Dec 05, 2009 14:51:22
when we were younger? This guy took it a couple steps further....
http://users. skynet.be/ fa926657/ files/B29. wmv
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Dec 05, 2009 20:20:12
Try this link.................
http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv
Dec 06, 2009 06:40:41
Cool!
I had one just like that only it was made of balsa wood and had a rubberband.
Dec 06, 2009 06:52:14
Very well done. Nice modelling, nice flying, and an impressive sequence.
Dec 06, 2009 07:20:41
That's Mac Hodges. I was trying to load some B29 videos from the 80's and early 90's. Byron Godperson in Ida grove Ia used to put on a model meet and a WWII reenactment we used to visit from time to time. They flew a 30' B29 in the reenactment along with pyrotechnics; a 55gal drum of something to simulate the bomb on Japan. At the end of the whole display WWII veterans would climb a hill and raise a flag to the national anthem.
My videos are too large to upload but here are some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBz8_5hvxWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehNHbaSQfQ&feature=related
The video I have is when they moved to Ankeny. It was the first event in a year which had been nothing but rain (93). They couldn't even get the sod in and in the patches they did get in, if you got off you sank to your knees in mud. The first flight of the B-29 as he rotates the nose wheel remained on the ground. On the landing he landed on the 600' runway but held the nose up and directed the airplane off the runway. Just as the nose cleared the pavement he set it down in the mud with no damage (no-nosewheel).
Cool stuff.
Dec 06, 2009 07:23:30
That's a better video of the B-29 itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNmLJju6nc&feature=related
Dec 06, 2009 07:32:31
OK..that was awesome! Already shared with friends! Thanks, Captain Kirk!
Dec 06, 2009 11:42:39
Have no idea why the link didn't work...it did for me on my email. Thanks Phil for sorting it out and posting a proper link :thumbup:
Dec 06, 2009 20:05:34
Gary, I went to the Byron's Expo in 1989 at Ida Grove... it was great. I've sold off most of my planes since. Only have two left, a Piper Cherokee and a DC-3.
Dec 06, 2009 20:16:49
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Gary, I went to the Byron's Expo in 1989 at Ida Grove... it was great. I've sold off most of my planes since. Only have two left, a Piper Cherokee and a DC-3."
Gary, I went to the Byron's Expo in 1989 at Ida Grove... it was great. I've sold off most of my planes since. Only have two left, a Piper Cherokee and a DC-3."
Nothing compares to those events. Was never the same when it moved to Ankeny. Have a photo of the DC-3? Who's kit?
Dec 06, 2009 20:27:28
This is one of the Byron F-16's I had way back then. Jets have come a long way since then:
Dec 06, 2009 22:29:27
Gary, how far back does your modelling go? Remember "Rat Racing"???
Dec 07, 2009 02:59:36
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Gary, how far back does your modelling go? Remember "Rat Racing"???"
Gary, how far back does your modelling go? Remember "Rat Racing"???"
I don't recall that. Is that Rat Fink? Model cars since the mid 70's but I started R/C airplanes in 85.
Dec 07, 2009 10:42:02
Gary, it's a Royal kit. A bunch of wood that you glue together then carve away everything that doesn't look like a DC-3...
It's about 80 percent complete when I quit working on it. I've got everything needed to complete it, engines, fuel pumps, tanks, pneumatic retracts ( Century Jet Models, valves, tank, hoses, etc..), hardware, except covering. Been hanging from the ceiling in the garage ever since..It is for sale if there is any interest... I hate to see it not competed and flown at some point. Just not gonna happen here any time soon.
Dec 07, 2009 10:49:06
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Gary, it's a Royal kit. A bunch of wood that you glue together then carve away everything that doesn't look like a DC-3..."
Gary, it's a Royal kit. A bunch of wood that you glue together then carve away everything that doesn't look like a DC-3..."
