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The Second Part of my Journey - The Diary

buzzbomb

buzzbomb

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mayan said:
Sorry for not being to active on the forum lately on new threads or even those that I am following, but I have been too brain dead to read and reply to anything. I think that I am all caught up by now though :). Any how I used this time off the forum to fool around a bit, playing with another TT mod, a swapable tail boom mod.

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I consider this mod a partitail success because it took longer then I wanted it to assemble at the field. The one thing I hate when at the field is setup time, I came to fly and that is what I want to do, so something that takes time to setup just wastes time for me at the field flying :). I built it in a way so that I wouldn't need to have seperate servos for each tail boom, and so that it would balance well with a 3S 800mah battery. That made it a little time consuming because it required that you pass the push rods through linkage stoppers and then level them. Other than that the mod worked fine and didn't effect the performance of the plane at all at least not that I noticed.

I have also been out to the field a few times during this time twice with @Eddo radush and once by myself. During the last two times out with Eddo he was flying his scaled down version of his old foggy.

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While I was flying 3 different birds built on one airframe the TT.

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Yes I have some videos this time so here is me flying the SpiTTT.

And here is my attempt at the TTT.

@Eddo radush has an edited video of him flying his bird so I am not going to upload any video of him and encourage him to do so himself :).

The TTT didn’t fly well and not because of @Arcfyre design but solely because of technical issues that I had. One my first attempt that seen on the video above I had a lose servo on the right aileron that’s why it keeps nosing to the left. On my second go which is not on video I had a Rx brown out, at least I think that’s what it was. What happened was that the servos would respond then stop responding and then respond again, the plane never went up because of that :/.

The second time me and Eddo went out flying together we went to a different field one that we both ended not liking. We went there because we had all my co-workers as spectators and someone to film us from a birds eye. How? Well I work at the core of the city everything and anything happening in the city usually goes through us to have more control over the city we have cameras located in various places, cameras which we can control. So that morning I went to work even though it wasn't my shift and searched for the perfect place.

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After advising with Eddo we picked a place and agreed to meet there, I went home and started packing up. About 30 mins later we got to the field and prepared to fly. The field was shorter than we thought it would be and the main road quite busy, Eddo felt a little uncomfortable flying so I went first to see if it is doable, mean time we also had his battery on charge. I was nervous can't lie about that, but was eager to give my wife and other co-workers a show, plus get it all on video.

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I tossed my TT with the sports wing up in the air hoping not to embarrass myself and started circuiting the field. Slowly I started understanding the field and wind directions, dead spots etc. and started feeling more comfortable flying in it.


I finished a whole battery and brought the plane down and went check if Eddo's battery had finished charging and if he wanted to go up here. We decided that we would both feel more comfortable flying elsewhere so we packed up quickly and drove a little down the road to get to a field that was more distant for the main road. We unpacked and quickly went flying, both of us had minor success and came out with a so so feeling, at least I did. To sweeten the bad taste up a bit I pulled out my parachute mod for the TT and we fooled around with that for a bit, until we had to pack up and each one went his way.


After that time at the field which felt kinda crap, I talked to Eddo and we decided to do some TT battles (more about this later down the post). I have also made a decision to spend more time and a good amount it perfecting my flying skills with the TT. I feel that the TT really has a lot to offer and with all its existing mods can allow you to get the feel for flying as if you were flying other models. I'll still build and fly other models but a lot of my time will go to flying more on the TT and it's modes. So later during the day I started fixing myself one good TT that can work with some mods. I started off by changing the parachute mod that I had to the standard FT parachute/bomb drop mechanism.

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And built a removable landing gear setup, which uses the slot that is cut out for the SpiTTT mod :).

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I was so pleased that the next day after a 12 hour night shift 23 to 11 and not going to sleep afterwards I went to the field to practice :). I practiced leveled circuit flying, parachute/bomb drops and ground take offs and landings. I don't have that on video but I managed to both take off and land successfully without nosing over. Although my landing seemed to be somewhat of pure hult the moment the wheels touched the ground :?.

Any way this is what I want to practice with the TT and its mods:
1) Leveled circuits
2) Loops
3) Rolls (left and right)
4) Inverted
5) Parachute/Bomb drops
6) Ground takeoffs and landings
7) Going between and under things (trees, bridges, etc.)

To sum up this long post (thank you if you stayed with me), I'll just toss out that me and Eddo are trying to organize an outing with our beloved ones this Friday afternoon for some lunch and flying :).
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Wow! Ya'll have been busy! You've taken the "modular" concept of the TT to an entirely new level. It looks like you and Eddo are continuing to have a whole lot of fun, even when you're just making the best of a situation. My last three attempts at trying to go flying all ended poorly due to various factors. I'll admit to being insanely jealous. :)
 
Wildthing

Wildthing

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mayan said:
I have time till my son will fly with me but it will come. If I find time today I’ll hook him up with a TT for tomorrow.
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Build a couple Baron's , very little foam and quick build, small power setup and adjust the throws to make it a calm flyer and send it up then hand the TX to your son :)
 
buzzbomb

buzzbomb

I know nothing!
mayan said:
I have :).

@buzzbomb don't be jealous, you have your son to fly with. I encourge you to do that combat video with your son. If all goes well we'll be doing one this Friday afternoon :).
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I'm afraid the combat parameters have changed. On one of our recent practice sessions we totalled the SE5. If my Mini Scout Biplane project is a success, we'll be flying the X1a and the X2. I'm at the foam-cutting stage with the X2 and hope to maiden on Monday, weather permitting. We'll see how it goes! :)
 
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Hondo76251

Hondo76251

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Onc
basslord1124 said:
Ya know, I just love flying and watching them fly that I really haven't had much interest to do bomb drops. I do think dropping a little guy with a parachute would be cool though.
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Once you do a couple it becomes addictive! Lol (especially fpv!)

I like to set it up to get at least 2 drops per run. Some can even do three! 😁
 
mayan

mayan

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bracesport said:
@mayan - such a great idea with the security cameras - your flying is always a pleasure to watch!
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Today during my shift at work there was a moment that I needed a break from building my new Edge 540 so I sat down and figured out how to download all the footage from the security camera. It’s a two hour long footage so editing will wait for tomorrow, mean time I am importing the video into iMovie.

I also have a few more videos to edit so tomorrow will probably be editing video day :).
 
mayan

mayan

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Alright so a few updates. This morning I managed to go to the field to practice my takeoffs and landings, went really well. I also tried bombing my camera/car after putting the phone with a tripod on the car’s roof, but that didn’t work. I didn’t manage to go slow enough nor line up with the camera which was pointed directly at the sky. I managed to edit only a part of the footage that I was hoping to edit today and that is because I am literally falling asleep in front of the PC. I won’t continue building my new Edge 540 either because I’ll most likely make some sort of mistake. And with all that been said I am off to bed. Good night :).
 
Wildthing

Wildthing

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mayan said:
Alright folks, I haven't finished editting all the videos I wanted to edit, but here is the one from the security camera that was taken a week ago. The quality isn't great but it is what it is, I hope you enjoy it anyways.

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That's pretty cool
 
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