Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Done! All painted and ready for the maiden... The weather forecast for tomorrow is good, so I'll give it a try.
Bavarian RC – Heinkel 219 night fighter design and build
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Daniel Liutan
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So beautiful !
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Maidend my Heinkel 219 today and had 6 successful flights. The paint scheme looks great in the air.
It's always a great relief to have a good maiden flight and bring your plane back in one piece!
It's always a great relief to have a good maiden flight and bring your plane back in one piece!
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Finally got the Release Video done. Enjoy!
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
It really took me ages to get the complete step by step build video done, but finally after some weeks of editing I was finalizing it today and have just uploaded it to YT. Total duration is almost 3 hours!
I told my wife, if I'll ever talk about doing another build video, she should lock up my video camera and glue gun
Hope you guys like it and find it useful.
I told my wife, if I'll ever talk about doing another build video, she should lock up my video camera and glue gun
Hope you guys like it and find it useful.
Grifflyer
WWII fanatic
I only watched about 10 minutes of it, from what I can tell it's an awesome build vid!!It really took me ages to get the complete step by step build video done, but finally after some weeks of editing I was finalizing it today and have just uploaded it to YT. Total duration is almost 3 hours!
I told my wife, if I'll ever talk about doing another build video, she should lock up my video camera and glue gun
Hope you guys like it and find it useful.
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Thanks
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Thanks Grifflyer, now that this project is completed I can move on to something new... already got some good ideas. Pretty sure it‘s gonna be a twin engine again
Bavarian_RC
Elite member
Have a look at my new projectFantastic Plane !!!
I want to build the Me410 for a long time, but never have time to get into it!
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Not sure if I will put that tremendous 50mm Flak cannon on it...
Daniel Liutan
Well-known member
Thank you very much for the notice.
Will follow up that projet for sure.
I think it's better make it in modularization. The flak can be removable. Also has the potencial to drop torpedos.
cochise99
Member
I am jealous of that flying field. I love the sound of the motors.I maidened the Heinkel 219 today. We had cold but very calm weather (and no fog), pretty much ideal! The good thing first: it is still in one piece! The sketchiest part of the whole flight was the launch. Right after the start it pulled up almost vertically and I had some scary moments until I had the trimming done and the Heinkel back under control. After that it was behaving really nicely.
It showed no bad tendencies during the flight. I would even say that it is incredibly stable. I was trying to stall it, but even with full up elevator it was not stalling, but only sagging slightly.
Last impressions taken before the flight (you never know
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And some pictures from the maiden flight
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I also did a short video of the maiden flight
I am still wondering what caused the high amount of down trimming that was necessary to fly level. I had to use all the travel of the trimming which is about 3mm down at the trailing edge of the elevator.
When I tested the CG in flight (vertical dive without power) it was not recovering on its own but even going more negative. This is typically a sign for a CG too far back. But I was on the forward edge of the calculated CG range at 55m from the LE. Maybe I need to check again the difference of AOA between wing and horizontal stabilizer. I will do some investigations and more test flights in the next days. But for now I couldn't be happier with how the maiden went.
cochise99
Member
This is a BRILLIANT build video. If you are not a teacher I would be amazed. I am impressed at your precise explanations of the work accomplished..It really took me ages to get the complete step by step build video done, but finally after some weeks of editing I was finalizing it today and have just uploaded it to YT. Total duration is almost 3 hours!
I told my wife, if I'll ever talk about doing another build video, she should lock up my video camera and glue gun
Hope you guys like it and find it useful.
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