cimara

Fantastic Cliff did you take a vid of the maiden flight

splitzed

Cliff, way to go!! can you post a finnished pic of your plane I've searched back in the thread but cant find a finished picture, what engine did you go with? Who's Next??

Well I've been hard at it the last week or so, I've started painting, it's really coming alive now, I spent about two hours mixing paint until I finally came up with the colour I wanted, in the end it was worth it I really like the tone

I'm trying to finish it in the next month as I am moving and want to have it all done by then.

here's some pics

rt3232

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Splitzed

Vary nice bird you have there, great job. great pic's..



Cheers Bob T

RCPILOT78

CLIFF..thanks for the update on the maiden glad it went well..I am getting ready for my maiden soon....can you give us some specs...on you ship....weight,,,,, engine and did you ballance a little forward of the kit plans location ???????? any other info on the rlight would be greatly appreciated...RCPILOT78

timothy thompson

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here are some cowl pics

SMUGator

Are those the little aluminum rivets from Microfasteners?

cimara

WOW Tim your realy going all out for the scale look .Are the cooling flaps funtional?

timothy thompson

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no they are not . the fasteners are cout down slotted head screws ca"d into drilled holes. Functional not needed and my wt is a 25.6 with the wing fold mechanism

rt3232

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Tim

That cowl looks great, but I have to say I am no ware near you leage when it comes to detail, I love to see it done.

Bob T

cliff600

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I ask on here several pages ago where it should balance and I believe it was rt3232 that told me I can't rember exactly where it was for sure now. I took off and learned you need a good bit of runwayto take off. It flew kinda funny until I got the wheels up then it was sweet. I did not need any trim at all. I did a roll and a couple of high speed passes. You need speed when you land, no three point landings with this plane. It needs to roll out. I have a G62 in mine and added nose weight, the whole plane without fuel weigh 27 lbs. I had a guy video the flight, he got the whole thing except the landing. I will see if I can load it on here. I must admit I was very nervous on the landing and it did bounce a lot, but all of that was completely my fault for trying to go too slow and do a 3 point landing.

ctflyboy

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Cliff
how much lead did you have to add?





George
CORSAIR Brotherhood # 1

timothy thompson

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cliff you got it down in one piece.be happy i also have a g-62 and will be a little heavier than you by a couple lbs. Remeber these fly well up to 32-24 lbs but you are correct they need power on landings. Did you use full flap and what diam and prop pitch. thanks for the compliments I was a award winning plastic scale modeler before getting into rc 20 yrs ago. Be surprised what you can do. Ive got wingspan nav lights and needed white leds. I went to 7-11 and bough a led light. i wired it into the system and it works great.

we are all waiting on that vid. hey lets all move to michigan so we can start a club where everyone gets aalong unlike most threads this on hasnt a bad word in it

regards tim

SMUGator

How are you switching your lights, Tim? Are you driving them off a receiver channel?

splitzed

N ice work on the cowl Tim, cant wait to see it with paint. Did I read that right are you going to have functional folding wings? If so have you posted any pics yet I would love to see it.

Trevor

duber3

Hi Tim!!

your cowl look very good, I would like to know if it's the cowl supplied with the kit

bye!!

timothy thompson

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yes its the kit cowel . my lights are off channel 7 on my spektrum 7. wingspanmodels is where i bought the modules all lights will be functional. yes the wings fold two 400 oz torque sailwinch servos and two 6v 3000mah packs in parallel for power.

RCPILOT78

CLIFF..did you use a 3 blade prop and if so which brand...RCPILOT78

SMUGator

My buddy Chris has been working on a home built module for a while now, but is getting a little frustrated. Are you using both modules - one for the wing and tail nav and one for the beacons? Did you dod the underwing formation lights? Are you able to run multiple LEDs off a single pair of outputs from the module? Sorry for so many questions, but this part of our build has been a pain.

Tom

cliff600

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I took mine out to fly a couple of weeks ago and had lots of troubles with the flaps. I have the siliconed up now. They do not move. I used silicone in case I ever get back into the wing to try to re-do the hinges, I can just pull it off. As fast as it comes down without flaps I could not imagine using them. I used a Top Flite 22 X 6-10 prop. I believe I added about 2 lbs. of lead in the nose.

timothy thompson

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i have all lights! two wingspan modules. look on there site they are yd into channel 7. landing light and wireless video cam too

cliff600

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I had a kinda flight [&o]

Not too much damage Should be back in the air by next weekend

[link]http://www.rivannarc.com/members/clewis/corsair.wmv[/link]

RCPILOT78

CLIFF...THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ....everything looked good except for the bounce which put you back in to the air at a stall...and that put a damper on the landing..just prior to that it looked good....we need more videos like this we can see what to expect....RCPILOT78

rt3232

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Cliff another thanks for the vido, looks great except for the bounce, had the same experiance with my first corsair but I was luckyer no damage on my bird. I found that one click of power nearly eliminated te flair bounce thing,

Good luch on your next outing

Cheers Bob T

RCPILOT78

rt3232..when you say just one click of power to solve the landing problem did that mean ( one click more power ) or ( one click less power ) ..until we fly the bird and get the freel for the air speed it will be trial and error...hopefully not too much ERROR.. looks like I will Maiden tomorrow morning or is it ( mourning ) need all the info I can get my hands on for the first flight thanks RCPILOT78

Zeeb

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RCPILOT78,

I'm not Bob T, but I'll offer a couple of thoughts that are applicable if you've not flown gassers before?

Unlike glow powered stuff which is almost invariably a lighter wing loading, when you cut the throttle on the little gas engines that big 'ol prop out front acts like an airbrake to some extent, just like full scale stuff does. So you either need to carry a bit of power on your approach, or add a blip or two of throttle as it settles toward the runway.

Power off, or not enough approach power for the particular wing loading, i.e. the Corsair, and it gets to where it's starting to flair and you run out of elevator. Then it drops and you get the bounce. A quick blip of throttle will usually restore elevator authority enough to continue to pull the nose up, or stop it from dropping which ever you need.

Carrying extra power down final works, but you have a higher approach speed and have to watch for ballooning at inopportune times as well as taking more runway. That's where the flaps come in nice, it will allow you to slow the airplane down more, a shorter steeper approach while carrying some throttle to maintain the effectiveness of the tailfeathers.

This "blip the throttle" approach thing is common among the GS IMAC guys and it is the way I usually land my gassers. It just takes a bit of practice for them, but with the wing loading your Corsair will have (about 50% higher than an IMAC bird) you may want to just do the little extra throttle all the way down if you've got enough runway?

I'd definitely suggest you do some slow flight practice up high if you don't already have that on the flightplan.

GOOD LUCK! [8D]