Snap, any chance it will be making a trip to the Heatwave???

Snap, Bill Hempel says this plane can do full throttle downlines. Could you try one on the next flight?! Let's hear that 3W scream!

Originally Posted by Tikka

Congrats Elie.
I'm glad to see everything went well, and I look forward to see this model in action at the CT Huckfest. I can't wait to get there.
Like I told you, only have small 46% and 40% planes to fly, and here is a pic of me from yesterday at our field.
From obvious reasons, I had to stop flying after a while

I wish I could recommend to you a good therapist. But they just suck $$$ like the lawyers.

That said I thought there was a time I had the "Plane Thing" BAD.

I was wrong.

RollingHarrier. The Kid Rock track suits Elie quite well!!! GREAT CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dig the hard rock stuff.

Elie, if you are going to have the headers welded again, you may want to clean them throughout. And then possibly sleeve over where the break is in the header. The aluminum that 3W uses isn't the greatest. Something to consider is to build a set of KS headers and get the right drop you need. The KS stuff is Stainless Steel, and can be TIG welded, and you can put in a piece of flex in the header to keep this from happening again.

Made it to the end of the thread something like fifteen pages behind due to my phone being out for what 3 days ?

Super plane and super flight Snap ! That rolling harrier I assume was it's first. Very smooth..

Now. All it needs is for that big ass white spot(s) on the wing to be filled with Apollo Lorans to tribute to the first and only real 260.

Not to crack on the vid but us motor heads think that the engine is the only music a plane vid needs. Really, we are interested a lot in the way the engine is behaving. Still a great vid though but I wonder if I will get to hear the engine.

The videos were just fine. Thanks for putting the effort forth and sharing with the community.......

Thanks man!

Originally Posted by snap a saurus

Good question, after ruining the motor for a range check, a 6 to 7 minutes First flight and a 12 minute second flight, I recharged the batteries yesterday and each took 2100 mah, the packs have 4400 mah capacity so I am figuring 1000 mah per flight per pack, I would make 2 flights and charge, that's on the safe side.
I will continue to monitor the batteries now that I feel comfortable with the plane and will start the real hucking..

You may want to check them after 1 flight of serious huckin.... if it took 1000mah just flying around I cant imagine what its going to draw out of the batteries when you really start pushing it. Better safe than sorry.

If your batteries are draining that much, why not add 1 or 2 more? You wont notice the weight

Originally Posted by Mr.Pickle

First I wanna say thanks for posting a vid.

But I wanna give ya two thumbs down for RUINING the video with TOO LOUD of music!!! If ya absolutly had to have some music then 'softly' in the background some lynard skynard or something along that line would have been more appropriate, and not this SCREAMIN at the top o yur lungs cut your wrists bang your head against the wall immature wannabe music crap!
I mean C'mon after over 600 some odd posts I am quite sure most of the MANY many people watching this thread tuning in daily would have LOVED to hear what kind of power the bird took to get off the ground or what the engine even sounds like!!! Yeh yeh you 'interrupted' your music to let us hear the engine for a few seconds 'of low fly by's w/no throttle' I guess we did get to hear the performance for 1 upline The music has it's place but NOT in a maiden video of such a HIGHLY anticipated flight!
There's my 2 cents- Sorry Elie, dont mean to hurt anyones feelings here - I just had to voice my opinion ( I'm sure for alot of others too) on what I feel was such a wasted but potentially good video.

Mr. Pickle, put a pickle in that pie hole. Next time you want an awesome video done, drive up and do it yourself. I'm sure Elie wouldnt have minded you taking some vids. Unless you did it yourself keep your comments to yourself. If you want to hear the motor, go to one of the events Elie goes to. He does go to a ton of them.

Originally Posted by Mr.Pickle

You clearly missed the point, if you read it correctly you would of read that it is not really about music selection- let me make it easy for ya to understand- you totally drowned out everything we all would have been interested in hearing, & If there were cuss words blank em out, very simple to do.

I didn't miss your point at all. If the song were Lynard Skynard we wouldn't be having this discussion. BTW, The song I picked had no profanity oops I mean cuss words...

Originally Posted by cbk07

Funny, you guys whine for hours that you want us to drop everything so YOU all can see video of the plane flying....then bitch about the video. Awesome!!!! Granted, mine was supposed to be something funny Elie and I thought up which backfired. Trust me, there was literally hours of useless conversation which with all of the editing would have made no sense at all had it been left in

Last video I will be sharing for a while....how about you Jim???

I hear ya Craig.. but I've gotten PM's supporting the video and my 1st amendment right to free speech so I won't be under minded by a few.

Originally Posted by RollingHarrier

You're Welcome.
I use music I like to hear. If you don't like it, turn it down. Very simple to do.

Jim, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to make the video and for making the trip Twice to my house a 2 hour drive to help me finish the plane and mostly for the chicken stick that I used it to start Bob instead of starting the engine.

Originally Posted by cbk07

Funny, you guys whine for hours that you want us to drop everything so YOU all can see video of the plane flying....then bitch about the video. Awesome!!!! Granted, mine was supposed to be something funny Elie and I thought up which backfired. Trust me, there was literally hours of useless conversation which with all of the editing would have made no sense at all had it been left in

Last video I will be sharing for a while....how about you Jim???

Craig, you can't do that, we will be making more videos and having more fun, just go check the ratings and that will tell you if they like it or not. Every time we go out flying we have the best time, i enjoy all my friends company and I can't thank you enough for all that you do for me

Originally Posted by 50%plane

I liked the video.

There will always be haters. For instance, on Youtube, I had a couple folks rating my videos poorly and commenting about how stupid I was for having music because the engine is better music for an RC video. My opinion is that whoever took the time to make the video shouldn't be flamed over a difference in opinion. JMHO though.....



