Turning an Ultra Light Rubber Powered model into RC

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024
  • How to turn a Rubber Powered Freeflight plane into RC!
    This is its first flight! What an awesome Maiden
    Graeme's Channel
    / @ohgaah
    Link to Model Details :Massive thanks to Graeme (Link to his channel above) for these files
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  • @OhGAAH
    @OhGAAH 5 місяців тому +3

    Thanks Thomas and Paul for taking the incredible pics and making this video. This really is such a joy to fly. :)

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      You did just a great job with this model!

    • @keilorsunburyrc
      @keilorsunburyrc 5 місяців тому +2

      That's impressive Graeme, flew really well. Great video Thomas and Paul. Cheers, Mike.

    • @OhGAAH
      @OhGAAH 5 місяців тому +1

      ⁠Thanks Mike 👍

    • @keilorsunburyrc
      @keilorsunburyrc 5 місяців тому +2

      @@OhGAAH, hope to catch you, Thomas and Paul at the field at some stage. Cheers, Mike

  • @generessler6282
    @generessler6282 5 місяців тому +3

    Beautiful! Great model constructed with obvious skill and care. I've thought about trying this. Great to know it can work so well. I wish there were some electric rig to turn a big rubber-style prop at low rpm, preferably without the electric whine. Just thinking out loud.

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +1

      We've had so many amazing aircraft at our club and this one really captured my imagination. I'm still not 100% sure what it is about it, but I just love it. I want to have a go at something like this too, but I need to find a free flight glider I built as a kid, 45 years ago lol

    • @generessler6282
      @generessler6282 5 місяців тому

      @@BMSRC-im6qe Haha. When we were about 12 and 13, my brother built a Super Condor glider. (Free plans are out there.) What a beautiful model. We hand towed it. Terrific fun. That's the one I'm thinking about. It would take just a little push to keep it aloft. No need for vertical climb! (Nearly everything you see these days seems way overpowered. Takes all the fun away from of piloting, imo.)

  • @nigelcopestake3618
    @nigelcopestake3618 5 місяців тому +2

    Awesome 👍
    I scaled up a Keil Kraft Ajax by. 200% and converted it to RC fly's like a dream. Ideal for chilled flying 😎👍

  • @EleanorPeterson
    @EleanorPeterson 5 місяців тому +11

    Great fun. I'm in the UK [north of England] and have become addicted to this kind of 'interrupted free-flight' model. They're easy to design, and a good way to get around the (outrageous) new drone laws, with their unrealistic weight limits and threats of arrest, fines, jail sentences, torture and execution for failure to comply.
    Although the light weight - well under 250g - restricts the number of days available for flying (the weather's usually atrocious here), there's something very satisfying about building light, building cheap, and then just floating about with the twittering larks for company, looking for lift.
    I don't often fit motors to my models these days, and prefer the simplicity of catapult-launched gliders. Old free-flight enthusiasts will appreciate the two biggest advantages of this kind of plane: you'll never lose one in a thermal because the dethermaliser failed to trigger; and you don't have to chase them half-a-mile downwind after every flight - you can land them at your feet.
    Thanks for the video - very enjoyable.🙂

    • @tonywright8294
      @tonywright8294 5 місяців тому

      Just do the drone test it isn’t difficult 😃

  • @downwindchecklist6567
    @downwindchecklist6567 5 місяців тому +2

    Very nice indeed! Very graceful flight and great landing!

  • @Nimboid-20
    @Nimboid-20 5 місяців тому +4

    Such a delight to see old-school construction! At the end of my Dad's flying days he was getting quite depressed that most of his clubmates were going ARTF.

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Thank you! We're very lucky in our club in that we have the whole spectrum of pilots and builders. In fact Graeme, the person who built this aircraft, flies everything from big gassers through to Foam FPV Aircraft that use iNav. We genuinely have an amazing club.

    • @downwindchecklist6567
      @downwindchecklist6567 5 місяців тому +1

      There are still some of us that keep to the balsa and stick. The building is the fun, the crashing is the demotivator ;)

  • @backpages1
    @backpages1 5 місяців тому +2

    Outstanding! I recently came across a couple of these rubber band airplanes that I’m converting to remote control (not as easy as it may seem!), and I’m almost finished with one of them, the triplane DR-1 Red Baron airplane. Glad I got to see this one, thanks for posting!

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому

      100% in agreement, it's not as simple as it looks but if it works out, it's so cool

  • @mdani76
    @mdani76 5 місяців тому +3

    even 2 cells are more than sufficient I think.
    beautiful rc conversion 😊

  • @davedeweese5810
    @davedeweese5810 5 місяців тому +4

    The tiny prop caught my eye, but whatever performance calculations you made were correct. And the covering: as a boy I built a Guillow's Stearman that never flew because the framework was too beautiful to cover up; your choice of clear was as clever as your choice of propeller.

  • @markod1977
    @markod1977 5 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful landing. Beautiful model.

  • @tedmoss
    @tedmoss 5 місяців тому +1

    I always liked large rubber powered planes, my father started me out with flying them when I was 5 years old and I built my first R/C model when I was 9-10 years old. 1953.

  • @rinku1n1n
    @rinku1n1n 5 місяців тому +2

    プロペラがとてもキュートで良いですね。またのんびり飛ばせる機体は素晴らしいです。

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      ありがとうございます。本当に素晴らしい機体ですね

  • @kevinjulievan
    @kevinjulievan 5 місяців тому +2

    Nice !!

