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ORIGINAL: RC-FIEND Chuck the weight with the MAG .28 on the nose will be 1 lb 19oz's. This engine was pulling my modeltech extra 300 almost vertical so I hope I can handle the speed. Oh yea flying the shrike made it seem like my chipmunk was barely moving but I guess that is what speed planes do , make other planes appear to be much slower.
Ummm, 1 lb 19oz? Youz guyz in Joisey use a different measurement system than the rest of us?
All this talk about Shrikes gave me the urge to take mine to the field yesterday. Conditions were perfect, nice sunny sky and no wind. The speed was great. The person with the reputation for having some of the fastest prop planes in the club estimated that my Shrike was faster than his Patriot. He and I did some informal formation/pylon flying before I took the Shrike up.
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Well I took mine up today with the MAG.28 on the nose and was afraid to go past half throttle . But due to a very smooth then ruff landing, at the same time, along with oil soaked balsa, the nose came apart and I have to rebuild. I will use CA glue to coat the entire engine compartment making it stronger and oil and fuel resistant. I almost got the flight on video but for some strange reason the battery died when I reached the field.
PS I can convert the weight to Kilo grams for you .
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Glad to hear it flew, bummer on the rebuild. I use Balsarite to seal engine compartments, and before I cover a plane. It does a good job of preventing fuel soaked wood, and also helps keep the covering edges from coming up.
I guess you missed my point on the measurements. How many ounces in a pound?
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I'll join the club. I picked up a second hand plane and just identified it as a Shrike 10. I found some info on it at the Lanier site, so all I need to do now is repair some hangar rash, (re)install radio and servos and clean up the OS .25 that is on it (hasn't been run in awhile).
Welcome aboard . Your shrike is the first one I have seen that has a nose shaped like my did. Also the way the fuel hoses come from the top like that looks familiar.
Good luck with the overhaul.
PS your cat looks funny
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How many ounces in a pound?
my fault , 16 ounces in a pound but I had to add the weight of the engine to the weight of the rest of the plane plus subtract 2 ounces for fuel in bottle, so 2 pounds 3 ounces total .......lol, and that is with 2 c size batteries in the tail to balance it out .
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Here is a picture of the Shrike I built for a buddy in Cairo, Egypt. It is still flying there. Has an OS 15CV on it. Started with a 15 LA, but Al is a speed freak. Still waiting for my stuff to get here from Egypt, have a 1/2a ready to fly in a box, plus a 15 size kit that I want to build with a 25 on it. The first picture was the first build, then we discovered how weak the spar was. The second is a vast improvement in wing strength
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Glad to hear it flew, bummer on the rebuild. I use Balsarite to seal engine compartments, and before I cover a plane. It does a good job of preventing fuel soaked wood, and also helps keep the covering edges from coming up.
I guess you missed my point on the measurements. How many ounces in a pound?
Good advice on the Balsarite, Chuck. I would not use CA for the purpose as Nitromethane is a solvent for CA.
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Good advice on the Balsarite, Chuck. I would not use CA for the purpose as Nitromethane is a solvent for CA.
I keep getting CA glue mixed up with EPOXY . Balsarite is water proof but I am not sure if it is fuel proof.
I have used Balsarite in the engine area on EVERY kit I have ever built. I also use it in the engine area for ARFs. Never a problem with fuel soaking. It's light, dries fast, and is fuel proof.
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I have the Shrike .40 Mine had a Tower Hobbies .46. It flew well. Unlimited vertical, very fast. It wasn't at all like I expected. I thought it would be really squerlly and all over the sky. It in fact was not. Really stable. Fast roll rate, tame in pitch. Kinda Jet like really. I crashed it pretty good on landing and broke one wing off. Then I rebuilt it and used duct tape for covering! It flew just as well as before, but eventually I got bored with it and its now retired. Flights were like, lets go fast from the left.......Ok, now we'll go fast from the right...... Without rudder, etc. there is only so many things you can do with one of these. However, I only built it to test my flying skills. I think some time flying a Shrike will make every RC'er a better pilot. Here is a picture of it when it still looked good.
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I made one modification to it when I built it that I would highly recommend. Make the bottom of the fuselage a access hatch under the fuel tank. Small airframes with a fuel leak are a bugger to fix when you can't get in there!
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Nice SHRIKE, The .40 isn't much bigger than the .10. And you hit the nail on the head as far as every one should fly one because it really takes concentration and a steady hand to control the SHRIKE. My first flight I was all over the place for the first 20 seconds of flight then I calmed down , my leg stopped shaking and I was shipping it around like it was on rails.
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