Bringing a 10 years old 3W 44% Ultimate back to life

[as722]

	Quote: Originally Posted by 300sflyer
	Ill bet you mean this airplane. Sadly, it no longer exists. It had an abrupt meeting with mother earth a couple of years ago.

Yes that's the one. If I remember right he had a 160 with 4 chapman pipes and had a lot of problems with the setup.


Thanks
Albert

[RC_Pattern_Flyer]

Ahmed, this really brings back some memories for me as well. i lived in Dubai and Abu Dhabi back in, wow.. 1979-1981 back and forth. We really enjoyed the time out at the field.

Gotta love when you dad stick you have 100 sq miles to land in any direction. hahaha.

Good luck with the bipe.

Chuck Hochhalter

[Biff]

Ahhh yes. UAE,, I loved being in Dubai. Got to meet and hang with Sheik Alli. Great guy. He was into shooting sports,fishing , automobile collecting and model airplanes!! Good pilot. Thanks for sharing your Ultimate adventure.The 160 we had sounded awesome but broke constantly. Couldn't keep the thing together for more than 3 flights without a trip to the shop. Hopefully you'll have better luck!

[xtdsm]

	Quote: Originally Posted by RC_Pattern_Flyer
	Ahmed, this really brings back some memories for me as well. i lived in Dubai and Abu Dhabi back in, wow.. 1979-1981 back and forth. We really enjoyed the time out at the field. Gotta love when you dad stick you have 100 sq miles to land in any direction. hahaha. Good luck with the bipe. Chuck Hochhalter

Man, UAE now is totally diffrenent, you should come over and see for yourself. back in the early 80s, I think you could dead stick a Boeing 767 and you would still land it safely anywhere now, I don't think you can.

Ahmed

[RC_Pattern_Flyer]

hahaha, no doubt, i remember a round a bout somewhere that was 3 miles in circumference... we went around twice cause it was so cool!!!!

I used to go to Al Nasr all the time to play on the slides and ice hockey!

Chuck

[xtdsm]

well she is finally ready for her first flight in almost 12 years. will try to get the maiden flight on tape. wish us luck guys.

Ahmed

[p sme]

good luck...thanks for sharing the restoration. Be sure to give us some completed pics and vid of course. Looks great!

[ShortBus]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Biff
	Ahhh yes. UAE,, I loved being in Dubai. Got to meet and hang with Sheik Alli. Great guy. He was into shooting sports,fishing , automobile collecting and model airplanes!! Good pilot.

Best story I've ever heard.

[xtdsm]

well ladies and gents, she actually flies

we were planning to have a full day of flying on last Saturday, but just when we thought she was ready, we found out a couple of things that needed to be done and by the time we were done, the sun almost set, and having to work on the following day, I decided to go ahead and fly the thing even though the engine was way out to tune (when we started the engine in the past week or so it ran nice, but I decided to add a bit more oil into the mixture and that sure messed things up). She ran like crap below half throttle. So off we go, she needed a couple of left clicks and 4 down clicks and she flew hands off. so far I can't tell you anything about how she flies since the engine was just too rich and it was almost too dark plus I was scared to hell to crash it (very old plane, not running right engine, new setup, and being my first big plane after flying 50cc). I will post a better flight report on this weekend tho.

Anyway, here are a couple of more pics and a vid of the take off and landing.








and finally the vid (you will not DIVX codec to play it) http://www.flyinggiants.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=20563&cat=1

Thanks

Ahmed

[atique]

Any Difference???????

[E-MO]

Dubai looks like an awsome place i am always looking whenever i go on google earth
with those man made palm islands and the tallest building in the world being built
it is one place i would like to visit one day.

[Neogenesis]

	Quote: Originally Posted by as722
	Yes that's the one. If I remember right he had a 160 with 4 chapman pipes and had a lot of problems with the setup. Thanks Albert

I actually purchased that engine off of him...it ran great up until the say I sold it.


Neo

[RC_Pattern_Flyer]

o my, that pic is awesome!!!!

Thanks fo the memories, i love the wing fillets.. very nice.

Chuck

[Highlights]

Whats the latest?

[sprice50]

Nice rebuild. How does she 3D?