Cool The I'm going out flying thread 2017

[iflyfloats]

Attended the Lazy Eight RC Club Charity Air Show in Johnstown, NY on Sat, had a full scale fly-by of 3 AT 6's, a Yak, and a Spitfire. Today they had a Corsair fly-by, unfortunately I missed that.

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[iflyfloats]

Attended the Lazy Eight RC Club Charity Air Show in Johnstown, NY on Sat, had a full scale fly-by of 3 AT 6's, a Yak, and a Spitfire. Today they had a Corsair fly-by, unfortunately I missed that.

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[Jetpainter]

Good that all you guys made it to the field and got some flights in. The amount of time we spend getting them ready and then dodging the weather we have to make the best of it when we can.
@Jetpainter how did the new shim work for you.

It worked out pretty well. I don't think it's perfect, but it's close enough for my use. I can climb and point roll and things without the plane heading off to it's left.

 

[rmyers]

Heading out this morning with the QQ Yak. We'll see how many rounds I can fly before the eclipse.

 

[stangflyer]

Heading out this morning with the QQ Yak. We'll see how many rounds I can fly before the eclipse.

Just keep flying. From day to night to day. Not many can say they have done that. Hmmm....I need to get my little gasserized trainer out and see if I can do an endurance flight. Pretty certain I could get a dawn to dawn flight in. Hee hee...

 

[Snoopy1]

Just keep flying. From day to night to day. Not many can say they have done that. Hmmm....I need to get my little gasserized trainer out and see if I can do an endurance flight. Pretty certain I could get a dawn to dawn flight in. Hee hee...View attachment 98488

Speaking of endurance flying a few years back we held a contest at my old club and it was an endurance test. Well my friend and I had an old 120 Skyward and I mean old. Anyway we interned the contest with skyward. We managed to fit in a 64 and 32 oz tank one on top of the other, it took some doing to get it to work and empty the the tanks, but we got it all to work. With the Os 120 on front we were ready. The only rule was we were not allowed to touch the ground. We were up in the air for over three hours absolutely beat. The only thing that happened is the radio started to die so we had to land, we had second but could have won it, after the other person landed we still had more fuel than he did but the radio let us down but must say it was fun.

 

[rmyers]

During the fourth round of practice I started to notice it was getting darker. So I finished the round and we started passing around the welding helmet to watch.

 

[rmyers]

 

[49dimes]

Clouded all up and rained just before the eclipse . After a down pour I did make it out to see the new landing gear perform on my buddies plane . And guess what?.......The tail wheel fell off . I think my build rep has been shot to hell .

I flew my 330sc with the SFG's but the engine (after tweaking a bit) still ran like . So I cant tell yet how they do in HA KE. I did notice it took a bit less rudder to hold KE at moderate speeds. But for now IB spending more shop time instead of flight time .

 

[iflyfloats]

Fly-by from the Crazy Eights RC Club Charity air show