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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Carrier => Topic started by: john vlna on January 15, 2016, 11:36:57 AM

Title: R&R Project
Post by: john vlna on January 15, 2016, 11:36:57 AM: Consolidated XBY-1 Repair

A number of years ago I build a profile model of the Consolidated XBY-1. This was a prototype that never made into production. I got the idea from a Peanut scale plan I saw in the now defunct Model Builder Magazine. The first one had a nearly scale fuselage.

Version 1 crashed at the NATS one year when the slider popped on take off. Rather than repair it I built a second with a slimmed fuselage. But I never throw anything away and the original lived it my garage attic until a few months ago. The main damage was to the wing which had been trashed, so I figured a new wing and it almost will be back in the air. Since the original had a Wiley which I have sold, I decided to go electric.

Right now I don’t know where I’ll be able to fly it, if you haven’t heard all flying for a 30 mile radius has been shut down in the DC area. You know CL is just such a big threat. All fields have been closed and it is not clear when or if they will be allowed to reopen.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: Richard Imhoff on January 15, 2016, 03:58:52 PM: Man what a bad deal about flying around D.C.

I was stationed at Ft Meyer in the 60's and we used to fly control line right in the pentagon parking lot, we had a good group of Control line guys all stationed in and around the area and the PX even had a hobby shop.
I had a rough in the army I was a limo driver at the pentagon and worked 7 to 5 and one week end a month. hard duty to say the least LOL.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john vlna on January 15, 2016, 07:54:13 PM: yeah it is a bad deal. but wait until they start drawing circles around other airports, and I think they will.

PS I was assigned to Ft Myer (south Post) in the early 60's also. I never spent a lot of time there because I lived off post and worked at the Naval Security Group station near American U. My alma mater by the way.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john vlna on July 06, 2016, 05:46:58 PM: I thought I would post some pictures of the rebuilt XBY. I tested it at Brodak's fly's pretty good, we'll see how it does in the wind at Muncie
Features a servo slider release. 4s, 1300Kv motor, APC 9x6.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john e. holliday on July 07, 2016, 11:17:03 AM: Well I hope the weather gods will ease up on you guys.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john vlna on July 07, 2016, 11:55:00 AM: Well some wind is good, but Muncie seems to work on the principle that more is better.
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john e. holliday on July 07, 2016, 06:46:45 PM: Hey, I've been there and was glad I was an official an not a competitor. It only blows on profile day, right. H^^
Title: Re: R&R Project
Post by: john vlna on July 07, 2016, 08:26:59 PM: I throttled down a Class I up wind once and it blew in 10-15', some slow speeds that day were as fast as high speed. So no, it can always blow.