GP Christian Eagle Video
As promised in another thread, here's some video of my CE.
Specs:
Great Planes Christian Eagle, 1/4 scale, 68.5" ws
Engine: 50cc Poulan Pro, C&H ignition
Weight: Just under 16 lbs.
Radio: 7 channels, Futaba 8U., Hitec servos.
Field: Newton County R/C, Covington, GA
A buddy of mine took the video (so blame him for the curious choice of music.)
THis is part of a long video (110 meg) from the day. I decompressed it, cropped the CE section and recompressed. Quality is not that great due to multiple compressions, but useable. Also, he seemed to either be zoomed too close or too far for my liking.
On the video is two flights. Both ended in a dead-stick landing. The poulan is off of my crashed Super Sportster bipe, and something is not right with the carb. I had replaced a warn butterfly, but more is needed (rebuild kit on order.)
First flight engine quit while doing slow flight at about 60'. Second died at top of hammerhead. Both landings were uneventful.
Video is 11mb and compressed using the Divix encoder. My QT player will not play it, but my WM and Real players work fine.
[link=http://shdesigns.home.mindspring.com/GP-ChEagle.avi]GP Christian Eagle Video[/link]
Edit: Micosoft MPEG version, 9.6 meg.
[link=http://home.earthlink.net/~elshdesigns/GP-ChEagle128k.avi]128k MS Mpeg version[/link]
Still have more work, apply decals, wheel pants, finish cockpit (crash test dummy is waiting to fly this plane). Right now having too much fun flying.
Note, radio has no mixes programmed in. As you can see, kife edges are not difficult (a little cross aileron and down elevator.) I will probably add some aileron differential to reduce yaw.
And one more thing this plane definitely needs: SMOKE!!!
Enjoy,
Scott.