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SKYDOG SPORTS
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R/C Model Aircraft |
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P-51 Mustang Profile
and Friends Planes
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Tommy Shields Flying in His Backyard in Lambeth, Ontario, Canada |
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Wow - Three Flights Today - No Crashes |
Cessna |
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Landing Approach |
Fly-By |
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Another Great Launch by Tommy |
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Another Good Landing |
Tommy Loops His Cessna |
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Bob Grant Launches His P-51 Profile by Fun Force |
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This is the Bottom |
Landing Approach |
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Wingin It |
The Tower of Death |
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Looper |
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Flash Our Amazing Doxie Waits for Me |
There it is Again |
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Let's Go Over It |
Now For The Silos |
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OH Canada Flaggin |
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This Plane Really Flies Well with the Controls Dampened |
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Landing |
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Here She Goes Again |
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Eric Walne Gets His Zaggi Ready for Flight |
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Mary Launches it For Eric |
SkyBound |
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Eric Watches Out For A bird |
P-51 Profile Waiting On Deck |
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Eric Doing Great with His Zaggi |
Bob Launches Again |
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Eric and Mary - What a Team |
Up and Over |
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Looping |
Eric Loves That Bird |
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What a Great Sky |
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We had some great fun in April 2006 and are ready for a great flying summer.
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March 2006
OK, so after a month of flying the scale P-51 Miss America I finally started assembly of a Fun Force P-51 profile Mustang. It took me about twenty hours being that I have not done any model building for thirty years now and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I also needed to fabricate a good mounting system for the 400 series electric motor that I was using in my Miss America so that took some time and I did not feel that the Control horns were sufficient so I installed larger ones with 1/16 plywood reinforcement under them. In the end it turned out very satisfactory. Now for the flying story, well sure enough I did it, just what I always thought I would never do - I set up the ailerons backwards so when my friend Eric launched my new bird it did something like a unexpected roll and thumped into a muddy field. Fortunately the soft mud did no damage except that the prop broke and that was easily fixed and then we had to program my transmitter to reverse the action of my aileron servo. Ok so that being fixed we tried it again and sure enough it flew although I found that it was very sensitive but I soon fixed that with longer control horns and some end point adjustments.
Now I have had about seven flights on it in three days and I am really liking this model. With it's wider wing cord if handles very nicely and lands really well.
Below are photos of Eric's Edge 540 and his Zaggi and my new P-51 profile Mustang on it's first day out.
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Eric's Edge 540 Ready for Take-off |
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The 540 Tips Nose Down on Take-Off |
Eric Get it Off on the Next Attempt |
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Oh Dear, The Edge is Out of Control |
Michael and Grandpa Eric Retrieve the Edge |
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The Fun Force P-51 Profile Before Flight |
Eric Launches it For me. |
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A Great Launch and Up She Goes |
It Flies Great and I Will Finish Painting it Soon |
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Eric Gets His Zaggi Ready for Flight |
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Eric Does Well With The Zaggi |
I Had to Add the Red Strip Not to Confuse Up From Down |
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Eric Launches it Again |
She Climbs Vertical with the 400 Series Electric Motor |
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More Air |
Close-Up |
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With a 2100 Lipo it Runs About 25 Minutes |
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P-51 Flies Inverted Very Well |
There We Go Again |
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Landing is a Breeze |
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