Today's Flying

[Tim Wescott]

Robin's learning to fly.  My left hand is learning to fly.

Score:

• bad engine: 1 (more in another thread)
• me: 1
• Robin: 3 or 4, depending on how you count

Two airplanes broke but repairable, one engine that seemed good here but acted dorked at the field.

Robin likes flying electric with a throttle -- it seems to cut down on her crashing.  I converted a largish 1/2-A plane to electric with a car-radio throttle, and that's what she flew.  The plane in the middle picture died on the test flight, with me at the handle.  Stupid left hand.

[Clint Ormosen]

A Mooney! I like it.
5 min and some CA glue and the small plane will be gtg

[Tim Wescott]

A Mooney! I like it.
5 min and some CA glue and the small plane will be gtg

The Mooney, too, for that matter.  We broke the small one in half already and put it back; we stopped because we were out of time more than anything else.  I couldn't put the Moony back together in the field because I didn't have any foam-safe glue with me, and the tip weight had ripped out (again -- I'm going to re-think the mounting of that).

There's a build thread on the Mooney, if'n you're interested. http://stunthanger.com/smf/building-techniques/build-cartoon-scale-mooney-mite/

[Clint Ormosen]

Yeah, I saw that thread. I didn't even notice the Mooney was broken because the small plane looks so much worse