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[NoBozo]

Originally Posted by jff134

There are some cameras that have live feedback. I am not too familiar with it, but I am aware of this website www.fpvpilot.com. The camera I have is cheap and you need to download the video after the flight (www.flycamone.com). You get about 2 miles of signal with a good radio, which is much further than you can spot a small plane in the sky. It would be cool to pilot it from a cockpit view.

Thanks jff134. I just took a quick look at the links. (Saved to Favorites) I am going to have to look into that. I'm a private pilot and I also fly flight simulators.

I've never flown RC aircraft and I understand it's quite different from flying a full scale aircraft. I wonder if one would have to master conventional RC flying BEFORE flying with the camera exclusively. NB

[lawn psycho]

Awesome! I almost wish I hadn't seen that. Last thing I need is another addicting hobby

How far/long can you go in one flight?

[jmen24]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

Thanks jff134. I just took a quick look at the links. (Saved to Favorites) I am going to have to look into that. I'm a private pilot and I also fly flight simulators.

I've never flown RC aircraft and I understand it's quite different from flying a full scale aircraft. I wonder if one would have to master conventional RC flying BEFORE flying with the camera exclusively. NB

NoBozo, Start here http://www.realflight.com/new/index.html I have this simulator and it is pretty close to true flight, minus the depth perception. Give it a try and then go out and get airborne.

My hanger
90" wingspan piper cub on floats (on the board now, done in about three weeks, I'll post a pic or two)
21% scale Cap 232 (roll rate of 360/sec, sold the first and I am halfway through the second, late winter finish)
1/5 scale 108" DHC-2 beaver on floats (planset, build from scratch propably next winter)
1/4 scale DHC-2 Beaver on floats (planset, build from scratch after the first one, 144" wingspan on this bird, this one will be an attempt at a Top Gun Scale) Anyone with a DHC-2 Beaver that would like to see your plane in full scale, please contact me.

This hobby is more fun than you can imagine, I got out of it about 6years ago when my daughter was born, and I have just recently got back into it. If you decide to start up and you plan to fly in, join a club, more knowledge than you can shake a stick at. Also join the AMA (american modelers association) membership includes a $100,000 insurance policy that covers you for damage to someone elses property.

[NoBozo]

Originally Posted by jmen24

NoBozo, 1/4 scale DHC-2 Beaver on floats (planset, build from scratch after the first one, 144" wingspan on this bird, this one will be an attempt at a Top Gun Scale) Anyone with a DHC-2 Beaver that would like to see your plane in full scale, please contact me..

1/4 scale Beaver on floats..??? That's Crazy Jmen. That's a 12 foot wingspan. That model would probably qualify as a "Light Sport Aircraft" which can actually carry a couple of people. You would probably have to keep an eye out for the FAA watching you. What kind of power would that require?

BTW, The Beaver on floats is my favorite aircraft to fly in "MS Flight Simulator X" I LOVE Round Engines. NB

[jmen24]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

1/4 scale Beaver on floats..??? That's Crazy Jmen. That's a 12 foot wingspan. That model would probably qualify as a "Light Sport Aircraft" which can actually carry a couple of people. You would probably have to keep an eye out for the FAA watching you. What kind of power would that require?

BTW, The Beaver on floats is my favorite aircraft to fly in "MS Flight Simulator X" I LOVE Round Engines. NB

It will still qualify as a model, as long as it remains under 50lbs, preliminary estimates put it at 43lbs. I am still toying with powerplant options, but I am torn between an actual 4-stroke radial (BIG $$$$) or a twin cylinder gasser. This project will be a multi-year venture after it is started, being from scratch and all, the smaller version will give me the ability to view the airframe to make adjustments for weekness' that will be more of a problem on the big one. I roll the plans out on the floor every once and a while and just imagine the the build process, the sheets are 4'x7'. My parents next door neighbor has a 1/3 scale piper cub that is the same size as the 1/4 Beaver.

The DHC-2 Beaver is my favorite aircraft period, I also enjoy it in MS flight X.

There are videos on youtube with planes that are much larger than this one, mostly in other countries, but do a search for R/C 1/2 scale piper or R/C flying fortress on you tube and you will see some really big birds.

Be careful with this hobby, once you are hooked it is almost impossible to get it out.

Just sold last year a helicopter and a 60" cat hull boat (with twin 26cc gassers (large weed wacker engines are in this size range), and a handlaid fiberglass hull) to fund some of the other projects on the board.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by jmen24

"...I am torn between an actual 4-stroke radial (BIG $$$$) or a twin cylinder gasser..."

Maybe the great sound of a 4-stroke radial on an RC model will help make up your mind ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56HE4AjDuo

[NoBozo]

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

Maybe the great sound of a 4-stroke radial on an RC model will help make up your mind ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56HE4AjDuo

DAM: I'm sorry I saw that AWSOME Model. I LOVE Round Engines. That's the kind of thing that will make any gearhead SMILE from ear to ear.

The plane in the video is a scale replica of a plane flown by Roscoe Turner, one of the more flamboyant pilots of the Golden Age of Air Racing.

"Gilmore' was the name of his pet Lion cub that he often took flying with him until the lion got too big to stuff into the plane. NB

http://www.aviationandspacearts.com/...oe-Turner.html

[riverat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbQ5...eature=related

[NoBozo]

Originally Posted by riverat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbQ5...eature=related

That WAS Cool. Anybody here old enough to remember "U Control"..? That was when the plane flew around in a circle as the "pilot" stood in the center, and controlled the plane with little wires connected to a handle, which ran out to the wing of the plane maybe 50 feet away and operated the control surfaces. I think that was around the time the Rotary Dial telephone was invented.

That was before Radios and.....JET engines in our little toys. NB

[jmen24]

Control line was my introduction to the sport. A cox PT-19 with the .049 engine. They usually have them for sale on ebay, and a few companies still make them. Get fun with the kids. I remember the first thing you learn is not get dizzy while flying.