Thank you for sharing some fun time...as a kid ai collected coke bottles to make change to purchase these at local neighborhood hobby shop..along with kites when able.
Strong gusty wind all week, have not been able to glide test for wing position. Made a best guess. Short powered flights, it gets tossed all over the place. Rain forecast for the weekend. Looks like I will miss this one. I have a stock Guillows Strato Streak with enhanced dihedral, a stock North Pacific Star Flyer and an American Junior Hornet. I just heard that The City Forest is planting more trees at the larger neighborhood park where I usually fly. There's another field about 40 miles away, but last time I was there it had been taken over by star thistle. Looks like you were making progress with your flights. Isn't 1:07 a minute and seven seconds, total of sixty seven seconds? Not a hundred and seven seconds. That's not a bad time for that plane, but it can do more. What percent of maximum turns are you using? Your motor may have more in it. Test a short loop to destruction to find the maximum.
Yes that is right 67 seconds but that was not correct, I must have not reset the stopwatch. My best legal flight was just 27 seconds. Not sure on length of motor but I got up just above 800 turns, I wonder if a lighter plane that could fly on 1/8" rubber might do better.
@@billkuhl442 I flew my Sleek Streek replica on 600 turns of 3/32" and got 42 seconds. Then lost the plane in very tall grass. The potential for better is there. Butch
always interesting, Bill., Thanks!
Thank you for sharing some fun time...as a kid ai collected coke bottles to make change to purchase these at local neighborhood hobby shop..along with kites when able.
In the past those models were found at many stores, now you have to mail order.
Strong gusty wind all week, have not been able to glide test for wing position. Made a best guess. Short powered flights, it gets tossed all over the place. Rain forecast for the weekend. Looks like I will miss this one. I have a stock Guillows Strato Streak with enhanced dihedral, a stock North Pacific Star Flyer and an American Junior Hornet. I just heard that The City Forest is planting more trees at the larger neighborhood park where I usually fly. There's another field about 40 miles away, but last time I was there it had been taken over by star thistle.
Looks like you were making progress with your flights. Isn't 1:07 a minute and seven seconds, total of sixty seven seconds? Not a hundred and seven seconds. That's not a bad time for that plane, but it can do more. What percent of maximum turns are you using? Your motor may have more in it. Test a short loop to destruction to find the maximum.
Yes that is right 67 seconds but that was not correct, I must have not reset the stopwatch. My best legal flight was just 27 seconds. Not sure on length of motor but I got up just above 800 turns, I wonder if a lighter plane that could fly on 1/8" rubber might do better.
@@billkuhl442 I flew my Sleek Streek replica on 600 turns of 3/32" and got 42 seconds. Then lost the plane in very tall grass. The potential for better is there. Butch
@@Bargle5 yes on 3/32" a lot more turns are possible.
Your in video title says it is a Sky Streak, a smaller airplane than the Strato Streak.
That is a mistake, I make these videos so fast and make some mistakes,