Creatcruncher- thanks Mike,it has been a slow build-just a couple of hours a night(if Im lucky)but I am enjoying it very much.I still have the fever thanks to your thread. Have you had a chance to do any work on yours? I think you were close to covering it? I am also looking forward to Summerwinds N28 thread.
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I need to get back on that N11. It's pinned up on the wall just like I left it 6 months ago. We're starting our "build season" down here. It's so bleeding hot in Central Texas right now you could fry an egg on the driveway. It's not as rough as shoveling snow at 5am to get to work but it gets old just the same.
Yea, maybe if we poke Summerwind enough he really will start an N28 thread.
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well folks it's finally finished. it came in at a little over 8 lbs 5 oz and i couldn't believe it but it almost balanced perfectly and right on the money after i added my backup battery for the servos, i had to check it three times. i read on these forums about the nightmares with the cg on a lot of planes with this much detail and i thought it was going to be my turn, somebody up there likes me either that or the fact that it's electric powered and all the weight is attached to the fire wall, motor, battery's, all the servos except one,rx everything. i taxied it around my driveway and every thing is working great. i would have taken some pics outside but my camera batterys were deadso i'll have some basement shots later when there charged. here are a few pics as the work progressed. i had to do the same thing i did with the lerhone and turn the 1/6 lewis into somewhat of a 1/5 scale. i built the gun mount out of radio attenna it's strong and about 1/3 the weight of brass tube and once you sand the chrome off it is ultra light. i also built a realease mechanism for the lewis just pull the cable and your gun is free to reload. i found the plan for this over at rcscalebuilders. i'll post a pic of the plan.
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next weekend if i can get a good flyer to do it for me. i have 30 planes in my basement and 3 builds counting the N-11 and ive never flown before. to make a long story short when i found out i had cancer i went nuts buying ARF'S and just setting them up with motors, servos and getting them flight ready. i'll post some pics of about half of them. anyway thats what i thought building was. i didn't know a kit or scratch build from my left nut so i'm in the process of selling every thing that's arf. i have 15,000 invested most are loaded ready to go( there all electric) and i would let the whole lot go for 2,000 to one buyer. back to the N-11, here are some basement pics of the plane finished and as soon as my battery's are charged for the plane i'll post a couple of pics of the lerhone spinning with the prop. i'm working on the sound for the brushless. everyone out there is using amps and speakers and this and that and it still sounds steril. what i'm working on is a mechanical device that you hook up to the rear of your brushless motor, no programing. it may not sound exactly like a lerhone but no more so than a 2 clyinder gasser and it's loud and sounds like a nine clyinder because there are nine diaframs poping in sequence. in any case here are some pics of the N-11 i started 7 months ago. BTW i never learned how to fly because i moved to maine a few years ago and there are no clubs, no that's not true theres one up here and they have like 4 members and the youngest guy is 75 and they meet once a year.
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Heck man, your missing nearly half the fun of the hobby not flying and a small lethargic club is my favorite kind - more airspace for me! The fastest way to learn is to buy a copy of Real Flight or some similar PC based flight sim. You'll develop the coordination for it quickly because risk taking has no penalty. Buy a high-wing ARF you can slap together in a few hours and with the sims help you should be able to fly without too much outside help. You'll botch a landing or three but you know how to fix it.
Whatever you do don't fly the Nieuport without a skilled pilot standing beside you ready to take over. While I'm thinking about it, these WWI planes can cause radio interference so make sure its not a problem before the plane leaves the ground. Good luck Spikkk.
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thanks crate for the words of wisdom, i'll need it. look at it this way i have plenty of planes to practice on, thanks for the tips i'm going to purchase a simulator pronto.
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I second the value of RealFlight. In my opinion you'll recoup the costs by not crashing an ARF or two (or three). Even though I love building, it's hard to beat the feeling of actually flying.
Have a talk with the 75 year old, maybe he'd be willing to teach you how to fly.
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ORIGINAL: spikkkkkk BTW i never learned how to fly because i moved to maine a few years ago and there are no clubs, no that's not true theres one up here and they have like 4 members and the youngest guy is 75 and they meet once a year.
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Hi Spikkkk, A Nieuport is not a good plane for even an intermediate flyer to try. You definitely should learn on something much easier and work up to the Nieuport eventually. In the meantime, if you are as great a photographer as you obviously are a builder, then just relax, record the maiden and share it with us all. It is a fabulous model.
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I did search of RCU members in Bangor and there are about 12 so there has to be more flyers than that and club; it also showed 1400 in the state of Maine so their are a bunch around. Or we will all just have to come up and teach you to fly, that way we can see your plane in the air.
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