This flies – or will fly.\u00a0 I only gave it limited testing because I forgot to design and build a stooge attachment.\u00a0 The best stooge for this is a human stooge and my flying partner (son Jack) stayed home.\u00a0 I did borrow Winn Moore and Chris Boehm for stooging duties, but didn’t take a lot of their time, so I got about 4 test flights.<\/p>\n
It is very stable and required nose weight and thrust adjustments, but I left it flying in the 30-40 second range, still needing trim, as it was stalling all over the place.<\/p>\n
It’s no secret that I like this little OT Stick.\u00a0 My old one would fly for 30+ seconds – without any predictability.\u00a0 This one is very stable, flying a left-left on a loop of 1\/8″ with about 1500 turns.\u00a0 It repeated 60 second\u00a0 +\/- flights every time.\u00a0 I need to do some slight adjustments to trim the glide a little better, but this is just for fun anyway.\u00a0 I don’t know why these photos didn’t come out better.<\/p>\n This has been a fun project.\u00a0 I’ve built three of these (first one flew into the woods, never to be seen again) and Jack has built one.\u00a0 This is a design by Harrison Knapp.\u00a0 He built his as a tribute:\u00a0 he flew choppers in Viet Nam and said he often called on the F-4s to provide support.<\/p>\n I am not sure that these will ever be top performers in JetCat – think 15-20 seconds.\u00a0 This event is really being stretched by experts building light high-wings capable of easy thermalling.\u00a0 This is just like the real thing – heavy and fast.\u00a0 But it is lots of fun and in the initial climb-out and banking turn to the left, it really does look like an F-4.\u00a0 I managed to snap some in-flight photos – it is very hard to launch and then spot\/focus\/shoot, but I got some shots.<\/p>\n I know many of you are looking for this – it will be a kit in a month or so.\u00a0 I lightend up the pieces and trimmed 25% of the weight for the black one.\u00a0 I also made some ribs that I tacked onto the sheet wings and covered with tissue.\u00a0 And I made the tail surfaces a bit smaller, setting the h-stab to a lower incidence. – It flies a little better than the yellow one, but stalls out when the speed comes off – I think the tips need washout or something.<\/p>\n Guillows #905 P-51D<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t have any flight shots of this, but I want to report that this is a very stable flyer.\u00a0 I eventually got up to about 1500 turns on a loop of 3\/16″ rubber.\u00a0 When it came time for WWII, after the first round (five participants), I imagined I could get 2nd place.\u00a0 Going into the 3rd and final round, Winn Moore broke a motor and surrendered 1st place to my Mustang.\u00a0 I am not a Guillows fanboy, in fact, I don’t build them – EXCEPT I wanted to prove an assumption of mine – that the 900 Series planes (the Mustang, the Chipmunk, and maybe the Trojan) are viable entry-level kits that can fly with no real modifications, other than the noseblock (and replace the nose, nose bearing, prop, and rubber).<\/p>\n Here is a brief summary of the three planes I built in two weeks and was able to fly yesterday. PBY NoCal This flies – or will fly.\u00a0 I only gave it limited testing because I forgot to design and … Continue reading ![\"pby-02\"](\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PBY-02.jpg\")
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