50 Year Old Balsa Fokker D VIII Maiden flight attempt
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2021
- This video is a tribute to my Dad, a master builder of all sorts of model planes, trains and ships, including a massive replica of the WW2 German Battleship - The Bismarck. This Fokker was built approximately 50 years ago, but never left the ground. He passed it onto me a few years ago when i started getting into flying fixed wing aircraft, I knew the plane deserved alot of respect given its age and time spent by my father building it , so i kept it in safe storage while waiting to build up my flying skills. I fitted an electric motor and did as much research as possible to get the installation correctly aligned(clearly it needed a few more degrees of negative pitch).
I contemplated reinforcing the wing structure and fuselage but didnt want to interfere too much with the original plans. After many deferred maidens due to imperfect conditions I eventually decided to 'bite the bullet' and try and get this bird to fly while my Dad could enjoy seeing the fruits of his labour.
This is a video of the experience. I would love to get some feedback and advice on this . All comments are welcome
Beautiful flight!!! I winced at the crash, hoping for the best, and audibly cheered when she flew. Your dad would be proud. What a gorgeous maiden flight. Looks like a happy bird. I can hear the nerves in your voice when orientation was lost. Excellent job and quick thinking getting the bird back on the ground in 1 piece. Bravo!
It was probably the scariest maiden, I know just about enough to realise how very badly it could have gone… one successful flight is enough for this ‘special’
You flew it well for how touchy she was. So hard to hang her up but would be tough to crash also. I'd hang her somewhere proudly myself, good job :)
I nice tribute to your dad
Kind words - thank you 👍
Id retire that to the shop ceiling, mission completed.
Yes, I think that maybe the safest place for it
Thats why dad never flew her! I was stressed the entire flight lol, hang it up and enjoy it.
Haha, I think you’re right, it was pretty uncontrollable, but exciting 😀
Congratulations! Well done!
Kind words, Thanks 🙏🤦♂️
Damn... nicely done
Thank it for your kind words- I think I was a bit lucky 🍀
love it
@@houndoftindalos9580 I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍
Gonna be building a catalina 108" wingspan
108” - wow, that will look spectacular, best of luck
@@rcpilots1291 will need it guess what they say its an easy scratch build lmaof laughing my ass off!!
Also looked like you needed right thrust
Ya, your ‘right’ 😀 i think I was very very lucky …
Come on man it's obviously tail heavy, that's all your problems, the D8 flies excellent as a model
Big thanks for your advice, there was so many emotions going through my head during that flight that I barely remembered how to fly 🤭
We didn't have "nitro" engines 50 years ago. We had (and still have) GLOW engines!
Engines are labeled by the fuel they burned not by their spark or glow plugs. A gasoline engine a diesel engine and electric engine and a nitro engine which can be called a glow engine, unless it has a diesel head and run's on diesel fuel. Then what do you call it?
@@captainaxle438 Did you actually think I was serious??? I guess there is no point in trying to correctly label a Glow engine. They aere not "nitro", they do not run on nitromethane. Sometimes we add a little nitro to our methanol but when I began playing with glow powered planes at 9 years old we had to mix our own fuel ... methanol and castor oil. But that's fine, call it "nitro" if you want and you can also call your transmitter a "remote".
The voice of experience- I respect your comments - thank you