Stardust is the most beautiful free flight power model you've ever seen!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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The look on your face when you said "let's see it fly" said it all 👍 Loved every moment of this video. It was so nice to see it fly in such an open space to witness what it is capable of. And wow the buzzards at the end 😍
I have always loved the fact that the transition in all types of free flight is in the hands of the gods.. Whatever you do with relative incedence angles or whatever, the slightest difference in thermal conditions &c can make the difference between a huge tail slide and a seamless power/glide transition.. This vintage plane really is beautiful. Thank you so much for showing us this lovely plane! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Still a thrill to see one of these spiral up, transition, and float around in a big circle.
It never gets old.
I now it’s a year old however it just showed up in my feed. It looks like a BoT with motivation
Yeah this was a predecessor of the BoT. Pure magic!
That last fight with the buzzards was excellent.
Ole Beakey and the gang done thought they had found the dinner mama had mentioned that he needed before being allowed to return home.
I bought a box of bodies and wings just parts and one of the wings was for a stardust
That's half the build right there!
That is a nice looking plane. I’ve always wanted to build a Goldberg High Thrust Viking. Any experience with those?
I have pretty limited experience with the Viking but it's on my build list. That plane is legendary both for those who love it and those who hate it. And thus my desire to try it out. The Blazer is the overlooked predecessor. It's a very docile flier and well worth your time.
@@joshuawfinn the 1/2A Blazer is another one I’d like to try as well. One day. 👍
How do you find and get permission to fly on these places ....in Europe where i live,you could end up in yail or shot at by a very angry neighbour....(every model airplane is now categorised as a "drone" overhere and therefore considered as being extremely dangerous ),almost evrywhere nitro engines are outlawed (or in the proces of being...)
esse e bom voa alto e junto com os urubus kkkk bom vou
I wonder what the vultures thought when you dethermalized?
I once had my P-30 fly with buzzards..it was a beautiful sight ..but it went out of sight..but its a great memory .thanks for sharing,
One of your prettiest videos to date, Josh (IMHO.) Old model airplane designs are so beautiful and graceful, and to see them flying well is wonderful. It was nice that you gave a history of the plane and mentioned the gentleman who built it.
Thanks! I really enjoyed this one. Such a wonderful airplane to work with.
I love watching the flights. Every free flight model I ever built ended up in a tree. I may be related to Charlie Brown.
I feel your pain, same here…
The number of planes I've dug out of trees doesn't bear mentioning. 😉
Thats a nice plane. I luv homebuilts Everytime I see a new one on these videos i imagine what a real homebuilt full size could be built like.
At last it seems like the model got thermals. Well done,Joshua! Greetings from Uzbekistan.
Salom, Birodar, bunday model termalni ushlab turishi mumkin. Biroq, kuchli issiqlik va ko'tarilgan shamol uni qaytarilmaydigan joyga yuborishi mumkin.
Of course, a model as good as this one could catch thermals. However, a strong thermal and a rising wind would be likely to send it where it would not be recovered.
The dethermalizer ensures that it comes down nicely out of strong lift.
A gorgeous airplane. I think R/C assist is warranted for this one.
Yeah I'd build it trim it and first flight it would be gone forever!
Great flying wow 🤩 I think I need to make one 👍 😁
American power pilots= "Since the wing has weight if you move the wing foward It will now have a forward CG"
I'm not sure what this has to do with the airplane in question. All models of this era had these same basic proportions.
Fantastic can't believe the vultures. Were I am in England might be lucky enough to catch a seagull flying alongside ❤
Thank you for the beautiful video. Seeing the Stardust thermaling with the hawks reminded why free flight is the closest thing to magic.
Thank you! It's hard to capture that kind of flying on video and this was a rare and special opportunity to do so.
Very nice but I would still put a controllable rudder in it.
Anybody can do that. The beauty is in making it fly perfectly on its own and sitting back to watch.
Is there just a touch of stall in the first few glide circles?
Yeah, that's common. Unless it's costing noticeable altitude, it's best to leave it alone and concentrate on getting the climb and glide optimized.
Thanks for risking the plane to show us this beautiful vintage plane and risk it being torn up and crashed like every plane we fly rc or free flight even rubber power everytime they go in the air we risk them crashing and going into the trash bag of doom for gold. So thank you so much for this.
This looks a bit like the 2 piece one I have upstairs build by my dad around the 50-60's cept for the trailing bulbs on the wings.
Her stalls are so graceful. Love how she floats home. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Hey Josh and Hope, nice video.
Thanks!
