Anyone here into Giant Scale R/C Planes? Post Pics of your Planes.

Good Grief a DA85 in it Steve?
I bet it climbs like a homesick Angel.

Kim wrote:But of course! I hereby present, for your approval, my EXACT SCALE model of Tom Chipley's wonderful "Mud Duck" !!

People tell me it looks just like the real thing !!!!

Cool Mud Duck!! They are great flying airplanes.

Shawn

John Goddard wrote:Good Grief a DA85 in it Steve?
I bet it climbs like a homesick Angel.

With a 50cc and standard muffler, the plane is anemic at best and it really needed a $200.00 plus tuned pipe and header to for decent performance, Also, with a 50cc, it would require almost a pound of weight in the tail to balance. And the 60cc's that were available at the time didn't really appeal to me so the 85 was the best choice. In fact. the 85 with a standard Pitt's style muffler is lighter than a DA-50 with a Grieves tuned pipe and header and it balanced perfectly without adding any tail weight. After it was built, I put it on the scale and it came out at 20.1 pounds with the fuel tank dry. It's a sweet combination.

As far as power goes, it will take off and cruise at a click or 2 above 1/4 throttle with the 26x10 Xoar wood prop. On my first flight with it rich, I hit full throttle once after pulling vertical and it went straight up like a bullet!!!

Shawn

Hi,




I really love this F1 racer,

Rémy

Yeah...they flew great...I can't remember the company that sold them. They were almost-ready-to-fly, and we went through a few of them. Neal, the guy with the racer hopped one up with a large engine, and loved to pull it vertical to almost out of sight.

Kim wrote:Yeah...they flew great...I can't remember the company that sold them. They were almost-ready-to-fly, and we went through a few of them. Neal, the guy with the racer hopped one up with a large engine, and loved to pull it vertical to almost out of sight.

When I lived in Orlando, I flew at a club called R.C.A.C.F. and at that time, members were required to work 10 hours a year for the club and I worked a pylon event as a Turn Marshal and the .40 size Mustang class planes were hitting speeds of over 200 m.p.h.!!
It was a lot of fun to see.

Shawn

Yes Pylon racing is very fun to watch and fly too

navion34 wrote:Yes Pylon racing is very fun to watch and fly too

After seeing how much fun Pylon racing looked, I got a new Lanier Predator 500 ARF and a well used but nice JETT .40 and after a few "getting used to it" flights, my fastest speeds were clocked in the 135-140 ranges. It was quite the adrenaline rush!

Not mine, but some photos from the giant scale meet in Tucson last weekend.

What is that strange quad tailed German plane in the foreground?

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