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Title: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 03, 2012, 05:26:45 PM
Last Saturday I flow the Ringmaster Flyathon only to find out its THIS Saturday!! Took a few pics and decided to post em. This is Robin with my Ring & String
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Steve Helmick on October 03, 2012, 05:38:39 PM
Good lookin' models, all three of 'em.  H^^ Steve
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Paul Taylor on October 03, 2012, 05:54:39 PM
Nice models.

Now you have to do it all over again this weekend.  #^
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: John Sunderland on October 03, 2012, 09:20:03 PM
That Shoe String looks familiar! I see you still have a meet chopper at the business end too! ;) If you will remember.... n1 to keep your finger out of it! :-X
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 04, 2012, 07:01:13 AM
Nice models.

Now you have to do it all over again this weekend.  #^


Well yeah, but it looks like 57 (which I could handle) but 14 MPH winds, last Saturday was PERFECT.
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 04, 2012, 07:03:13 AM
That Shoe String looks familiar! I see you still have a meet chopper at the business end too! ;) If you will remember.... n1 to keep your finger out of it! :-X


DANG, Cut yourself once (OK twice) in in 57 years of modeling and you just can't live it down!!!
HAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!  Yeah I've learned not to fly tired
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Jim Kraft on October 04, 2012, 07:36:37 AM
They may be meat choppers but they work so well in many applications while being repeatable if you damage one. I have some planes that I have tried many props on and come back to APC's because the performance is just way better. They just require lots of respect.
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 04, 2012, 08:28:23 AM
They may be meat choppers but they work so well in many applications while being repeatable if you damage one. I have some planes that I have tried many props on and come back to APC's because the performance is just way better. They just require lots of respect.


I've discovered these 11-4s work very well on a McCoy .35, respect for sure, both ways!!!
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: john e. holliday on October 04, 2012, 10:38:12 AM
Yeah, you have to do it for real this weekend.  Also the model looks nice and the airplanes also.   H^^
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 04, 2012, 07:41:37 PM
Thanks guys. Robin's been learning to fly, she's flown both these models and says she really likes it. Hope the interest holds, it'd be nice to have a pretty flying buddy unlike so many I've had over the years!!!
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Jim Kraft on October 04, 2012, 09:13:27 PM
Well Randy; After, what, 10 or more years, the crankshaft in your McCoy 40 broke at the end of a flight at Tulsa last weekend. It started sagging in the overhead eight, but made it through the clover sort of, and then when I leveled off it locked up and spun the prop off. The Magician landed nicely, but did not try to make that last two laps. De Hill sent me a McCoy 40 that had a good shaft but bad piston, so I took the best of both engines and have one that looks like new with great compression and good fits overall. I was pretty sure your warranty had run out. LOL. That engine had been in three Magicians, and a couple of other planes. It is the best stunt engine I have ever run.
Title: Re: Just a couple pictures
Post by: Randy Ryan on October 04, 2012, 10:01:04 PM
Well Randy; After, what, 10 or more years, the crankshaft in your McCoy 40 broke at the end of a flight at Tulsa last weekend. It started sagging in the overhead eight, but made it through the clover sort of, and then when I leveled off it locked up and spun the prop off. The Magician landed nicely, but did not try to make that last two laps. De Hill sent me a McCoy 40 that had a good shaft but bad piston, so I took the best of both engines and have one that looks like new with great compression and good fits overall. I was pretty sure your warranty had run out. LOL. That engine had been in three Magicians, and a couple of other planes. It is the best stunt engine I have ever run.


Wow, yeah, the warranty is run out. HAHAHA! Glat to hear you're getting lots of use out of it. I still haven't replaced it.