KMP Aviat Husky A-1

[pitviper51]

Well today my husky flew for the first time. On take off i realized how much im not used to floater planes haha. ( this factor came into play later too..) as youll see in the gifs i made of both take off and landing this plane needs little room to get flying. Today was a bit windier then i had hoped to do the maiden in but i was going up regaurdless. My fear of being very nose heavy went away soon after takeoff and it just needed a few clicks right ailiron to trim. the landing was fun with the big crosswind we had, one thing i notice is the fact that these big tires take a second to roll up to speeed and on touch down it hints at nosing the plane over. good fun! The second flight i decide to try a takeoff with flaps,, wow it jumps off the ground haha. then plane seems to wiggle around just a bit im guessing its the short coupling. the third flight was great, this time i set the timer for 10 and kept it under half anf just did pattern and fly bys, i will say once i get the cowl on it, its going to look and sound real!.. the day came to and end tho on landing of that 3rd flight as i cut the landing to short and ploped it down into the thickest clover about 3 ft thick all around the runway.,, it was sucked in hard, and prop broke as well as the landing gear bent ( surprising since its biffy..) the gear has been since bent back as well as i can, but i am going to email kmp about extra. enuff my rambling heres the pics!

takeoff



landing



mike

[Cracky]

good deal!

[pitviper51]

thanks. i hope to get the cowl cut inthe next day or two, further inspection showed no further damage, the one side that bent the tire is off center a bit but thats not gonna stop me haha. i just need to get my head back and not land in the weeds that flight was going soo good to. haha i was trying a few slips and it seems to fly slip good, almost to the point its half way to knife edge haha. i may go ahead and rig up the on baord camera hahah
mike

[RADRICH]

Hey Mike, Man that looks great. Who took the pics? May have to make them club photographer! hehehe

[pitviper51]

too funny.. i had george use his camera since he has the 300mm for zoom, but he shot it on to my flash card so i could edit things. i plane for another shoot once its cowled,, other then the big black boxes hanging under the wings ill be hard to tell it apart from the real one haha
mike

[BountyHunter51]

Hey Mike,
Any video yet?
Cheers! BH

[pitviper51]

nothing yet, havent flown since the maiden, i have been at xfc and catching up on work. i always fall back on my aerobatics so no idea what it to happen with this plane. hope to get video soon tho.
mike

[SmokinKat]

Mike.....getting it out in the weeds is where the fun is at bro. She looks good!!

YouTube - Off field landings

[pitviper51]

not when its 3 ft thick hahah nice flying!
mike

[SmokinKat]

We just need bigger tires..........wish someone would come out with 10 inchers!!!!

[pitviper51]

i have 20x4 inch bike tubes at work for those dumb stingrays,, that would be a funn tire on a hemple cub haha. got to fly the husky withthe cowl on wednesday.. sure looks great in the air. ill post pics tommarrow. only bad thng is the engine relies onthe onboard glow much like a gasser and ign. i need to set it down loower so it it only on at startup idle. i had it go dead onthe third flight the other day. bent gear again ,, i realy wish some one would make real landing gear.. that doesnt bend on just any bump.. bahhh.. oh well it flys and looks and sounds great, but for me its rather boring to fly but it will make a good scale flyer and camera flyer...
mike

ps, camera onboard for next flights once i figure out where i want the rig..

[pitviper51]

sorry for such a delay.. heres the finished aircraft. I dont have plans for much more decals until i find a real husky withthe paint to match and to model after. going to try lower glow setting tomarrow. to me this airplane is rather boring.. but its fun and relaxing
mike

[pitviper51]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

husky footage toward the end, you will see i rolled into the tall grass as the end of the flight, it was cut off the video but i actully taxied out of that tundra tires rule!
mike

[trevstaff]

I just started building my Husky and have a few questions. First off, the instructions are the worst I have ever seen. The holes for the gear are way off the mark and will have to be drilled out and washers used. There are 5 tubes going back to the tail section (2 for the elevator and 2 for rudder) what is #5 for?

[pitviper51]

best advice i have is ditch the rudder rods, and put a pull -pull cable system in, unfortuneatly there is no way around using the daul elevator servo setup, which i greaped about to kmp a few times,, the 5 hole is for an antenne,, who uses a antenne anymore haha.. Please post photos, and if i can help please ask, SmokenKat also has one, that still flys and will chime in. good luck.
mike