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Well we maiden the skymaster a 10 today with 18 mile per hour winds. my freind Dave E, and paul helped with maiden. dave did a very good job with the winds. she flys good I need to add a little more up elevator and a little more weight in the nose video will be up next week.. thanks very one for the help,,,,,,,,,,,,,, scott kieper
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Scott...... congratulations on your maiden. I hope to do mine this week.
Rcpete made a very interesting comment about the elevator. The plane does need a lot of up elevator in order to fly leveled. When Michel (Jetsrc) maidened his jet, he did had to apply a lot of elevator in his first flight. After the second flight, the elevator was adjusted and it was pointing up instead of being leveled. I have set mine in the same way.
I think Ali's A-10 is the same way.
Rcpete made a very interesting comment about the elevator. The plane does need a lot of up elevator in order to fly leveled. When Michel (Jetsrc) maidened his jet, he did had to apply a lot of elevator in his first flight. After the second flight, the elevator was adjusted and it was pointing up instead of being leveled. I have set mine in the same way.
I think Ali's A-10 is the same way.
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Pete:
I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 "drivers" to autograph a picture of my A-10!
Nick
I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 "drivers" to autograph a picture of my A-10!
Nick
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HI Scott, glad you had a good maiden, makes all that work you did worth it.
Was at the Canadian National Airshow today and watched 10 minutes of the real A-10, awesome Jet.
Rcpete
HI Scott, glad you had a good maiden, makes all that work you did worth it.
Was at the Canadian National Airshow today and watched 10 minutes of the real A-10, awesome Jet.
Rcpete
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Pete:
I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 ''drivers'' to autograph a picture of my A-10!
Nick
Pete:
I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 ''drivers'' to autograph a picture of my A-10!
Nick
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What a great feeling it is to have the maiden over with. Once the trims were set, it really got gentle. I haven't had my finger shake that much in a long time.
Scott has to do some minor things to really make it right ( a little more lead in the nose & more throw in the elevator ). I left the landing gear down ( one less thing to worry about )
It still seemed very stable, even with the strong winds that we had. I was also very supprised that even with the grass field & the P-80 SE in it, it still lifted off in about 400' .
I want to thank Scott and Lori again for having faith in me to fly this great plane and of course all the Club members that helped.
Dave
What a great feeling it is to have the maiden over with. Once the trims were set, it really got gentle. I haven't had my finger shake that much in a long time.
Scott has to do some minor things to really make it right ( a little more lead in the nose & more throw in the elevator ). I left the landing gear down ( one less thing to worry about )
It still seemed very stable, even with the strong winds that we had. I was also very supprised that even with the grass field & the P-80 SE in it, it still lifted off in about 400' .
I want to thank Scott and Lori again for having faith in me to fly this great plane and of course all the Club members that helped.
Dave
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Yesterday was flight #2 and #3 on Scott K's SM A-10. After some scary moments on the maiden with sudden pitch-up, almost to a complete stall sliding down final, a little head scratching and review of many comments on the MIBO A-10 threads, I felt that to correct that quirky pitch change between idle and full throttle, i.e. a pitch down moment with full throttle, and pitch up moment with low throttle and idle, all that was necessary to correct was a throttle->down elevator mix from about 40% throttle to idle. The exact mix was initially a guess, but it came out right on. As you can see, there is no excessive nose down pitch leading to a jump-off type T/O and while landing, no more abrupt pitch up with reduction of power down final. That little balloon on final was due to a wind gust and a slight overcontrol, followed by the smoooooth touchdown.
Anton and Likai have really produced an excellent kit.....Scott, a skilled builder put the pieces together, and Dave Elsinger, our #1 test pilot, brought it back smoothly.
Thanks to club vieographer, Rich Behrend. for the HD video.....
Click on the A-10 video on the right margin after getting to Rich's website with the link below and watch in full screen 720 HD....
After lift-off, the entire flight except for a couple of mild chandelle pull-ups was at 1/2 throttle. Dave held 1/2 throttle with gear and full flaps which required no trim change on downwind and base and slowly retarded throttle to idle in the flare. Temp was about 52 F. P-80SE's were more than enough power as long as both are running..... Plane is about 65 Lbs dry. Stores, not yet installed will add another 8 lbs and drag. Scott might upgrade to P-140's or 120SX's for next season.
http://www.youtube.com/user/********.../0/L1Oy6gwHDkY
Anton and Likai have really produced an excellent kit.....Scott, a skilled builder put the pieces together, and Dave Elsinger, our #1 test pilot, brought it back smoothly.
Thanks to club vieographer, Rich Behrend. for the HD video.....
Click on the A-10 video on the right margin after getting to Rich's website with the link below and watch in full screen 720 HD....
After lift-off, the entire flight except for a couple of mild chandelle pull-ups was at 1/2 throttle. Dave held 1/2 throttle with gear and full flaps which required no trim change on downwind and base and slowly retarded throttle to idle in the flare. Temp was about 52 F. P-80SE's were more than enough power as long as both are running..... Plane is about 65 Lbs dry. Stores, not yet installed will add another 8 lbs and drag. Scott might upgrade to P-140's or 120SX's for next season.
http://www.youtube.com/user/********.../0/L1Oy6gwHDkY
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Congrats Scott and Dave, Good job flying and nice video too. Did anybody notice something flying off right gear area at 2:52 in video? Got to love the A10. One day for me no doubt.What did dry weight come out to? Scott
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Yes the dummy fans were on it . The A-10 flew as nice as any scale Jet that I have ever flown. Once we got the trim thing figure out, It really can together
Scott did a great job of building this beauty.
Dave
Yes the dummy fans were on it . The A-10 flew as nice as any scale Jet that I have ever flown. Once we got the trim thing figure out, It really can together
Scott did a great job of building this beauty.
Dave
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Congrats on the A-10! I heard a quote once about the A-10, ''You can run, but why die tired?''
Congrats on the A-10! I heard a quote once about the A-10, ''You can run, but why die tired?''