My Old Gee Bee Sportster Model E

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My Old Gee Bee Sportster Model E - 9/3/2002 9:29:03 PM

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It crashed 20 years ago on its maiden flight at Mile Square. I rebuilt the wing with fabric and enamel scalloped and pinstriped paint job and wing numerals. Tried it again at El Toro and crashed into fence, forgot where rudder stick was in my nervousness. Rebuilt wing again. Had four nice flights, on the fifth take off, the arm on the aileron servo slipped on splines due to a mismatch of brands and spline counts, no right aileron. Crashed again, cracked wing again. I have repaired wing and am ready to repaint repaired section, have replace servo with new Hitec servo.
I posted this to warn others about using the wrong type of servo arm on a given servo.

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My Old Gee Bee Sportster Model E - 9/3/2002 10:08:18 PM

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That is a georgeous ship 'E'.

John

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Gorgeous Gee Bee - 9/3/2002 11:54:11 PM

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Thanks for the compliment, it looks a little the worse for wear but from a distance it's still cute. Some kit maker in Canada has revived the old Henry Haffke Gee Bee designs and improved them, maybe with laser cutting. This plane flies in a nice sedate scale-like manner, best to land with power on because of drag. It's gained a lot of weight with repairs and the fuselage is a lumberyard anyway. I'd like to build this kit again but am buried in other interesting scale kits to build, fuel and electrics.

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Gee Bee Model E Flys Again - 11/23/2002 8:39:59 AM

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Update: Repaired right wing again, recovered as needed and repainted in scalloped motif. Later, noticed that repaired wing drooped a little. Installed new Hitec servo to fit original single aileron servo setup. Installed new fake flying and landing wires( silver elastic thread). Flew her for the first time today since aileron servo arm crash, was nervous after previous jinxed history. It flew great on the ancient OS 40 FSR and 11X6 Master Airscrew prop. It took off and gained altitude rather gradually just like you'd expact a fat overweight and draggy model of a 1932 radial low wing monoplane. It trimmed out easily even with drooping wing. I have a Pitts-style muffler with two silicone tubes terminated with flattened brass tubes to restrict the outlets and increase muffler pressure and prevent leaning out toward end of tank. It sounds really neat in the air sort of like a T6 trainer at low altitude. It lands easily with power on like a P51 even owing to the soft tires even with no suspension. So far have only done some big loops and a roll which is probably all that I should try with it. I just looks good making approx 50 mph circuits of the field. Yee Haaaaaah!!!

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