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Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 22:09
by FlyTexas
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 22:14
by DaveB
Quite a nice looking model Brian. Will it takeoff if you turn it into wind??
ATB
DaveB
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 22:30
by Trev Clark
It's a super model and now comes as an amphibian (free update at Sibwings) and is very kind on FR's too!
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 14:14
by FlyTexas
DaveB wrote:Will it takeoff if you turn it into wind??
I'm
thinking I should have used the term "floatplane" instead of "floater".
I guess the author George Bernard Shaw was correct when he said that England and the US are "Two peoples separated by a common language."
Brian
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 15:26
by DaveB
No.. that's not what I meant although I can see why you might have thought that.
Tiddlers like this (I have the freeware L2 Grasshopper installed somewhere) usually have super short field performance and while they don't literally takeoff when turned into wind.. it doesn't take much throttle before they unstick
ATB
DaveB
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 16:28
by J0hn
First aircraft model I ever built.
Just found out recently one is owned and flown locally (about 29 secs in):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNn7415v ... r_embedded
JD
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 16:59
by gordon-in-aberdeen
DaveB wrote:Quite a nice looking model Brian. Will it takeoff if you turn it into wind??
ATB
DaveB
What, like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSElw8qEsI
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 17:04
by gordon-in-aberdeen
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 18:01
by DaveB
Not quite that extreme but not far off!
ATB
DaveB
Re: Didn't Grab 'The Hammer' In Time...
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 19:39
by FlyTexas
DaveB wrote:
No.. that's not what I meant although I can see why you might have thought that.
Tiddlers like this (I have the freeware L2 Grasshopper installed somewhere) usually have super short field performance and while they don't literally takeoff when turned into wind.. it doesn't take much throttle before they unstick
ATB
DaveB
Wow, I completely misread that one.
Yes Dave, she'll definitely get airborne in a hurry with a wind. Today the wind here is 18 kts with gusts of 25. I was able to coax the Bird Dog into the air in less than 200 ft.
Brian
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