Out Back Trainer
 

Hello Folks

Would like to show you my trainer I built that I am teaching myself on as I live to far from anywhere to seek help. I am relying on my childhood memories when I use to build gliders for free flight. I live on 6000 acres and have built a dirt runway infront of my house and can start the plane in shed a taxi out to the runway.

Had to put on 8" wheels to handle the bumbs and makes landing alot easier. She is powerd by a Ryobi and made out of plastic corrflute with a 80" wing span.
Design came off the shed floor.I am happy the way she flies it will loop but won't break any records.

Hope to mount a camera one day and show you a bit of outback Australia from the air.

Now try to post pics.

Adrian.

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RE: Out Back Trainer
 

Good on ya.
How many flights do you have so far ? Looks like an overgrown Magic.
There's a great deal of personal satisfaction when you can design a plane and have it fly.

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

G'day Rreiss

She got about 20 flights up now and I can land pretty good now, but the first flight was a real knee trembler and the landing not that good. But now I have got heaps more confindence I am having a ball and need a fly fix ever so often. I suppose the next thing is to build a flat wing.

Adrian.

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

If that is your runway in two of the photos, I've seen much worse posted here.
I can only imagine being in this hobby and yet so far from a supply source or flying club.

If you're able to revise the wing saddle, the flat wing and semi-symmetrical would give you so much more advanced flying.

Hope you don't mind if I share with you a plane a flying buddy designed from scratch. It flew so great that I traded him out of it and have been flying the covering off it. He simply said something about like this to hold the wing and engine and why not twin booms and rudder about like this. The vert. stabs looked more like a B-25 till I trimmed them at an angle and I added cockpit windows and some trim here and there.

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

Randy,
Looks like he took the remains of a trainer and added new tail surfaces.

I like the "Outback trainer". :D Glad to hear you're having success with it too.
Dennis-

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Good to see this Adrian. I did much the same thing when I learned to fly RC in Victoria's western district. I ended up dragging a railway sleeper around behind the tractor to make a landing strip. It turned out so flat that the Sig Kavalier was able to use it with standard wheels. Without any help from anyone I practiced the takeoff, circuits and landing in my head over and over so that when the time came it was almost an anti-climax. The entire first flight went perfectly. Within a few weeks there was little I couldn't do with that aircraft and literally flew it to death. The airframe was soaked in oil, the motor worn out and even the tires had no tread left. Just before it was due to retire I lost it when a grass seed entered the carb and caused a flameout during a steep takeoff. I replaced the Kavalier with a Sig Kougar which I still have to this day. It's about 25 years old now :)
Thanks for posting the pics. This is what RC is all about!
--
Allan

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

Rreiss

Looking at the plane you showed reminded me what I was thinking today while pottering around in the shed. It would't be to hard to build a twin engine trainer by having 2 fuses like mine joined with tail feathers like yours and something cylindrical between the the 2 engines to carry radio gear. Like a Lockheed p-38 Lightning I think .

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Man, that plane is so ugly that the only reason it flies is that once it leaves the earth, the earth doesn't want it back.

Just kidding (us "plane" guys say that about RC-helicopters..... also that they do not fly, they beat the air into submission). It is super-impressive that you put that together "from memories".

Cool.

gus

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Hey Gus

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Lets have a look at your plane or planes that you have designed.

I think it looks very agricultural.

Adrian.

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

Hey, it *was* in jest, but since you asked... how about my ploughing plane? Full throttle into a farmer's field. Dumb thumbs.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfi...01/Fa86747.jpg

gus

RE: Out Back Trainer
 

Adrian,
Your twin idea would be a fun project. Read a few posts on here about twin setup since the thrust angle is so critical. With your success on the trainer, it shouldn't too difficult. Be sure and post some photos when you get her done.
It's been so long since I've designed my own that my interest now is to find older classic kit built giant planes and bring them back to as new flying condition. Each pilot finds their own corner of interest in this hobby.

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Gus

Now that is ugly mate.