The highlight of today's flight... Rod's F15 Maiden... flew very well... was almost gliding when it descend to land.. alike to actual F15 when landing.
My P51 has finally maiden .....on a wet sunday morning, cold breeze and little drizzling did not stop this WWII mustang form taking its first flight.... Our test pilot "Rudy" without fail has took the plane up to storm the quiet air space of Woodland at approximately 0845 hrs. I have uploaded the video to U-tube.. click on link below to see!
Though not captured on video, the plane has attempted roll, inverted and low pass in full throttle.
Hi everyone... presenting my newly completed project..... P51 Mustang
Painted with edwards scheme .... mod with flap. Some recommendation from fliers at woodland rc air base. Everyone will tell you that this plane can't fly slow... with the include of flap... stall is less likely to happen as u approaches to land.
If you chance about woodland RC Air base on sunday morning and happen to see a Zero in the air .... Most likely, i'm the one flying it. I have been flying zero since last september..... and still trying to get a hand of the flying characteristic of this notorious reputed WWII plane. I have since crash 2 zero upon writing of this blog and counting.... following is the my record of the zero i crash till date!
My first zero is from willy.... i have repainted it.... fix up my motor... and ready to fly.... it have flew a couple of mission but finally, crashed on a windy sunday while i'm practicing the zero landing.
Introducing Zeka RUL..... the zero Rudy had built for me after my second zero crashed in punggol on a friday morning... So glad that rudy had help me build a new zero "zeka RUL".... else i would have gotten a estarter instead as i was really thinking that maybe i'm not ready for this plane. Ever since..... Rul had flew many missions and had a couple of perfect zero landing ... i started to gain confident......and hey Rudy ... really appreciate it.
Rudy's New F16 finally maiden at woodland RC Air base ... painted in Red and White (edwards Scheme) like a red arrow piercing through the clear blue sky.
No matter how experience you are or how expert flyer you maybe... the feeling of their plane maiden flight are the same....anxiety.....nervous......rush.... trembling limbs etc. Ultimately there is only two outcome we are looking for.... either it flew or crash. Well i suppose if we have accepted both outcome from the beginning .... We might enjoy the process and experience even more! Anyway isn't what this hobby is about?..... TO HAVE FUN!!
Ladies and gentlemen.... presenting the surprise birthday present that my wife has bought me.....
THE GWS P40.......Bicsie
By the way ... this plane is also painted by her! Artistic rite.... She has maiden on the 8 Feb 09.. flew smoothly by Rudy... crash landed by me due to faulty battery .... Anyway she is still in one pcs... will take flight again when i'm more ready.