| | ||||||
| | ||||||
Please support our sponsors | ||||||
| Welcome to The FlyingGiants Community! We're all about fun, and inside you'll find the greatest, friendliest, and most helpful group of people around! If this is your first time visiting, please check out site, and click here to sign up! We hope to see you soon!! |
| |||||||
| Builder's Corner Building techniques, tricks, tweaks and Q&A. |
![]() |
| | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
| | #109 (permalink) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Super Contributer ![]() |
My plane will leave Krill next week Got some pics, hope you'll like those. brgds Joen | ||||||||||||||||||
| <--Lame Post | | ||||||||||||||||||
| | #113 (permalink) |
| It's official, thanks Verne... ![]() | Hey guys, I'm just finishing up the rebuilding of the controls on my El Nino. I noticed some rolling of the airframe during my pulls and some wing rock during my flat lines. In checking the control surfaces I noticed some pretty serious wear in some of the control horns and servo arms. The hole in the aileron servo arms had started to wear allowing about 1/4" of slop at the trailing edge of the aileron, no wonder the wings were rocking. One of the elevator halves had wear in the control horn which allowed it to move almost 1/4", one elevator half was tight, one half was worn, no surprise that I was having a problem pulling into a radius cleanly. I will be flying this bird until my Black Magic is complete and it looks like I'll be looking for someone to do the final building and covering for me, I just can't seem to find the time. Here is a pic of my El Nino, for those that haven't seen it,
__________________ Ken Thompson Fellowship of Christian Modelers http://www.fcmodelers.com Team Black Magic http://www.customairframes.com Team DragonFire http://www.dragonfirecustoms.com |
| <--Lame Post | |
| | #114 (permalink) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lawn Dart Pilot ![]() |
Mike Darr | ||||||||||||||||||
| <--Lame Post | | ||||||||||||||||||
| | #115 (permalink) |
| It's official, thanks Verne... ![]() | I could be building right now, but I think I'll go flying instead ![]() 75 degrees and sunny, 5 to 7 mph winds ![]() ![]() ![]()
__________________ Ken Thompson Fellowship of Christian Modelers http://www.fcmodelers.com Team Black Magic http://www.customairframes.com Team DragonFire http://www.dragonfirecustoms.com |
| <--Lame Post | |
| | #116 (permalink) |
| Lawn Dart Pilot ![]() | That weather sounds great, but you have to take some time off to build. If you don't you will end up with nothing. I know I complain about Michigan winters, but I guess it gives me the time needed to build. If I did not build my own planes, I don't think I would enjoy this hobby as much as I do. I guess I need that connection between me and the plane. Finish buiding your Black Magic. I promise you will not regret it. Maybe you won't be able to get it done until next season, so what. You have a plane to fly this year. Once you feel the satisfaction of building your own plane, you will never be the same. Go for it, you'll love it. Mike Darr |
| <--Lame Post | |
| | #118 (permalink) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Finally a Giant pilot ![]() |
__________________ Glad to be back on the Giants!!! I promise I wil never stray to another forum again. | ||||||||||||||||||
| <--Lame Post | | ||||||||||||||||||
| | #119 (permalink) |
| It's official, thanks Verne... ![]() | I'm going to try and do it myself, I just want to have it flying...NOW!!! I've never been a real patient person ![]()
__________________ Ken Thompson Fellowship of Christian Modelers http://www.fcmodelers.com Team Black Magic http://www.customairframes.com Team DragonFire http://www.dragonfirecustoms.com |
| <--Lame Post | |
![]() |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Pattern Planes for OH EIGHT! | ShortBus | Builder's Corner | 53 | 02-15-2008 06:52 AM |
| Pattern plane for AFPD.. | harrys | Flight Simulators | 6 | 11-09-2007 02:52 PM |
| AFPD Pattern Planes | Foamy Love | Flight Simulators | 3 | 08-16-2006 07:40 PM |
| Great Planes, Flat Outs 3d?????? | Lizano | Got Foam?! | 18 | 02-05-2006 09:43 PM |
| Pattern anyone? | Biff | General Pattern Discussions | 54 | 01-24-2006 01:23 PM |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
| |