Fantastic! When I was a child & my dad, USAF, we built and tried to fly many line controlled model aircraft. In my youth I've seen the P-38 & B-17 & B-52 massive model airplanes having wing spans 5-feet plus, control line flown. Thanks for the video & reminding me of my love for my father!
Awesome. Control Line, RC, Free Flight, Static, who cares, this is all about modellers enjoying building model aircraft and having fun with their hard work. Nothing less than a wonderful passion...
We had a club when I was in Jr and Sr high but we never had planes this large.....Things this large were all radio controlled. Didn't have the battery starters either. It was use your finger!!! And when the motor started and you didn't get out of the way, your finger got all screwed up. The ultimate was the "dog fights" they had where several planes were up at the same time and each had a tail streamer and the winner was the plane that didn't get the streamer cut off.
Awesome and then some.👍👍 ok 4 props and all the motor sync issues, windy conditions, dizziness from spinning, tail dragger - no worries, handled it like a true pro. I’m building a 54” C46 from control line plans from the 50s, converting to electric RC. Thanks for sharing🚀
We are flying CL scale in the USA with 2.4 Ghz for throttle control and other stuff, elevator is still with a normal handle. take out the mechanical bellcrank for the throttle with some servos and you have what I fly except with 2.4 Ghz. Some guys are still flying with 3-line but a lot have switched over to the 2.4 ghz. It does look a little tail heavy.
I thought, rather than tail heavy, the wing is set a a high incidence to the fuselage. Looking closely, the wing seems to be meeting the airflow at a reasonable angle, but the fuselage is set nose high. Tail heavy would make it pitch sensitive which it does not appear to be.
Even though my first love is still FAC free-flight rubber scale, I still fly a little balloon bust once every year. I still have a J. Roberts set-up. Think I'll try a little ukie scale. BTW, Good show, sir!
Not to detract from the marvellous job on the model, it needs more area on the horizontal stabilizer....its dragging its tail a bit when its flying. This typically happens in scale models if the builder sticks to the exact scale for all parts. Scale models typically always need their stabs bigger. But great job otherwise. I am sure this comment will come as no surprise to the builder of the model.
I cringed when I saw the pit crew member step over the model twice! Once with the flight box! Why take that risk. Just walk around! You never climb over a model. At least that is what I was taught.
Perfect!! I noticed that you started the outboard engines first so that they would run out of fuel first. This is how you do it with a two engine control line plane. If the inboard engine(s) quit first, the airplane will turn into the circle slackening the lines and causing a crash,
That’s a lot of plane. Is the wing at the right attitude on the fuselage? It looks like excessive elevator is needed to keep it flying, and that’s like air brakes.
You chose the wrong adjective with 'limp'. With control line you are actually flying by feeling the air acting on the control surfaces & the g-forces on your wrist. While with RC you never feel what the aircraft is actually doing, you just watch it.
@@earlyhemibill I was thinking elevator trim, maybe needs a trim tab to lift the tail when it's ready to fly at take off, to be countered with the control line in flight.
The stab just needs to be a Lil bigger.. It would fly better give it more lift then the elevator would perform better.. I don't thi k it's just tail heavy..
This was impressive but I’ve always thought control line aircraft aren’t really flying. I mean a conker on a string will ‘fly’ in this way. Even a brick on a rope would.
I see what you mean, but no. The plane is flying aerodynamically: the props are providing thrust, the wings are providing lift, and the control surfaces are redirecting the air flow. The conker on a string needs energy to be put in at the centre of the circle. You can loop the loop or do wing overs with a CL plane; you can't if you have a dead weight and just swing it round.
By your argument, no one would paddle a canoe because you can buy a speed boat, no one would ride a bicycle because you can buy a motorbike, and so on. CL flying is a hobby in its own right, with its own skills and challenges. Some people like the charm of simplicity.
