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Not when the S60 went behind a tree! Did you notice that sudden burst of throttle?

FlyerInOKC

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My Opinion is when you go home with the airplane(s) in relatively in the same condition you arrived in it was a good flight.

mkjohnston

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Hi Mike, Ive talked to you before and i live about 2 hours to south of you on I-44. Are there any RC hobby shops left in okc that sell nitro fuel? I was buying some down in fort worth and I was there a few months back and they didnt have any! I am going to call them in couple of weeks and see if they have gotten any in! The shop look like it been hit by a hurricane as they had very little of parts left! it was pretty said to see!
Michael Johnston

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I was at my RC club meeting last month and it was they said that one of the old timers who had recently had brain cancer was selling his RC airplanes real cheap. I ended up buying two airplanes from him with both engines slightly froze up. This is an old GP big stick 40 size plane i think as that what the manual said that came with it. I took the engine out and put in my new OS 46 AX! I took out to the field and have been fly at least once a week for the last month!
I took the Thunder Tiger 46 out and mounted it on my test stand and oiled it up with Marvel air tool oil. I then heated the engine up with my heat gun and it loosened up! I then filled my fuel tank up and applied power to the glow pug and it fired right up on the first flip with my electric starter. I ran a whole tank of fuel thru and it was just purring like all my OS engines do!

David John Davis

I'm a great admirer of Thunder Tiger engines. I have a PRO 46 in the club's Boomerang trainer, a 91 FS in a Senior Telemaster and a 54 FS in the missing Ukrainian Baron as well as another 91 FS currently unemployed. They all run splendidly.

FlyerInOKC

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Sadly, I must report the only place you may find fuel is Hobby Town in Norman, and I would call first. It's own by a R/C pilot. The 2 car racing stores are all electric and there are no airplane shops left. I have a TT .46 and except for replacing the original carb (it was stripped when I bought it) I have had no problems with it.
Mike

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I remember back in the 1970's where you could get a Thunder Tiger 19 for $19.99 from Hobby Shack! I remember my mentor telling me years back that He and big John his flying buddy bought one and tried it out. He said they started it up and there was no difference between wide open throttle and idle. He did say it was quite a power house that you couldn't get it idle at all! He always called them Thunder Chickens. ha
Btw Mike, Thank you for the update on the hobby shop status in OKC, I will have to find that hobby town in Norman if I come up there in a couple of weeks.

David John Davis

We spent a couple of hours yesterday looking for the Ukrainian Baron without success, then Benoit fired up his "paramoteur," whatever they are in English, and he found it immediately! It had crashed into the other side of the hedge which separated two fields. Frans and I had been within two metres of it without realising! The wing is in two pieces and the tail is loose on the fuselage mount but the fuselage itself seems to be sound. I had made the longerons out of basswood rather than balsa so that may be the reason why it survived.

I have not yet examined the wreckage to see what caused the crash. Photo to follow. The engine seems to be sound. The propeller isn't broken.

We are off to La Coupe tomorrow with Bertie Baron!

FlyerInOKC

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Good flying!

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My Ukrainian Baron as recovered. A group of ants had made their home in the fuselage.

FlyerInOKC

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the ants moved in because they thought it was one sweet bird!

flyboy2610

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That poor pilot really does have ants in his pants! (A slang term for being impatient and in a hurry.)

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I'm afraid that I didn't do at all well this year and have probably finished dead last from a field of about seventy pilots who turned up.

The Ukarinian Baron being hors de combat I was forced to use my British Baron which is a bit less stable with a reduced wing area. Frans, Tiko and I drove down to the flying field on the Friday, a four and a half hour drive, and camped in tents overnight. It rained a lot but the tents were water proof.

We were drawn in the last group along with three other four stroke users. The first round involves hitting one-metre high balsa wood sticks . We were all in the air when two of the other Barons hit the ground. We were told to fly high to allow a couple of lads to retrieve the crashed models. I was some distance downwind when my Baron seemed to fall out of control and hit the ground. We recovered it, found nothing untoward so I'm quite prepared to admit to pilot error, I even used a different transmitter to the one I had used with the Ukrainian Baron. We repaired it, wonderful stuff cyano, but we were too late to enter the second round. So having crashed two Barons in ten days I felt rather demoralised so I decided to pack up and go home. Arrived home four hours later very tired.