  • @rcflugzeit8420
    @rcflugzeit8420 5 місяців тому +1

    I once converted a Haba throwing glider into an RC. Everyone should build a model like this, fantastic! Nice video, thank you.👏👏👏

  • @Philc40
    @Philc40 5 місяців тому +4

    That was a great landing!!

  • @Unknown15916
    @Unknown15916 5 місяців тому +1

    How is the weather in "Aussie Land" ? It is going into TRIPLE DIGITS tomorrow here outside Washington, DC. - Robert 🙂

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Hey Robert, we're in Melbourne so it's freezing cold here atm. We get the arctic winds and it feels much colder than it is. Also much rain! Having said that we've got family in Europe and my son in Japan all sweating it out like you guys. Not sure which is better lol

    • @Unknown15916
      @Unknown15916 5 місяців тому

      @@BMSRC-im6qe Thanks! Do you follow Andrew Newton? Ask him about his "Personal Barber" that he found starting with COVID. 🙂

  • @tomcoryell
    @tomcoryell 5 місяців тому +1

    Graeme, that is the coolest plane ever!

  • @davidbell4986
    @davidbell4986 5 місяців тому +1

    Just beautiful! I have wanted to do this for too long.

  • @robertpapps3618
    @robertpapps3618 5 місяців тому +2

    Nice!

  • @emil.honganmaki5461
    @emil.honganmaki5461 5 місяців тому +3

    A really great working machine

  • @mikefortune1263
    @mikefortune1263 5 місяців тому +2

    Very nice 👍

  • @brendansheehy
    @brendansheehy 5 місяців тому +4

    A Keil Kraft Competitor?

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +1

      Graeme just gave me all the files and I've added them to the description (PDFs etc)

  • @patraymond3791
    @patraymond3791 5 місяців тому +2

    What did you use for covering?
    Pat

    • @OhGAAH
      @OhGAAH 5 місяців тому +2

      It is a clear, iron on, film. I was given a roll so I don't know what it is called or where to get it I am afraid. It is very very thin and weighs almost nothing. It doesn't have very much shrink, so it is hard to get those last little wrinkles out. I do like the look of it.

  • @kevinwilliams1602
    @kevinwilliams1602 5 місяців тому +3

    That is special

  • @vinodvchawra
    @vinodvchawra 5 місяців тому +3

    Just wow 😳

  • @terryblackman6217
    @terryblackman6217 5 місяців тому +2

    Absolutely brilliant. I must say I am very impressed with this model and I must have a go. I don't know if you said but what is the model. Nice one.

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Im going to get the details from Graeme and get it in the description. We were all totally blown away with how well it flew. He ended up buddy boxing me to his Radio so I could fly it in Mode 1 vs his mode 2 radio and it flew amazing. It honestly felt like flying a model with ailerons

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Graeme just gave me all the files and I've added them to the description (PDFs etc)

  • @Colin399
    @Colin399 5 місяців тому +4

    Stick a folder on there

  • @marlinmixon3004
    @marlinmixon3004 5 місяців тому +3

    It looks similar to a Simmers Dynamoe. This is not a Dynamoe but in the same league, size and general appearance.

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Graeme just gave me all the files and I've added them to the description (PDFs etc)

  • @swyntopia
    @swyntopia 5 місяців тому +2

    What does "75 mil" meen ???? Diameter, I guess, what what dimensions ?
    Do you know the force it produces ?
    What receiver did you use ?
    There are so many georgious rubber powered models I would like to see this way !
    Thank you for showing ! 🙂

    • @my_dear_friend_
      @my_dear_friend_ 5 місяців тому +3

      75 millimeter (mm).

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому

      Im pretty sure he used a Spektrum RX in it

    • @swyntopia
      @swyntopia 5 місяців тому

      @@my_dear_friend_ thank you for the info !

  • @Holliethedog
    @Holliethedog 5 місяців тому +2

    Great video! I want to do similar- is it a KeilKraft or Veron model?

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Im going to get the details from Graeme and get it in the description, honestly not sure what model it was, but I believe its a UK model.

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +2

      Graeme just gave me all the files and I've added them to the description (PDFs etc)

  • @TailEndCharlie-fi9gd
    @TailEndCharlie-fi9gd 5 місяців тому +2

    Do you have the plans?

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +1

      I've spoken to Graeme the person who built this model. Apparently it was from a Kit which he's made some changes to. He'll get the details to us. He may try to take a pic of the plans, but I'm sure once you have it's details you should be able to track down a scanned set of PDF Plans for it

    • @BMSRC-im6qe
      @BMSRC-im6qe  5 місяців тому +1

      Graeme just gave me all the files and I've added them to the description (PDFs etc)

    • @TailEndCharlie-fi9gd
      @TailEndCharlie-fi9gd 5 місяців тому +1

      @@BMSRC-im6qe thanks so much man!! I’m subbing

    • @bobflyer4346
      @bobflyer4346 5 місяців тому +1

      @@BMSRC-im6qe Neat conversion, I looked at the plans, and it appears modifications were made to the tail feathers, standard rudder elevator vs dual rudders elevator. I have a pile of balsa, and time on my hands...Thanks for the nice video

  • @petercurrell9344
    @petercurrell9344 5 місяців тому +2

    Ive tried making bulsa aircraft over my 70+ years never successful by my bosts never sank.