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hi... i was wondering what crazy stuff do u all do to your plane.
I'm thinking of attaching bombs (eggs) to my plane and bombing my friends!!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]!
what have u in mind or what have u all done?
I'm thinking of attaching bombs (eggs) to my plane and bombing my friends!!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]!
what have u in mind or what have u all done?
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Our club has an annual fun fly. One of the contests is a bomb drop. We use small tissue paper "bombs" filled with talcum powder which are harmless if they hit someone. The AMA discourages dropping things from aircraft that can possibley harm what they hit, eggs included. If you do egg someone you will have a lot fewer friends to fly with. At our field you would be invited to join another club. Preferrably in the next county.
We also fly a "limbo" with a piece of crepe paper stretched between two poles. Planes must fly under it and the paper keeps being lowered until the last one completes the course. You can use a single dice, or is that die? and determine how many different maneuvers you must complete in one flight, land and roll two dice until you roll doubles. It is a timed event. Also have someone, usually the CD, pick an arbitrary secret number and see who can come closest to it. No one knows the number until all contestants have flown. If you really want excitement fly the length of the runway upside down and drag the tip of your rudder. Longest drag mark wins.
We also fly a "limbo" with a piece of crepe paper stretched between two poles. Planes must fly under it and the paper keeps being lowered until the last one completes the course. You can use a single dice, or is that die? and determine how many different maneuvers you must complete in one flight, land and roll two dice until you roll doubles. It is a timed event. Also have someone, usually the CD, pick an arbitrary secret number and see who can come closest to it. No one knows the number until all contestants have flown. If you really want excitement fly the length of the runway upside down and drag the tip of your rudder. Longest drag mark wins.
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I'm sure anyone could manage it if you let them go around a couple times if they don't quite manage it at first.
Oh wait, does it matter if the plane is still flying and in one piece after it drags the rudder?
Oh wait, does it matter if the plane is still flying and in one piece after it drags the rudder?
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Dragging the rudder on the runway while inverted is not for the faint of heart. You won't see Extra 300's, or other contest quality models involved in this "sport". The airplanes most in use for a fun fly are the likes of an Uproar 40 and that sort. A new Uproar kit is $40 and they don't all crash. The dragging part is really a touch that leaves a discernable mark. Needless to say this isn't for all pilots but quite a few like the challenge.
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Purposefully droppig an object from a model on someone is dangerous.
#1, the object will leave the plane at something over 40 mph (possibly 75 to 95 mph) then it takes a ballistic arc and can impact at over 200 mph. An egg can cause a serious injury.
#2, to drop the thing on someone... you gotta fly over him/her, which is patently unsafe. a split second loss of control... and your airplane hits the person. People have been killed when .40 size trainers hit them.
Save any drop exercises for a safe distance from any people.
#1, the object will leave the plane at something over 40 mph (possibly 75 to 95 mph) then it takes a ballistic arc and can impact at over 200 mph. An egg can cause a serious injury.
#2, to drop the thing on someone... you gotta fly over him/her, which is patently unsafe. a split second loss of control... and your airplane hits the person. People have been killed when .40 size trainers hit them.
Save any drop exercises for a safe distance from any people.
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in my "younger days" when i was flying before i drove.
Dropped water/shaving cream ballons from an aerostar 40(used an xacto blade to cut a string sling holding it.)
Fired estes rockets from the wing of a midwest sweet-n-low-stick( looked like a f-14 phonex missle launch)
mini cameras straped to top wings, landing between the poles of a basket ball court(one abrupt stop)
that was a while ago(not ama feild...didn't even know about ama then)
Ohh wait, I just recently saved a plane by pulling it down from a hover because the landing gear rotated 90 degrees to the fuse.
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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!
Dropped water/shaving cream ballons from an aerostar 40(used an xacto blade to cut a string sling holding it.)
