for whatever reasons,the Skyshark and it,s very similar British opposite number the Westland Wyvern still hold a special sinister mystique and fascination of their own to this day for modelers,historians and enthusiasts. both had troublesome developments with fatalities of test pilots as well. after a 10-year development,the Wyvern did get a taste of combat action for a few glorious weeks in the Suez Canal Conflict in October,1956 embarked aboard HMS EAGLE with a short service career from 1954-58. the Shark was essentially killed off by Douglas themselves with the more compact and far simpler pure-jet A4D Skyhawk AKA the "Scooter" . .
Excellent! I attached a Cox .049 engine low on a added vertical member of a box kite for free flight. It flew! Also modified a PT-19 trainer. Cut away some plastic for additional elevator movement, removed the landing gear and changed the prop. Dang thing would do crisp wing overs! The wing center section developed a Crack! I'm 73, and smiling.
I still have that after 50 years. The best way to fly it is to let it run rich and slow that it almost hovers, and then launch it a bit tilted. Then it first flies almost level about ten metres (yards) ,turns back again for about the same, slowly starting to just rise. When the fuel starts to run out, the engine peaks, and copter gains enough altitude to get that autorotation speed up enough. Just by tuning it "right" and launching it straight up is boring and usually ends up in a tree or something... I have about 10 COX planes, some never flown, yet... EBAY is a nice place.
Gorgeous landing, just as Dave would have done. Dave was a good friend of my family and neighbor out at Fairview Airport. I just got to thinking about him today and looked him up.
I wander what a modern version of this would look like? Like it was a real aircraft that you took it out of storage and retrofitted it with new modern equipment and technologies, giving it advance electronic controls and replacing the old propellers to new jet engines. I think that be a awesome thing to do but that’s my opinion
Great video. Explains nicely to someone who has never done or seen it done before. Is there a specific way to reassemble the venturi and needle valve assembly so the holes line up for proper fuel flow?
Hello Tony! What a beautiful video...how beautiful that model airplane flies!...very good conversion!...my greetings to the pilot owner! Tony, by the way, what a nice place you fly to, where is it geographically located?...thanks friend!
