ol boy
Mar 09, 2005, 02:15 PM
I read the stickys that are posted for this thread. Just woundering where in central Tx do people fly? Is there a speical field or will any RC flying field do? I'm currently flying out at this field on the back side of Still House Lake near Killeen, Tx.
I had my ABC out there 3 weekends ago and got a 35 minute flight out of it. I got the plane up to about 200 feet and pulled it back to half throtle and just ran some circles and the thing just kept getting smaller and smaller. My face hurt from smilling so much because the gas guys kept looking at me looking up into the blank blue sky. Earlier in the day one of the guys mention that a electric wouldn't be a good beginner because of it's limited flight times. I have no idea when the battery volts fell down low enough to kick the motor off, but normaly I only get about 12 minutes of flying at tree top level at half throtle. After that great flight I had an idea for the ABC. The wife and I went down to Discount Hobbies in Georgetown to see what kind of stuff that the had. 60 bucks later I picked up two of the ABC wings and a bunch of other stuff with the idea of cutting a wing tip off of both wings and connecting them together. So now I have a 60 inch wingspan ABC. My test flights in the field behind the Taco Bell didn't work out very well. With the larger wing I need more control surface out of the V tail in back. I got it stuck in a tree :( Once I got that figured out it flew much better. Now the forward air speed is low enough that the prop will stop spinning when I have the slider on the Tx all the way down. With the smaller wing it had to fly faster which was enough to cause the propto free wheel and cause a large amount of drag which caused the end of my flght 3 weeks ago. I was going to be happy with crusing around until the Tx started beeping at me for low battery power before bringing the plane down. Oh well.... I realy like the idea of long duration flying. Any susgestions would be great thanks.
I had my ABC out there 3 weekends ago and got a 35 minute flight out of it. I got the plane up to about 200 feet and pulled it back to half throtle and just ran some circles and the thing just kept getting smaller and smaller. My face hurt from smilling so much because the gas guys kept looking at me looking up into the blank blue sky. Earlier in the day one of the guys mention that a electric wouldn't be a good beginner because of it's limited flight times. I have no idea when the battery volts fell down low enough to kick the motor off, but normaly I only get about 12 minutes of flying at tree top level at half throtle. After that great flight I had an idea for the ABC. The wife and I went down to Discount Hobbies in Georgetown to see what kind of stuff that the had. 60 bucks later I picked up two of the ABC wings and a bunch of other stuff with the idea of cutting a wing tip off of both wings and connecting them together. So now I have a 60 inch wingspan ABC. My test flights in the field behind the Taco Bell didn't work out very well. With the larger wing I need more control surface out of the V tail in back. I got it stuck in a tree :( Once I got that figured out it flew much better. Now the forward air speed is low enough that the prop will stop spinning when I have the slider on the Tx all the way down. With the smaller wing it had to fly faster which was enough to cause the propto free wheel and cause a large amount of drag which caused the end of my flght 3 weeks ago. I was going to be happy with crusing around until the Tx started beeping at me for low battery power before bringing the plane down. Oh well.... I realy like the idea of long duration flying. Any susgestions would be great thanks.