SR FALCON, VINTAGE CARL GOLDBERG KIT
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Airbusdriver, I have the same Sr. Falcon from that era. I bought it at a rummage sale for $50 three years ago and still fly it today. It had a enya .35 on it that wasn't even broke in yet. I took the enya off and put an os .40 on it. Flys lika a dream and floats in for landings.
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You can clearly see on the box the kit came in on the pictures in post 1, that the kit was designed for a .40 to .60 size engine. As with the engine recommendations with todays ARFs most people went with the high end on engine size. It was a pretty popular kit and I knew of no one who flew it with a 40.
The Falcon 56 was designated as a .25 to .40 engine. Most of us flew it with .40s. I had a K&B.40 in mine.
Good luck with it. I think the .56 4C engine will pull it, since it has such large wing area, but you"ll never get it to hover. lol
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The Falcon 56 was designated as a .25 to .40 engine. Most of us flew it with .40s. I had a K&B.40 in mine.
Good luck with it. I think the .56 4C engine will pull it, since it has such large wing area, but you"ll never get it to hover. lol
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Beautiful! That's the plane I soloed on
But it needs the canopy!
Beautiful! That's the plane I soloed on
But it needs the canopy!
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Nice plane. I have a Falcon 56 that I built in 1986. Flew it in early spring on a windy day and knocked off the front landing gear. These are such nice planes for almost any type of flying. It will be repaired and fly again. Even if I have to start from scratch!
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Nice job! It looks great. Ive had at least 2-3 Carl Goldberg Falcon 56 MK III and 1 or 2 Sr's. Nice to see that there are still kit builders out there. One other thing, you forgot the canopy. I like it with it on, just me thow. Nice job again.
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Nice job! It looks great. Ive had at least 2-3 Carl Goldberg Falcon 56 MK III and 1 or 2 Sr's. Nice to see that there are still kit builders out there. One other thing, you forgot the canopy. I like it with it on, just me thow. Nice job again.
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+1 Nice job and I also like it better with that canopy. It just reminds me of the control line planes I built as a kid (man I sound old!)
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Here's my new (to me) Falcon 56 Mk II. A couple of months ago a friend of mine asked me if I'd like to have his old "trainer", he'd give it to me since he hadn't flown it in years and wasn't really into R/C anymore. So I go and pick it, and he gives me the plane, the Tx, and some other stuff (starter, etc). It had an OS 40 on it in good shape (gummed up but not a problem).
I get it home and it looked familiar (I'm new to RC, this is my 2nd year) so I searched around and found out it was a Falcon 56. It was a bit dog-eared; the Monokote was tatty, and the plane had some hangar rash but certainly rebuildable. So I stripped it, fixed some broken stuff, and recovered it with leftover Monokote. Ifound a canopy in my stash of stuff and adapted it on. Just finished restoring it, and hope to fly it for the first time this weeked if the weather holds out. The engine runs fine now that I got it de-gummed, and the radio works fine too. Just needed to replace the batteries in the Tx and Rx.
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I get it home and it looked familiar (I'm new to RC, this is my 2nd year) so I searched around and found out it was a Falcon 56. It was a bit dog-eared; the Monokote was tatty, and the plane had some hangar rash but certainly rebuildable. So I stripped it, fixed some broken stuff, and recovered it with leftover Monokote. Ifound a canopy in my stash of stuff and adapted it on. Just finished restoring it, and hope to fly it for the first time this weeked if the weather holds out. The engine runs fine now that I got it de-gummed, and the radio works fine too. Just needed to replace the batteries in the Tx and Rx.
Mark
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Great looking plane. A SR. Falcon was my second plane in the early 70's........right after an Eagle and both flew great with a .40 engine. [sm=biggrin.gif]
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Great loking Falcon there Mark.
What do u use to de-gum an engine???
Great loking Falcon there Mark.
What do u use to de-gum an engine???
To degum a glow engine, I pull the glow plug and loosen the backplate and then soak the engine in denatured alcohol overnight. Usually by the next morning, everything is loosened. Sometimes I have to soak the carb separately to get the barrel unstuck.
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man that aircraft sure brings back memories!!!!!! it's the plane i tought my self how to fly with!!!! crashed it numerous times repaired it and went on!!!!! sweet plane,good looks and a all around great trainer!!!! i'll never forget the one i had with a k&b 65 sportster in it and the reliable futaba gold box on am!!!!!
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I am hoping the 52 four-stroke has enough power. There were two factors in choosing that motor. One, I had a NIB OS 52FS on hand. The other reason was that I recently saw a member of our club flying a similarly sized plane with the 52 four-stroke and was impressed with its performance. Also, the 52 is just a couple hundred rpm below the OS46 two-stroke in bench tests. Time will tell.[]
I am hoping the 52 four-stroke has enough power. There were two factors in choosing that motor. One, I had a NIB OS 52FS on hand. The other reason was that I recently saw a member of our club flying a similarly sized plane with the 52 four-stroke and was impressed with its performance. Also, the 52 is just a couple hundred rpm below the OS46 two-stroke in bench tests. Time will tell.[]
this certainly takes me back to when I was first introduced to RC model building. I was, what, 14 at the time? It was a great experience.
