19000rpm on Feb 24, 2010 11:18:59 GMT -6
Have a blast Gabe. Too windy to fly here today. The wind chill is really bad.
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Post by dditch66 on Feb 24, 2010 13:11:19 GMT -6
Took the Futaba 9257 I took out of the 500 (it has a full size servo in it now) and put it in my 450. Man, it's holding the tail really well.
Only flew one pack before work and was doing just forward and back flips watching to see if I had to touch the tail much. Nope did not have to touch the tail much. Feels like cheating.
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Post by Gabe on Feb 24, 2010 13:24:35 GMT -6
Dang. 25mph winds kicked in before I got home. Oh well.
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Post by 19000rpm on Feb 24, 2010 14:00:55 GMT -6
Well, just the opposite happened here right after lunch. Flew a battery in the Corsair before I started to go rigid. Warmed up a bit and then the wind started to kick and I got a half of a battery in the P51 before I chickened. Way too cold on the hands for a heli.
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Post by BTCat on Feb 24, 2010 19:20:43 GMT -6
Did you ever have one of those flying days when you where having so much fun you just didn’t want it to end? Got the Super Cub up with only a 5 mph wind and sometimes not that much. Loved every minute of it. I just hated only having one battery. It wasn’t pretty, but it was crash free. I landed smoothly a couple of times. A little awkward, but survivable a couple of times. No wingtips on the ground. No bounces. Just a couple of aborts and a couple where I nosed over at the end. Kept it in control most of the time and NO CRASHES!!!! Great! Right now I only have the stock 1300mah lipo and I have never timed it. I didn’t have a timer with me today so I was just guessing. Well, I decided to take off and land one more time before moving on to the heli….
Did you every have one of those flying days when you were having so much fun you just didn’t want it to end so you decide to take it up one more time? (TO BE CONTINUED)
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Post by flyinghigh on Feb 24, 2010 20:17:28 GMT -6
BT, are you flying the Super Cub from Horizon Hobby? My Dad has always loved to fly r/c planes....well, try anyway. I was thinking of getting one for him, I think he might actually be able to fly it.  He's 69, but you would never know it. Wait, just re-read your post, this does not sound like a happy ending ?? TO BE CONTINUED ?? |
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Post by BTCat on Feb 24, 2010 20:36:21 GMT -6
BT, are you flying the Super Cub from Horizon Hobby? My Dad has always loved to fly r/c planes....well, try anyway. I was thinking of getting one for him, I think he might actually be able to fly it. He's 69, but you would never know it. Wait, just re-read your post, this does not sound like a happy ending ?? TO BE CONTINUED ?? Yep, Hobbyzone SC. I don't have enough experience with it to give an educated opinion, but it is pretty easy to fly on a calm day. |
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Post by BTCat on Feb 24, 2010 21:22:38 GMT -6
Did you every have one of those flying days when you were having so much fun you just didn’t want it to end so you decide to take it up one more time? [glow=red,2,300]Did you ever have good results from that?[/glow] So, I decided to take off one more time. The take off was fine, but I could tell the battery was getting low. I took a couple of turns and then started to line up for a landing. So far, so good….. Did you ever have a little issue with your depth perception that just surprised the hell out of you? Technically it wasn’t a crash. I think a crash requires your plane or heli to come down. If it doesn’t ever come down it isn’t a crash, right? Well as I turned, I barely clipped a small branch on the very top of a live oak tree and the Super Cub went into the top branches, and I mean TOP, too… about 30 feet by my calculations. Now for those of you not blessed enough to live in Texas, a live oak tree keeps green leaves year round. It is DENSE and it is TOUGH. What it swallows stays swallowed. I swear you could throw a quarter up into it and there is only a 50/50 chance it will come down. Lucky for me, the top was half dead because of all the mistletoe in it. Not so lucky, the stuff I had to climb through wasn't dead. It took me an hour of hard work to get that thing down. I threw weighted string (nylon plumb line string) up there and shook branches (lost a lot of string). I finally climbed up half way and used my 14 foot pole saw to grab it and shack it to within reach. I unhooked the lipo when I was still in the tree because I could smell something burning. Total damage: My homemade wing struts. The rudder and elevator are patchable, but in pretty sad shape. The rudder horn is broken and there are a few rough spots on the wing. Nothing else. I got lucky. The battery was hot and puffed, but when I got it home it was showing ~3.3 volts per cell. I let it cool and stuck it on the charger. It took 1100mah and the puff is completely gone. I’m going to give it a shot. Not bad for flying it down to nothing and letting it spend an hour in the tree. New tail assembly: $11.40 New struts: $2.50 Horns: $1.50 Spending an hour in a tree at the park: Priceless PS: Sol and 19k, do you want to guess what hung up in the tree the most and gave me the most issues? Pictures taken on my Blackberry:     |
