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Post by Dr. Evil on Jan 10, 2013 18:14:22 GMT -4
Yes....very well done indeed G. Glad you had fun bro, if you're like me...I would be looking at more planks to purchase online...LOL. I can't help it, just like my toys. BTW, I think what others are referring to about a bit harder to fly a war bird as to others is not so much the flying itself but the take offs and landings especially with a tail dragger so hand tossing doesn't count...LOL. Never the less, well done sir!
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Post by osidak on Jan 10, 2013 19:33:31 GMT -4
Your traditional scale warbirds tend to have nasty stall habits. Good to hear this one is basically a sport scale that is forgiving. Back when I learned to fly planes if you flew a war bird as a first plane it would have been a very short lived plane.
Congrats - Today I just got a Nexstar Mini EP - somewhat disapointed in the covering as it very loose (it is heat shrink so easy to fix) - Full balsa model. I will tinker with it and my son has been asking to learn to fly planes so it will be time to get him on the sim to learn the basics and then I will buddy box him as I think the real thing is so much better than a sim. Besides when I learned sims didn't exist and the instructor would yank the radio out of my hands when I did something stupid
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Post by Dr. Evil on Jan 10, 2013 21:32:53 GMT -4
Your traditional scale warbirds tend to have nasty stall habits. Good to hear this one is basically a sport scale that is forgiving. Back when I learned to fly planes if you flew a war bird as a first plane it would have been a very short lived plane. Congrats - Today I just got a Nexstar Mini EP - somewhat disapointed in the covering as it very loose (it is heat shrink so easy to fix) - Full balsa model. I will tinker with it and my son has been asking to learn to fly planes so it will be time to get him on the sim to learn the basics and then I will buddy box him as I think the real thing is so much better than a sim. Besides when I learned sims didn't exist and the instructor would yank the radio out of my hands when I did something stupid Glad you can pass this onto your son. I think it'll be a great father and son hobby and something where you two can spend the extra time together.
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Post by doc121 on Jan 10, 2013 21:51:47 GMT -4
Great job George!! Very nicely explained & valkman beat me to the description of your pic. I love it !!
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Post by doc121 on Jan 10, 2013 21:54:43 GMT -4
osidak, it was the same when I learned to fly. My son & daughter had it a lot easier with sims & buddybox flying. Plus I had to rebuild all crashes.
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Post by osidak on Jan 10, 2013 22:04:41 GMT -4
Got some in some minor stick time with him on the sim - have to play with the zoom settings I think as right now he is getting disoriented majorly but I explained the controls and he was doing a halfway descent job of keeping it up. Now time to decide which transmitter to go with for him. Going back and forth between a Optic Sport 6 or an Eclipse 7
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Post by doc121 on Jan 10, 2013 23:36:13 GMT -4
Always glad to hear of a new generation of rc pilots. Like the rest of us, a lot of patience (?) & even more stick time & he will be ready. Have fun osidak !
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Post by sgmason on Jan 11, 2013 0:12:34 GMT -4
Good man George well done i enjoyed reading that. The pics in the snow looks like a war bird that was just discovered by melting snow! The picture reminded me of this sort of crash landing I had a blast with it today, but I really need to get a couple more batteries for it and an EC3 to EC5 cable so I can charge the batteries on my good charger and not the supplied charger. Even though it is a balance charger I can't put a storage charge on the batteries, and this time of year I could have to go weeks without flying My other choice is to steal the EC5 connector of my helicopter and change everything over, but I don't want to go through the hassle of all the soldering when the converter cable is cheaper than buying another set of EC5 connectors The one thing I found myself doing while flying is just admiring the plane as it flew overhead. I was flying slow and it just seemed so graceful floating by
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Post by Dr. Evil on Jan 11, 2013 0:27:51 GMT -4
Yeah...most of my stuff is EC5s and whats not I've made adopters to a EC5 set up.
