CGRetired
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From: Galloway,
NJ, USA
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Hi Bev. I wrote a rather long-winded post in the ARF or RTF section, so far no one has replied or commented. It's now about three or four pages back. Guess it's to lengthly for most people to read. But it describes what I've done so far and what I intend to do with the Tiger 120. My motivation is that I have a Tiger 60, actually my second plane, my trainer was my first, and it is still intact.. beat up pretty bad, but still intact..ha.
As you can imagine, when Goldberg came out with the Tiger 120, well, I naturally had to have one. It is not quite as radical as some of the planes I have, but should be great fun and a relaxing flyer. Take a look at the thread if you wish, and if any questions, ask away. I am the second RC'er in our club with one so there is at least two pilots with some build experience. And if you are planning on getting one, well, so far, it's been an easy build, even with the slight modifications I've added, and based on my experience with the OS 1.20 AX, it should be plenty enough engine for the airframe. I have one on my Excelleron 90 and my Venus II and love the performance.
One thing that I may regret is moving the elevator and rudder servos to the radio compartment. I got one note from the other guyin the club who built one, that they tend to build nose heavy so the weight in the back would help balance it out. Added to that, I am using an OS 1.20 AX which weighs in (with muffler and extension) at about 30.7 ounces. That will make it a tad nose heavy. I may have to put some weight back aft to balance it out. I'm not happy about that because I am trying to build it as light as possible.
Anyway, sounds like you had a tad bit of our NJ weather down there. It was pretty much like that on Sunday with the wind right down the center line, and temps hovering around 45 degrees F for the most part.... occasional slightly cross wind, but all we had to do was hold off on landing and the wind would shift.
I always tell students (I do some training) that it's always better to practice new stuff at 'three mistakes high'. I do those wind maneuvers where the plane stops moving, but do it pretty high just in case. I don't want to destroy a plane. Those are fun to do, and can sharpen reaction times, which is good.
Regarding flying in the UK, well, the weather was very different. Most of the days out, it was either cloudy or misty out, or some combination of cloudy and misty. The field we flew from was located on the top of a very large public area (if you do Google Earth: 51 degrees 45 minutes 04.79 N x 0 degrees 7 minutes 40.87 E). People would come by walking their dogs or riding horses while we were flying, paying no attention to what's going on, would just walk across the field like we weren't there. It was strange. The club guys just ignored it and kept flying. What was truly interesting was that they did not have a real flight line, but would shift it according to the wind (so no real directional runway). One hour, it would be on the east side of the field, and the next, it could be on the north side of the field!
While there, I went to the RC Airshow, Wings and Wheels Extravaganza, at the North Weald field, about 30 miles north of London (Google Earth, it's 51 degrees 43 minutes 16.44 N x 0 degrees 9 Minutes 12.81 E). It was a WW-II field converted to a general aviation field after the war. Very nice small general aviation airport. They closed the field for full-scale flying so the big RC airshow could be conducted. What an event that was. What impressed me most of all was the demo by the Ripmax company. They had about 20 or so Ripmax Rapier flying wings, all different colors and all on different frequencies. On Saturday, they flew 12 of them in formation, all at the same time. Very neat. On Sunday, though, they really let it all hang out because they flew 18 of them at one time. Started out with 18, ended up with 12. Had several mid-airs. Being a manufacturer of the plane, they didn't care if they hit each other or not. Was very impressive a demonstration, all doing 'precision' flying doing maneuvers all coordinated. They also had jet turbo helicopters, a very large scale turbo prop IMAC type aircraft, and other neat planes. The grand finale was a fly-by of about 20 RC aircraft, all WW-II type warbirds including an RC B-29 bomber, B-17 bomber, and a Brit Lancaster Bomber, followed by all sorts of fighters including P-51's, Corsairs, and so on. Very impressive.. especially that huge B-29.
Ok.. I tend to go on and on so I will just log out and get on to my other stuff... will be a short work day today, headed to Massachusetts tomorrow (yeah, flying.. ha) to spend the holiday with my Mom (90 years old) and my brother.
Later.. and if I don't get back here till Monday, have a happy Thanksgiving day and happy flying!!!
DS.
< Message edited by CGRetired -- 11/22/2006 12:01:46 PM >
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