That looks a bit like the airplane used in the stardust music video “music sounds better with you”
You could add a emergency parachute to it that gets let free by a micro 3 gram servo that way when you fly it and something happens and it is gonna crash you can flip a switch and parachute is let go and plane floats down safely with no damage from the error or what ever happens to cause it to almost crash that's what I do with all of my balsa free flight electric or nitro powered planes and my smaller 25-50 inch wing span electric balsa rc planes they are equipped with a good size parachute that is launched out of canopy or a small hatch out of back or anywhere I can hide one in so I don't lose aircraft due to mechanical or more of the problem me operator error biggest influence in any rc airplane crash is humans lol
I've been putting radio dethermalizer on most of my freeflight stuff these days. Works better than a parachute. Unfortunately for my RC stuff, if something goes wrong, a chute won't fix it. Typically less than a second from problem emerging to splat.
@@joshuawfinn yes I was experimenting with parachute type things with rc planes and I got a system close to working but not flawless and I saw dethermalizer like 5 mins after commenting I didn't know that's what it's called I just added servo to my free flight stuff and didn't know it was called dethermalizer cool.
@@youknoweverything7643 yup. The parachute idea came out around 1945-46 and was dominant into the late 40s when Carl Goldberg introduced the pop up tail. There were a few holdouts into the early 50s but most folks quickly realized the pop up tail brought planes down more reliably, at least in the wingloadings we use on freeflight planes. Several military drone companies use that method combined with an airbag for drone recovery. Fun factoid, the recovery system on Spaceshipone is based off the pop up tail. Burt Rutan was a highly successful rubber power flier back in the day.
Superb, and flying with the Vultures was something else 👍
Thanks for the memories of days gone by .......... indoor taught me so much more than having a radio in my hands ever did ...........
It almost stalls and has an unusual angle of attack. Then glides like a parachute. That elevator movement is also effective. It's a real floater design
bestial!!...no esperaba ese planeo tan bueno..al verlo tan grande pense que seria pesado para planear ..pero el sustento es muy bueno ..saludos !
wonderful.... hi from NZ.... subscribed :)
Way cool!! Nicely done. Fun watch 👍👍
Gracefull ,time to fly again
Turning out of a stall...that is perfect!
Excellent, that is the flying of the gas engine gods!
Hi Josh. Nice vid, The Sawdust would be a good contest model for slow open power here in the U.K. England. As you know I'm from Nottinghamshire - Robin Hood Country. We fly at Barkston Heath the home of the BMFA National Free Flight Championships. But due to covid restrictions we have not been allowed back on there untill recently.
Yeah I can see it doing quite well in that event. It's a sweet airplane, very forgiving on trim, and incredible glide performance.
great plane have done the TopKick Thermic 50 and 50X Now have one viking and 2 Blazer kits found the hardest thing these days is finding an area big enough with no trees
Radio dethermalizer has saved freeflight for many of us. Lets you fly in much tighter spaces.
My hats off to you sir, perfect roll-out!
nice - and getting the birds to join is a gift !
I really need to build a piston power airplane, currently all my small model engines are for ground vehicles except an ancient Cox .020 still in the blister pack.
Yeah you gotta do it! Glow power is fun!
This launch reminds me of pop pod rocket gliders I used to be into in my rocketeer days
I've flown a pop pod glider or two. They're wonderful!
Wow. You’ve got that model flying great. Beautiful in the air and just lovely to see it soaring with the birds at the end!
Thank you! I've really enjoyed owning this one!
Yes, I have to agree. That is a gorgeous model. And a great flier. i wonder would it fly with my old OS 20 four stroke?
It would, with probably a little reduction in climb performance. You can find OS Max III .15s for pretty cheap on ebay though, and that would make it really come alive with a 7x4 APC prop.
If you need to ask don’t bother
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very nice indeed
B-E-A-UTIFUL!!!
Fantastisch!!
When you started that engine I could smell the burnt castor oil. Such a strong memory of my youth.
Best smell ever!
@@joshuawfinn :D
I could watch this all day. Thanks for posting.
Glad to do it. They still have contests for these too!
@@joshuawfinn I’ve just this moment glued together the 100” wings of an Olympic II, so I don’t think I’ll be taking this classic to any contests anytime soon! 😂
Can’t wait to get it up in the blue.🛫
@@crashrr2993 that should be a ton of fun! Oly is a great airplane.
@@joshuawfinn I sincerely hope so, I’m so excited about it, I can’t sleep!!!😂
Sailplane hands down.
What a beautiful old design you've found, Josh! Looks great, but I think I'd put a little left thrust in the engine to combat that dippy swoop on the first circuit.
You are quite correct. Unfortunately this plane has been in the repair pile since that last flight because I observed cracking around the firewall. Dude that build it didn't glass the blasted front of the plane!!!