Post by huggy on Sept 8, 2010 14:56:52 GMT 1
I have a lot of free-flight planes about, such as :
Outdoor :
1.Bugaboo - 44" vintage style beast built by me in traditional balsa style powered by Mills 0.75 diesel and has been flown at Old Warden, Epsom Downs, and closer to home when winds permit, along with the others. It's due for conversion to minimal RC over the winter and electric power, loads of room in fuselage. Will get to fly it more often then!
2.Carina biplane - It's a Cardinal, with an extra wing. Will be kept as FF for special occasions
3.Bearnezer - all-sheet Ebenezer style WW2 Bearcat with a Dart 0.5cc diesel, which actually glides quite well after scary spiral climbs
4. Electric Cardinal - downsized from original, with KP01 electric, single LiPo and Zombie fligh profiler
5. Pylonite - vintage style pylon job in miniature 27" span, with KP01 and KP's own timer/speed controller
6. Fike peanut scale from X-Wing kit, with geared KP00 and Nicads. Almost disappeared for good at Old Warden once, and flew in endless circles in the Millennium Dome when they had a couple of FF meets there before it was re-commissioned. An awesome experience
7. Rubber powered Oscar, 24" span from a Model Flying magazine plan, first thing I did when I started back in the hobby about nine years ago
Also a couple of huge contest FF jobs I bought but never dared fly or had room to, and a rather tatty 40" glider called a Stormbird, built frtom a plan waaay back in the 80s
Indoor : Lots of different little rubber / electric jobs, two of the best being a Peanut size Fairman Mosquito, and a half size version of a classic Keil Kraft free flighter that I can't recall the name of. Most of these live indoors in a large box top of the wardrobe, as the old shed gets a bit damp in typical British winter!
In future, I will probably only build FF ones for indoors (as you know what the conditions will be like inside!) - just started a "No Cal" profile Cub for the winter - and for regular flying, build up the RC stock. At the moment as I said elsewhere, making up a Flying Wings V-tail foamie with a teeny little outrunner, will start converting the Bugaboo with a Spektrum A500 RX and old style 400 can motor that will fit on the exisiting ic engine mounting beams, then a future project might be the sturdy looking Zulu sports trainer in this month's RCME magazine here in the UK.
Phew, that sounds a lot now you come to mention it....
Outdoor :
1.Bugaboo - 44" vintage style beast built by me in traditional balsa style powered by Mills 0.75 diesel and has been flown at Old Warden, Epsom Downs, and closer to home when winds permit, along with the others. It's due for conversion to minimal RC over the winter and electric power, loads of room in fuselage. Will get to fly it more often then!
2.Carina biplane - It's a Cardinal, with an extra wing. Will be kept as FF for special occasions
3.Bearnezer - all-sheet Ebenezer style WW2 Bearcat with a Dart 0.5cc diesel, which actually glides quite well after scary spiral climbs
4. Electric Cardinal - downsized from original, with KP01 electric, single LiPo and Zombie fligh profiler
5. Pylonite - vintage style pylon job in miniature 27" span, with KP01 and KP's own timer/speed controller
6. Fike peanut scale from X-Wing kit, with geared KP00 and Nicads. Almost disappeared for good at Old Warden once, and flew in endless circles in the Millennium Dome when they had a couple of FF meets there before it was re-commissioned. An awesome experience
7. Rubber powered Oscar, 24" span from a Model Flying magazine plan, first thing I did when I started back in the hobby about nine years ago
Also a couple of huge contest FF jobs I bought but never dared fly or had room to, and a rather tatty 40" glider called a Stormbird, built frtom a plan waaay back in the 80s
Indoor : Lots of different little rubber / electric jobs, two of the best being a Peanut size Fairman Mosquito, and a half size version of a classic Keil Kraft free flighter that I can't recall the name of. Most of these live indoors in a large box top of the wardrobe, as the old shed gets a bit damp in typical British winter!
In future, I will probably only build FF ones for indoors (as you know what the conditions will be like inside!) - just started a "No Cal" profile Cub for the winter - and for regular flying, build up the RC stock. At the moment as I said elsewhere, making up a Flying Wings V-tail foamie with a teeny little outrunner, will start converting the Bugaboo with a Spektrum A500 RX and old style 400 can motor that will fit on the exisiting ic engine mounting beams, then a future project might be the sturdy looking Zulu sports trainer in this month's RCME magazine here in the UK.
Phew, that sounds a lot now you come to mention it....
Used to race at a dirt track that had a rocket club next door once, occasionally we'd get one land in the infield or the pits! Not too bad unless 'chute never deployed!!!