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Title: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Mike Callas on December 01, 2013, 01:20:52 AM

In the big rock candy mountain
All the ARFs are on 4 strokes
And motors runs forever
They never speed up folks
Where you set your needle one day
The mixture stays the same
The planes go up where you point them
And down the same ol way
You've got the time to fly your way
In the big rock candy mountain

Sorry about that


Attached is my eldest holding my Legacy ARF powered by a Reeves Otias 62
She is grinning cause UCLA just clobbered you know who.

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Steve Helmick on December 02, 2013, 12:10:50 AM

Good Grief! My Grandfather had a wind-up record player and we always played that song. The record was about 3/8" thick and the phono needles were either steel or bamboo. We usually used the bamboo ones. I am shocked that anybody else would remember that song...but you can find many versions of it on YouTube with their search function. Another song we liked was "The Bum Song". That was a long time ago...   Z@@ZZZ  Steve

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Mike Callas on December 02, 2013, 04:44:22 AM

Steve,
As I was trying to get my thoughts together about my legacy 4S, when O brother where art thou started on the tele.
The soundtrack is really cool. There is a cute ditty called Highways and Hedges toward the end of the movie.

Any way. Plane flies great. My Reeves Otias 62 runs a pusher prop CW. Really pulls strong. I was surprised it only weighed 60 oz with tip weight and tail weight (less fuel). I did commit a sin though. I mounted the Otias inverted even though I probably should have mounted it sideways.

So far, I am not a Man of constant sorrow.

Mike

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Douglas Ames on December 05, 2013, 10:17:24 PM

Have you been watching "O' Brother where art thou"?

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Joe Yau on December 06, 2013, 09:57:43 AM

Quote from: Mike Callas on December 02, 2013, 04:44:22 AM

My Reeves Otias 62 runs a pusher prop CW. Really pulls strong. I was surprised it only weighed 60 oz with tip weight and tail weight (less fuel). I did commit a sin though. I mounted the Otias inverted even though I probably should have mounted it sideways.

Hi Mike,

Just a bit curious what prop your running on the Otias .62?

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Air Ministry . on December 07, 2013, 01:17:46 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnCBbT_Fj8

Title: Re: Big Rock Candy Mountain Legacy
Post by: Mike Callas on December 07, 2013, 08:58:11 PM

I love it! That is the version in O brother where art thou.
I am running a Zinger 12X6 pusher for now. I also have a 3 blade master airscrew pusher that I have yet to try.