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Post by Greg on Oct 1, 2011 10:23:28 GMT -5
After about 4-5 years basically out of the hobby I'm having the urge to get back in. Everything I own is glow engine powered, and the closest flying field is roughly a half hour away from home. With my lack of large amounts of spare time, club dues, AMA, etc, I've been thinking alot about picking up a park flyer. If I had something small I could hop out of the car on the way home from work, fly for a few minutes and then go about the rest of my day. I have some areas scoped out that would be great for a park flyer, and might even be able to fly it at work. I flew for roughly 6-7 years before I stopped. I flew a Goldberg Eagle with a Fox 45, gallon after gallon of fuel through that plane. I've flown a Peashooter (fun scale P-26, I can't remember the brand), F-14, 40 size corsair, 1/5 Mustang, etc. I would describe my skill level as decent. I wasn't a beginner, but definitely not highly skilled. I'm looking for recommendations on a small electric plane to get back into the hobby with. I'd like whatever I get to be as inclusive as possible, but I could stand putting an ARF together if necessary. I never really got into electrics in the past, so I don't have a LiPo charger or anything and that would add alot of extra startup cost. I found this in an email this morning and it looks like an answer to my problem. It's a ready to fly 34" Bearcat for $110, just add transmitter batteries. www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?Q=1&I=LXBFRC&P=E#techSo basically my questions are has anyone flown this or heard how it flies? Does anybody have any other suggestions? I'm open to anything scale, and preferably warbird. |
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Post by ghoststone on Oct 3, 2011 13:19:15 GMT -5
I am a RC pilot. Like you I have flown glow powered aircraft for years. But the time it took to drive out to the local rc club kept me from doing it as much as I would have liked. Some friends of mine kept asking me to come over, that they had started flying electrics from the local church parking lot. I started flying the Hobby Zone super cub and I have'nt looked back. I'm flying the Parkzone Spitfire and Wildcat now. Talk about fun.
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Post by Greg on Oct 3, 2011 20:20:51 GMT -5
Thanks and welcome to the forum! The Hobby Zone Super Cub looks decent but I'd really like something with ailerons. Along the same Cub lines, this is one is right at the top of my list. www.nitroplanes.com/69a703-j3-blue-rtf-24g.htmlRealistically this is probably a better choice for me than a warbird right now just because I haven't held a transmitter for 4-5 years. How well do the little Parkzone warbirds behave? |
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Post by ghoststone on Oct 5, 2011 12:55:05 GMT -5
I have fun with them. Like you would expect, you have to be careful and keep your speed up in any turns sitting up for landings. They will wing tip stall. But I've got friends with little experince flying them just fine. They look good, are easy to repair. Like I said before, alot of fun.
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Oct 12, 2011 8:47:58 GMT -5
Never flew but I have seen a few crash! Makes a surprisingly eerie sounding impact with the ground. Lisa
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Post by ghoststone on Oct 12, 2011 10:54:19 GMT -5
Never flew but I have seen a few crash! Makes a surprisingly eerie sounding impact with the ground. Lisa It is amazing how quiet the world gets just moments before your rc aircraft hits the ground. A sound that I have no doubts that I will hear again.  |
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Post by Nathan Milarta on Oct 12, 2011 13:05:33 GMT -5
I got as far as buying a fixer upper. But its one hobby I Will have to pass. Just too many hobbies and too much life gets in the way for pleasures. I've seen a few good crashes. There is one member of the local r/c club that everyone dislikes. He ran into someone that had just landed. He did not give the guy any time to get clear of the field so he could come it. I was surprised the prop did not hit him but it did his R/C P-51. He was not very happy. The field is next to our local airport surrounded by a corn field. Most of us guys had to go search in the corn for downed r/c planes. Sometimes we would find them. Other times we would not. The not so popular guy was caught by the farmer walking out of the corn with a machete.  |
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Post by yardbird78 on Oct 23, 2011 20:36:59 GMT -5
I have been flying RC models VERY extensively since January of 1970. I fly mostly glow engine .40 to .60 size with a few gliders and over the last several years, some medium size electrics. I have built and flown a few of the 60-90 size WW-II birds, but most of my stuff is general sport types such as the Midwest Sweet Stik and Aeromaster bipe.
- The local RC club field is only 4 miles from my house and out in the middle of several corn fields. There are no obstructions for over a mile in all directions. We occasionally have to have a "search and rescue" mission out in the corn fields for a downed airplane.
Darwin
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Post by Greg on May 13, 2012 22:04:31 GMT -5
Bringing an old one back to the top, but I'm happy to report that I'm officially back in the hobby! I've bought both of these in the last few weeks and put three very successful flights on the white one tonight. I plan on flying this one for a couple weeks and then I'll move on to the nicer Cub.   |
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Post by yardbird78 on May 27, 2012 16:12:08 GMT -5
Nice looking planes. I like the J-3.
Darwin
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Post by Greg on May 27, 2012 16:20:37 GMT -5
Last night I got the Cub ready to fly and hope to maiden it tonight if the wind will die down a little. I had to solder on a Deans connector, install a missing control horn piece on the elevator, went over all the hardware and made sure it was tight, mounted the receiver and found the battery location last night. CG was right on the spar with the battery where I wanted it. I'm excited to see how it flies. The Cub came from Nitroplanes.com and was $70-something ready to fly minus battery and radio.
The white AXN Floater has six flights on it now with just one mishap. I was flying in the back lot behind work the other day and took a radio hit. I'm still not sure if it was something from the automatic car wash next door, the small transmitting tower at the back of our lot, etc. I was at about half throttle when it happened and it got into some power lines before coming down in a ditch, which really was a good thing because that slowed it down before hitting the ground. I had a small scuff on a wing leading edge and had to tack one wing back in, but other than that it was fine. I flew it again that evening before leaving work and had no problems at all.
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