Fired estes rockets from the wing of a midwest sweet-n-low-stick( looked like a f-14 phonex missle launch)
mini cameras straped to top wings, landing between the poles of a basket ball court(one abrupt stop)
that was a while ago(not ama feild...didn't even know about ama then)
Ohh wait, I just recently saved a plane by pulling it down from a hover because the landing gear rotated 90 degrees to the fuse.
DISCLAIMER:
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!
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how did you go about igniting the fuse that was in the rocket engine, and moreover, what rocket were you using and how did the rocket not mess up your lateral balance when you flew it??
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<hr>how did you go about igniting the fuse that was in the rocket engine,<hr>
This bit is a piece o cake - use a small servo to activate a micro-switch, closing the circuit to the fuse. Easy. Mounting the rocket so as to not turn the plane too severly is easy as well - use a piece of wire, a bit of drinking straw taped to the rocket goes on wire as a guide. Use stickytape (Small amount) at BACK of rocket to hold in place. Rocket ignites, burns thru thin tape real quick, and releases rocket.
Note, this is actually illiegal.
I recall seeing video footage on the net of a RC helecopter that had provision for 8 hellfire missiles made from AA rocket engines - the owner could select and fire any one of the 8 at will. Pretty cool actually [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
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Parachutes are a lot of fun !! I cut a round canopy from a light-weight trash bag and attach 6 strings to a small fishing weight. Paper reinforcing eyelets keep the strings from pulling through the plastic trash bag. Without a lot of work, you can simply "dump" one out of a paper cup that is rubber-banded to the top center of your wing. This works well for my Sig LT-40 trainer. It's big enough to handle the additional weight and stable enough to fly well with the cup attached. The only trick is getting the chute packed to stay in the cup during take-off & ascent, but not to pack it in so tight that it won't come out when you roll the plane to dump it out. If you have an additional channel on your radio, an added servo in the belly will pull a pin from a rubber band holding the packed chute to the belly of the plane. I fly up-wind and deploy the chute to see how close it will come back to me. I can usually get the plane back on the ground before the chute has traveled very far. Then I can enjoy watching the chute's flight. I always make every effort to retrieve all my chutes so as not to leave litter and possibly jeopardize my flying/parachuting priviliges. Have fun, but do it sensibly !!
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Redneck you have discovered the fun of parachuting. We've done this at our field for some time. One of our pilots has a big gasser and makes very large well designed parachutes. The trick is to get the "chutist" to make a spot landing just as a real skydiver would. Not always as easy as it sounds. Our local expert has a rig that can launch up to three chutes so he can make more than one pass. This is a good fun fly operation. The plastic cup rubber banded on top of the wing is a tough proposition as you have noted. Another fun fly trick is to place the cup as you do and put in a certain number of beans. The pilot that lands with the largest percentage of beans left wins. If you have any left at all you'll probably win. It isn't easy.
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When I was a kid i had an AM 2 channel .049 stuka that ended up being mostly epoxy after a fun summer. For its last flight we packed it full of firecrackers, used a piece of burning mosquito coil for a timer/fuse and sent it up. The thin pieces of tissue and balsa blew apart like it got hit with serious A.A. fire...to bad it was before camcorders cuz I still figure the sight was worth it. We use to try and bring them down with well aimed bottle rockets fired out of copper pipes also. This was all done on a huge private farm by consenting kids... so all the people that frown on this type of stuff can stay in their prim and proper clubs with their rules and the rest of us experimenting fun lovers will just go on walking in the shadows cast by your upturned noses.
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Dropping things can be fun ... we got a trainer with a cradle for gliders and we fixed a water bottle to it, then fly high and drop the water bottle to see how it will explode ... it never really blows up.
