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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 6, 2022 4:57:43 GMT
It was quite the nice evening yesterday so I took my now 11 and 13 year olds out to do some flying (which has been seriously lacking the month of July!) They both got to fly their mini scouts and getting better every time (with just a normal receiver - no stabilization!) and I got to finally maiden the FT Alpha and put a few more flights on the small original P36. The Alpha was quite interesting and flew super easy and smooth, although I think it needs a larger prop (5x3 on a 2300kv with 3S). Two batteries through it and it looks the same as it did sitting in the basement for 6 months The mini P36 on the other hand flew its last flight yesterday, doinking my nice new battery in the process Its wing tips have been straightened and taped many a time in the last year or so with nice folds running through the ailerons. I guess I was pushing it a bit harder than normal and in the middle of a fast hard turn she just twisted and dropped into a steep downward spiral, hitting the nose so hard it pushed the prop right into the cowl busting up my 3d printed power pod and tweaking the battery plastic a bit (gonna watch it closely, but it doesn't look to be bad enough to damage a cell) As always, no video, no pics, just a fun evening out with airplanes and the kids! If you need props, let me know, I can send a couple your way. I have some 5x5's 5x4's and some 6045s that would all work out well for you. I am going to try to take my daughter out tomorrow if all goes well. It has been 100 plus with 20-25mph gusts, which my large FPV sleds can handle, but not my daughters trainer. When ever I go fly with her, I usually take the ranger or something kind of relaxing, but that is to say, I feel you on the weather. You talking about the alpha reminds me I have about a 90 percent done mig 29 to finish up. The battery I folded up real bad when I crashed the chipmunk finally stopped taking a charge, I never really trusted it, so into the trash with it. It sucks cooking a new battery. Although I somehow puffed up a 30c 4000mah liperior battery that I never pulled more than 40a from or ran down below 14.8v. I am horrible about taking video too unless it is FPV.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 7, 2022 0:08:43 GMT
I flew the ranger, the pink thing, and the dart today. I finally got the dart flying, not great, but here it is.
I also snapped the struts loose on the ranger doing a loop today. When I landed, I snapped one off. I think I can print the little end piece that broke.
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Post by bwarz on Aug 11, 2022 19:49:38 GMT
took a long drive today making a bunch of stops (coffee, Lego store, Lehman's). grabbing a late lunch now in Alliance at A-Town burgers and brews... (this has a purpose) and ending the trip for an evening fly at Edgewater:) Let's see if I remember to take some pics π
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 12, 2022 6:03:56 GMT
Have fun brotha. How far away from there do you live and what did you take
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Post by bwarz on Aug 12, 2022 15:31:46 GMT
Have fun brotha. How far away from there do you live and what did you take thanks! we're about 2:20 of we went straight there, although we took the scenic route yesterday π we took a UMX for each (2xtimber, cirrus, pitts) several mini builds (scout, corsair, p51b, dr1, stuka) and a large build each (simple cub, Bushwhacker, explorer, p36) and a ft punjet? the wind was a bit much, more that it was crazy erratic and gusty. it kept two of my boys on the ground with the crawlers, but my 13yr old was determined to practice, running probably 6 batteries through the mini scout. I got to fly the mini corsair, mini p51B, and ran 1 1/2 batteries through the p36. the highlight was my 16yr old and I trying to fly the punjet. trying π π€£ ... it was 20 minutes of laughing and crashing! my 11yr old got to wrap the evening with 2 batts in a timber as the wind finally settled down a fun day all around
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 12, 2022 17:13:28 GMT
Have fun brotha. How far away from there do you live and what did you take thanks! we're about 2:20 of we went straight there, although we took the scenic route yesterday π we took a UMX for each (2xtimber, cirrus, pitts) several mini builds (scout, corsair, p51b, dr1, stuka) and a large build each (simple cub, Bushwhacker, explorer, p36) and a ft punjet? the wind was a bit much, more that it was crazy erratic and gusty. it kept two of my boys on the ground with the crawlers, but my 13yr old was determined to practice, running probably 6 batteries through the mini scout. I got to fly the mini corsair, mini p51B, and ran 1 1/2 batteries through the p36. the highlight was my 16yr old and I trying to fly the punjet. trying π π€£ ... it was 20 minutes of laughing and crashing! my 11yr old got to wrap the evening with 2 batts in a timber as the wind finally settled down a fun day all around Sounds fun, The gusts are worse than the sustained winds. If the wind is relatively the same speed it is predictable, but a gust can slap you hard, especially when you are up wind. Sometimes when it is windy and I am flying FPV, I will be upwind and my plane will get smacked and wobble a ton, and the first few times I was like WTF, then I felt it about 10 seconds later. Although if you are flying downwind, you feel the wind first, so you can brace for impact in the plane. I have considered building a punjet, they look fun, it would be fun to do some pod mounds on one of my larger planes and launch a couple. Those are the ones with the folding wings, right?
