Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

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Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by flyboy_fx » Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:04 pm

Not sure it is the right place to show it off. lol.

THis is before I added the nose weight. Now it has a 9x18 makarov bullet under the engine. :p

The plane overall weighs 4oz.

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane!

Post by flyboy_fx » Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:05 pm

I was able to fly it successfully once. I may bring it out again later on in the week.
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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by flyboy_fx » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:59 pm

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by Stug45 » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:50 pm

Thats awesome flyboy 8) 8)
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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by granch » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:02 pm

I would'nt fly with so much trees in the background, even if I know the place. Congratulations.
May be less risk of crash if the main undercarriage is a little bit more forward, so that the wheels protect the propeller of catching the terrain? I've had hard lessons with my small parkzone plane.

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by flyboy_fx » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:14 am

THe wheels are ok now. They where made from soft balsa and kept breaking. :/

They are too close so it wants to keep doing a ground loop.
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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by granch » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:44 pm

There is just ONE tree with a very wide field near my home and no wind yesterday. My 2nd son put MY parkzone plane into it... but we could bring it down with a 30 feet long bamboo assembly, and happily no trouble. Yes, definitively, I prefer flying far away from trees and admire your talent, flyboy_fx!

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by flyboy_fx » Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:19 pm

granch wrote:There is just ONE tree with a very wide field near my home and no wind yesterday. My 2nd son put MY parkzone plane into it... but we could bring it down with a 30 feet long bamboo assembly, and happily no trouble. Yes, definitively, I prefer flying far away from trees and admire your talent, flyboy_fx!
Thanks! Much appreciated.

I know about those "lone trees". They catch more planes then the whole dang forest. HAHA :lol:
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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by ram04 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:20 pm

Great video, I appreciate the flying skill, a friend and I bought some hobby lobby cheapos a few years ago, decided there was nothing to it. About 2 hours later all we had was a bunch of styrofoam and electronics.

Have stayed on the ground since.

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by granch » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:27 pm

I was more lucky than ram04, but had to spend many hours searching my bright red plane in a green field of growing potatoes. The wind blowed it away and it landed safely alone (I still have a heroic crash landing style), beeing nicely camouflaged under the green leaves roof...
So, I got 2 lessons: write your phone number on your plane, and if there is no wind at ground level, it may be very different 30 ft above.

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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by flyboy_fx » Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:46 pm

So true! HAHA! I always take both into consideration!
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Re: Micro RC vintage biplane! with Video!

Post by plasticboy » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:06 am

What a great fun for the Micro RC biplane! Truely amazing!!
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