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Old 10-14-2003, 01:34 PM
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Default Your favorite maneuver...

Seeing as that we're all expert pilots Which manever is your favorite to perform? Mine is the rolling cuban eight...it's a lot of fun, but very tricky.

Yours?
Old 10-14-2003, 01:53 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

elevators
Knife edge snaps
staircase (series of parachutes)
blenders into a inverted flat spin into a harrier (all with smoke on)
Old 10-14-2003, 03:25 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

my latest show-stopper is the flat spin landing, i havent crunched it yet!!!
Old 10-14-2003, 04:22 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Inverted elevators & outside rolling circle Torque roll (if I can get good enough to do more than two rotations).
Old 10-14-2003, 04:48 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

My fave is the landing, it means what ever i've just done, it didn't end up killing the plane.
flying, i'm quite enjoying 4 point rolls now i have a plane that can. sad isn't it.
Old 10-14-2003, 05:20 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Im not sure what its called but i do a vertical snap turnaround manuver that looks really cool. At the end of the manuver the plane runs out of steam on the up line, rolls and travels sideways then tail slides, flips and i pull out going back the way i came.
Old 10-14-2003, 07:00 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Massively large barrel roll into a knife edge spin, into an inverted flat spin, into an inverted elevater, inverted harier into a hover

I follow that up with the same combo but after the inverted spin i waterfall into an inverted climbing flat spin.

I hear that the "falling leaf" is really cool but i don't know what it is. What is a falling leaf?
Old 10-14-2003, 07:05 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Although far from needing talent (which is good for me), my favorite is what I call the death dive. I take my Magic up to "x" height and do a full power dive. Then when I am about the point where I think it will loop without hitting the ground, I pull full up elevator. It really should crack the fuselage in half or something, and someday it probably will, but I get an "oooh" or "ahhh" every now and then with it.

ps I would never try this with my Extra.
Old 10-14-2003, 07:14 PM
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That's insane dude!!! I'm pretty ballsy, but i would never try that.

Hope your not pointing towards me when you do your "death dive."
Who is gonna die the plane or the spectators?
Old 10-14-2003, 07:44 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

A well performed smooth knife edge on the deck. No rolls or turns just level flight.
Old 10-14-2003, 08:05 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

ORIGINAL: MHawker-RCU

Although far from needing talent (which is good for me), my favorite is what I call the death dive. I take my Magic up to "x" height and do a full power dive. Then when I am about the point where I think it will loop without hitting the ground, I pull full up elevator. It really should crack the fuselage in half or something, and someday it probably will, but I get an "oooh" or "ahhh" every now and then with it.

ps I would never try this with my Extra.

This reminds me of the full throttle blenders we were doing at Chenango Bridge event last year. Climb high, point the nose down and give it full throttle. Wait till it builds up speed, then wham the sticks for a blender input then immediately into a flat spin. That plane would speed down then literally stop on a dime in the flat inverted spin. We expected the airplane to break into pieces, but it never did after several attempts. Only do this with expendables and keep it in a safe area.
Old 10-14-2003, 09:38 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Just from viewing some vids (I cannot do this one yet) I absolutely envy guys that can do super smooth fully controlled slow rolling Harriers up and down the runway,at 5 feet altitude,ahh it just kills me..
Old 10-14-2003, 11:04 PM
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Tail-touches. It sure grabs people's eye at the club I belong to.
Old 10-15-2003, 12:05 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Outside super snaps - do it just right and it comes on like an explosion. My Midwest and Comp ARF Extras do it perfectly.
Old 10-15-2003, 12:09 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

I have to agree, cant wait to learn that one!

ORIGINAL: nitro wing

Just from viewing some vids (I cannot do this one yet) I absolutely envy guys that can do super smooth fully controlled slow rolling Harriers up and down the runway,at 5 feet altitude,ahh it just kills me..
Old 10-15-2003, 01:34 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

I love doing low slow High Alpha knife-edge passes

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Old 10-15-2003, 04:26 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

I viewed a video that had some nice flying.Are you the Josh Glavin flying an Edge with DA 150?
Old 10-15-2003, 06:55 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

To anwser for Josh, Yes he is the same one. You dont want to know how long he has been flying to do all of this . Most people who have been in it for such a short time are only just starting to fly aerobatic planes.

My fav. are rolling harriers under 10 ft. off the deck, rolling harrier loops (still cant do this one), and point rolling cuban 8's (still working on this one as well, I got it down but just not the point rolling part). It seems as though the majority of things I am most impressed with are things that I am still working on.
Old 10-16-2003, 08:25 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

I also like a 3/4 knife edge loop into a KE spin.

Tried to take the knife edge spin back into the knife edge loop. I was able to get it done but it was real rough. I'm talkin like 1 out of 10 attempts.
Old 10-16-2003, 09:12 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

A really deep (like from level flight to almost vertical) snap into a hover. My Saito smokes enough that the plane draws a circle around itself and ends up hovering in it.

Outside of that, I'm one of two pilots in my club that harrier. People ask me how it doesn't stall. I tell them that it did, and then they look at me like I'm crazy. After all, stall means go down, right???
Old 10-16-2003, 09:48 AM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

shadowspring;

Falling leaf; Hold the plane nose high just about at stall, start to enter a spin to either side with the rudder and as it starts to go immediately correct with opposite rudder to get it going the other way. Keep repeating it and the plane comes down like a falling leaf. I've done them full size but haven't been able to get an rc plane to do them yet, the timings tricky and quick.

Mike
Old 10-16-2003, 01:03 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

That would be me
Old 10-16-2003, 02:26 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

I have to update mine. I still like doing the elevators and rolling circles the best. But to WOW the crowd there is nothing like making a full throttle inverted pass and dragging the rudder in the grass.
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Old 10-16-2003, 05:57 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

ORIGINAL: TailTwister
Outside of that, I'm one of two pilots in my club that harrier. People ask me how it doesn't stall. I tell them that it did, and then they look at me like I'm crazy. After all, stall means go down, right???
Next time, tell them to look at where the prop is and how fast its turning. Then, ask them why helicopters don't stall. It might sink in
Old 10-16-2003, 07:58 PM
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Default RE: Your favorite maneuver...

Personally I prefer tumbles, although my rolling harrier loops with a shoulder roll at the top are cool to


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