Hello all C-160Transall fans, Sir FlyAlot here. I am Capt. Crackup's flying buddy who just completed building and test flying my camouflage Transall. Same setup with O.S. .25 LA's. Love them so far. All went well. You are not going to believe this, but 2 clicks left Aileron trim was all it took for perfect flight. I was extactic, especially after I got it back on the ground. That was my first Twin engine plane. The only real adjustments I did the other night after my first flight were taking out some throws, and having to play with the throttle linkages to get the engines more in sync Tune wise, vice using so much mixture. One of my engines was using about 1/3 more fuel than the other. Played with them, and the needles are now set almost exactly the same, and they purr from the bottom to the top. I have run a total of about 8 or 9 tanks of gas through each, and they have not died on me once. (Knock on Wood). It's all about dependability, so tune em rich. ANYWAY, Capt Crackup said I held out on him once I showed him mine, but I came up with the running/landing lights after his was done, and just wanted to surprise him after that. I just bought an RCLIGHTS LED kit off of EBAY with 5 lights, 1-red, 1-green, 3 white. Mounted the red and green in the wingtips prior to putting the wings together, and put one white on top of the cabin, and the other two I mounted on the front of the wheel pants to look like landing lights. I hot glued a spring onto the side of a mini servo, attached a power lead to the spring, and the other half to the servo arm so when I activate them, the arm swings into the spring and makes the lights come on. It's pretty cool. ANYWAY, check out the video of my first flight at the below link, or just go to RCU Videos and look for C 160 Transall. Keep an eye open in the future, Capt Crackup and I plan on doing some Formation Flying pretty soon and will try to get it on film.. That ought to be pretty neat.
Heres the Video Link - http://www.rcuvideos.com/view_video....59e21f88bd2d83 .
All take care and safe flying.