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Joined: 1/11/2003 From: Elkland, MO, USA Status: offline
Jr Falcon modified for twin TD 049's - Wing and fuselage stretched a bit. Ace Silver Seven radio on 53 MHz, 4 channels. I still don't have the courage to fly it!
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Joined: 10/21/2002 From: Prescott,
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Now here are a coupe of guys having fun!!!
We fly in Prescott AZ, 5,500 feet elevation. Here are two HOB 1/2a's, 049 cox, APC 5.7 x 3, 17K rpm, P51 and ME109 weighing about 23 oz or so, 2 mini servos, 450 ma battery packs, balloon tanks, hand launch, no landing gear, elevator and aileron's, flying stab on the P51. They fly about 13 mins on 2 oz 15% then you might want to be looking for some place to land...
Ahh, that's where I saw it. I remember checking out your site around the time I got into 1/2A, and several times since. I think it's where I first heard about S.M.A.L.L. and it's definately where I first heard of Fly Power!
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Joined: 1/3/2002 From: Saint Paul,
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Here is a "Vintage" one for you all'. My old flying buddy Tom, circa 1978. He is holding his "Papette", a modified Kyosho "Papillion". clipped wing, twin tail. Directly behind him is my 1st Sterling "Rudder Bird" ( OS.19), behind that is a GeeBee R1 my dad started and I finished. Behind that the venerable Ace All Star in German WWI livery (yellow, witha an OS .15) On his left is a TopFlight P-39 I was building, in front of him is a Goldberg "1/2a Blazer" converted to Ace RO. (That was my Dad's) In front of that, a Special Edition Plans "Corky" by Ted Strader (first of 2 I had) The black & White plane was a very nice Strader design, the "Miss L" with a Medallion 09. Behind that, a CL Corsair my Dad was building, and, believe it or not, a Guillows P51 CONVERTED TO RC with a Cox reed valve 049 and Ace galloping ghost (elevator and AILERON, my dad's contraption there.) Finally, there is a Hobby Lobby Berballa 2000 back there, with a ST .23 in it. Also 2 unidentified wings sticking in on the far left. Tom and I were about 17 back in '78. By the way, he is holding a Sanwa 4 channel TX. Dave
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Joined: 10/10/2003 From: Raleigh,
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This little canard-delta was flown with a cox black widow. A little sluggish at climb out until it start to picking up speed. It tend to drop a wing when coming for landing so I added drooped LE from the wingtips to 1/4 the span. Its no longer with me since a box full of books fell on top of it when I was moving to my new place a few years ago. I should have left my airplanes as the last thing to move....
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Here is my Carl Goldberg 1/2A Skylane. I think that I built around ten of them and way back when, I enjoyed my first R/C success flying one covered in silk and painted with Aerogloss dope,it was powered by the Cox Goldenbee .049 and guided by a Controlair single channel pulse rudder only system-- This one pictured I modified adding elevator and an O.S. Max 10. I have been flying it at my (secret flying site) on and off for two decades now and as we say:"It's a keeper!"
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