Hi does anyone have video of a 40% Giles flying and doing 3D?
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No, giles's dont 3D (that well), they're for IMAC sequences. Now ask the same question about an edge!

I'm finishing up a Giles,,and I watched a 3D video on it but lost the web page it was on,,

Here's a web site. Check it out.... Giles will 3D!!!! http://www.giantscalerc.com/projects_main.htm Go there then click on Giles 202. I'm getting ready to buy one of my own!!!!

^5 to carrido2
That was the one I had,,,,Wonder if anyone would have another video out there..
carrido2 do you fly IMAC..I missed the Abiline contest,,but made it to Odessa,,Texoma,,Kingsbury,,
I got the Giant Scale Planes ARC,,had to do some extra work on the sheeting but it was built pretty fair for the cost,,I did get a bad canopy and called them they sent a new one the next day,,no question asked,,thought that was pretty good ,,,

i think the giles and edge are complete opposite, Giles has that swept wind with a straight TE for IMAC, the edge has the straight LE for 3d, seems like the edge is a giles with a backwards wing!

Kyle

The giles will 3D fine. Its harder to 3D but it does it non the less.

Fred...no I don't fly IMAC.... I should.... and i would if I get this carden Giles. I agree, Giles will 3D fine.
Thanks,
Craig Rideout

Hmmm, I've been 3D'n my Giles the whole season I had it. It was easy to 3D. Harriers, the best elevators I have ever seen, as they almost dropped straight down with no forward airspeed. It torque rolled fine, waterfalls, blenders, high alpha knife edge, etc. And being a little smaller and lighter than the Extras, Edges, and Caps, with the DA-150 it had excellent unlimited verticals. By the way, that video mentioned is the one from my website. Its my Carden 40% Giles 300, not the 202. I don't think the video shows it doing much 3D, I don't remember exactly. I don know there is a blender in there, some tumbles, etc. Note the vertical on take off though, it really was ballistic on vertical. I do have other video of it 3D'n, and I'll dig it out sometime in the near future and put a link up to it on my Giles page.

I currently have 2 Carden 40% Extra 330's, have extensively flown the Cap's, Edges, and Extra's, and put a number of flights on other giant aerobatic planes. Of them all, I really miss the Giles 300 the most. It had the best hot rod feel to it. Not a luxury sports car, SUV, or mini-van, but an outright muscle car.

Steven, nice to hear from you. My mistake, it was the 300... not the 202. Anyway, that was one beautiful airplane. I'm working on getting one right now.... the blue and yellow one for sale on here. Anyway, hows the Extra's been flyin'?

Thanks,
Craig Rideout

Craig, The 202 looks very much like the 300, and I confuse them all the time. The Extras have both been flying very well, and both are very reliable. I like the Extras very much, and like the Giles, if I didn't have them anymore I'd miss them. I think you will be very pleased with the Giles. If I only had one to choose, I think it very well might be a Giles 300.

Hi sfaust
That was the video that made up my mind to buy one !! I would very mutch like to see more Video of your plane..If I can I'll post a picture of mine,,it is getting real close to being done,,I read your report on yours,,Great job by the way,,I hear that this plane will snapp at low speed and you have to land fast ?? is their any truth to this,,I'm currently flighing a 37% AW Extra 300..but I have it diald in for IMAC,and wanted this plane to play with ,,
Thanks

This is where I am..so far

Slow airspeed won't snap it all by itself, but instead it will just do a normal forward stall, and recovery is normal by just adding some power and relaxing the elevator a tad. If you want it to snap at slow speed, you have to give it snap roll control inputs. And when you do slow it down, then tell it to snap, it snaps and comes right around and when you recover you would swear its standing still in the air. I then just add power and fly away. The slow speed flight on this plane always seemed to amaze the pilots that see it for the first time. Its not snap happy on its own, but very docile. Landing speed is the same with the Giles as it is on all my other 35% and 40% airplanes. Nothing unusual about it. That has been my experience with the 40% Carden Giles, about standard weight, with a DA-150 and JR 8411's all around.

I'll try to compress some more video of it and put it up on my site. I'll let you know when I get it done.

Nice job on your airplane. Now get that puppy in the air

Thanks for the input..I heard it was snapp happy..with the tapperd wing..IF all goes well I should have it in the air in a week or two,,,,Will be looking for for the video,,
Catch you later

Not a 40% but check out airwild's site:

Awesome video of their 33% rockin' the house with beautiful freestyle moves...

http://www.airwildhobbies.com/upload...ild%20g300.wmv

if the link don't work just go to their site and click on the hovering giles pic...

Definitely not snap happy, at least as far as the 40% Carden Giles goes. It snaps with a vengeance if you ask it to, but without your explicit consent, its just plain docile to fly.

I have the old GP 25% Giles and its my baby

I want to get another one in the 25-28% range but dont know whats out there? Any suggestions?

Giantscaleplanes.com has one of that size in ARF so do these
Wildharerc.com
Airwild.com
compositaircraft.com

I am sure thier are others,,
I have looked at watched the Wild hare fly cool airplane.

Question for sfaust. Hey Steve, do you by chance remember where the cg was at on your Giles. Im at that point with the one Im building. Thanks, Walt

Unfortunately, I do not. I gave the airframe away to someone that was going to rebuilt it (frankly, it was much worse than just rebuilding from a kit) and I gave him the plans as well. But a quick call to Carden will get you a good starting point. I know I was aft of their recommended CG.

sfaust
I just made my first few flights with the Giles this afternoon ,,all I can say is ^^^^WOOOOW^^^^^.
This thing tracks like an arrow and it loves to tumble ,,sets up solid in harrier,,I can not figure out why Giant Scale Planes get's such a bad rapp ?? after all you get what you pay for I had a few things to change but they were minor ..and got really good coustermer support too !! I have allways heard bad things about the Giles,,I wish I would have gotten one a long time agao,,It is going to be a really fun airplane,,and flighs just like you said,,straight and true ,,SLOW landings,,My H9 Sukhoi landed faster than this bird ,,,,am I excited (( naawww ))) LOL,,here is a shot after a couple of flights ,,

You hit the nail on the head about the strength of the Giles. Tumbles, snaps, etc, enough to make you feel like you're on a roller coaster. And it doesn't give up anything in precision or slow flight. Have you done any elevators with it yet? Mine was a Carden, and it had the most stable elevator with the steepest descent I've ever seen to date. I loved to elevator that thing down with the smoke on, and the smoke came out from under the wing, and went almost straight up past the canopy. It looked awesome. But, keep all this a secret. We don't want to wait for the kits, or have the prices go up.

Enjoy it, as I'm sure you will. Nice looking colors too. It will look great once the wheel pants are on

LOL @ no pants,,Well I have been working really hard on this thing ,,we have had high winds 30+mph for about two weeks ,it was a nice day,it was darn near done,temp 52,my wanting to fly it was at a 10,,so off we went,,LOL,,today we are back to 25mph wind,,[]

LOL, I had to pick on something, since everything else looked great