I’ve written a lot of stuff since October 2007 and yet you’ve had to read the same paragraph I put up there my very first meeting, before I was even a member.Not only that but I’ve been a member for 2 years now and my name’s not on the membership list yet.I plan to attempt to rectify that. Actually I just checked. My names on the list now, it worked. Let me update you since no one else seems to want to write anything.
NOTE: I had some pictures of the following but How does one upload pitures for articles?
.3 sailplanes and that SU-27 piece of junk in my daughter’s living room staging area..My granddaughter Andrea who crashed and enjoyed crashing the SuperCub.Actually I should have been able to recover it but didn’t..Two pictures of RAMAC (Roxbury Area Model Airplane Club, N) field along the Delaware Water Gap in the Poconos.Some nifty planes including what was a really nice crashed biplane, Miss Swift?, apparently a well known kit purchased as is from e-bay and overpowered with a .90 rather than a .60 two stroke
.The red and white plane is a brand new RTF F22 Raptor, great plane, flew great.Pilot is a write for “Sport Flyer” magazine and spent a lot of time with the computer diagnostics system he had there, but after and hour or 2, found out the battery in his laptop had run down..It flew nice anyway
Here’s what’s happened to me.
1.Before I knew what ¼ meant, I bought 2 quarter scale easy fliers, a Cessna and an Aeronica Champion, neither of which I’ve built yet, space being at a premium where I’m at.
2.Next I bought that yellow Piper Cub (no name), proceeded to crash it into a tree in New Jersey and kill the speed controller right then.Replace that and crashed it into the ground, didn’t know the elevator was malfunctioning.3.Next I decided to buy something RTF so I could actually fly it.Picked that ART-TECH SU-27 based on it’s looks.Mistake again!Have gotten in up, but each time, by the time it gets airborne, I’m already overcontrolling it.Once into a tree, twice head-on dives into blacktop, once out on the Soccer parking lot, it’s back together now once more, but people have told me it’s under powered with it’s brushed motors.This all started with my deciding to teach my granddaughters how to build model airplanes.4.Then I thought “Let’s keep them interested, let’s get them up flying, so I bought (in 2007) the SuperCub which lanquished in the box until 2008.My daughter did not realize it was so easy to put together.She is a Girl Scout leader so I thought it might even be fun for them.That’s been in 2 trees, crashed numerous times before I got comfortable with it, I will post a picture of one crash (if I can), broke the wing in half, broke the fuselage in half, ripped the entire electronics box and landing gear out on a landing in rough grass. 5.Then I got foolhearty some more.Bought both of them each a RTF sailplane, with brushed motor, not a bad flier once John Hackett showed me it was tail heavy.I had let an “experienced pilot” at the RAMAC club in NJ try it after we crashed it twice, he merely said it was “difficult to fly” so I give John much kudos on that.I, foolish person that I am, took one of those sailplanes up to Malwyck on a windy Sunday.It flew great properly balanced but without a lot of power, it ended up downwind in the trees. Good thing it was in the fall, as the leaves came off the trees, I kept looking for it until 3 weeks, I found it.6.I bought a ARF 63” Cessna during this period 2008.I tend to build heavy, at least my first 2 years.This is powered by a AXI 4120 but it’s too heavy the throw (ha) and I don’t have enough runway to get it off the ground.Maybe I’ve not got enough battery either.So it’s hanging in the garage.I destroyed a large Lipo during this period as well but managed to get it warranteed without problem.7.I also tried the Seawind, that seaplane with the motor on top, hit the tree in my back yard so hard, the motor ripped right out of the plane and kept flying8.Finally, not really but how much will they let me write on the website, Brian Fausel keeps telling me I need something slow, “Slow Stick” he keeps telling me so I bought one.Only I can put a Slow Stick in the trees.When I got it out, it hit ground head on, broke the prop but I thought that was all.Next try, it crashed right away again, stripped the gears in the elevator servo on the first crash.9.So I’ve decided.I need something fast that flies.Your guess is as good as mine what’s next.
