Fantastic! Finishing mine and would love tips/tricks on your wing caddie design? Any close up pics showing how it supports flying/landing wires? How it attaches to wing? Cheers
Hello from the UK, I absolutely salute your building and flying skill's. I would gladly have paid an admission fee to see that display "in the flesh" Congratulations!
Good Question, Only reason is take off and landing should be into the wind. I was being conservative on the first flight. I would have needed to do at least a figure 8 to go the other way around and one more to land into the wind.
United States Navy Aviation Cadet Primary Training Program. Many an ace became familiar with the fundamentals of flight in such craft before moving through ever more advanced types then shipboard flight deck protocols. Flight training officers oft could tell who may have the stuff at first try in the “ washing machine “. Son,, that’s some pretty good flying, I’m recommending you for fighting aircraft training. Pensacola Florida. United States 🇺🇸 of America.
Thank you. Just to add the Navy called it the Yellow Peril for a reason. The model however is pretty easy to fly. You'll quickly learn that while the ailerons will do a nice job banking but you need to use the rudder to have it point in the direction of travel. The rudder is actually so effective that that it will bank too much. For scale flight I may have right rudder and left ailerons to smoothly go around a right turn. Landings must be super smooth to just kiss the ground and roll out or it will bounce like crazy. RC flying is usually more difficult than full size but one advantage is you get a great profile view on landing that you don't have sitting in the cockpit. By the way the model has an on board smoke system and has full aerobatic capabilities. I've competed at Top Gun several times with it. One day I'll have to make a video showing off its agility.
@@LouCetrangelo Agreed and awesome work my friend and endeavor to persevere in the exciting experience of powered heavier than air flight. A great deal of dedication is required to perform at top flight level as demonstrated. The Boeing Stearman a very large wind buffeting surface to weight ratio factor. A bit more docile in mild wind conditions. Crosswind landings in gusts very challenging.
It was great seeing (and hearing) it fly in a scale like manner. Light on the throttle, the engine loafing along, it really seemed like a full size Stearman doing fly bys. Great plane- fine pilot- terrific engine! Impressive!
When I was a lot younger, 60 years ago, local crop dusters replaced the front cockpit with a hopper. They then replaced the Jacob engine with a 450 hp Pratt & Whitney, I loved watching these aircraft flying over cotton fields in south Texas. Watching this beautiful reproduction fly, reminds me of those now gone aircraft. It even sounds like those old Stearmans.
I love those Stearmans. This is a great build and video. I'd like to have seen some loops, Immelmanns, a Split S or two, some figure 8s, a flat spin, and if you were feeling lucky, maybe an outside loop. This is the aircraft that so many WW2 pilots learned to fly in and they had to learn those maneuvers.. If I was born 20 yeras sooner, I would've loved to fly a Stearman.