The first one I built for a guy back in the 60's was heavy so a 45 would not have worked that well. But subsequent models I built for him were much lighter and he powered at least one of them with an Enya 45 I think. The combo worked well. If you kept yours at 6 lbs or so, the 52 FS should work fine
I had several firsts on a Sr Falcon through courtesy of the owner. I built many planes for him and he gave me stick time occasionaly. My first time on radio control was with Sr Falcon. My first TO, first time inverted, first roll, first loop, etc etc. First landing was on a Falcon 56 oddly enough. The Senior was a better flier or floater than the 56
If anyone has a full kit, I am interested. My grandson is getting to the right age for a proper introduction
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Maiden Flights this morning. Three in all. Take off very uneventful and later only a couple of down clicks of elevator. No aileron or rudder trim needed. The OS 52FS with an APC 11X6 prop was more than adequate. Pulled through the top of good sized loops with no hesitation. The four-stroke sure sounds a lot better than the two-stroke engines(just my opinion). Very easy to fly and very responsive. She floats a bit on landing which means I will need to come in lower and a bit slower to have the airspeed dissipate for landings at the desired touch down point. But, all in all, a very good day. Couldn't be more pleased. Below is a picture prior to the first flight, early in the AM(it gets hot later in the day her in FL) and dodging the early morning rain showers.
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My original Falcon was a Falcon 56, powered by a MDS .46. (1st picture) I flew the heck out of this thing. Easily the most relaxed I've felt flying any airplane, to date. Unfortunately, I started getting awfully bold, and having only used #10 sized nylon wing bolts, and I ripped the wing off of the fuse during a high speedaerobatic maneuver that I had never attempted before. The wing floateddown, undamaged; but, the fusebecame a lawn dart and only the tail section and my landing gear survived the fuse's impact.
The 2nd picture is of my scratch-built Falcon 56 replacementfuse. I reused the tail, landinggear,and wing; but, chose to powerthis one withaYS .45RE. and repainted my Falcon motif on the new fuse. It didn't live long. On the maiden flight, my father-in-law was piloting it (beings I hadn't flown in about 6 months, and wasn't feeling comfortable with performing a maiden). There was a large hawk flying overhead. My father-in-law looked down at the radio to put a couple clicks of trim in it, and when he looked up, it was becoming a lawn dart, for the 2nd time. Because, when he wasn't looking, the hawk flying overhead suddenly dived down on it and grabbed the starboard wing leading edge with its talons, ripping the wing off of the fuse. Although the plane apparently looked like afalcon to the hawk, he soon found that it was much more solidly built than a real bird. He tucked his wings and went down,looking as if someone had shot him from the sky. My father-in-law looked up again,surprised to see the plane suddenly wingless, in an arcing trajectory with nothing he could do about it, except throttle back. There was a write-up in the club newsletter from one of those who witnessed the event. He stated, "I think Ollie has finally learned his lesson about painting his airplines to look like real birds."
The 2nd picture is of my scratch-built Falcon 56 replacementfuse. I reused the tail, landinggear,and wing; but, chose to powerthis one withaYS .45RE. and repainted my Falcon motif on the new fuse. It didn't live long. On the maiden flight, my father-in-law was piloting it (beings I hadn't flown in about 6 months, and wasn't feeling comfortable with performing a maiden). There was a large hawk flying overhead. My father-in-law looked down at the radio to put a couple clicks of trim in it, and when he looked up, it was becoming a lawn dart, for the 2nd time. Because, when he wasn't looking, the hawk flying overhead suddenly dived down on it and grabbed the starboard wing leading edge with its talons, ripping the wing off of the fuse. Although the plane apparently looked like afalcon to the hawk, he soon found that it was much more solidly built than a real bird. He tucked his wings and went down,looking as if someone had shot him from the sky. My father-in-law looked up again,surprised to see the plane suddenly wingless, in an arcing trajectory with nothing he could do about it, except throttle back. There was a write-up in the club newsletter from one of those who witnessed the event. He stated, "I think Ollie has finally learned his lesson about painting his airplines to look like real birds."
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Neat paint scheme and so is the story of the 2nd demise. I, too, have never been a fan of nylon/plastic wing bolts. I used 1/4-20 phillips head metal screws to hold the aft edge of the Sr Falcon that I just built. Again, nice art work.
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Neat paint scheme and so is the story of the 2nd demise. I, too, have never been a fan of nylon/plastic wing bolts. I used 1/4-20 phillips head metal screws to hold the aft edge of the Sr Falcon that I just built. Again, nice art work.
Neat paint scheme and so is the story of the 2nd demise. I, too, have never been a fan of nylon/plastic wing bolts. I used 1/4-20 phillips head metal screws to hold the aft edge of the Sr Falcon that I just built. Again, nice art work.
Yeah, I liked the scheme so much that I couldn't resist having it rise from the ashes one more time. Ireused as many of the parts as I couldonce again. I was inspired by Egyptian mythology, which has the earliest recorded mentioning of The Phoenix inhistory. They called the Phoenix, "BENU." So I named my plane, "BENU: Bird of Prey."
The Egyptiansky god was named Horus. He was half man, and half FALCON . . . or at least hadthe head of a Falcon(so all this seemed very appropriate).He is alsothe god of rejuvenation, and the Eye of Horus wasa symbol of protection & rebirth. All of this seemed to come together in my mind and makea cohesivethemeto inspire the markings on the plane pictured below. As sad as it was to have the beautiful hawk that downed my plane die as a result of the attack, my way of coping (whether appropriate or not) is through humor. So, I found it necessary to try to make a joke of the event . . . thus the reason for the markings on the tail. Horus is pictured on the port side, and on the right (running vertically, beings hieroglyphs are read vertically, from what I understand) it states:
"Horus' scoreboard: Falcon 1, Hawk 0 "
On the outside corners of the elevators are the "Eyes of Horus", and unseen on the wing bottom is a cool graphic incorporating pyramids andlarge Eyes of Horus.
The Falcon motif I did on the prior planes was airbrushed in yellow, red and blue, in order to make it look like a flaming Falcon/Phoenix. It was my first attempt to airbrush anything more thana few spots of camoflage mottling on a warbird. It was again powered by my YS .45RE, but had a standard muffler and a 3-bladed prop.