Milestone flight today

JPvelo Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:22 pm

Had the Satan out today on 43 foot 20lb spider wire and the engine was just screaming, running perfect with no hiccups. Was able to do inside loops, lazy eights, inverted, and my first ever outside loops from both regular and inverted. The milestone part is that I did all of this and ran the fuel tank dry as opposed to the flight ending when the plane hit the dirt!

SuperDave Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:41 pm

JP:

Congrats, you're getting the hang of it!

**Cribbs74** Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:54 pm

Good Job!

That does sound like a perfect flight. Did things just click? Or did you change the way you do things?

Hopefully I am not far behind you. The outside loop has been beating me up. Did you enter it inverted?

Ron

Edit: guess I should have read closer, you did it both ways.....

JPvelo Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:47 pm

cribbs74 wrote:Good Job!

That does sound like a perfect flight. Did things just click? Or did you change the way you do things?

Hopefully I am not far behind you. The outside loop has been beating me up. Did you enter it inverted?

Ron

Edit: guess I should have read closer, you did it both ways.....

A couple of sessions ago I got to where I could fly consecutive laps inverted. I got to thinking about it and decided that instead of pulling up and going back to normal flight at the top of the loop I would try to climb and then dive back into normal flight. It went off without a hitch so decided to turn it into an outside loop. The long lines really help as it puts significantly more room between the plane and the ground. It was really cool, in the past I have crashed two planes on maiden flights attempting the outside loop, one of them completely destroyed.

**Cribbs74** Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:57 pm

Good to know. I can do inverted, but much like you I have busted planes trying the mythical outside loop lol!

I am a little gun shy now due to past mishaps, I will try it again with my bruiser the Baby Ringmaster. It's quickly becoming like Rusty's Stuntman.

SuperDave Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:56 am

Ron:

I believe key to JP's success was due to the forty-three foot lines he used. I fly my BRM on thirty five foot lines and can do consecutive outside loops with no problemo.

Try longer lines! (was that an echo that I heard just now?) Laughing

**Cribbs74** Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:24 am

I am at a full 35' right now. Surely that's enough to do it. I think the Li'l Satan is pretty manouverable so that helps some I am sure.

SuperDave Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:56 am

Ron:

I use thirty-five foot Sullivan Kevlar lines for all of my .049 flying. These lines are pre-made with all of the connections and a storage reel included. They are billed as "stronger than stainless steel calble lines".

They resist tangling and kinking too.

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