My first royal was a Stearman. Building the cowl you glue 8 blocks of wood to the former the gear attatches, then glue the round ply on the front. I still remember reading the directions "sand to shape". I thought "I am missing a page to the instructions!!!!" It actually came out well.
I still have a Royal I have not finished. You know it was bought and still sould through a chinese or japaneese outfit. This is my 310:
Dec 07, 2009 14:14:09
Rat Racing was a late 50s AMA event for control line. something like 6-8 people and planes all on the circle at the same time, racing to see 1) who got 50 laps first, and 2) whose plane survived as flyable. As you can imagine, it was, indeed, a rat race. The picture is a collage of old photos from our club, the Tulsa Gluedobbers in the late 50s. The plane in center top is my old rat racer and a photo of my dad and I (3rd pict down on the left) cranking it over. Compared to today's modeling, even our best was pretty rudimentary.
Dec 07, 2009 14:46:10
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Gary, how far back does your modelling go? Remember "Rat Racing"???"
Gary, how far back does your modelling go? Remember "Rat Racing"???"
I remember a kit not coasting more then $2.00, I was at a hobby shop today and those same kits are $20. + now
Dec 07, 2009 15:21:48
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Rat Racing was a late 50s AMA event for control line. something like 6-8 people and planes all on the circle at the same time, racing to see 1) who got 50 laps first, and 2) whose plane survived as flyable. As you can imagine, it was, indeed, a rat race. The picture is a collage of old photos from our club, the Tulsa Gluedobbers in the late 50s. The plane in center top is my old rat racer and a photo of my dad and I (3rd pict down on the left) cranking it over. Compared to today's modeling, even our best was pretty rudimentary."
Rat Racing was a late 50s AMA event for control line. something like 6-8 people and planes all on the circle at the same time, racing to see 1) who got 50 laps first, and 2) whose plane survived as flyable. As you can imagine, it was, indeed, a rat race. The picture is a collage of old photos from our club, the Tulsa Gluedobbers in the late 50s. The plane in center top is my old rat racer and a photo of my dad and I (3rd pict down on the left) cranking it over. Compared to today's modeling, even our best was pretty rudimentary."
I watched the control line since the 70's but never followed it much. Some of those photos looked familiar. My brother started with control line when he was about 10. We lived in the country and he built most of his stuff from scratch but we didn't participate with any group. He took off from one side of the drive way and was lucky to get it back on the concrete before circling into the grass. Most his were built from scratch.
From there at about 13 he bought an R/C kit, built it with no one to help him. It was a rudimentary square airplane with top rails the wings rubber banded on. He learned to fly by me tossing the airplane toward the bean field. The first flight was short but each flight got longer (after repairs) until he finally learned to fly. We spent many a sumer afternoon running down the road on bikes with airplanes and crawling through been fields and cornfields trying to find the airplanes.
Eventually I found myself in a real Skymaster helping friends look for lost airplanes. Would you believe a guy lost a full size Tellemaster!
Even years latter when we would meet up we have a couple secluded paved roads with no traffic we fly off of. Another kid in the area always liked the airplanes so on our first flight we would send the airplanes over and buz his house. 10 min later he would show up on a bicycle.
Fun stuff!
I have always been fascinated with the rearward CG on the free flights. I would like to take a conventional airplane and move MAC to about 70%. I think it would fly with the tail as a lifting body.
Dec 07, 2009 17:02:26
I have 3 grandsons and 2 grand daughters and when they each get old enough, one of the things I want to do for them is build up just a simple rubber powered plane like I used to build when I was 9 or 10 and just let them enjoy them. None of them has to build any or get into the hobby, but I do think it couldn't hurt to give them a memory from their grandfathers time.
Dec 07, 2009 17:09:21
Absolutely! I came home from Harbor Freight once with one of the $4.99 electric free flights. Piece of junk and we loved it (my daughter and I). We had a dozen fun flights, climbing on the roof of the pole barn etc. Then for the final flight it really took off, a gust a wind grabbed it and took it way in the woods. She said are we going after it? I laughed, not for $.499!
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