STICK Brotherhood!!
03-11-2016, 08:15 PM
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This is my favorite stik video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1R30U3qpFs
This one aint too bad either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2pzLF_1N4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1R30U3qpFs
This one aint too bad either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2pzLF_1N4
03-16-2016, 01:25 PM
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Does this qualify?
Stick 1500, (note the "c,") an ARTF available from a French supplier, Irvine 46 up front. On its third flight it lost a wheel but I managed to get it down onto the tarmac. The only damage was a few millimetres ground off the end of the propeller!
Stick 1500, (note the "c,") an ARTF available from a French supplier, Irvine 46 up front. On its third flight it lost a wheel but I managed to get it down onto the tarmac. The only damage was a few millimetres ground off the end of the propeller!
03-17-2016, 04:10 AM
#78
Does this qualify?
Stick 1500, (note the "c,") an ARTF available from a French supplier, Irvine 46 up front. On its third flight it lost a wheel but I managed to get it down onto the tarmac. The only damage was a few millimetres ground off the end of the propeller!
Stick 1500, (note the "c,") an ARTF available from a French supplier, Irvine 46 up front. On its third flight it lost a wheel but I managed to get it down onto the tarmac. The only damage was a few millimetres ground off the end of the propeller!
03-17-2016, 04:27 AM
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The best thing you can do for your gear is get rid of the set screw collars and thread the end of the axle instead, then you can use a nyloc nut and never lose another wheel. 
The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOL
The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOL
03-17-2016, 05:02 AM
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The best thing you can do for your gear is get rid of the set screw collars and thread the end of the axle instead, then you can use a nyloc nut and never lose another wheel. The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOL
The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOLIf my Stick qualifies for inclusion, what about its great great grandfather, my Chris Olsen Uproar which won the British model aerobatics championship in 1958 and finished runner up in the European Championship the same year.
03-17-2016, 09:48 AM
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The best thing you can do for your gear is get rid of the set screw collars and thread the end of the axle instead, then you can use a nyloc nut and never lose another wheel. The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOL
The first time I lost a wheel was on one of my Sticks, I decided that was never going to happen again... and it hasn't!! LOL
03-27-2016, 01:20 PM
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Hi from Italy. Just completed a scratch built Cardboard Stik from RCM july 1974 , substituted balsa for carboard, foam wing, Hirtemberger HP40F engine as the original, 1950 grams weight. The squared vertical tail suggested a WW1 camouflage from a british SE5A fighter, just for a change
Here with his rival/companion Das Ugly Stick, also scratch built from Grid leacks plan. FOX Eagle 1 engine
Here with his rival/companion Das Ugly Stick, also scratch built from Grid leacks plan. FOX Eagle 1 engine
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03-29-2016, 05:16 AM
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Please inspect the front wing hold-down lugs. The last three 60 sized Big Stiks I've seen had poor quality wood in this area causing one Stik to lose the wing on the maiden. The others had dowels added to secure the wing. See picture.
03-29-2016, 07:43 PM
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Me and a friend always gravitate towards each other when we fly, jokes about dogfights come up, and we end up doing circles around each other like moths to a flame. This is the end result of the unscheduled meeting we had last week. Luckily when the motor fell away it neatly unplugged itself from the ESC and the battery shifted forward to help with CG, I still had control and held it in a harrier attitude all the way to the grass. The blade embedded in my wing was mine. Ordered a new fuse and she's fixed and ready for more. This the second T-28 I have taken out with a Stik, the first time it was the same size foamie version which turned into my landing approach with my 30cc Giant Stik, at a fast idle it cut the T-28 into pieces, but only broke my prop and shut the motor off for a textbook deadstik (pun intended) landing.
04-06-2016, 02:45 PM
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Did you open the wing up and add wood for the dowels?
04-06-2016, 04:17 PM
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No need to open up the wing. Just drill 1/4 or 3/8" (depending on dowel size) holes at a slight downward angle into the leading edge, but not into the spar. Drip some epoxy into the holes then add dowels. Start low with the pilot holes, then slowly make a vert slit until the wing just sits flush at the front and back.
04-12-2016, 05:12 AM
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Just when I thought the GP Stik 40 couldn't get any more fun to fly.....
A few weeks ago I lost the rear half of my OS 46AX muffler. For the same money, I replaced it with a MAC's one piece muffler. With the stock OS muffler, I could hover the Stik at about 90-95% throttle. Very little reserve to pull out. With the MAC's muffler and the same APC 12-4, I can now hover at only 80% power. This past weekend, I was able to Torque-Roll my Stik 10" off the deck. Before, when I tried to Torque-Roll, it would fall out and I didn't have the power to recover.
This old Stik is once again the funnest plane in my fleet and flying way beyond the STIK stereotype..
A few weeks ago I lost the rear half of my OS 46AX muffler. For the same money, I replaced it with a MAC's one piece muffler. With the stock OS muffler, I could hover the Stik at about 90-95% throttle. Very little reserve to pull out. With the MAC's muffler and the same APC 12-4, I can now hover at only 80% power. This past weekend, I was able to Torque-Roll my Stik 10" off the deck. Before, when I tried to Torque-Roll, it would fall out and I didn't have the power to recover.
This old Stik is once again the funnest plane in my fleet and flying way beyond the STIK stereotype..
06-04-2016, 03:46 AM
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Hey Guys.
I'm also Stik mad. I have 7 , ranging from mini electric to 50cc size with a Saito radial.
Here's a video of me having a mid air with my home built 60 Stik in a pylon race.
Was using a vintage Webra Speed 61 with tuned pipe.
Plane is repairable and Engine only needs new spraybar.
https://www.facebook.com/Area51Flyin...2475513153077/
I'm also Stik mad. I have 7 , ranging from mini electric to 50cc size with a Saito radial.
Here's a video of me having a mid air with my home built 60 Stik in a pylon race.
Was using a vintage Webra Speed 61 with tuned pipe.
Plane is repairable and Engine only needs new spraybar.
https://www.facebook.com/Area51Flyin...2475513153077/