Atlantic Society of Radio Controlled Modellers

Atlantic Society of Radio Controlled Modellers
https://www.asrcm.ns.ca/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Atlantic Society of Radio Control Modellers >> General Discussions >> at the field friday july 11th https://www.asrcm.ns.ca/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1405128236 Message started by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:23pm

Title: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:23pm

Rick, Rob and I spent the entire day at the field friday. Nice warm, not hot, sorta overcast, not very windy kind of day. perfect!

Lots of flying!

rick test flew his craig/al/rick sundowner for the first time on eight cells and a whopping motor. Data downloaded from the receiver calculated a speed in the area of 106 MPH. It reminded me of Jon's speed plane where you could only punch the throttle for a second or two before running out of field.

photo three shows the cell layout, six in front and another two in a separate red pack below the wing tube.

DSC_4323-1.jpg (89 KB | 198 )

DSC_4324-1.jpg (89 KB | 209 )

DSC_4326-1.jpg (85 KB | 209 )

DSC_4328-1.jpg (89 KB | 210 )

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:25pm

the initial takeoff, a high speed pass and some landing approaches

DSC_4331-1.jpg (85 KB | 198 )

DSC_4334-1.jpg (86 KB | 195 )

DSC_4338-1.jpg (86 KB | 209 )

DSC_4339-1.jpg (87 KB | 204 )

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:31pm

a happy camper. Several flights flown on it today and rick tells me has has built a small GPS unit which will be installed in the canopy to measure actual speed. Hopefully I'll see that saturday.

DSC_4343-1.jpg (85 KB | 200 )

DSC_4366-1.jpg (88 KB | 202 )

DSC_4352-1.jpg (84 KB | 204 )

DSC_4355-1.jpg (84 KB | 206 )

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:32pm

rob returns to the pits also a happy camper after greasing some nice touch and goes on his yak.

DSC_4398-1.jpg (85 KB | 204 )

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:35pm

in other news rick and I were fooling around with my mobious camera equipped quad and his foamy and this video is the result. watch to the end for the best part.

the camera wide angle pushes things away and rick was amazingly close to the quad at times although it doesn't appear that close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM4679DKvV0&feature=youtu.be

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by RocketManRC on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:58pm

The ending is definitely the best Al 8-)

A great day of flying overall!

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by rob2 on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 8:45pm

Great pictures Al. think I need a new hat :)

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by FLC on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 8:50pm

Your hat is fine. You just have to wear it with the ear muffs down. Lol

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by RocketManRC on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 8:54pm

FLC astroflyer wrote on Jul 11^th, 2014 at 10:31pm:

a happy camper. Several flights flown on it today and rick tells me has has built a small GPS unit which will be installed in the canopy to measure actual speed. Hopefully I'll see that saturday.

As a follow up on this, my DIY GPS speedometer worked well. There was a slight breeze and we clocked the Sundowner at 180 km/hr downwind and (slightly later) at 173 km/hr upwind.

I'm trying for 200 :-)

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by Newfie Bullet on Jul 14^th, 2014 at 9:15am

Rick I am going to have to turn up the pitch and up the head speed on my Goblin 700 to see if I can match ya!!! :D ;D :D

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by RocketManRC on Jul 14^th, 2014 at 9:33am

Should be a good match Craig!

Title: Re: at the field friday july 11th
Post by rob2 on Jul 14^th, 2014 at 10:45pm

Man that's cooking along.
Craig, you might want to look at this video first,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRh9vPYHY6M