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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: RknRusty on April 14, 2015, 11:30:55 AM
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That would be the Dumpster Diver Special. Built by Watt Moore at last year's Brodak Fly-in, but it ended up that the trash can dive event never happened, so the plane came home to Chester, SC. It's been languishing in his shop, unflown and deprived of glory. Until this past Sunday when Wayne and I paid Watt Field a visit and flew some patterns.
I test flew the Shoestring after some modifications, hoping it might be good for the profile event coming up in a couple of weeks in Huntersville. I don't want to risk my Yak-9 for such nonsense, so I choked the venturi and fed it some 20% nitro, and the TT-25 ran well with no major hiccups that used to plague it. Well, it did fly like a speed limit combat plane, but I was on 58' lines and a bit lean, so we can iron that out easy enough. I parked it after one flight proved it was capable, commenting that it was too much like work. Wayne said it reminded him of my 1/2A antics.
We took it slow, listening to Watts classic stories of everything from building and flying to engineering... the man built a scale model of a Ketone(sp) plant in the 1960s. He was one of the designers and they ran into 3D piping problems stemming from 2D blueprints. The pictures are astounding, a model of a factory... but, as always, I digress. I flew some practice patterns on the Oriental, not too bad, and Wayne flew his Pathfinder, pretty damn good, and Watt watched.
After an afternoon break, Watt had disappeared into his shop, returning with an armload of gear and dumped it by our flightline. Behold, the raggedy neglected old DDS. What a site. It was a site that would make your eyes sore. A couple of square sticks of pallet wood or something with an engine serving to hold the front together. A foam slab for a wing and a half pound of zip ties holding it all together. I imagine Banjock had something to do with this atrocity too. Well, you can see for yourself, because here's the video. I'm disappointed that the credits are hard to read, but Wayne made sure I included Allen Buck in the "Thanks" column. He was nice enough to come all the way from Pennsylvania and cut down two big plane eating trees while he was here. So special thanks, Allen, we do appreciate that.
Without further rambling, turn up the volume and go big screen. Click it down to 480p if it's jerky.
Here's the goods:
https://youtu.be/ZnhVeUUzx_8
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Good video Rusty, the plane is awful, and it's supposed to be as it has a date with a dumpster. Fun is fun and it looks like you had plenty of it!
Hope it doesn't let you down on the big day. I guess the good thing is if you break it before then you can't make it any worse ;)
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That looks like a lot of fun.
Looks like you guys had a great time flying the plank. #^ #^
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Hi Ron, thanks for the bump.
Yeah it was pretty hilarious. Especially when the nose wobbled so badly we had to squeeze it as hard as we could while the engine was starting up. It shook so hard it shut itself down. Once we figured out what it needed we got it going. It was bleeding sickly gray ooze from the engine bolts, as that is all that held the front end together. I was afraid the igniter was going to bounce into the prop and break some teeth. It will probably end up doing its job at this year's Brodak, before I see it again, but a dumpster dive is definitely on my bucket list. So to speak.
Hi Carl, yeah it was a memorable day alltogeather.
Rusty
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Nicely done!! #^ n~ #^
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Ron,
You're describing my Threads. ;D
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So....is that plane a Concours 3rd place?
That was awesome. Yes, I said awesome.
Wow, to have your own flying field like that. Incredible.
Thanks for letting us peek at ya'll having fun out there. Hey to Wayne and Watt.
Shug
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So....is that plane a Concours 3rd place?
That was awesome. Yes, I said awesome.
Wow, to have your own flying field like that. Incredible.
Thanks for letting us peek at ya'll having fun out there. Hey to Wayne and Watt.
Shug
Yeah, Shug, 3rd only if just three planes show up lol. Hmm that sounds oddly familiar to me. That is a beautiful field, especially since the tree menace has been removed. There's traditionally a gathering there on Sunday after the Huntersville contest is over for food and flying. There's a board in his shop to sign for everyone who puts up a flight out there. Lots of big names on it. There is a visiting pilots bunk house on the second floor. Everyone is welcome.
Rusty
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I saw Will Davis doing what must have been the first flight at Brodaks last year. The lack of tip weight made it an interesting and abbreviated test flight.
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f150/Inferalanding/2014%20Brodak%20Fly-in/IMG_0472GA.jpg) (http://s46.photobucket.com/user/Inferalanding/media/2014%20Brodak%20Fly-in/IMG_0472GA.jpg.html)
Repaired and tip weight added
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Rusty and Wayne sure made the DDS look real good. The one flight I had on it was enough for me .
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Rusty and Wayne sure made the DDS look real good. The one flight I had on it was enough for me .
Yeah, Ol' Lucy. She stays in the air pretty good if you can do the Loose Lucy Line Dance.
Rusty