Club 40 Nats TRASH TALK!!
09-03-2012, 12:57 PM
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Thinking of ways to make the race more intresting, maybe in the A main you have to make all right hand turns. And no Skully you can't fly it inverted, becaus then you would be turning left!!!
Putting the polls on a trolly and keep them moving in and out say from 300 feet to 500 feet.
Putting all the planes in a pool and you have to draw a number to see what plane you are flying.
Flying it on the 3 poll short course. Greg would probably like this, but most of us would be lost.
Any more sugestions? Lets hear them, maybe we will pick the best one and try it.
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All kidding aside, I would be up for a "figure 8" style race where the planes would intersect at the center.[8D]
I was practicing this yesterday and the right hand turns take a little bit of practice.
Bring your worst plane and lets make it happen.
Putting the polls on a trolly and keep them moving in and out say from 300 feet to 500 feet.
Putting all the planes in a pool and you have to draw a number to see what plane you are flying.
Flying it on the 3 poll short course. Greg would probably like this, but most of us would be lost.
Any more sugestions? Lets hear them, maybe we will pick the best one and try it.
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All kidding aside, I would be up for a "figure 8" style race where the planes would intersect at the center.[8D]
I was practicing this yesterday and the right hand turns take a little bit of practice.
Bring your worst plane and lets make it happen.
09-03-2012, 05:03 PM
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How many planes in the air at one time???
How many planes in the air at one time???
with me, better leave me alone or I'll hit ya,,,,
me on the ground 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIe1KtfpDzw
09-04-2012, 04:06 PM
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Gary Fisher will remember when we raced 5 Club 40 planes at Freddie's Racing Ranch a few years ago. Everyone had a blast! It teaches you to hold your line and fly a consistent course...
09-05-2012, 07:41 PM
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Just when Fish and Skully think its safe to go back in the water!.........
here is some of the damage that I suffered from the Harvest, Al race a few weeks ago due to a brand new aileron servo quitting on me in flight. It went down pretty hard in a soybean field at full warp speed. The fuse was in about 8 pieces and the wing lost some of the leading edge and one of the front bays all the way back to the spar and the wing hold down bolts pulled all the way thru the rear leading edge. Yeah, it was sorta ugly, kinda like Skully's big ol' punkin head[X(], but I let it set in a pile for a couple weeks then started accesing the damage about a week and a half ago. I had most of the pieces of the fuse and what I didnt have, I made. About all I lack to do is to clean it all up and re-cover the wing now then re-mount the engine,etc.... The fuse has been recovered from the tail section forward due to the crash,err I mean unscheduled landing.
Hopefully she will fly as good as before as things look lined back up fairly well but we'll see.
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here is some of the damage that I suffered from the Harvest, Al race a few weeks ago due to a brand new aileron servo quitting on me in flight. It went down pretty hard in a soybean field at full warp speed. The fuse was in about 8 pieces and the wing lost some of the leading edge and one of the front bays all the way back to the spar and the wing hold down bolts pulled all the way thru the rear leading edge. Yeah, it was sorta ugly, kinda like Skully's big ol' punkin head[X(], but I let it set in a pile for a couple weeks then started accesing the damage about a week and a half ago. I had most of the pieces of the fuse and what I didnt have, I made. About all I lack to do is to clean it all up and re-cover the wing now then re-mount the engine,etc.... The fuse has been recovered from the tail section forward due to the crash,err I mean unscheduled landing.
Hopefully she will fly as good as before as things look lined back up fairly well but we'll see.
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09-12-2012, 10:03 AM
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I'm with John, where is the talk????? Skully must be offshore and out of range......well I will say something.....We here in Texas are going to allow you out of town guys to take off 1st in all heat races......our callers will hold the plane until yall are in the air providing yall dont take each other out on the line.....lol.......Then we will pass yall after 1st turn.....
09-12-2012, 09:44 PM
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I'm going to let Gary James do my trash talking....................
He made one post or I guess it was an email and had half the people in Texas mad at him and he's a Texan.....
Go Gary, It must have worked caus they had the biggist turn out for a Q-25 race in a long time.
