Started off as Large Scale Radio Control Vehicles & Boats both powered & sail but now we are into virtually anything RC related, cars, boats, planes, quads, and the list goes on.
oh my god, I sympathize. I have the same plane in thermal and I would like to convert it to electric, what engine and battery have you installed? We'll have to heat the glue, good luck.
The wind was blowing at over 20kph & gusting to 60 so it really wasn't a good day for testing. Next time we will test with a 6S battery in place of the 4S
@@PredatorRacingTas That's Funny 😂 Maybe change the day, not the battery 🤣 Cool watching someone flying something that doesn't cost more than most people's homes 👍 I started 6 Decades Ago, with Strings, and a Cox .049 😊
@@My-Pal-Hal We are just old pensioners down this way flying whatever we can get hold of. No million dollar RC jets down this way. We still have a lot of fun though, fly them, break them, repair them, repeat!! My bro started about the same time as you with control line planes & Enya diesel motors. Still pranged just as many as we do today though. Always trying to push the envelope just a tad too far !!
@@PredatorRacingTas Oh my friend,.. I've been there, way before I'd like to admit. But I think I did. And you don't know Old. But unfortunately you will. And that's Cool Too 😏 You guys still have the technology, us old guys only dreamed of. And Made Happen !!! I started with Strings, and cox .049's. And want on to build the stuff above you 😂 ... sorry , the rest is classified HAVE FUN 😊 IT WAS FUN WATCHING 🤗 ... memories , ow , my back 😂 , that's not funny
@@PredatorRacingTas ... you should see the old stereo stuff i have,.. most of which is probably illegal 😂 I had an answer to a question I'd get now and then. Is That Stereo Loud ??? Well, I can Sterilize Small Animals, and People if they get close 😂 And Pensions are Good 👍 Most, can't be gambled away like 401k's. ... though, i still keep an eye on mine
I have a Sigma 38 OOD racing in the Irish Sea (UK)- and I find this video amazing. What a great competition, what great sailors. As tight if not tighter than any "Round the Cans" full size racing that we do. Superb mark roundings. Up wind beating looks dramatic. Starts are spot on incredibly competitive. Thank you for great video.
When you learn to "read" wind, you don't need a motor. I find thermals by watching the way grass tips behave and sometimes, just toss my plane about 20 feet up and into a swirl, level off and then circle, watching my wing tips for flutter, indicating an updraft. Also, if there is any escarpment to the landscape, ridge lift can be a launch option. I build and fly pod & boom, usually rudder/elevator, sometimes ailerons.
We used to call this sucker the widowmaker when i was in special operations. Just hated this sucker. It looks really freaking cool. Ive got unreal photos of this thiing in action. But you never ever eve want to fast rope from this thing. Those rotors / propellers whatver you call them are freakin huge. So it would blow the rope away from the bird. The other problem was you can't see anything when this sucker lands i mean it is a complete dustout. Whilst throwing any rocks or depree at you. But it does look cool. RLTW 3/75
I'm not surprised by the Widowmaker moniker, even the RC model is a twitchy bitch to fly. When all is working well she flies great but if one little thing is out of whack all hell breaks loose.
The C rig in this video was made by the Focus owner however B & C rigs are available commercially for the DF95 & they fit with a bit of fiddling. Just search in your local area for suppliers.
I noticed sailing my focus v3 that it is really critical on backstay tension. And of course for the df95 you can find enough measurements to, as a novice, tune your boat correct for any wind and wave condition. In the focus v3 you have to learn more yourself. F.i. I fitted the foresail through the first deckeye instead of the second, as mentioned in the rigging setup. It sails just a tiny bit better that way. I think, the v3 has a lot of potential and in conditions I sail mostly, light wind, my v3 is very vast. In strong wind the forestay tension tends to get too loose. Backstay tension needs te be very high then. I am now trying to get the "backstay tension" of the foresail correct. (I suspect that is not the correct term)
Nose down, neutral ailerons, and opposite rudder to the spin are standard spin recovery control inputs (power off too). Neutralizing all controls may have done it too, but you held up elevator, which is how an aircraft initiates and remains in a spin. I realize this is hard to do, either sitting in, or watching from the ground (especially low, like you were), but might help to take a beater glider up higher and practice entry and exit...after some better instruction than from me. I just know how it's done in a full sized glider. In the one time where I spun an RC discus launched glider, nothing helped. I had damage from a midair. 🤦♂
Unfortunately I made several mistakes that when added together all contributed to this crash; 1) I used a larger heavier battery than normal & forgot to adjust its location for correct COG 2) whilst gliding unpowered in no wind and with negligable thermal lift I took my eye of the model for several seconds & missed the start of the spin 3) as pointed out by a mate Chris (in the Philippines) I should have disengaged the autopilot BEFORE attempting to recover from the spin ( this is what locked the elevators in the full up position) 4) With the correct COG the BumbleBee recovers by itself from a tip-stall and or spin under the control of the iNav flight controller as can be seen in previous videos.This lured me into a false sense of security. Luckily, as I managed to almost level the plane before contacting Terra Firma the only damage was a loosened wing mount block which was easily epoxied back in place so BumbleBee is ready to soar again (with the correct COG this time)
That is true, but while we still enjoy our flying we will continue to make videos, whether anyone watches them or not !!. It's just what we old retirees do to keep our minds active.
One critical mod this plane needs whether flying on 3s or 4s is to prevent the folding prop catching on the left hand side of the canopy when powering up after a no power high speed dive (the air pressure inside the fuse pushes the canopy out just enough to catch the prop). I simply used a tiny piece of clear plastic sheet taped to the fuselage & extending over the side of the canopy in the area where the prop catches. This way you just tuck the edge of the canopy under the plastic strip & then you don't need to un-tape all the time. Without this the motor stalls on startup after a dive more often than not. It is usually reported as a motor or ESC fail but it isn't. Other than that it flies great out of the box with a 3S battery, but its much faster with a 4S. On a 4S 40C 2200mAh LiPo I clocked mine at 172kph with the onboard iNav F411-WSE that I had fitted.
I’ve never seen a Super Chipmunk of any kind that didn’t fly very well. Not much description about yours that I can find so far. Can you tell us more about it?
The Super Chipmunk is built from one of the Chinese kits. These kits are still available via AliExpress but are over $600.00 Au once you factor in postage. The kits include NO electronics. It has a fibreglass fuselage & built up wings. I fly on a 4S 5000mAh battery using a 17 x 8 prop. The motor & ESC can take up to 6/7S batteries but the prop size would need to be reduced at the higher voltages. Motor is a big Turnigy C4260-500 fed via an 80A ESC. All servos are Hitech.
