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Thanks Mark and allmetal
All upweight is at 32lbs
Had alot of fun at the AMA Convention this past weekend, mainly from just taking it down there to show it off and worry about it getting bumped off the table. Every thing worked out fine...no hanger rash. I got there early on thursday to set it up and snaged a corner end spot. I was worried that it might roll around, so I made a set of bright yellow wheel chocks that I thinked finished it off nicely. It was a nice suprise to find a second place trophy in front of the Porter when I went to pick it up
Here's some picks of the event ( and you can see in the second photo the minor deviation the barrier takes when it gets around the Porter's wing
Also some of the other really cool planes.... the Fokker C2 that got first place in Civillian Scale and the Neptune that got third. ( It's really fun to tell everybody that a Fokker beat me......) The paint jobs on the jets were amazing.
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I'm please to report the sucessful completion of the Maiden flight of my PC-6 Turbo Porter. Video is finished but missing the landing phase ( minor technical difficulities with my DV cam and old batteries ) The Revolution 50 ran great, I only had to tweek the idle mix lower for a great idle, transition to full power was super smooth and full power was spot on. I ran AMSoil Saber synthetic oil at 90:1. First flight was about 25 minutes with no issues at all engine wise. Cylinder head temp ran around 200 degrees F while I was cruising around at 1/2 throttle. Cruise Air speed was around 50 mph. Was checking the stall characteristics and found it doesn't stall in the classic sense. It just kind of mushes around at full up elevator at around 25mph (forgot to check the full flap stall speed) V1 speed (takeoff) is a whopping 11mph and the ground roll is about 20 feet. First take off is always alittle interesting since you don't know exactly how much elevator compensation to put in. Had a little pitch up but very manageable. Took off with 20 degrees of flap ( also added a littlt extra down elevator compensation slaved to the Throttle - About 15% more down elevator at full throttle than at Idle ) Found the Approach speed that works best is around 30mph, any slower and it starts to mush around.
Second flight I started to explore the landing phase. Wow, does it look cool coming in with full flaps and going super slow on the round out/ flair. It's like landing a big couch, Nice and plushy. Every thing was going great until I got too slow and landed on the tailwheel....... bent the main shock shaft and put a kink in the leading link. Not to big of a repair, I'll just have to reinforce the shaft with carbon fiber rod.
Hay Scott,the PC-6 turned out sweet! The flight video is great and is getting me motivated to start mine.One question though.Where did you get the wheels for your plane? They look great. Ian Gunn MAAC 25307
I think they completed the look with the imprinting on the outer wall. They're kind of porky at 11.7 oz apiece but as you can tell the Porter didn't even take notice
Thanks Scott.The wheels look right on the Porter and give it a nice scale,finished look. Ya I bet the old adrenalin was flowing pretty good after that first flight.Looks like everything went extremely well.Gotta love it when it does. I'm going with the parrot color scheme on mine.I also have an early set of Martins plans and will be doing some of the upgrades first before I start.Especially in the nose area.This should be a fun build and will be unique at the field. Thanks for the info. Cheers, Ian Gunn MAAC 25307
Just watched the video on the cap 10b Martin.Nice stable plane. The G45 looks like the right power for it and it really performs. I noticed that the landing gear for the PC-6 is on your site now.What materials did you use to make it? Looks good! Ian Gunn MAAC 25307
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