Gee Bee QED Morning Flights
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- A few beautiful flights by the 24" rubber-powered free-flight model of the Gee Bee QED, designed, built & flown by Tom Nallen II. Filmed by Tom Hallman with a Canon PowerShot SX20. Music by Dear Gravity, called "Horizon" via ArtList. Plan available: thegeebee.com/...
QED model specs:
Wing Area = 108 sq in
Model Weight w/o Motor = 53.8 gr
Wing Loading = .498 gr/sq in
Propeller = 9.25in dia yellow Czech P-30 prop (modified blade shape and thinned)
Rubber Motor = 20.4 grams, (approx. 2 loops of 3/16 x 30")
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Some how watching you exquisite free flight airplane, time itself stands still, and I am brought face to face with my distant childhood. It's heart still beating... Simply waiting as its simple. joy of joys... Never left my side. Thank you *
Thx, John, well said.
You've put in words exactly what I was feeling...
@@michaelgrace3074 Hello. Words in an odd way can be seen as also being in free flight, just that our mind picks, out certain words in what mostly, is a vain attempt to..... Express what we all may experience and feel. Within your artworks of the wonder of flight is that bridge of wonderment. Still there still thrilled at this wonder, most have allowed that eternal gift to both wither and tragically pass away with inexorable...... Time.
In my youth when we were (attempting) to fly rubber powered models, anyone choosing the Gee Bee would have been thought nuts. Amazing skills in both the building and flying of what must be a most difficult subject, thank you!
When I see you guys put up flights like this, I'm often struck by the fact that, back when I entered the hobby in the 70s, a Piper Cub that flew like like this would have won the Nationals. Now, you guys seem to do it effortlessly with the most unlikely of subjects. I know the rubber is better these days, but your building and trimming skills are exponentially better than ever - and there were some fine fliers in those days. Perhaps it is the result of the FAC putting more fun in rubber scale competitions. More fun means more fliers; more fliers means more competition; more competition means improved performance. Hats off to all you guys and thanks for sharing!
You so right
I can't make Piper Cubs fly like that. Amazing!!! -Dan
I actually took Bob Granville’s (one of the original brothers that designed the GeeBee) to my high school prom back in the day. Since I was a young student pilot at the time I had a great opportunity to speak with him and enjoyed her company as well.
You know that when the two Toms are at the field together, magic will ensue. Thank you for the beautiful videos and the inspirational impetus you are providing to get me back into the hobby👍❤️.
Amazing and beautiful....
nice to meet you, sir. I'm Asep from Indonesia. I like the planes that you make. You inspire me, sir. Thank you
At least the QED has more sensible proportions than the model Z.
But my favorite Gee Bee is the model Y, in its final form.
Gorgeous aircraft.
FANTASTIC!! Love the plane, love the color, love the flight! BRAVO
Looks like really stable stall characteristics. Great build, flights, and film footage. Thanks!
She is sooo beautiful!!🤗
Thx.😎
One of the most beautiful things about your videos, Tom, is that you're always fying at Wayway, where the wind apparently never blows!
beautiful flying aircraft
😍 Like always!
Those calm flights and relaxing music goes so well together 🙂 thanks
This is friggin amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
so soothing, beautiful and poetic at the same time, thank you for these moments. Your videos are the best representation of what the purity of flight can be, almost forgetting the level of skill it requires
greetings from France
Thx for the kind words, Sylvain. Glad u enjoy them.
A lot of interest online about the Gee Bee recently. They used to have one hanging vertically in the old Springfield Visitor Information building, next to the old Basketball Hall of Fame, that you could see from I-91 whenever you drove through Springfield, Massachusetts. A remarkable plane that proved itself in the world of air racing, many times.
Hung vertically? Nose up or nose down?
Either way, seems rather undignified to me.
@richard1472 Nose up. It was a narrow, glass building. Not enough room otherwise. It was a red and white, 7/11 and was there for decades.
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I see.
