Maiden flight of the Butcher Bird

Here she is in pristine condition.

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I think I am going to try flying it for the first time today so Ill make sure to post some "after" photos too :)


Wish us luck

Nice talkin' about this last night! Brought back old memories. For a more than a meter bird, IMHO the wheels are too small. Possibly in scale...but too small. I would recommend a mod to bigger ones up to twice the size.

Best o' luck!

Fair skies and a following breeze.

Yeah there are a few "Scale issues" with the model. The nose is a bit too long for an A model 190. I think they did that for CG reasons.

It may be hard to mod the wheels too much since right now they fit perfect in the wheel wells.

You're gonna have a blast... I am jealous. I was tinkering with the idea of doing the same with an F4U ... but another hobby may put my wife over the edge... but still thinking about it

A "mono"...absolutely ludicrous...it'll never fly! Next you'll try to tell me plane can fly without a propellor!  


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No.42_Hawg wrote:

Yeah there are a few "Scale issues" with the model. The nose is a bit too long for an A model 190. I think they did that for CG reasons.

It may be hard to mod the wheels too much since right now they fit perfect in the wheel wells.

Ahhh good point! I forgot about the wheel wells. If you have a really nice runway you should be good to go and possibly be good anyway. Our club had a grass strip for softer landings so we did the bigger wheels.

Again report on the MV of the BB

As Promised

VK Kit, .90 Enya

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Absolutely beautiful! that 90 ought to take it a hummin.

The coolest and most intricate model I ever saw was a 1/3 scale Sopwith Camel powered by a chainsaw engine. It actually flew at scale speed! It even had the stitching where they would open it to adjust the control cables to the rudder and elevator. It had all the miniature gauges (non-working) of course. It had taken the guy like 3+ years to build. I was there for the maiden voyage. It was breath-taking to watch!

Enjoy the flights!

Here we go!!

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Kewl!

Nice...well flown.

How about training that dog to retrieve it for you?(just tie/rub porkchop all over it).

LOL I would but the plane weighs about twice as much as he does!!

Cool beans Hawg!

Ok did everyone see that landing?  Notice the plane after the landing?  That's how your plane is supposed to look after you land it.  Not inverted, tail in the air, or scattered across the countryside.  So lets start working on that.

nice flight ! 
you made out better than your buddy for sure !

Dang Hawg every time I turn around you are doing something cool. I am a budding RC flyer. I have an eFlite T-34:

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Have only flown it twice. Still learning. I have the RealFlight Controller/Sim but need to get it all loaded up and flying again. Not too many places to fly around here.

very nice
thanks for sharing

Well done Hawg....   

Yeah Glider its a real hoot and a a half.   I got lucky and found a place down the road.  Its a shopping center they converted to offices and there is a pretty nice sized field there.  So far no one has complained about our presence there on the weekends so I hope we can continue to fly there.

That was only the 3rd time I have ever flown an RC plane so I am still kinda taking it easy.  That rig you got looks perfect for a beginner.

I got mine here.

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Not too expensive and pretty good selection of stuff.

Glider!!!

Love the T-34, just a couple hundred hours, but would have to check my log book.

Thanks for the nice surprise that they make it an R/C plane also!!

last weekends flight with the wing cam :)

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Very cool!