Old, but still AWESOME!! Maiden & Demo Flights E-Flite 4-Site
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Here's my maiden and demo flights of a new-to-me E-Flite 4-Site Ultra Micro plane. This was given to me from a fellow club member I helped out and he passed this plane onto me as he didn't feel he was ever going to fly it. Happy to report that this has become one of my favourite little UMX type of planes as it performs way better that I thought it would. An outstanding little model from an era of RC we may not see again and I'm very happy to have it in my collection.
Hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching. :)
At the end of the day , having fun giving and getting is why we love this hobby . Thanks for showing us 👍
As always, thanks for watching, Alan. 😊🤜🤛
Great flight! I really hope the UMX range will be expanded, they are the most convenient for me to fly.
Agreed. The more I fly these little planes, the more I like them. 🙂
I had a couple of these. I really liked them. Tons of fun. You should give yours more strength with tissue paper and water-based polycrylic
Not a bad idea. Thanks s for the tip. 🤜🤛
Man.. Wish I still had mine.. Definitely a bygone era(fancy foam, etc).. Wish there were still allot of products like this, or that Eflite would re introduce it..
Oh man, that sucks. Sold or crashed?
@@aussiercairspace Actually man, divorce.. I was supposed to get all of my RC models as part of the settlement, but the woman didn't hold up her end, and I had to restart my RC all over again. Unfortunately, they no longer made these, when I was able to start back up(had to rebuild from scratch everything, again, she didn't hold up her end, and I just called it a wash, add it was better just to not have her in my life anymore)..
Watching your video, I'm going to set if I can find one on eBay! And all of the indoor foams back then were even much slower than that one.. And more precise. That was one of e flites first small foam planes. It would be an amazing place with today's electronics!
Oh man, that's really sad to hear. Sorry you had to deal with that...
Hopefully you have a nicer collection now and still enjoying the hobby. Good luck finding some of these older models out there and hopefully you find some good ones. 😊
Happy flying. 😎🤙
I have an unopened full size 4-Site kit (800 + mm wingspan ) in my ceiling. I suspect it is even floatier. Must build it sometime.
There was a bigger version of this? 😳 That's awesome! 😎
@@aussiercairspace I think it was the original & the UMX came afterwards
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Those perforated panels on the plane.....Are those what your mate referred to as air brakes? Why not just use less power to fly slower??
Physics, I guess. Using less power means less thrust and less lift. The "air brakes" I think were installed for indoor flying and their purpose is to create drag while you maintain lift, thus slowing the plane down. I think removing them will result in a faster flight and slowing down will only be possible once in a high alpha. Maybe... That's my theory, anyway. I could be totally wrong. LoL.