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Ok, 2HI2C hold on to your hat.............I think the Magnum line is a great choice for the T_ _ _T! I had a Magnum .91 4s on one once and found it to be the same as a Saito .82 in power (maybe even more, come to think of it). I think the Magnum line is a real bargain for the money. Man, your dog has to be the reincarnation of Peter Lorre! They're the spittin' image of one another!
f_shawn68............Welcome aboard! I hope to hear of your flying escapades soon!
Bruneau says.............."O.S. powers the imagination............all others only serve to make you a better mechanic." (I better copyright that one!)
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Dang, Zoe does look like Peter Lorre. I can't figure out if she is sad or that's just her normal expression. The Magnum engines I've been around seem to run fine. I think a .70 four stroke is just about right for the Tt.
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f shawn68 Welcome aboard! You'll be doing things you never thought possible in no time flat!!
Adam I admire teachers a great deal. They can only be in it for the love of teaching. It's the damn teachers union and administration and the bloated buracracy (did I spell that right?) that I can't stand!
Waldo that does not look like a ground induced modification to me. It must have pulled off in the air or on the work bench. Please tell it was the former and that there is a video!!!!
Broke down and added 2.5 oz to the nose of the Edge last night. Also stepped down to the 17 x 6 APC. It flew like a different plane! Much much better! No chance of high alpha 3d but pattern is a breeze and flat spins are alright. It's no T___T, thats for sure!!!
C'mon Waldo, don't keep us T___Ting in the wind!!
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Baily says I don't fly nuttin but OS
F shawn68, welcome aboard you'll love the 70 4 stroke on there
Well fellas I gave it the ol college try, it did fly better then last week, weee little better, but on my low inverted pass to snap a pic for Plowboy it did one of those waterfalls and sheered off the top wing, no special devices needed to blow the top wing... LOL,, Just kidding, on my landing I kind of pancaked a little and the weight of the 3rd wing broke all 4 struts between the 2nd and 3rd wing, so you are correct in saying I hacked off the top wing Linkadrip, I pulled out my exacto and sliced off the monocote holding the struts on and walaaaa a Bwipe was born, and let me tell you the BWIPE ROCKS!!!!!
TimC the things sticking out the top of the 2nd wing are where the only bolts are holding all 8 struts together I glued the struts into the bottom and top wing, for ease of assembly, well unfortuneately that design has put a stall into the Twipe flights as now I have to rip into the monocote on wing 3 and put the same type design on that wing as I did on number 2.
DownT it is no passing phase my only goal is to take off the Twipe , fly the Twipe, land and taxi back the Twipe, I will not rest until this is achieved. I have to say so far it has not been successful, it flys yes but it does not fly like a plane yet, the nose weight helped a little but still needs more, I'm really thinking the 3 wings might just be too high and fat but I'm not calling it quits yet, it will take me some time to re carve out 4 more plywood struts and 8 strut holders before I can try again. so probably about 1 month from now.
I have to say it is a blast to try and fly it though, very challenging and just on your toes the entire time its up there, I did however do loops and snap rolls with it this time, just to see how it would respond well its all on the videos. 4 of them including the Bwipe flight.
2 videos of each the take offs and the landings.
enjoy and feel free to laugh your butts off , I did.
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Shawn welcome welcome. Just remeber that the T_ _ _T is no ordinary plane and please don't try and fly other planes like the T_ _ _T. She is much more forgiving. Waldo the twipe is coming along and as you can see as a bwipe it flys great and as a twipe it will also, but just like any prototype it's trial and error.
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WALDO!!!! Very nice......it looks like that Bwipe is the ticket. Did you add any nose weight? or just lose the third wing? Looked like it flew geat in bipe mode...congrats.
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I got my T_ _ _T back together and the motor is running a little better, she died once after leaving the pits and taxing out to the runway where after she traveled 10 ft on the take off run and died. I just started her up and she took off the 2nd time with out a hitch. I moved the batt back alittle father to the 2nd bay. I stuff it with foam in the turtle deck and glued some blocking to the fuse and screwed in a crossbar to hold the batt in place. I then covered the bottom of the fuse. She is some where around the 5 inch mark and she seems really pitch senstive. still I will fly her a few days before I make any changes. I tore my tailwheel loose on an aborted landing and it came off when I came around again and landed her. I continued to fly her for several more flights with out the tailwheel. Damage was very minor and should be an easy fix. I flew the somthing extra until 9 running my nightlights. Boy those leds in the leading edge really work out nice at dusk. You can line her right up on the runway.
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Waldo thanks man, that was so friggin' funny!! Looks like the TWIPE is always in a stall! One helluva ride You almost fooled me with the inverted pass thing....NOT!! I like it as a bipe. Maybe you should just hinge some ailerons on the top wing and fly it like that. Put some little carbon fiber push rods between them. Hell, Hangar-9 might produce it and call it the Waldopeppershaker......or something that requires a little more intelligence and creativity. Anyway thanks for the entertainment! It was great even without the photo pass!! I look forward to the next installment of The Twipe Odyssey
Kerwin, that dog on the left looks like the resident bad ass unless I miss my guess. How hard is to fly at night? I would be afraid of losing my perspective. You are a brave man!
Still waiting for my engine back from OS so my T___T is just sitting there looking all dejected. The Edge saga continues. Getting better and better. Can hover some but without enough power to save me if I get into trouble, so it could die soon! Won't stay in the inverted flatspin as well as a T__T and has such a nasty tip stall that harriers are probably beyond my ability, at least for now! At least it doesn't fly like the TWIPE now that I added weight to the nose!
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What a bunch of great looking dogs LOL Thats freakin priceless all these photos of K-9s I'm almost thinking of designing fusalages with all these dog profiles LOL,,
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