Mini FliteFest New England April 2016 Edition

[captron360]

Mini FliteFest New England

I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready for another one. Maybe we can get more people to fly with us. That was such a great day!

 

[Rames]

Bummer! I left before the Corsair flew. We have to get back together very soon.

 

[PsyBorg]

Yes, we had a blast! And yes, there was video shot. The combat was recorded, however, I noticed upon review that the battery must have been depleted cause the sound got some weird hum most likely from switching voltage regulator (cap cam). I'll post it soon, but it sounds awful (but its fun to listen to us laughing). I started editing last night. It takes a bit more time to get a vid presentable. Most of the pictures in my posts were extracted from the video.

I get the hard video editing thing. I have tried to clean up a few of my videos from the mounted camera just to cut volumes down and it seems every time I do somehow the video quality suffers in the change.. It is still worth seeing I am sure as you all look like you had a blast with the big smiles when presenting your planes for pics.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

Those are all great photos! What a good time meeting and flying with everyone!

Here's some of the video I put together so far. My Twin Baron maiden and Ron's FMS Corsair.

These videos were shot with this awesome setup:

JohnRambozo demonstrates true agility while flying the 75% Bloody Baron Twin, taking video with his mouth cam and talking to the onlookers.

 

[JohnRambozo]

My wife's response to that photo: You did that in front of people???

 

[HilldaFlyer]

JohnRambozo Maiden his 75% Twin Bloody Baron

Here is the vid I got of the twin bloody baron
- Enjoy!!!

 

[HilldaFlyer]

Bloody Baron Combat Video

Mini FliteFest New England April 2016

 

[JohnRambozo]

Thanks for the Twin Baron video. It was great to see that combat again. Poor wing.

 

[captron360]

You did that in front of people???[/

My wife's response to that photo: You did that in front of people???

Just tell her yep we do what we gotta do when it comes to video and RC planes. That's taking one for the team brother.

 

[JohnRambozo]

Just tell her yep we do what we gotta do when it comes to video and RC planes. That's taking one for the team brother.

That's better than what I actually said, which is, "Nobody cares. We're all geeks."

 

[JohnRambozo]

Here's the FMS Extra 300 Maiden from later in the day when the wind was just right at 20+ mph and switching directions by the minute.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

Flight of the FA-18E Super Hornet with Missiles.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

CaptRon looses EDF

Here are a couple of photos and a vid of CaptRon flying a jet. After a few minutes of flight, the undercarriage fell off and the EDF fell out.

The arrow points to the undercarriage after falling off and tumbling to the ground.

In this photo you can see the EDF hanging from its wire.

And here is a short vid of the activity.

 

[Ethanator10000]

How did you make the missiles on the FA-18E?

Also those Air Force logos... I want to do something like that on my FT-22.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

How did you make the missiles on the FA-18E?

Also those Air Force logos... I want to do something like that on my FT-22.

In this article there are a couple of photos. I'll take some more pictures and add them here, but I don't have any right now. The body of the bigger missiles are copy paper rolled around an aluminum rod and glued together with Elmer's glue. The paper fins were glued on with hot glue.

The stars insignia were just printed with inkjet printer and glued on.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

Making Missiles

Find a tube with the diameter that you want. Mine was a pretty large knitting needle.
Cut a piece of printer paper in half. Use Elmer’s glue to the edge going onto the tube and then on the final edge. Roll the paper around the tube. Roll it continuously until all the wrinkles are worked out.

The fins are made from card stock 5 cm wide and 1 cm tall. Cut at an angle and fold the bottom 2 mm over.

Hot glue the fins to the paper tube.

The nose is made from a tube that I have.

Hard points are made from foam core with toothpicks. Press them into the wing and tack in place with hot glue.

Here is the bottom of the plane after the other missiles got ripped off. The tacking worked as I planned… the missiles came off and the wing was left undamaged.

 

[JohnRambozo]

Flight of the FA-18E Super Hornet with Missiles.

Really nice jet you got there, Hillda. At the end there, I was trying to ask about tailerons. Sometime words escape me.

 

[HilldaFlyer]

And here is a jig I made so that all of the hard points had the same pin distance.

 

[makattack]

FYI, if anyone wants to join in a group build of FT Arrows (Speed Build Kit purchased via the FTSTEM program):

http://ftgroups.com/group/64

Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11-_0y-BNjmnP9pNNQpkT42CGLK659FvuKF_1YMZ53a0/viewform?c=0&w=1

Info about us:
http://www.charlesriverrc.org/newsite/index.html

 

[Ethanator10000]

Thanks for the missile tutorial, I'll be sure to try it one day.