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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: RC Storick on February 16, 2020, 07:02:33 PM
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Work is almost finished
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Robert that is absolutely beautiful.
Mike
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Thanks Mike
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Looks awesome. Electric?
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Looks awesome. Electric?
OS .32 F
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2 more pics. They just don't show the shine.
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Beautiful work as always Sparky!!
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Beautiful work! I enjoyed watching the videos as you built and finished it. I learn alot from them...gene8
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Nice work!
The Tucker is a great flying model so I am sure you will enjoy it greatly.
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Hope to see that beautiful plane in person this year. D>K
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Can we see the bottom?
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bottom shot
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Cool, and with a real engine! VD~
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same engine as my piped Sorcerer from 1989
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Any reason for not running a pipe this time?
I always thought your way of hiding the pipe in the sorcerer was cool as hell.
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Very nice Robert I bet it will fly very well.
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Hello Sparky. Great to see it looking good and ready to fly, very nice work!
Regards Gerald
MACCHI-MC72 info:
http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/mezzi/mstorici/Pagine/MACCHI-MC72.aspx
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRLhZJsCh4
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Any reason for not running a pipe this time?
I always thought your way of hiding the pipe in the sorcerer was cool as hell.
Classic
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As always, nice job Shipmate! Looks great!
Don
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Beautiful model Sparky. I've run those .32s as well. Very powerful,but wants to rev so prop accordingly. Best of luck with it. PhillySkip
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Really, really nice job Robert, but I wouldn't expect anything less, outstanding!
Your hinges are to die for. I'm jealous. H^^
Hey! You said you would get around to building a GBR-3. Do you have it on the drawing board yet?
CB
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Last day of work
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20 well earned points... y1 #^ H^^
Thanks Chief, but I don't think I would go that far 18-19 maybe
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I still remember the Tucker Special article in American Modeler back in the sixties. It was love at first sight! Thanks for building such a beautiful Tucker!!
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Nice work.
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I still remember the Tucker Special article in American Modeler back in the sixties. It was love at first sight! Thanks for building such a beautiful Tucker!!
Know what you mean, Scott. A very elegant design.
I fell in love with the Tucker at the 1959 Nats in Los Alimitos NAS where the Tucker gang was out in force. Finally built one myself for VSC 11 (1999??) and flew it for a few years. It was (is, as it hangs over my head in my office as I type) the experimental ultralight ship (~32 oz RTF) onto which I eventually stuck eight ounces of lead stick-on weights at the CG which improved the consistency of maneuvers immensely. Can probably find references to that experiment with a search here on Sparky's site.
Ted
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First off, let me add my kudos to the others about Sparky's achievement; beautiful ship, Bob!
Mark Hughes built a number of Macchi-looking stunters over the past several years, and they are also extremely elegant. Let's face it; the Italians know how to produce beautiful hardware. Just look at any Ferrari or Ducati.
Attached is a photo of my Tucker Special that was built in 1990. Side note here: That model was built around the very first Lost-Foam wing! Also attached is a photo that augments my comments about Italian design...
Later - Bob
Hey Bubba;
Mark built two MC-72s, a red one and then a white one. The white one is the one he liked best and saw the most action and he liked it best. Unfortunately he lost that model a few months ago. He was flying down at Buder one morning in still air and didn't step back far enough on the second triangle and hit hi own wake turbulence and put the model in the ground. The only thing salvageable was the pilot out of the model, and the engine (PA-61) had a broken crank and engine mounts broken off. As he was loading things up that morning and obviously feeling bad, I told him "Build another one, only better!" And he has done just that. It's almost finished just waiting on a few details and some clear. This one is much lighter also. He was able to secure another crank shaft from Randy Smith, and I dusted off my welding skills and welded on new engine mounts. He has test run the engine several times in a stand, and just needs to mount it in another model for flight shake down, but so far all is well with the engine. Maiden flights on the new model should be forthcoming pretty soon. Today we just put the first pattern on an Imitation he built from a Mike Griffin kit. He also lost the nice Stiletto 660 he had after dragging the tail on the outside squares a few weekends ago and I'm sure he'll have something cooking soon to replace that.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Super nice, Bob.
Are you bringing that to VSC?
Chris...
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I eventually stuck eight ounces of lead stick-on weights at the CG which improved the consistency of maneuvers immensely.
Yeah, I agree with Ted - about the elegance of this design - not particularly about adding weight to it...
I didn't know that Ted's originally weighed only 32 ounces. Mazel Tov on that number, Ted!
Just think, if he built a 16 ounce version, you would raise a statue to him! Of course it would be nearly unflyable, but boy howdy, he wins the weigh-in.
Brett
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lso attached is a photo that augments my comments about Italian design...
Hey Bob: good thing that bike was sitting still! Don't those things have an electronic sensor in the ignition switch to check for grey hair?..... ;D
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I'd need training wheels...