Ring Master Fly Athon and round up
09-07-2016, 10:58 AM
#1
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Ring Master Fly Athon and round up
Coming in a short three weeks ----Oct 1 and 2
Fly any ring master or variant and report the 5 or more lap flight to add to the 9th annual 2016 totals
or head to Houston Scobee field and participate in the Round up
Every year we beatt the previous year's totals.. Please help us exceed lastyear's records (3487 flights by 684 pilots)!
Dust off that S-1, clean the tank, and vibrate the hell out of a prop and RM with a Fox 35....grin
Fly any ring master or variant and report the 5 or more lap flight to add to the 9th annual 2016 totals
or head to Houston Scobee field and participate in the Round up
Every year we beatt the previous year's totals.. Please help us exceed lastyear's records (3487 flights by 684 pilots)!
Dust off that S-1, clean the tank, and vibrate the hell out of a prop and RM with a Fox 35....grin
09-11-2016, 06:09 PM
#3
I wish I had a Ringmaster. I've built 3 S-1's and 1 Baby Ringmaster. But I'm down to none right now. I've got a set of fullsize plans, but I don't think I could knock one out in the remaining time. For me the first Ringmaster (I had an Enya .35 on it) 1968 was the first Controline plane that really felt like something on the lines. That first flight was remarkable and I remember how hard the "pull" on the lines felt. Up to that point I was flying 1/2 A Cox .049's Goldberg profiles. Great learning machines, but the Ringmaster was the real eye opener. Today I ran across the original assembly sheet Sterling provided. It makes for an interesting read and remembrance of my Ringmaster builds. Everybody who flies controline should have a Ringmaster sometime. Sometime I'll have another.
10-01-2016, 01:46 PM
#12
My Entry, Brodaks Ringmaster with an La25 and a funky funky tank. It keeps shedding stuff from the inside.
During my first flight today, slightly after going inverted from a nice, easy pulling over the vertical wingover, the engine died, mostly. and sparked for a couple laps finally giving enough of a burst to get it upright again, where I did a touch and go with the engine sputtering. And finally it leaned out for 3 or 4 laps then sputtered and died. Hey, I still have all the parts. I put a uniflow line on the tank and it ran the whole flight a bit lean after I got into the air, it was a bit rich on the ground, but the whole flight was the same amount of lean. There's probably a big snotball of old castor in the tank I'm whittling down with mixed oil fuel. But it was a good day overall. Time to baby sit.
https://youtu.be/GIsxHGFftsI
During my first flight today, slightly after going inverted from a nice, easy pulling over the vertical wingover, the engine died, mostly. and sparked for a couple laps finally giving enough of a burst to get it upright again, where I did a touch and go with the engine sputtering. And finally it leaned out for 3 or 4 laps then sputtered and died. Hey, I still have all the parts. I put a uniflow line on the tank and it ran the whole flight a bit lean after I got into the air, it was a bit rich on the ground, but the whole flight was the same amount of lean. There's probably a big snotball of old castor in the tank I'm whittling down with mixed oil fuel. But it was a good day overall. Time to baby sit.
https://youtu.be/GIsxHGFftsI