Now before I get a lecture ... we ALL stop flying when we do that and the plane is sent out to the far edge of the field. Actually we have more fun lighting empty fuel jugs seeing them fly like jets. Soon we will attach wings to the jugs
Now before I get a lecture ... we ALL stop flying when we do that and the plane is sent out to the far edge of the field. Actually we have more fun lighting empty fuel jugs seeing them fly like jets. Soon we will attach wings to the jugs
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I have done the "launch the rocket from the plane" deal too....I scorched my wing..but it was an old eagle heading fro the bone yard anyway...you can use an Estes push button ignition box..pretty light and the button is easily activated by jerry rigging a control horn, clevis, small piece of threaded 4-40 rod, a nice Z bend and a servo....I was 14 when I did this..I'm now 25...needless to say my Dad was pretty hot..and banned me from model rocketry for quite some time...not to mention losing the privelage of flying alone for a few years.
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First, I'll say this is not recommended for the FH Hublers among us......also, I'll say, I've done all these, and the described methods work.
Big black powder bombs.... make them with toilet paper tubes and lots of tape, and make sure you build these in a STATIC FREE ENVIRONMENT! Wrap it onto your fuse with a rubber band, and use ignition cord...light it, take off, and when it burns through the rubber band, it drops off, then a second or so later, it lights the bomb, and KABOOM detonation occures at about 100 AGL if you are lucky, and it's totally harmless....start small, work your way up if you have any doubts.
You can do the same to launch "cruise missles", cut the wings down on one of those $4 gliders, stuff in an estes motor, and rubberband it to the wing. Light the fuse, and off you go when it burns through the rubber band, it drops off, and then lights the motor, and you have a semi scale rocket powered missle, black powder finale is optional. The weight of the plane/bomb affects the handling of the plane slightly, but if you use a bit of oppesite trim, it's no big deal.
If you have a plane that you really don't like, coat it with some rubber contact cement, (like you put down formica with) and sue the fuse method to light it once you are in the air...can you say HUGE FIREBALL? Knew ya' could.
Not for near populated areas. Loose screws help......
Big black powder bombs.... make them with toilet paper tubes and lots of tape, and make sure you build these in a STATIC FREE ENVIRONMENT! Wrap it onto your fuse with a rubber band, and use ignition cord...light it, take off, and when it burns through the rubber band, it drops off, then a second or so later, it lights the bomb, and KABOOM detonation occures at about 100 AGL if you are lucky, and it's totally harmless....start small, work your way up if you have any doubts.
You can do the same to launch "cruise missles", cut the wings down on one of those $4 gliders, stuff in an estes motor, and rubberband it to the wing. Light the fuse, and off you go when it burns through the rubber band, it drops off, and then lights the motor, and you have a semi scale rocket powered missle, black powder finale is optional. The weight of the plane/bomb affects the handling of the plane slightly, but if you use a bit of oppesite trim, it's no big deal.
If you have a plane that you really don't like, coat it with some rubber contact cement, (like you put down formica with) and sue the fuse method to light it once you are in the air...can you say HUGE FIREBALL? Knew ya' could.
Not for near populated areas. Loose screws help......
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It wasn't very crazy but a day of great fun:
Some years ago my nephews were visiting me at the flying field. As usual they had brought along their small teddy-bears (about 10") which they never left out of sight.
Anyway, after having a look around and commenting on the pilot figures in some of the aircraft, the kids asked me if teddy-bears could fly. I thought about it for a moment, my 4*40 looked a bit to small to carry one of the bears, but who am I to refuse a whish from my nephews.
After rummaging through my flight box I found some tape and we taped one of the bears, belly up and face forward, to the top of the tank compartment. The legs of the teddy bear straddled the canopy.
Take-off was interesting to say the least. There was very little rudder authority and it was obvious that teddy bears aren't very streamlined. After a rather long take-off run the 4* finally got airborne and I proceeded to do some circuits. The kids were jumping with joy. After some time I realized that although the control authority wasn't great, the plane was flyable so I tried some rolls followed by a really low inverted fly-by. That really blew the socks off the kids!
We did some more teddy-bear flights that day, after all both bears were entitled to equal flying time.
I remember this day with joy! Even today, several years afterwards, my nephews still remember this occasion, "Hey, uncle! Do you remember when you took our teddy-bears for a flight...".
/Red B.