Wish I could have been there.
He made one post or I guess it was an email and had half the people in Texas mad at him and he's a Texan.....
Go Gary, It must have worked caus they had the biggist turn out for a Q-25 race in a long time.
Wish I could have been there.
09-12-2012, 09:47 PM
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Just when Fish and Skully think its safe to go back in the water!.........
here is some of the damage that I suffered from the Harvest, Al race a few weeks ago due to a brand new aileron servo quitting on me in flight. It went down pretty hard in a soybean field at full warp speed. The fuse was in about 8 pieces and the wing lost some of the leading edge and one of the front bays all the way back to the spar and the wing hold down bolts pulled all the way thru the rear leading edge. Yeah, it was sorta ugly, kinda like Skully's big ol' punkin head[X(], but I let it set in a pile for a couple weeks then started accesing the damage about a week and a half ago. I had most of the pieces of the fuse and what I didnt have, I made. About all I lack to do is to clean it all up and re-cover the wing now then re-mount the engine,etc.... The fuse has been recovered from the tail section forward due to the crash,err I mean unscheduled landing.
Hopefully she will fly as good as before as things look lined back up fairly well but we'll see.
[img][/img]
Just when Fish and Skully think its safe to go back in the water!.........
here is some of the damage that I suffered from the Harvest, Al race a few weeks ago due to a brand new aileron servo quitting on me in flight. It went down pretty hard in a soybean field at full warp speed. The fuse was in about 8 pieces and the wing lost some of the leading edge and one of the front bays all the way back to the spar and the wing hold down bolts pulled all the way thru the rear leading edge. Yeah, it was sorta ugly, kinda like Skully's big ol' punkin head[X(], but I let it set in a pile for a couple weeks then started accesing the damage about a week and a half ago. I had most of the pieces of the fuse and what I didnt have, I made. About all I lack to do is to clean it all up and re-cover the wing now then re-mount the engine,etc.... The fuse has been recovered from the tail section forward due to the crash,err I mean unscheduled landing.
Hopefully she will fly as good as before as things look lined back up fairly well but we'll see.
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I feal your pain John I have one that looks a lot like that one even yellow with B/W checker
09-13-2012, 05:06 AM
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I'm going to let Gary James do my trash talking.
I'm going to let Gary James do my trash talking.
09-13-2012, 06:37 AM
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Jim, she's all finished up as of last night. Recovered the entire wing in a new color scheme. Its now got a 'Beat Skully' Orange base color [X(] with a white racing stripe on one wing. This one was the same as yours, I had yellow and black and white checkered but removed that after the crash. Got the engine mounted and servos hooked back up and tested everything. Even swapped it from 72 mhtz to 2.4, ( this is my first time being on 2.4) . Its sort of a different feeling wanting to pull the antenna out but not needing to now, LOL
All I lack to do now is to go out and fly it and teach it ( and me ) how to do rise off ground Texas starts, maybe this weekend. Go Team Bama!!!
All I lack to do now is to go out and fly it and teach it ( and me ) how to do rise off ground Texas starts, maybe this weekend. Go Team Bama!!!
09-13-2012, 08:53 AM
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Boy, its been way too quite on here lately with the Nats just a month away.
Maybe you guys are busy plotting your strategy or something?[>:]
Boy, its been way too quite on here lately with the Nats just a month away.
Maybe you guys are busy plotting your strategy or something?[>:]
09-13-2012, 09:28 AM
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Well well well,.... look what the cat dragged in? There you are. And somebody had said a big rouge wave washed you off the rig and last they saw of you, you were in the current headed toward Cuba! LOL Hows it going Eric?
Well well well,.... look what the cat dragged in? There you are. And somebody had said a big rouge wave washed you off the rig and last they saw of you, you were in the current headed toward Cuba! LOL Hows it going Eric?
09-28-2012, 04:40 AM
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Is it legal to use carbon fiber props? I can't get the 10.5 X 4.5 to hold up over 23000 RPM.
Is it legal to use carbon fiber props? I can't get the 10.5 X 4.5 to hold up over 23000 RPM.
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