Snap, great job! beautiful plane!


Chris

Thanks Fiddy.

Originally Posted by 3Dguy

Snap, Bill Hempel says this plane can do full throttle downlines. Could you try one on the next flight?! Let's hear that 3W scream!

Next flight I will, believe it or not the plane is strong enough to handle any maneuver the average 40% can handle.

Snap, any chance it will be making a trip to the Heatwave???

Kevin, I wish I lived closer but that trip is probably over a 20 hour drive which makes it impractical, Tim is a good friend I wish I could go but thanks for the interest.

Originally Posted by Bunky F. Knuckle

RollingHarrier. The Kid Rock track suits Elie quite well!!! GREAT CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dig the hard rock stuff.

Elie, if you are going to have the headers welded again, you may want to clean them throughout. And then possibly sleeve over where the break is in the header. The aluminum that 3W uses isn't the greatest. Something to consider is to build a set of KS headers and get the right drop you need. The KS stuff is Stainless Steel, and can be TIG welded, and you can put in a piece of flex in the header to keep this from happening again.

Chris, I am going to have the welder reinforce them One way or another, as for the K&S headers how can I do that?

Originally Posted by zoomer260

Made it to the end of the thread something like fifteen pages behind due to my phone being out for what 3 days ?

Super plane and super flight Snap ! That rolling harrier I assume was it's first. Very smooth..

Now. All it needs is for that big ass white spot(s) on the wing to be filled with Apollo Lorans to tribute to the first and only real 260.

Not to crack on the vid but us motor heads think that the engine is the only music a plane vid needs. Really, we are interested a lot in the way the engine is behaving. Still a great vid though but I wonder if I will get to hear the engine.

Zoomer haven't decided on the graphics yet but still looking for ideas.

Originally Posted by Cracky

The videos were just fine. Thanks for putting the effort forth and sharing with the community.......

Yes thank you.

Originally Posted by cbk07

Thanks man!

Originally Posted by robertp17

You may want to check them after 1 flight of serious huckin.... if it took 1000mah just flying around I cant imagine what its going to draw out of the batteries when you really start pushing it. Better safe than sorry.

Robert, I agree especially that my batteries are 4400mah, if 1500 is used per hucking flight, that makes for a total of 3000 mah now is that ok on a 4400mah, anybody knows?

Originally Posted by ShortBus

If your batteries are draining that much, why not add 1 or 2 more? You wont notice the weight

These batteries are big, they are Lithium Manganese 4400mah, I think I can get 2 flights, they can be fast charged.

Originally Posted by TeamFlatout

Mr. Pickle, put a pickle in that pie hole. Next time you want an awesome video done, drive up and do it yourself. I'm sure Elie wouldnt have minded you taking some vids. Unless you did it yourself keep your comments to yourself. If you want to hear the motor, go to one of the events Elie goes to. He does go to a ton of them.

Chris, I will see you at the Nall, don't forget my control line cox powered airplane.

Originally Posted by TeamFlatout

Mr. Pickle, put a pickle in that pie hole. Next time you want an awesome video done, drive up and do it yourself. I'm sure Elie wouldnt have minded you taking some vids. Unless you did it yourself keep your comments to yourself. If you want to hear the motor, go to one of the events Elie goes to. He does go to a ton of them.

Wow, how do I respond to such immaturity! I know how I would like to respond! but I will let that one go!

Originally Posted by RollingHarrier

I didn't miss your point at all. If the song were Lynard Skynard we wouldn't be having this discussion. BTW, The song I picked had no profanity oops I mean cuss words...

Wow to you too. you really do not get any of what I was trying to say!! Know what I really dont care at this point!
To anyone who took offense, please chill out and relax gentlemen. No harm was meant, No foul thrown. I saw a 'bunch' of posts requesting to hear what was going on and I felt the same way so I thought I would post the same thing and refrained from doing so but then the second vid got louder, coincedence? I dont really care, all I was saying was IMO I would have liked to hear it without any music, I dont need a crap load of opinion police jumpin down MY throat about it when a handful of us have voiced their 'opinion' too.
I really could care less if it was a cinderella musicbox chiming away or KORN mashing it up, I threw out Lynard cause thats what I like, and yes I'm also allowed to have an opinion.

So I will once again say Thank you for your vid And I will also repeat my first response to the vids - SWEET!!!

Originally Posted by Mr.Pickle

Wow, how do I respond to such immaturity! I know how I would like to respond! but I will let that one go!


Wow to you too. you really do not get any of what I was trying to say!! Know what I really dont care at this point!
To anyone who took offense, please chill out and relax gentlemen. No harm was meant, No foul thrown. I saw a 'bunch' of posts requesting to hear what was going on and I felt the same way so I thought I would post the same thing and refrained from doing so but then the second vid got louder, coincedence? I dont really care, all I was saying was IMO I would have liked to hear it without any music, I dont need a crap load of opinion police jumpin down MY throat about it when a handful of us have voiced their 'opinion' too.
I really could care less if it was cinderella musicbox chiming away or KORN mashing it up, I threw out Lynard cause thats what I like, and yes I'm also allowed to have an opinion.

So I will once again say Thank you for your vid And I will also repeat my first response to the vids - SWEET!!!

You know what they say about opinions.... I liked the vid, I like the plane. I agree, the sound of that big 3w is awesome. Some want to hear the engine, some want to hear lynyrd skynyrd, some want cinderella but most of all we all want to see that big azz mofo down on the deck huckin it up so lets see what Elie brings to the table for us. By the way, my 35%er seems like a little glow plane next to that thing.