Whats your favorite Simple Series?
06-05-2006, 07:46 PM
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Whats your favorite Simple Series?
I had a cap that was cool until it fell out of the sky! Have an Ultimate on the build board, an extra that became a chew toy without me knowing about it, and now a cub on the way...so whats yours?..Rog
06-06-2006, 07:00 AM
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RE: Whats your favorite Simple Series?
My cap had the .074 on it[
],,thats what I hate about building, it seems the more time I spend trying to make a plane look good the shorter life span it will end up with...1st time it went in a soybean field, very little damage the pilot said it felt like a bad battery, it wasnt hit cause no one was on the same ch..so I fix it, head out to the field, it fires right up and heads out great on launch, nice big circle to the left and about 30 second, it looked like a bird that got shot down, it just fell,,2 guys at the field ,,just kinda asked ,Hey what happened? BIG difference in going in , in a soybean field and hard red carolina clay..the foam wing did survive...but that was about it...Rog
],,thats what I hate about building, it seems the more time I spend trying to make a plane look good the shorter life span it will end up with...1st time it went in a soybean field, very little damage the pilot said it felt like a bad battery, it wasnt hit cause no one was on the same ch..so I fix it, head out to the field, it fires right up and heads out great on launch, nice big circle to the left and about 30 second, it looked like a bird that got shot down, it just fell,,2 guys at the field ,,just kinda asked ,Hey what happened? BIG difference in going in , in a soybean field and hard red carolina clay..the foam wing did survive...but that was about it...Rog
06-06-2006, 07:07 AM
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RE: Whats your favorite Simple Series?
Rog,
It had to have been sometime in the mid '80s when RCM published plans for a Simple Duster. Low wing like your Cap but with a Pawnee look about it, cute. For some reason it clicked with the guys in the club and it became a group project. I expect we cut out 8 or 10 "kits" but we only got four finished. But what a treat it was to see them all in the air at the same time.
Mine flew "fair" with a Black Widow but I can't help but wonder how much more fun it would have been if Norvels had existed back then. Hmmm, I wonder if I still have those plans somewhere.
It had to have been sometime in the mid '80s when RCM published plans for a Simple Duster. Low wing like your Cap but with a Pawnee look about it, cute. For some reason it clicked with the guys in the club and it became a group project. I expect we cut out 8 or 10 "kits" but we only got four finished. But what a treat it was to see them all in the air at the same time.
Mine flew "fair" with a Black Widow but I can't help but wonder how much more fun it would have been if Norvels had existed back then. Hmmm, I wonder if I still have those plans somewhere.
06-07-2006, 08:26 PM
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RE: Whats your favorite Simple Series?
Well, I've only built one simple series so far, so it gets my vote by default--the T-6. This thing is such a hoot! The electric-only guys are ALWAYS surprised at the performance I get on this plane with a $40 Norvel
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06-13-2006, 07:59 PM
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Tonight was the first flight on my AT-6. This has to be the most fun I have had flying since I was 15 (I am 40, now) The simple Series builds as quick as they fly. My AT-6 has a Norvell .061 and 3 HS 81's. During my flight, the throttle stuck wide open and I was hanging on with a big smile. I had no trim adjustments to make and the plane flew as if it was on rails. My neighbors will be waking to the sweet sounds of my early morning sortie.
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