Zinnia's First Flights With the Thermic Trooper Glider - Start to Finish

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Film shows Zinnia's first experience with a framed up vintage towline glider on 8.23.23 in Wawayanda, NY. My 8-1/2 year old granddaughter used a 10:1 winch, flying the 30" Thermic Trooper glider that was made for her by some guy named 'Pop Pop'. Her joy says it all as she chases after a good tow. Process of the build is included. Filmed with a Canon PowerShot SX20, and iPhones 11Pro & 14Pro. Music: "Horizon" by Ben Winwood via ArtList..
Plan is available on OuterZone: outerzone.co.uk/plan_details....
Tutorial on making a simple winch for towline: • Free-Flight Basics #10...
*** 10 steps to trimming a rubber model, by John Koptonak: www.flyingacesclub.com/PFFT/Tr...
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@jeffpiatt3879 10 месяцев назад

Probably the most beautiful video you have ever made. I smiled and teared up a little watching her chase the model. Reminded me of being a kid and of my kids that are now grown. Thank you.

@TAT660X 10 месяцев назад

Glad I’m not the only one 🥲

@4thArmoredVet 10 месяцев назад

Same here🥲

@RCscale101 8 месяцев назад

Same same...

@garyhenderson6504 10 месяцев назад

What a wonderful video. Sharing this with my son. He's 35. His son is 7. And I am 3 years older than you. Thank you. I love this.

@GlideLA 10 месяцев назад

Love your smiling faces in the cockpit at 1:29. I built at least one Jetco Thermic Trooper kit around age 9 or so ~1966. From 1960~1964 we lived next door to the banker for Comet Models in Chicago. He'd occasionally bring home a kit or two for me. Wonderful times. Every time I go hang gliding today I relive the dream of my 7-year old self some 58 years later. Fly-on!!

@terryboehler5752 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful video. At 71, I was right there chasing it on landing filled with wonder and exuberance.

@BurningtunaDC 10 месяцев назад

Another masterpiece of model building and video making. Thanks for shooting and sharing.

@taildragger7355 10 месяцев назад

Glad I don't have to choose between your craftsmanship and your cinematography as to which I appreciate more. It is the union of the two that is so breathtaking. Great job, Pop Pop.

@bostonbudz4616 10 месяцев назад

Awesome, I loved the pic of the two of you together in the cocpit. And I hope for many more in the yrs to come such a great hobby and what a gem of a place to fly em at beautiful! up up and away🛫

@chrisbailey4254 10 месяцев назад

What a girl,that has so put a smile to my nite. Thankyou Go Ziinnia !!.. Regards Chris Bailey

@timothyreilly4499 10 месяцев назад

Truly a blessing in so many ways. Thank you for your art, flying, beautiful accompanying music, and all your exquisite aircraft renditions. Myself I was blessed with a dad who introduced me at 10 years old, in 1971. Built an Aeronica Champ, installed a 0.20 PeeWee from my own earnings. Dad built a rubber powered Guillows Lancer but I decided I needed something with more power! I built and flew for several years and many crashes, which I became famous for. Then I discovered 32rpm records!

@wihardy 10 месяцев назад

Funny thing the Thermic Trooper. I still have my father's that he made when he was a boy. I'm 52 years old and my father has been dead for years, but the plane still flies when my grand kids get it out of the closet. Happy days came to us all just because of something that came out of one of Frank Zaic's beautiful red and white boxes. Long live Jasco and Jetco planes and the happiness that comes from building art that flies. Thank you again for the video and the memories.

@jetflyer102 10 месяцев назад

Wow. This video hit me really hard. It reminded me of the time my Dad gave to teach me to fly. I sure miss him. He sure was a blessing to me. Keep flying high brother. Great video.

@deepshabad 7 месяцев назад

I have built some balsa planes but never like these. It inspires me to get a towline and start a trooper. That was so sweet Pop. Totally precious. Thank you.

@maxfliart 7 месяцев назад

Thx. It's been a fun ship for all of us. Give it a go!

@lanecobb4150 10 месяцев назад

Wow, the memories that word “Thermic” conjures up!😊

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Ditto that!

@mrratskins 27 дней назад

She'll remember this forever. I know my kids do. Now I have to see what you did with the launching mechanism. I need one for MY Trooper. And thermic C, 50, and 72.

@jesuscardin6751 10 месяцев назад

What an honour to watch a future Astronaut, Pilot or Airspace Engineer woman (or all together!) being born......

@Tadrjbs 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Tom for showing us what this hobby is ALL about...Moses

@pdel303 27 дней назад

Masterful building.

@marcolyott 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Tom.

@aeromodeller1 10 месяцев назад

That hand launch tells us she is a natural.