Next year I plan to enter a Baron powered by a Laser 50 but I don't like driving long distances these days. We'll see.

FlyerInOKC

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Just not your year, it happens. Still it's better than staying home twiddling your thumbs!

David John Davis

Oh that never happens! There are always models to build and repair, gardens to work in, books to read, music to listen to, meals to cook, housework to do, friends to visit, and guitars to play!

Ps. I did not finish in last position, I was the second to last of the pilots who turned up. The other guy crashed on take-off! Then there were several who didn't turn up at all including the Jacquot brothers who are always up there or thereabouts. They were included in the fifteen or twenty who did not turn up at all! Mind you the weather forecast was poor.

flyboy2610

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Some days you're the windshield. Some days you're the bug.

donnyman

David
I have been reading your adventure and it felt very familiar to me. I built a Royal B-25 with Wankel engines everyone said the Wankels would not produce enough power to fly the B-25, As usual I ignored them and proceeded, the maiden flight proved the Wankel to have more than enough power as the plane jumped off the ground and was capable of a pretty good stunt pattern, so much so my push rods (Nyrods) buckled and I had to fly at a much reduced power level or the controls would not deflect in the air stream. with the push rods replaced with dowels things looked good. so I prepared for a up coming scale contest and Test flight number seven occurred without incident until it entered the glide path to land and the test pilot shouted he lost aileron control then elevator, the bird was on a good glide path but a little fast and impacted nose down and sprayed balsa, engines and fuel for at least fifty feet the B-25 was now history. I still have the Engines but never built another B-25. Though I have everything needed. This has occurred more than once for me and I now will shut my plans down if more than two negative events happen with any plane in the same day. I found a bad battery cell in the B-25 flight pack.

The Ukraine baron looked like it clipped something with the wing tip which folded the wing, minimal damage! You will fare better next year!

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While I was finishing second to last in the competition, Frans was filming!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDY...sBue11ea2/view

FlyerInOKC

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Had to request access was denied entry.

donnyman

Flyer
I saw on the P-38 brotherhood thread you had some machine guns made by "Rosaminiature" If so how was the detail I am thinking of ordering 1/4 scale ma duces from them instead of molding my own. can I get a picture of yours?

FlyerInOKC

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Donny, mine were WWI for a DR.1. The products look just like what you see on the site, here is a link:

https://rosaminiatures.squarespace.com/

donnyman

Thanks
the picture of the m2 is of poor quality and from what I can see it is not the a/c version so I think I will just mold my own.

donnyman

I finally got up enough nerve to climb the stairs to my shop, it was a bit hairy but I made it. all my fears dissipated, no damage from the storm but I am not sure why the circuit breaker for the room tripped

The parts for my wifes clothes washer arrived a few minutes ago and it looks like I saved us a couple thousand bucks not having to replace the machine. I guess the storm fried the circuit board, the replacement board seems fine. the storm cost us a few pennies but now I watch a 85 inch TV the sad part is the remote control is so small it is hard to use and this "smart" TV menu stuff suck!

mgnostic

It's good that you could repair the drier. It seems like a lot of brand name appliances have the same parts under different labels. If you are willing to search the parts are often out there

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I know what you mean!

I had a brand new kitchen installed in my house when I bought it. All of the appliances, including the gas hob, were by the German electronics company Bosch. I found myself continually burning dinners because I could never get the simmer low enough. Then I stumbled across a video on YouTube in which an Irishman explained how to reduce the heat of the gas at the lowest setting. This simply involved removing the nobs and the rubber seals below them then moving a screw to reduce the flow of gas. In fifteen minutes I'd got them all working perfectly.

The thing was that the irishman's hob was a cheap and cheerful thing but under the hood it was exactly the same as mine. I'd paid through the nose for some black paint and a Bosch sticker!