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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Matt Colan on April 22, 2009, 08:32:43 AM
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My favorite maneuver would probably be the hourglass. Ever since I did my first hourglass it was good. I have never gotten blown out of that maneuver and my grandfather keeps telling me I have good crisp corners at the top.
What is your favorite maneuver?
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Landing ;D
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Landing ;D
Hee Hee,
Actually square 8's are my favorite, I don't do them very well, but I like them.
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Landing ;D
Back when I was 2 or 3, I used to play with my grandfather's Peashooter. I have a picture of me holding it and it looks like I'm holding an SV-11, even though that plane is a little bigger than a ringmaster. I would practice my takeoff's and landings with that plane on the floor of their house. I blame that practice for me being so good at my takeoffs and landings. I do land better than my grandfather, he says that.
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Inverted triangles with the pointy bit at the bottom. I usually do 3 of them at the end of a (practise) flight to untwist the lines. I don't know why but I find them way easier to do than the proper triangle. Apart from that, maybe outside squares and the reverse wingover.
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A perfect slow roll!!!!!! but thats another story!! ;D But as we are on wires it has to be the clover leaf, I can do it reasonably!
Cheers Neville
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As stupid as it sounds, for me its the take-off and landing. I don't know why, but I just love a good take-off and landing. I got a weird funny bone, and that tickles it! LL~ H^^
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My least favorite is the figure 9
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My favorite maneuver????
Well, that would have to be the Snap-Roll my Magnum did while flying near a forest of trees and in
about a 25 MPH wind. I thought the prop was going to snag the lines but they didn't and I flew right
out of it with no damage! In fact, I was flying with Tom Morris and he said that if he were judging
I would get 40 for the snap-roll! LL~
Jim Pollock :o
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My favorite manuver would be the triangle, because I like the thrill it gives me on the pull-out recovery #^
The least favorite would be the square 8's especially on the first flight of the morning ~^ That inverted recovery of the outside portion of the square 8 is just likley to be rounded out for the first pattern of the day!
Burning fuel and having maximum fun!!
James Dean
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Landing ;D
Uh modified to be Landing ON MY WHEELS
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I like the triangle cloverleaf.
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Landing ;D
Not hitting the ground LL~
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Reverse Wing Unders....most defiantly #^ LL~
Randy
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Hard right into the BBQ place!
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Greasing a nice clean landing on a plane with wing mounted gear. Thats the finish to any flight that Ilove. Though I remember having a fair share of the stumbles in the grass bouncing landings myself.
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One flip start. :##
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A good straight over the top wing over with no bobble at the end. Just a hard maneuver to do correctly and I love it when it comes together.
Jack --- AMA7210
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I agree with Randy P., the landing if I can get it on the mains without porpoising. DOC Holliday
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Put me down for the triangles. I learned how to do outside triangles first, by doing "outside wingovers", then cutting the hemisphere in 1/4's by putting a 90 at the top, then 1/8's. A great set of 60 degree triangles are a joy to see for those of us who judge, because way too many have 90 deg. tops...some even 100+ deg. I hate that, and don't give many points for them. I gave Howard 40 points for his triangles at the contest in Tri-Cities a couple of years ago. That boy can fly his "dog" pretty good, when he's feeling his oats. LL~ Steve
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If correct: triangle
If incorrect: try-angle
elizio - Brazil
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The maneuver I do to burn off fuel after a practice pattern, the giant lazy 8.
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Outside triangles and quarter wingovers.
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Since Randy Smith mentioned wingunders, one NW Skyraider's member, Jeff Rein, has done real wingunders. He and a cohort (unknown to me) trespassed on the wooden railroad trestle in Bellevue, WA (actually a pretty cool unit and well respected among trestle freaks everywhere). While it was still in use by train traffic...and did a flight with a combat model , including wingunders. The trestle is still there, but the train traffic has been stopped, I believe. Might make a good flying site, ya know... LL~ Steve
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Since Randy Smith mentioned wingunders, one NW Skyraider's member, Jeff Rein, has done real wingunders. He and a cohort (unknown to me) trespassed on the wooden railroad trestle in Bellevue, WA (actually a pretty cool unit and well respected among trestle freaks everywhere). While it was still in use by train traffic...and did a flight with a combat model , including wingunders. The trestle is still there, but the train traffic has been stopped, I believe. Might make a good flying site, ya know... LL~ Steve
I have done wingunders several places ;D At a demo for the RC guys, they landing strip-flying site has a very hard angle grade cut deep at the edge of the runway, YOu can do wingovers and pull out inverted about 20 feet below ground level...as seen from the opposite side of the field, fly up the steep grade till you return to level field and do the back half the same way, makes for a long manouver ~>
randy
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My favorite is the Figure "9".
I have never failed to get a perfict score doing it.
Clancy
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My favorite is the Figure "9".
I have never failed to get a perfict score doing it.
Clancy
The only maneuver where the perfect score is : "9.0", "9.0" from the two judges?
<I have a friend who can do pretty good figure "7's" - he's trying to work up to a figure "9". > LL~
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I have done wingunders several places ;D At a demo for the RC guys, they landing strip-flying site has a very hard angle grade cut deep at the edge of the runway, YOu can do wingovers and pull out inverted about 20 feet below ground level...as seen from the opposite side of the field, fly up the steep grade till you return to level field and do the back half the same way, makes for a long manouver ~>
randy
The wooden trestle is close to 100' high...Jeff did full 60' wingunders. I don't know if there's a handrail or he tethered himself, but a fall would have been very fatal. I lived a few miles from this trestle for some years, but it never occured to me to fly a combat model from on top of it. I did once fly a .15 powered CL model from a pruning tower the grounds crew had left in right field at the WSU ball field. Outside loops from level flight were fun, but not a good place for bad line tension! n1 Steve
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Landing ;D
X-2 H^^
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The Square-8 has always been one of my favorites.. H^^
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Does a good engine run count ??? n~ n~
I love the Clove Leaf... still not perfected but a fun maneuver.. noe for the least favorite.. square 8s...
Landing is right up there too..
Jim
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I like rolling my lines up after a good days flying session and the plane is still in one piece! HB~> HB~> HB~>
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No one said anything about the overhead 8 ? Thats my favorite. Overhead 8's are defiantly my favorite. The straight up over your head part and a couple nice graceful inverted loops way up high....I cant wait for the rain to stop so can unwind my lines :)!
Greg
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Right now may favorite maneuver is the inside square loop. Today I did a pair of 40-point inside squares. Unfortunately, nobody else was there to see them. This is a corollary of one of the great philosophical mysteries of the human experience, one that young Matt and Grace will soon grapple with as they examine their belief systems as young adults: if Helen Keller fell over in the forest, would it make any noise?
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The glitch. Very good at that.
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My favorite is loading a still in one piece model into my truck for the ride home. I'm sure that is my wifes favorite also.Tthat way she doesn't have to listen to excuses or explanations, or to me mulling over what to CRASH next.
Steve