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  1. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I have been out flying in the Sub 0 temps for the past 3 days here in S.D. I do not stray to much further then my Front porch though. I take this one Out, Take off from the side walk fly over Walgreens and the Church across the Street for about 3 or 4 minutes land and go right back in to the...
  2. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I agree with you Snoopy1 the reason I mounted it on the bottom was to get a birds Eye view of doing landings with out letting the nose wheel touch down. I was no way expected the view to be so good. I plan on doing many more this way
  3. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I mounted a tail wheel on the rudder of my 2.1 Cessna and a GO-PRO camera under the fuselage to get a bird's Eye view of me trying to do Wheelie ( main gear only touch and goes ) also had a blast doing down on the deck figure 8's
  4. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I have the PRUSA 3D Printer and for this old Fart it was quite the learning experience for me to get use to it LOL!!!!
  5. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I just finished adding a tail wheel in the rudder of one of my 2.1m E-flite Carbon Z Cessna 150's and a mount for one of my GO-Pro camera's on the bottom of the fuselage to get a Video of doing Soft Field take offs and Main gear landings (wheelie landings) with out touching the nose gear I am...
  6. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I just finished up the receiver installation and programming the F4U-1A/D Corsair still waiting for all the graphics from Callie. I found the .STL 3D printer files for some of the parts I want to add in the Corsair on Motion RC's site. Finished the 3D printed instrument panel about 15 minutes...
  7. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I went out and test flew this one in the Wind today. The E-flite P-39 Airacobra
  8. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    We just got around two inches of the white stuff. Tomorrow I am going out in the morning about 10 am to fly the 2.1 Cessna I have on floats just finished doing a 100 hour inspection and a little more paint and she is ready for the snow temps are going to be in the high 30's sunshine and 5 t0 10...
  9. Wild man

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I love to be very relaxed while I am flying I still have two JR 10X's I use out here in fly over Country LOL!!!!
  10. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Snoopy1 Years ago i did enjoy building and covering planes. I still have a Sig 1/4 Scale cub I built in 1990 I used Sig Cover-All and dope. On many planes.The 30 year old cub is still in my Hangar has an OS Gemini Twin 160 with an on board starter and on board glow. The Struts are aluminum...
  11. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    The E-flite P-39 Ready to fly
  12. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    NEXT E-flite P-39 Airacobra assembly. Also uploaded the programming using my IX20 grab the file and imported it Cool feature. Only took 1 hour to assemble and program I just used my Transmitter to program. I uploaded the programming and bound the plane. much quicker then rolling hear and rolling...
  13. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I started the Assembly on the 1600mm F4U-1A/D Corsair. Love all the Scale details and the Scale looking hinges om all surfaces I am going to do the weathering on this one The 18 inch prop is awesome and they give you one extra Blade
  14. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Snoopy 1 I will have to dig through my Ultracote and see if I even have any Orange. I have not Covered a Plane for Years LOL!!!! I do know the Gloss Real Orange is a perfect match for the Orange on My E-flite 1.5mm E-1500 twin Cargo plane, if that is any help. After checking my Big box of...
  15. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    The paint I like to use is the RUST-OLEUM Painters touch 2X Ultra cover Paint and Primer. it is ready available at ACE, MENARDS, LOWES and Wall Mart When it is on sale I buy up 10 to 15 12 oz. cans at $3.29 a can Just make sure you keep the can at least 12 or more inches away for the first light...
  16. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I Finished Up the 2.1 E-flite Carbon Z Cessna 150 tonight the 150 has some color added to it and the floats glassed on the bottom and painted and ready for some Snow OPS. We are suppose to get 2 to 3 inches by Sunday. Flying off snow with floats is a blast. No need to worry about flipping the...
  17. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    after painting the bottom of my floats for the 2.1 Cessna 150 I decided to paint the bottom of the Fuselage Red. Then I decided to paint the bottom of the Horizontal fin to get rid of some of the dominate White LOL!!!! :fist_pump:
  18. Wild man

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Putting a few Coats of Aluminum Color paint on the glassed 2.1 C-150 floats getting ready for Snow OPS if we ever get some snow LOL. So far all we have got this winter is High winds last week we had 4 days of nothing less then 30 to 55 and gusts over 70 mph and mild temps in the high 30's and...
  19. Wild man

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    The FED-EX Man just dropped this off. Now I can find out what the top speed all my planes are. especially My jets and my racer's
  20. Wild man

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    I ordered two more War Birds today. The E-flite P-39 Airocobra and a Fight line 1600mm Bird cage F4U Corsair now the wait begins LOL!!!!
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