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Post by sgmason on Jan 12, 2013 14:04:47 GMT -4
Well I was hoping to go and fly today so I could check my reassessment of the CG. After a bit of researching and studying I think I was measuring from the wrong spot. I was measuring from the leading edge of the wing root fairing and not the leading edge of the wing root. So my CG was 10mm to far forward if I am right The reason I am not going to go test today is that it is too warm out. Odd I know but when you have to wade through 2.5' of wet snow to get to where you want to fly, you get wet real fast. Then there is the snowball effect when you belly land a plane with a big flat nose. On the landing i showed the picture of there had to be 1/2 a pound of snow balled up and stuck to the front of the plane and another 1/4 pound behind it. Right now we are going through the January thaw, its a balmy 45°F right now and tomorrow they are calling for 50°F I took advantage of it and cleaned the ice off the driveway, but the last time we had a warm spell in January and I cleaned all the ice off the driveway we got hit by the 1998 ice storm that took the power out for a week or longer from just south of here to the other side of Montreal
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Post by Dr. Evil on Jan 12, 2013 14:48:51 GMT -4
George, time to get some floats for it
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Post by Dr. Evil on Jan 13, 2013 11:41:26 GMT -4
Here you go George. Attachments:
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Post by sgmason on Jan 13, 2013 13:31:59 GMT -4
I thought about skis when I first decided I was getting the P-47, but changed my mind. Right now there is such a melt going on floats would be a better idea. If you stand outside all you can hear is the water from the melted snow running off peoples roofs and in the ditches under the snow . I think in the last 2 days we have lost about 1' of snow The good thing is that once it cools off again the snow will be hard enough to use wheels on. The bad thing will be that the snow will be hard enough to break the plane Tuesday is looking like a good flying day, and Saturday looks even better right now. I think the worst part is that I have unfavorable weather for flying right now, but the warmth makes it great for working in the shop. I can't work in the shop right now though because the florescent light died so i have no light to work with till Monday when I can go buy a new one I guess I haven't built up enough karma points yet and have to keep working on being a better person
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Post by sgmason on Jan 14, 2013 12:22:52 GMT -4
Your traditional scale warbirds tend to have nasty stall habits. Good to hear this one is basically a sport scale that is forgiving. Back when I learned to fly planes if you flew a war bird as a first plane it would have been a very short lived plane. Congrats - Today I just got a Nexstar Mini EP - somewhat disapointed in the covering as it very loose (it is heat shrink so easy to fix) - Full balsa model. I will tinker with it and my son has been asking to learn to fly planes so it will be time to get him on the sim to learn the basics and then I will buddy box him as I think the real thing is so much better than a sim. Besides when I learned sims didn't exist and the instructor would yank the radio out of my hands when I did something stupid I just watched a Flite Test video about flaps for the PZ P-47D and at about 3:30 they show the power off stall characteristics of it with and without flaps deployed. You will see it has very forgiving stall characteristics. My stalls were in the turns, I think from a combination of flying too slow and the nose heavy CG, and all I had to do was roll into it, give some throttle, and then some up elevator and I was off and flying again without too much drama
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Post by sgmason on Jan 15, 2013 15:05:19 GMT -4
So I have been fully christened into the plank gang now, I crashed my P-47 hard enough to break the wings and cowl. Thankfully that is all that I did to it. All the electronics are good as is the main fuse so I am getting ready to hot glue it back together. First off the cowl shattered, but I think I got all the pieces, even the little ones. I know I did loose a screw, but I have spares. Motor and prop are good, or as far as I can tell they are. No odd noises or vibrations on spin up Small crack on the right wing leading edge to the back of the wheel well. Left wing cracked foam all the way through front to back and loose spar The tail wheel is bent over to one side, but I know I can fix that in less time than it will take to remove it. ;D All servos move freelly with no dead spots, even with pressure on them, so all that is left is to glue it back together, touch up the paint and redo the CG thanks to the extra weight of the glue. Hot Glue Gun Here I come
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