If memory serves me correctly, there are no surviving original Gee Bees.
This one is most likely a replica.
@richard1472 If you say so. That plane was hanging in there as far back as the 1960s as I recall untill they closed down the Visitor Center and it WAS in Springfield, Mass. If it was a replica, it was damn good one. Real Wasp rotary engine and everything. I stood under it many times.
What a beautiful model! That must have been amazing to see it fly for the first time! Looks like it just stepped out of a time machine! Nicely done!
That is awesome ! As stated i was also surprised that a low wing aircraft did so very well.
Holy Cow that was so fun to watch-thank you.
The inevitable full-power spiral dive from 30 feet is what usually destroys my models during what I loosely call "trimming for flight." Maybe I should try harder to avoid it. 😂
What a gorgeous model that has obviously not suffered the indignity of many one-point landings!
Amazingly trimmed for good stability with such little dihedral. Bravo Tom & Tom!
TN2 has been flying her since 2000 or so. Incredible flyer...I've always wanted one.
that's a beauty
I wonder what collection of models you have. It must be wonderful! Greetings from Brazil.
Thx, Paulo. Just keep building!!
Always amazes me to see these fly so nicely, but then takes me right back to my early 80s P51 kit thati worked on so long and resisted flying it, until one day I had to try, without any one to ask, or knowledge of what I was doing, the results were obvious... terrible...
Too see a Gee Bee fly like this inspires me to try again, I fly rc now so I have some knowledge and the internet may be useful now also..
i smile all the way through these videos, thanks
Amazing! Especially since its a Gee Bee. Wow!
Lovely! Thanks Tom & Tom. 🌟🌟👍👍
My favorite! Many thanks 🎉🎉
Masterful piece of work. Incredible flyer.👏👏
Just stunning
I noticed the "green" theme, genius. You could be a videographer professor at Yale.
Man that hurts so pretty, you're pulling heart strings overhear
Beautiful! 😊
I love your videos they are so relaxing 😌
Man, that was a great video .
I love all of your planes, your videos with calm music, the pretty field at Waya. I wonder how many hours you devote to construct and then more to trim these fragile creaures so they stay aloft for so long. Thank you and greetings from Chile.
Thx, Patricio, it's all time well spent.
Excellent
Gee Bee flying this good? First time since Jimmy Doolittle took the stick.
I am guessing the UC is knock off proof from the touch down shots hope is just plug back in for next flight? But fantastic performance and lovely model well done loved it.
Yes, Tom has the LGs attached with magnets or velcro, which allows for flex or pop off.
Thanks
Nice flight on a low wing ...very grateful!
As I was admiring this beauty fly Tom I started to wonder what motor and prop combination it has 🤔 This info would be really interesting to know, on this, and future videos ... just a thought 🙂 Lovely image at 3:03
I'll ask Tom Nallen, then post it in the description above.
great..
Can you make the plane with removable landing gear?
This was a cool design/build plane!
Yes, that flex feature is on this model to avoid damage.
Did you do a build video?
No. Tom Nallen built this back in the early 2000s, but his plan has lots of info regarding the build.
Thank you for your reply. Love your channel.
I'm surprised that the design would lend itself to rubber. The short stubby wings and corpulent fuselage seem like they would need a powerful motor to fly.
The QED was a much larger airplane than the model Z or the R1.
It has a decent amount of wing area.
Of course, keeping the weight to a minimum is the real key here.
Fat airplanes need love too!
Легкое дуновение счастья...
Gee whiz 😃
You'll never get results like this from a Guillow's kit.
Only if you thin out and lighten the wood selection.
@@maxfliart
In other words, replace the kit with a better kit.
I've been on a Pat Tritle kick lately.
He seems to have a healthy disdain for sheetwood.
And I'm okay with that.
@@richard1472 Exactly. U would be amazing how much lighter, and more flyable the design could become. Give it a shot. Lighter models fly better.
zeXCELLENT. rEAL GREAT MODELING!