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Yea thats where I'm at too. Tired of building even though I have a hog bipe 90% done just need to monokote and add the power plant. I have little foam deltas that are more fun to fly than anything and if they wreck it just dents them sue to a nice shipping tape skin that makes them damn near invincable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erni
Read this right when I woke up and was having trouble getting my eyes to focus. I was really surprised since I never pictured you as a guy who was into bag pipes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazin
Oh I have the heritage for it but I was speaking of this....
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Modified for electric power looking to pull 1800 watts per pound (@13lbs finish weight running a 6s 5000mah battery)
Honestly nice models like that scare me. Hours of work and one mistake and you have scrap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazin
I have a 2m Amigo glider that I bought in early 80s that my pops and me put together last year. Yep 30 years later. I am afraid to go fly it. Old school balsa stick construction, very nice plane, just scared to fly it. I am not a great pilot so that?s probably part of it but still.
I did find a mini super cub with 27mhz transmitter in the basement. Will get a battery today and go crash it, I mean fly it later today
Mazin you got suggestions on what to do with crashed planes other than trash?
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Originally Posted by Erni
List in the trading post as GREAT STARTER Package
Oh I hear you brudda. I started in this stuff when i was about 8 with my grandfather and after he passed I had about 45 planes, I've since decommissioned most due to glow fuel soaked into the balsa. Gliders takes a real pilot where as the powered stuff I think is a little easier. If you do ever fly it and need some balsa or parts hit me up. That bipe is about 7 years old and I've done 90% (about 140hrs of work / design and planning) of the building last winter. Still have a topflite p51 gold and 2 sig kadets in kits to build as well. I figured on a spring maiden flight but just got burned out so its up in the rafters of the garage now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erni
Seriously anyone wanting to get into RC planes hit me up first i have so much stuff that i doubt ill ever use. As sad as it is I'm actually thinking about culling most of my stuff and just doing quads.
For crashed planes that can't be fixed I just keep whatever electronics. Motors or hardware I can. I have jewel cases full of nuts, bolts, servo arms, control horns etc. You can always use that stuff later on with other airframes.
The only way to build the skills as a pilot is to fly. You fly RC you're going to crash at some point the biggest thing is learning from your mistakes and to also how too crash "lightly".
If your interested these deltas are easy as hell to build and fly really well. The material cost is about $6 for the foam insulation board and again if you need electronics hit me up.
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Good shipping tape skin and I've nose dived these into the ground at about 70 mph and all they really do is dent.