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[Red]

Played hooky from work on Monday, the forecast for Los Banos looked good and it didn't disappoint! 25+ straight in made for an epic day. I flew 21oz. of ballast in the Spada, and the Alpenbrise both and they loved it! The type of day where the plane whistles the whole flight. Shoelace showed up with his Jester and got as maiden flight on his scale bird too. Great times with good friends can't be beat.

 

[Doc J]

Played hooky from work on Monday, the forecast for Los Banos looked good and it didn't disappoint! 25+ straight in made for an epic day. I flew 21oz. of ballast in the Spada, and the Alpenbrise both and they loved it! The type of day where the plane whistles the whole flight. Shoelace showed up with his Jester and got as maiden flight on his scale bird too. Great times with good friends can't be beat.

Lucky buggers...

Doc.

 

[Wayne]

Excellent!

 

[thenated0g]

Converted my old frsky transmitter case to telescope storage. I never tried cutting pink foam with a laser before. It is nice to work with.
I think I'm going to try and build some more tool holders for my RC stuff with it now.

 

[Wayne]

We have cut foam in the laser, but never crossed my mind for this sort of application. I like it. Might have to organize some of our tools.

 

[Warley]

finished wings

 

[Warley]

We have cut foam in the laser, but never crossed my mind for this sort of application. I like it. Might have to organize some of our tools.

Maybe next week I'll pay you a visit.

 

[RafaelAvila]

Wall mounts and hanging mounts all 3d printed

 

[thenated0g]

400'ish photos stacked.
Strawberry Moon

 

[Doc J]

400'ish photos stacked.
Strawberry Moon
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Is there anybody out there....?

Doc.

 

[jakem]

400'ish photos stacked.
Strawberry Moon
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Wow!

 

[bbardon]

Just completed this FXj 2.5 from rs-aero.com. Six servos, EMAX GT2218 1100KV motor, Aeronaut CAM 10x5 prop, all from Aloft. Just under 1 kg.

 

[Hank GB Z]

My club got a collection of models from a widow. The club decided to sell the models to raise funds. I paid to much for a Dream Flight Liebell that was missing a wing pannel. However i bought a new set of wings for it from Dream Flight and i came out still cheaper than a whole new model. The new wings didn't come with control horn so i used some MP jet ones i got from Aloft. I've got about 25 min on her she flies well. I need to do lots more programming for the flaperon and launch modes. Anyway, i'm happy I've been interested in getting one of these for sometime and now i have one.

Hank

 

[Yotaman1985]

Had some fun with my son today and set up a quick parachute drop mechanism on my classic Parkzone T28 Trojan. Pretty basic but worked fantastic! Did about 25 drops on one battery from a few hundred feet. Had time to dive down and land before the parachute and then my son and I could go out and catch it.

Short video below

 

[jure]

as it is too hot to be outside and fly these days, I devoted some time to make a new Frankenplane slope glider.
As a foundation, used a P-38 Lightning balsa model , free flight, rubber band powered , with damaged wings and rudders.
Added the top wings from a foamy Pitts Biplane, bringing the WS to 54.5".
Added a pull-pull mechanism for the elevator.
Streamlined the airframe removing some scale features.
Set the CG and did a successful test glide in the neighbor's front yard. It glides OK !
Hope to test fly it at Mussel Rock very soon.

original condition as received, before almost going to the trash.

 

[Jarron]

Tried out a new setup in the Xray over the weekend.

 

[SailHigh]

as it is too hot to be outside and fly these days, I devoted some time to make a new Frankenplane slope glider.
As a foundation, used a P-38 Lightning balsa model , free flight, rubber band powered , with damaged wings and rudders.
Added the top wings from a foamy Pitts Biplane, bringing the WS to 54.5".
Added a pull-pull mechanism for the elevator.
Streamlined the airframe removing some scale features.
Set the CG and did a successful test glide in the neighbor's front yard. It glides OK !
Hope to test fly it at Mussel Rock very soon.

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original condition as received, before almost going to the trash.
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That's your best best looking Frankenplane Jure. And I've seen a lot of your creations over the years!

 

[jure]

That's your best best looking Frankenplane Jure. And I've seen a lot of your creations over the years!

I'm humbly honored , sir !

 

[timrowledge]

Is there anybody out there....?

Doc.

Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

 

[timrowledge]

I just had to re-motor my 20 year old Seledkin. For ~8 years I've been running a Turnigy Gliderdrive 840kV with a 14x9.5 graupner prop and 4S3300 set up. It's worked very well indeed at warping spacetime and observer's minds.

A couple of weeks ago I had cause to recalibrate the controls using Mike Shellim's wonderful Calibrate Mode and at the end of the process went to check the motor arm and disarm and throttle behaviour. For the first time ever the motor did Very Odd Things, fortunately with the prop removed. It felt a bit stiff/notchy but another couple of tries made it seem happy, so I replaced the prop and tried a power run. Well, that went ok for about 2 seconds and then lots of nasty stuttering etc.

So I removed the nosecone, pulled the motor to look at it and even with now ESC attached it was hard to turn. So I dismantled the motor (the glider drive is an outrunnuner-in-a-can to keep wires out of the way in a tight nose) and it looked like one of the windings was damaged.Fortunately I had a spare bought 6 years ago for another model that sill hasn't been touched, so I swapped it in and tried a basic power up without the prop - all OK.

Since things were looking up I hopped over to the online ecalc to check the likely figures. One thing that has changed recently is a new set of batteries. I've been using the same set of tired turnigy nano-tech 4S3300 packs since 2017 and just got some Zeeeeee (how many 'e's?) 4S3700 packs. eCalc tells me I've been pulling 90+ amps through a 70A cheap ESC and a motor that doesn't want more than 70A either. It's so long ago that I have no memory of whether I check the original setup with eCalc, but maybe I just swapped the old and very worn Aveox F12G back the and kept the same prop without really worrying. Evidently the new packs pushed it over the edge, or perhaps it's been marginal for a while and just gave up. I know the feeling.

So I'll move down to a 13x7 for some testing, and I've made a dinky little nose inlet and NACA side outlet in the nosecone, and if I can get one for a bearable price I'll probably swap to a ventilate spinner some day. Perhaps some air will help. I'd love to make a tiny powered hatch - like a retract door - to open during power and close for gliding, but that nose is already full. Wish me luck!