@georgemaddison60 10 месяцев назад

Childhood memories playing on the screen of my tablet, Thank you for this beautiful video and may there be more ! 😊

@glennreach6930 10 месяцев назад

Now that was pretty special. You are one lucky guy!

@LubosNavr 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful model and flies beautifully. Thank you very much for the nice video.❤

@garthbarrett6067 10 месяцев назад

Amazing skills for such a young person.

@sylvainponchelet4188 10 месяцев назад

so more interesting of a computer game !!!! and so more educating

@edlowe4910 10 месяцев назад

the sport needs more young people

@leonardwilliams8109 10 месяцев назад

Great video!

@xpump876 9 месяцев назад

My 1st glider was the Thermic Trooper too!

@4thArmoredVet 10 месяцев назад

Bravo Zinnia! What a perfect flight! I have built many Jetco models back in the late 50's, early 60's. My first was the Thermic 18 which went OOS on my fifth hand launch, after a trim session, but I persevered and built my second from the plans and some sheet. Been hooked ever since. Thank you for bringing back so many childhood memories 🙏

@tombrabant7097 5 месяцев назад

First plane my dad built that I was old enough to understand. Flew great then flew away.

@doveboyz857 10 месяцев назад

Such Joy Papa! Thank you for sharing. You give us such joy ❤! Blessings to you and your family 🙏!

@BruceJacquesRC 8 месяцев назад

I'm getting emotional. Thanks.

@TheMendipman 10 месяцев назад

A beautiful and poignant video Tom. It touched my heart, as no doubt it did yours. Noel

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, Noel. I have so much love for this little one.

@Troywaller5 5 месяцев назад

Beautiful aircraft

@scottfw7169 10 месяцев назад

Gotta love the flight crew. 😁

@willgraves5288 10 месяцев назад

I love this. Thanks Pop Pop.

@robertmartin7637 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely Wonderful!

@ytdhable 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful. I have one built and ready. Can't wait to get it out there. Probably bungee launch since I don't have one of those neat thing-a-ma-bobs. :)

@kevinbrennan6546 10 месяцев назад

How proud you must be...

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, Kevin. Yes, beyond words.

@adityamody8942 10 месяцев назад

Lovely 🥰 😊👍

@massimomassai3337 10 месяцев назад

L'aeromodellismo puro è questo. Complimenti.

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Grazie. È stato un pomeriggio bellissimo e memorabile con lei.

@harrykeel8557 10 месяцев назад

Such a beautiful video.

@BlueHeartRetreat 13 часов назад

Wonderful video with a child's joy in Free Flight. Brings back memories from long ago. Do you happen to know the weight of her Trooper? The one I have now seems a bit heavy. May need to build new.

@LoganPresley-rl4wr 10 месяцев назад

I grew up flying models on the family farm. This is epic, and it never leaves you. I'm 48 now, and it's still wonderful.

@metalman4141 10 месяцев назад

What a beautiful video you made such innocence and pure joy .Reminds me of my youth flying a model my father built called The Swan by Mercury Models, wonderful times 🇬🇧

@nhschreiner 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful

@brookelinford1910 10 месяцев назад

Excellent!!!

@JefferyHall-ct2tr 10 месяцев назад

SIMPLY AWESOME!!

@migalito1955 10 месяцев назад

Cool beans, Thanks for the links. It used to be easy to walk in to a store and by a balsa kit, but that was 60 years ago. Gosh, you can't even buy a rubber powered stick plane without needing to use the internet, where they were once even sold in drug stores. Glad icecream is still easy to find.....

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

I specifically remember the corner of my local hobby shop, where all of the Jetco & Scientific kits were stacked on the shelves...I'd walk down the aisles with a quicker step each time my dad drove us there, about a mile or two from our house. Later it was on bicycles with my friends, about the same time that rockets became more of a distraction. Yeah, I miss it.

@mjkluck 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful.

@johnmajane3731 10 месяцев назад

Even something as simple as a thermic trooper you make into a piece of artwork. Beautiful. Enjoying it with your granddaughter is even better. I built most of the the kits on the back of that box including the trooper when I was a kid. They were great kits for kids to get the hang of building and understand aerodynamics.

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, John. I couldn't agree more. I have a vivid memory of my dad with a red & black Thermic 18 or 20, tossing it sideways but in a perfect circle, catching it every time, as we tried to chase and catch up. I tossed it too of course, which led to numerous dorks & breaks on the tail boom...my first experience with under engineering.

