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The look on your face when you said "let's see it fly" said it all 👍 Loved every moment of this video. It was so nice to see it fly in such an open space to witness what it is capable of. And wow the buzzards at the end 😍
One of your prettiest videos to date, Josh (IMHO.) Old model airplane designs are so beautiful and graceful, and to see them flying well is wonderful. It was nice that you gave a history of the plane and mentioned the gentleman who built it.
I have always loved the fact that the transition in all types of free flight is in the hands of the gods.. Whatever you do with relative incedence angles or whatever, the slightest difference in thermal conditions &c can make the difference between a huge tail slide and a seamless power/glide transition.. This vintage plane really is beautiful. Thank you so much for showing us this lovely plane! 👍
Salom, Birodar, bunday model termalni ushlab turishi mumkin. Biroq, kuchli issiqlik va ko'tarilgan shamol uni qaytarilmaydigan joyga yuborishi mumkin. Of course, a model as good as this one could catch thermals. However, a strong thermal and a rising wind would be likely to send it where it would not be recovered.
@@joshuawfinn I’ve just this moment glued together the 100” wings of an Olympic II, so I don’t think I’ll be taking this classic to any contests anytime soon! 😂 Can’t wait to get it up in the blue.🛫
Thanks for risking the plane to show us this beautiful vintage plane and risk it being torn up and crashed like every plane we fly rc or free flight even rubber power everytime they go in the air we risk them crashing and going into the trash bag of doom for gold. So thank you so much for this.
It almost stalls and has an unusual angle of attack. Then glides like a parachute. That elevator movement is also effective. It's a real floater design
Hi Josh. Nice vid, The Sawdust would be a good contest model for slow open power here in the U.K. England. As you know I'm from Nottinghamshire - Robin Hood Country. We fly at Barkston Heath the home of the BMFA National Free Flight Championships. But due to covid restrictions we have not been allowed back on there untill recently.
What a beautiful old design you've found, Josh! Looks great, but I think I'd put a little left thrust in the engine to combat that dippy swoop on the first circuit.
You are quite correct. Unfortunately this plane has been in the repair pile since that last flight because I observed cracking around the firewall. Dude that build it didn't glass the blasted front of the plane!!!
great plane have done the TopKick Thermic 50 and 50X Now have one viking and 2 Blazer kits found the hardest thing these days is finding an area big enough with no trees
It would, with probably a little reduction in climb performance. You can find OS Max III .15s for pretty cheap on ebay though, and that would make it really come alive with a 7x4 APC prop.
I have pretty limited experience with the Viking but it's on my build list. That plane is legendary both for those who love it and those who hate it. And thus my desire to try it out. The Blazer is the overlooked predecessor. It's a very docile flier and well worth your time.
I really need to build a piston power airplane, currently all my small model engines are for ground vehicles except an ancient Cox .020 still in the blister pack.
How do you find and get permission to fly on these places ....in Europe where i live,you could end up in yail or shot at by a very angry neighbour....(every model airplane is now categorised as a "drone" overhere and therefore considered as being extremely dangerous ),almost evrywhere nitro engines are outlawed (or in the proces of being...)
You could add a emergency parachute to it that gets let free by a micro 3 gram servo that way when you fly it and something happens and it is gonna crash you can flip a switch and parachute is let go and plane floats down safely with no damage from the error or what ever happens to cause it to almost crash that's what I do with all of my balsa free flight electric or nitro powered planes and my smaller 25-50 inch wing span electric balsa rc planes they are equipped with a good size parachute that is launched out of canopy or a small hatch out of back or anywhere I can hide one in so I don't lose aircraft due to mechanical or more of the problem me operator error biggest influence in any rc airplane crash is humans lol
I've been putting radio dethermalizer on most of my freeflight stuff these days. Works better than a parachute. Unfortunately for my RC stuff, if something goes wrong, a chute won't fix it. Typically less than a second from problem emerging to splat.
@@joshuawfinn yes I was experimenting with parachute type things with rc planes and I got a system close to working but not flawless and I saw dethermalizer like 5 mins after commenting I didn't know that's what it's called I just added servo to my free flight stuff and didn't know it was called dethermalizer cool.
@@youknoweverything7643 yup. The parachute idea came out around 1945-46 and was dominant into the late 40s when Carl Goldberg introduced the pop up tail. There were a few holdouts into the early 50s but most folks quickly realized the pop up tail brought planes down more reliably, at least in the wingloadings we use on freeflight planes. Several military drone companies use that method combined with an airbag for drone recovery. Fun factoid, the recovery system on Spaceshipone is based off the pop up tail. Burt Rutan was a highly successful rubber power flier back in the day.
