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The 3DRCForums -Discuss Anything Thread-

dth7

dth7

3DRCF Regional Ambassador
Chicka boom boom bawo bawo. Hell , you know the sound track I was trying to spell! Enjoy!
 
dth7

dth7

3DRCF Regional Ambassador
Tech ? On "Tapatalk" forum app why don't vid audios work? Copyright thing? If I go to web site forum and find same vid it's fine. Is this fairly new? Just noticing it. Thanks.
 
wfahey415

wfahey415

3DRCF Moderator
Impressive to say the least.

I was thinking I would start working with my grandson when he was 4. I may have to bump that timeline up!
 
Bipenut53

Bipenut53

150cc
So I was sitting here remembering the good ol' days lol. I was thinking about when I was living on the west side of Washington state. I was living on some friends property where they had a private airstrip :thumbup: They also had a homebuilt airplane, it was a Stein Skybolt biplane, beautiful airplane and they did an awesome job on it. I then remembered that I had some video I took from the cockpit of one of the flights on mini 8 video tape (told you it was years ago lol) So I converted it to digital. Quick back story on the flight, it was a fall afternoon, we decided to go up and "play" a little. This airplane did not have an inverted system so everything is gravity fed, including fuel. This video is about 10 minuets long a lot of it is us climbing to get some altitude. You can see Mt. Rainier, the closest, the crater of Mt. St. Helens and off in the distance is Mt. Adams. After the first aerobatics set you see we climb again and my buddy says "Hey you want to do a spin?" Of course I said Yes!! Climb again, we do the spin then a hammerhead. After that you hear the engine cut out, me say you killed it! It started up again BUT we developed carb ice. This causes the engine to run very rich, you can smell it in the cockpit, and lacks power badly. The carb heater was not real good in that plane. So only choice was to land, only one way in, and one way out and at that point only one shot at it. You see a couple of turns to bleed off altitude and then he slipped it in....


[video=youtube;QCwsWUTXGP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwsWUTXGP4[/video]


This is where I learned how to fly RC too.... Look at those trees!!
 
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Bushwacker

Bushwacker

3DRCF Moderator
HAHA Awesome dude. So how was the pucker factor when you heard that motor quite on ya. Thanks for sharing that one Biper. :)
 
Bipenut53

Bipenut53

150cc
Lol well the engine dieing didn't bother me at all, had that happen many times, the smell of fuel and knowing we only had one shot at the runway really bothered me
 
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