Bridi Trainer is done
 

Finally I'm done, tomorrow I hope for test flight if the snow is gone on the field.
Get some more running time on the new Rossi 65 to.
First build and cover in 17 years, felt like a rookie:eek:

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Does`nt look like a rookie job, nice work, good luck on your maiden.

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Looks GREAT! except for all that snow....(from South Florida here..lol) Where did the cg come out? Did the lateral balance come out ok, too? Doc

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Yes it's spot on the CG, I put the servos a bit further back and the reciver and battery is also under the end of the wing if you know what I meen[:o]

I think it will be silly quick with the rossi up front, I can always put my old HP61 up front.

Take care

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"I think it will be silly quick with the rossi up front,"

It will be quick indeed. My first trainer - a fairly rough Eagle 2 -had the fist engine I bought... a used YS 45. It was sort of like learning to drive in a Chevy pickup with a Ferrari engine in it. I do remember the time I brought it into the LHS and heard the comment, "Whose is that and what is THAT ENGINE doing on THAT?" Let us all know how it flies. Good Luck!! Doc

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I learned on one of those and it was a great plane, I think you will really like it have fun.

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Martenson, Nice job on the Bridi Trainer. I have fond memories of that airplane because I taught myself to fly on one, over 30 years ago. Mine had a K&B 61 engine and an EK Super Pro radio. Needless to say, the airplane took quite a beating in the process but I did learn to fly with it. Hope you have as much fun flying yours as I did with mine...........RS

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Now it's test flown, 2 real good flights but it was real wet on the grassfield.
We can fly with pontons in the woods where our field is:D
It was real quick even on 1/2 throttle and I cruised around on 1/4.
But I did'nt remember the fast landing speed, maybe it's just becourse it was my first flight since october.
Now I'm building an old Svenson model, called Channy from the late 1960.

I checked my fathers old stock and we have 2 40 size Bridi Trainers brand new in box and one 60 size so we got kits;)

Take care Joakim

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I thought you would have had more snow this time of year at the field. I noticed the muffler is angled downwards. How's it for keeping the exhaust off the plane? I can probably do that with my new super tiger 40. This bridi plane had a symetrical airfoil, how was the test flight?

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Jim, It rolls straight as an arrow and does BIG loops.
It's like an older aerobatic trainer, forgiving and easy to fly.
And it is as fast as some of my old 1970 pattern planes.
I like it, now I would like a bridi pattern plane.
Any one who wants to trade a NIB 60 bridi trainer against Dirty Birdy 60?

Jim, yes the muffler works great turned down, but it's the Coanda effect any how, fast moving air search for a flat cerfice to follow.
But it's alot better then straight backwards.
I've done it to my ST 90 to, alot less cleaning.

Take care.

Joakim

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The Bridi trainer is one of the best flat spin airplanes ever !!!!!!

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I have one of these which I built in 1976. Actually I have the wing from this airplane and I built another fuse kit in 1981. However, the airplane still exists and is flyable. Mine was entitled a Bridi's RCM Trainer .60. I haven't flown this airplane since the early 1980s. I have a set of floats I need to finish so I could fly it as a float plane.

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I taught myself to fly on one, over 30 years ago. Mine had a K&B 61 engine and an EK Super Pro radio.

My 1980 RCM had a K & B 61 also, and a Cirrus radio. That Bridi wing would haul.