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Post by 19000rpm on Feb 25, 2010 7:04:03 GMT -6
Just when I thought I had my "plane meets unmoveable object" issues far behind me, utilizing my highly developed  sense of situational awareness (being able to track the plane and keep an eye in front of the airplane and on the background too), I flew my P51 into a lamp post the other day. Dumbass. It's really easy to fly into things at first since you're totally focused on the plane. I gradually got over this and you will too. The first thing I realized is that it is very difficult to really accurately judge distance after a certain number of feet. Nobody's depth perecption is that good over a couple hundred feet when you put I flying object in the equation. Particularly if the surface is not flat. I started taking a walk around the flying site to look at where things were actually located as opposed to where they appeared to be. Then, every time I fly I spend some time looking a the background prior to takeoff just to orient myself. It also helps to get the plane above the tree line quickly and keep it there until you do a landing approach or some other maneuver that requires a lower altitiude. Keep it high over the trees, or between them, on approach. Try not to do this with the plane directly facing you since that's when depth perception can go to Zero. I learned this the hard way. More than once I thought I was clear of the tree only to find my plane IN the tree. My first SC ended up in the top of a 60' tree, totally inaccessable to me, surrounded by a high fence, 2 years ago and spent the entire winter there. 30-50mph winds and it stuck there like it had been glued in place. I used to check on it at least once a week. Then, in the spring, it was gone. Probably poached by a kid that was able to climb both the fence and the tree. ;D Prior to that I had flown it into a tree more than once and I'd retrieved it with a fishing pole, 30lb test and a sinker. The biggest problem was being able to cast near enough to it to shake the branch and far enough away not to put the sinker through the wing. Yep, I did that. I've done far more damage retrieving planes from trees than the plane had on it from landing in a tree...And, more damage than most other crashes too. Yes, it's a crash. Man up BT. ;D It was those beautiful struts that hung it up, right??? |
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Post by BTCat on Feb 25, 2010 13:44:37 GMT -6
Okay. I admit it. It qualifies as a crash Yes, the nice struts hung to those tough branches to the bitter end. One of the struts is still up there in perfect condition. The other is in a couple of pieces. Live and learn.....and forget and live and learn and forget ..... |
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Post by Gabe on Feb 25, 2010 14:56:11 GMT -6
Add th Parkzone F-27C to my fleet as of now Will be test flying tomorrow! |
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Post by 19000rpm on Feb 25, 2010 17:59:37 GMT -6
Okay. I admit it. It qualifies as a crash Yes, the nice struts hung to those tough branches to the bitter end. One of the struts is still up there in perfect condition. The other is in a couple of pieces. Live and learn.....and forget and live and learn and forget ..... So, you're saying the lessons of life are on a constant loop, constant loop, constant loo...Yeah, I get it, get it, get it.... ;D Hey Gabe, You're building quite the airforce down there. Let us know how that F27 flies. I've seen some youtube's of that baby doing well over 100 with some mods. About 137 if I remember. Just another of my many future projects. Too late now, but I think you could have built it from parts for less money since you didn't need the POS radio anyway. I flew everything right down to the sukhoi and G2 today. Even the Funtana came back from the dead. Absolutely perfect day. Light winds, blue skies and a balmy 29 degrees. Supposed to be like that tomorrow too. ;D ;D |
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Post by fireguzzi on Feb 25, 2010 21:24:04 GMT -6
No flying the msr today. Spent all day in Atlanta with the wife at her doctors appt.  |
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He's 69, but you would never know it.
sense of situational awareness (being able to track the plane and keep an eye in front of the airplane and on the background too), I flew my P51 into a lamp post the other day. Dumbass.