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 12, 2022 21:55:22 GMT
Got the dart flying good, until it wasnt. If you look closely, the VTX got flung into the fence. Events leading up to the crash. Winds are 15mph gusting to 20-25, seems like a good idea to fly a sub 250 wing. The sparrow GPS doesn't like connecting when it is cloudy, and it took me 2 minutes to connect.... I have never lost a plane because the GPS lost signal on a cloudy day in flight and went into altitude hold mode instead of RTH. I zeroed the flight controller on the roof of my car, which made it pretty much fly with a downward attitude. I sent it anyway, and the gps lost signal, and it held the downward attitude right into that fence. I was hoping I didn't hit those houses. All ended up well. I lost signal at about 200m which was odd, I wasn't expecting that at all. Minimal repairs, the vtx snapped right back in, I ripped a servo horn though, so I will just move it up to the next notch.
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Post by bwarz on Aug 14, 2022 14:34:54 GMT
thanks! we're about 2:20 of we went straight there, although we took the scenic route yesterday π we took a UMX for each (2xtimber, cirrus, pitts) several mini builds (scout, corsair, p51b, dr1, stuka) and a large build each (simple cub, Bushwhacker, explorer, p36) and a ft punjet? the wind was a bit much, more that it was crazy erratic and gusty. it kept two of my boys on the ground with the crawlers, but my 13yr old was determined to practice, running probably 6 batteries through the mini scout. I got to fly the mini corsair, mini p51B, and ran 1 1/2 batteries through the p36. the highlight was my 16yr old and I trying to fly the punjet. trying π π€£ ... it was 20 minutes of laughing and crashing! my 11yr old got to wrap the evening with 2 batts in a timber as the wind finally settled down a fun day all around Sounds fun, The gusts are worse than the sustained winds. If the wind is relatively the same speed it is predictable, but a gust can slap you hard, especially when you are up wind. Sometimes when it is windy and I am flying FPV, I will be upwind and my plane will get smacked and wobble a ton, and the first few times I was like WTF, then I felt it about 10 seconds later. Although if you are flying downwind, you feel the wind first, so you can brace for impact in the plane. I have considered building a punjet, they look fun, it would be fun to do some pod mounds on one of my larger planes and launch a couple. Those are the ones with the folding wings, right? yes I guess its the tiny one that they dropped out of the guinea. Although by the time I got it from someone in a pile of stuff the wings no longer folded. NOt knowing where the CG was supposed to be, also not knowing that it has a tendency to roll on launch made the 'flights' very short we got a ton of laughs out of it tho!
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Post by bwarz on Aug 16, 2022 1:24:00 GMT
Not so much what I flew - more of what I flew in! I noted what looked like a Ford Tri-Motor flying overhead last Friday getting out of work, then again a few times on Saturday. Sunday early afternoon lunch and I noted it again. i looked it up and sure enough it was flying out of our local airport. Being it was 3:30 and it said they only flew until 5:00 I didn't bother to check further. My wife kept bugging me to try so I did - and they needed a few more butts to fill the seats and they'd do one more flight at 5:00! Not passing up the opportunity, three of my four boys chose to go along for the ride as well (my wife will ONLY get into a plane when there's a fun destination as a reward ) A short 20 minute flight in the City of Port Clinton - SO COOL! (pics to follow - I didn't have to fiddle with sticks and didn't bother plugging my ears, so my hands were free for pics and video!)
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 16, 2022 3:01:28 GMT
Sounds great, I would love an opportunity to fly in something like that.
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Post by Mr NCT on Aug 16, 2022 20:26:34 GMT
That's soooo cool! Was it the EAA's plane? I went to the Auburn auto auction and they had the trimotor there giving rides. For a few dollars more (if you had a pilots license) you could be copilot so I logged 20 minutes of dual instruction in a Ford Trimotor. I found out why early large planes had to have copilots. It took all my strength to work the yoke and rudder pedals. Very cool.
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Post by bwarz on Aug 18, 2022 5:20:06 GMT
Not so much what I flew - more of what I flew in! I noted what looked like a Ford Tri-Motor flying overhead last Friday getting out of work, then again a few times on Saturday. Sunday early afternoon lunch and I noted it again. i looked it up and sure enough it was flying out of our local airport. Being it was 3:30 and it said they only flew until 5:00 I didn't bother to check further. My wife kept bugging me to try so I did - and they needed a few more butts to fill the seats and they'd do one more flight at 5:00! Not passing up the opportunity, three of my four boys chose to go along for the ride as well (my wife will ONLY get into a plane when there's a fun destination as a reward ) A short 20 minute flight in the City of Port Clinton - SO COOL! (pics to follow - I didn't have to fiddle with sticks and didn't bother plugging my ears, so my hands were free for pics and video!) Finally some pics.... 20220814_165340 20220814_17072220220814_17053720220814_170947 20220814_172118
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Post by bwarz on Aug 18, 2022 5:24:12 GMT
That's soooo cool! Was it the EAA's plane? I went to the Auburn auto auction and they had the trimotor there giving rides. For a few dollars more (if you had a pilots license) you could be copilot so I logged 20 minutes of dual instruction in a Ford Trimotor. I found out why early large planes had to have copilots. It took all my strength to work the yoke and rudder pedals. Very cool. another cool thing - while we were waiting there was a Long-EZ sitting by the hangar - to which my son added that he was going to get his pilot's license and buy one like it!
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Post by Mr NCT on Aug 18, 2022 11:03:59 GMT
You've raised your son right!
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Post by ratcheeroo on Aug 18, 2022 11:06:38 GMT
And I'm thinking that would be a challenging build ...
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