@johnmajane3731 10 месяцев назад

@@maxfliart I remember when I was kid in California must have been around 1962, I was maybe 4. My dad had this red Berkeley Rearwin Speedster. Beautiful plane, still has it. He had a Holland Hornet in it. He would let it ROG and it would go up very fast and then gracefully glided once the engine quit. I have memories of running underneath it chasing it. Dad instilled my love of airplanes into me. I built models, none flew well until I was an adult and figured it. I didn't get back into rubber powered until I was in my early 40s. I find it so therapeutic to put them together. I love the Easy Built Kits, so much left to the imagination with the old designs. Fun to figure it all out. Golden Age Reproductions Kits also. I must say your videos have taught me a lot, thank you. They are also incredibly well done. My modeling got me into full scale when I was 18. I have basically flown almost every week since 1977. I bought my own plane in 1993, a 1955 Bonanza, love it. Modeling led me to flying, that motivated me to be an engineer, my flying associations led me to my first and only full time job which I have been at 38 years with the same company. Modeling was such a gift and for that I am grateful to my dad for introducing me and encouraging me to do it. It is touching to see you doing the same with your granddaughter, you never know where it will take her.

@jonknust9784 8 месяцев назад

Very touching. Thank you.

@shanepatterson1368 2 месяца назад

So good 😂

@Hallo-Hallo 10 месяцев назад

How nice! 🤩

@mbasiletti 10 месяцев назад

awesome! Seeing that Jetco box really took me back! Thanks for sharing the build and these moments with your granddaughter.

@NANNIRC 10 месяцев назад

WONDERFUL

@flatiron53 10 месяцев назад

Precious video! ❤

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx. Memorable day.

@GeoffreyHuber 10 месяцев назад

Love this

@venturesrcs 10 месяцев назад

Amazing to see the new generation of model pilots filling the skies with smiles 😂

@martinhurda256 10 месяцев назад

really nice!

@TAT660X 10 месяцев назад

❤

@rossmayo4500 10 месяцев назад

Congrats to the flight team! And the ground crew...especially the one with the long ears. It takes courage to test glide near a bird bath...you go Girl! Is there any way you can become my Pop Pop? Well, that's what we called my English Grandfather, so I guess that's out of the question. Please tell Zinnia I will never become a grandfather, so if she needs any spoiling down the road, she can count on me.

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, Sky.

@HarrySinanian 10 месяцев назад

AEROFLYTE was an Australian equivalent, similar to a Shrike! :)

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, I'll check them out.

@HarrySinanian 10 месяцев назад

No longer Aeroflyte sadly...now Pacific Balsa, available over the other side in Perth Australia. It was a South Australian company I thought. and it was Spelled AeroFlytre. Here we are with our home made RC, we used foam board and made it ourselves with brown paper, and thank you for sharing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TDLePIOS4P8.html

@XXfea 10 месяцев назад

I love you 😘😘

@jonron4729 10 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@williamrobinson7435 10 месяцев назад

Well it's very clear to me that you are going to have to watch out Tom. I mean, if Zinnia's getting this on the winch tow line with a crew of 4, 1st pop out of the box, laurels are going to have to be looked at. That's all I can say. You DO know that I speak to you as a little aeromodeling friend, don't you? The next generation is coming on, there's nothing we can do to stop it, so I guess we just have to go with the flow.. ❤️⭐👍

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

I'm simply going to enjoy the ride, and put the balsa & tissue in front of her, as she goes up the ladder of model building. :-)

@No1BRC 10 месяцев назад

The german counterpart would be "Der kleine Uhu" by Graupner.

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx, I'll take a look.

@ZUSMANELEN 10 месяцев назад

😃🤗😇😉

@oliverbowen17 10 месяцев назад

Have you ever built any other kinds of free flight models? Like a diesel/nitro

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Yes, UC and RC back in the 60-70s. But FF stuck.

@oliverbowen17 10 месяцев назад

@@maxfliart oh ok cool. 😂

@johnlouden8978 10 месяцев назад

Why would a glider video cause a lump in the throat? Sweet.

@maxfliart 10 месяцев назад

Thx. Emotional ballast. Been there via this little girl.

@daviddavids2884 10 месяцев назад

nice information next time, Notice and Eliminate the design mistakes made by the manufacturer. :51 the use of an angle at the mid-span of a main wing is less-than ideal. as discussed, there is excess mass in the stabs. in the case of a (floaty) glider, the span of the horiz-stab can be equal to as-little as twenty-five percent of the wing span. the leading edge of the vert-stab should be at a slope of 75 degrees. the root chords of the stabs Should be equal in length. a main wing Should have a load-bearing main spar, located at Thirty percent of chord. there is a shortage of twist-resisting structure in the tail boom. btw, the best configuration of a tow hook is to have a sharp ninety-degree bend at its 'bottom'. this configuration results in consistently normal releases, at the point when the tow line is slack. cheers