airbusdrvr

In November/December 2005 I bought an Atlanta 60. The history of the plane and its sister ship(Nathan King's Atlanta) have been written about in posts here earlier. After a rather extensive refurbishment the last couple of months, she flew day before yesterday. A couple of down clicks and one right aileron click and she flew hands off. Gordon McClean flew here maiden flight. He participated in pattern contests back years ago and still flies a couple old pattern planes(Brushfire being one). A nose wheel steering linkage failure aborted the second flight at takeoff. A minor setback. More flights to follow. Below are pics of before flight, takeoff and landing

flywilly

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Congratulations and enjoy!!

airbusdrvr

Here are a few pics of changes/improvements during the refurb.

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8178

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Wonderful news! I’ve always thought the Atlanta was/is a beautiful machine.

crashlander

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Good looking airplane.
Great job
Enjoy it, expect to see it at the FVPA BPA contests this year.
Orlando

Atlanta 60

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Fantastic!!! Well Done Sir!!! I've been anxiously awaiting this news...

Beautiful job on the refurbishment...I'll probably be following your lead when the time comes to set mine up as well...Looking forward to that day...

So the AR is a good match for the Atlanta??

Good Deal...

Chuck

Fxrs_tim

Absolutely gorgeous!! Congratulations and may you enjoy her for many years.

airbusdrvr

What happened to navav2002? I recognized the city, Cartersville, but not the new name. And you are right about the engine. I thought the engine was the LS, but it is the AR. The LS is still in the box. I remember that we've had this discussion before. Thanks

Nathan King

Hey, congratulations! What happened to the nose gear linkage? I've never had a problem with this and am curious to know what failed. You're still using that nose gear retract rod reminescent of a Rube Goldberg invention like me huh? I really can't think of a better way to snake it around the tank area.


I may be grounding mine for a little while. I need to repair a few very small (hairline and less than 1/4" long) cracks sprouting up near the nose before they get bigger; they're probably from engine vibration. My belly pan had a few small cracks when I got it (looks like it may have been belly landed on grass once in the past), so I will be repairing those as well. I don't know what paint Roger Young used on them, but I don't think you could damage the paint job with a key! It's like automotive paint laced with titanium!

Atlanta 60

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"navav2002" is a screen name I've had for several years from some flightsim forums and such...I initially choose it as I am an *admirer* of Naval Aviation...I should have changed the screen name a long time ago because I think it sorta depicts that I'm a Naval Aviator or affiliated with Naval Aviation which I am not...I don't wanna give that impression and don't wanna dis-respect Real Naval Aviators...Hope that makes some sense?? As to Atlanta 60...I'm sorry but I had to come up with something and I lack creativity very badly...So I copied Aurora 60... [sm=71_71.gif]

Just wait till it comes time for me to start painting my airplanes...Yall are gonna be saying..."Hey..his paint job looks just like mine..."

So is the AR good match?? Do you have plenty of power?? What prop were you running?? Did it do OK off the grass?? I'm flying primarily off a grass field too so I'm curious... (I plan to join GMA soon which has a paved runway but I won't be able to fly there that much...)

Boy that's a good looking plane...

Thanks...

Chuck

Nathan King

The Atlanta does well off both grass and pavement. I think it's easier to fly off grass, but my field is paved and it works almost as well there too.

airbusdrvr

Master Airscrew 11X7.5 prop. The grass was no problem. That was the AR's first flight. Another guy took off just as we did with a noisy(if you can believe that) four-stroke. Half the time we could not hear the engine. But Gordon flew several vertical pattern maneuvers and it pulled right through them. I like the grass for landing as the plane will slow very nicely on roll out. Plus, with the T2A, I once had a main gear stick up(slightly bent landing gear wire). I landed on the grass runway with all gear up without a scratch. A few grass streak stains on the fuse bottom, but that was it.

dhal22

you're still Chuck to those of us who know you.

David

Nathan King

Yeah, God forbid if I need to belly land the belly pan would be shaved down to nothing!

okelly

You had to post this didn''t you ?! Now there is another plane I MUST have!

Cool looking ship, very nice work on the refurb

pub

Nice looking plane,could you tell me how your servos are setup. thanks pub

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