Flying for Real..

[Vc Ten]

Lovely model Thought he nearly lost it on take off
Dale

[DaveB]

Yes.. it was a bit wild wasn't it. There's another film.. I think by the same chap.. which has a much nicer takeoff but a completely ropey landing That model is still available but it's a kit (as you'd imagine) and I just don't have the wherewithal to build something like that anymore.. if ever!

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DaveB

[Vc Ten]

Dave
I would love to build a kit like that but alas dont have the cash or the skills to fly it They say the bigger they are the easier to fly While aggreeing the bigger models are less twitchy, fear factor increases exponetially with size. Also once in trouble the aircrafts momentum takes over making it more difficult to recover
Struggling to enjoy the zlin at the moment. Bit of torque steer on take off means keeping it straight on the strip a task and I cant get the idle slow enough ( may get better as the motor runs in) She come in to land like a train

Dale

[VEGAS]

Had a chance to get the Radian up yet Eddie??

It's up mate. In the garage.

Weather has been bloody awful and looks set to continue for a while.

Always happens with a new plane. Im sure its a curse..!

[DaveB]

Ee-gads mate.. that's one fine looking garage you have there

Yup.. this 'weather' lark is getting me down too. I managed to sneak out twice yesterday but you know well what the Champ is like in anything but dead calm. I reckon 4 or 5mph is about the best it'll take without the wind taking over and it's not a great deal of fun then. For this reason, I'm looking at something I can fly in the back garden which is to small for the Champ but big enough for a helicopter. I keep steering toward a Blade 120SR BNF.. the Champs 4ch txer will work with it which'll save a few quid but they're still bloody expensive and SWMBO will string me up. She said right at the beginning.. 'this isn't the start of something is it'? 'No, of course not' I said.. hoping to god it wasn't

Dale.. I know what you mean The Rapide is my very favourite aircraft of all time and I'd dearly love to have something like that. However, fear would prevent me from ever flying it which would defeat the object somewhat The promo vid for the little Champ demonstrates that should all start to go wrong.. just let go and it'll sort itself out. 'Potatoes' is all I can say to that. If it's going in.. it's going in and no amount of hands off, hands on, standing on your head or praying to whoever will listen will stop it I don't have access to a runway like that anyway. That's my excuse I tried, for the first time, to takeoff from tarmac yesterday and the Champ went up like the Rapide.. when I eventually got it off that is! Unless you're very deft (or a magician) it wings it's way off to the right.. a combination of slightly skewiff main gear and torque effect I guess. Suddenly, throwing it into the air is easier

Eddie.. do you think if I came back without the Champ, she'd let me have the 120SR?? I can find somewhere to hide it over the common and say it flew off like your Hawk then.. miraculously find it again

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DaveB

[Vc Ten]

Not wishing to put you off Dave but I think the 120sr is a bit small for outdoors. I have the msr smaller still granted, but while I can hover by my side for a full battery its virtually uncontrolable outside even dead calm It gets very small quickly when you give it some space, which you will ,thats why youve come outside !! Know what you mean though that you can use the same trannie and if its like the msr its virtually indistructable. However, would look at a min 250 size fixed pitch I think if you get a robust one, as you will crash, it saves the stepping stone of a co axial, which I dont think they teach you much anyway Will have a dig and see what there is to recommend
Cheers
Dale


Ps Would post a piccie of my garage but not sure if it would be seen as bragging or just a sad old git (what the wife thinks)thats got too many models

[DaveB]

No.. I've already had visions of shearing rotors off From what I've read, the 120 is a scaled up version of the mSR coming in at around 50% bigger with a more powerful engine. The blurb states that because of this.. outside flight is a possibilty. Watching a vid on Youtube of the bloke who designed it, he reckons up to 4-5mph winds are ok. I'm hoping my back garden (which is a fair old size but not really big enough for the Champ) is sheltered enough to enable it to be used more often than the Champ. I dunno to be honest.. I saw the 'outside flight is possible' bit and it's about as much as I could afford (though not afford to break) I'm starting to drop hints but they're falling on very stoney ground at the moment

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DaveB

[Tako_Kichi]

Continuing the 'Flying for real' theme.. I want one of these..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... SLo3lkXHA8

Something a little small would do for now
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DaveB

When I was into RC aircraft 30 years ago there was a local guy (back in the UK) who had a Rapide about that size (maybe a touch smaller) and he'd done a really nice job of modelling it.

He had working nav lights and a working, high intensity, landing light in the nose and he used to take it to all the local shows/displays and the kids loved it. It had a removable rear door and he'd rigged up a wire from a wire coat-hanger inside the fuselage just below the roof. He'd also made about 8-10 small plywood parachutists with chutes made out of plastic bags and he would slide these onto the internal wire via a small ring on the top of the chute. The chutes were all folded of course and the plywood stacked so that they would release correctly. After take-off he would fly around as normal for a while and when he wanted to drop the cargo he'd put it into a steep climb with a left-hand bank and all the parachutists would come sliding out of the rear door in a line.

The kids loved chasing around trying to catch the guys as they dropped and then they'd all clamour around the owner begging him to do it again.

[DaveB]

That'd work for me too Larry

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DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Here's one for SWWBO to fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2h5gCX5 ... re=related