Some years ago my nephews were visiting me at the flying field. As usual they had brought along their small teddy-bears (about 10") which they never left out of sight.
Anyway, after having a look around and commenting on the pilot figures in some of the aircraft, the kids asked me if teddy-bears could fly. I thought about it for a moment, my 4*40 looked a bit to small to carry one of the bears, but who am I to refuse a whish from my nephews.
After rummaging through my flight box I found some tape and we taped one of the bears, belly up and face forward, to the top of the tank compartment. The legs of the teddy bear straddled the canopy.
Take-off was interesting to say the least. There was very little rudder authority and it was obvious that teddy bears aren't very streamlined. After a rather long take-off run the 4* finally got airborne and I proceeded to do some circuits. The kids were jumping with joy. After some time I realized that although the control authority wasn't great, the plane was flyable so I tried some rolls followed by a really low inverted fly-by. That really blew the socks off the kids!
We did some more teddy-bear flights that day, after all both bears were entitled to equal flying time.
I remember this day with joy! Even today, several years afterwards, my nephews still remember this occasion, "Hey, uncle! Do you remember when you took our teddy-bears for a flight...".
/Red B.
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For a great time with your buds or club get all to bring out trainers and set up two cones 100 to 200 hundred feet apart on the runway (The further apart the worse the carnage). Line up ten airplanes race horse start fashion somewhere between the cones at the drop of the starters flag the race is on and the first to circle the cones 10 times and cross the startline is the winner--------NO WINGS ALLOWED!
Have participated in this a number of times it has never failed to be very popular and always results in howls of laughter from both participant and spectator. The irony is the winners are usually the timid newbies with the more experianced pilots the first to go on their backs.
John
Have participated in this a number of times it has never failed to be very popular and always results in howls of laughter from both participant and spectator. The irony is the winners are usually the timid newbies with the more experianced pilots the first to go on their backs.
John
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cool<BR>but dragging the rudder on the ground isnt for beginners... right?
cool<BR>but dragging the rudder on the ground isnt for beginners... right?
sure...but for beginners the rudder drag is short.....followed by a hole in the ground with an airplane in it!
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I had an aspire glider(.15 powered-slight mod) that I dropped rolls of T.P. from. Rigged up a release from rubber band and servo actuated pin. The rubberband was attached on one side on the landing gear, pulled around the roll of t.p., and held by the pin on the other side of the fuse. When the servo was actuated, the rubberband pops around, lets the t.p go, and you have about a 1000' streamer gently drifting down. (not enough mass or speed to hurt anything). You shoulda seen the look on peoples faces when I T.P.d the pit(no I didnt fly over - just the wind) [X(] I didn't originate the idea - got it off the internet somewhere
Also did the missle/rocket thing before AMA, pretty cool looking, but then common sense kicked in.
Around the Tucson area, several clubs have had R/C bowling contests at fun flys. Each plane pulls a small plastic ball(wiffle ball, or cheap toy bowling ball), small plastic pins are set up at one end of the runway. As in the game of bowling, the object is to knock all the pins over - while airborne! Challenging, but lotsa fun
Of course there's always the informal "mine are bigger" contest, where each person flies lower and faster and closest to (far away) obstacles than the previous. Generates lots of "Oh"s and "Ah"s. Sometimes, not everybody misses the ground. [] but it sure is fun!
Also did the missle/rocket thing before AMA, pretty cool looking, but then common sense kicked in.
Around the Tucson area, several clubs have had R/C bowling contests at fun flys. Each plane pulls a small plastic ball(wiffle ball, or cheap toy bowling ball), small plastic pins are set up at one end of the runway. As in the game of bowling, the object is to knock all the pins over - while airborne! Challenging, but lotsa fun
Of course there's always the informal "mine are bigger" contest, where each person flies lower and faster and closest to (far away) obstacles than the previous. Generates lots of "Oh"s and "Ah"s. Sometimes, not everybody misses the ground. [] but it sure is fun!