1:4 1928 RRG Professor

[Joespeeder]

Thanks Dave !!!

Very kind words indeed. I made the video. You can see more of my stuff on my YouTube channel. I haven't done any lately as its hard to do the photos, fly and for many of our events at PMAC I announce the event. You have to be really on your game to do all that at one event. I will do some again.

I'm hoping I can do one for the FAT Fest as there won't be announcing duties really. I plan to have a PA set up for gentle sailplane music. Nothing in your face but nice and relaxed. Our warbird event this weekend however, is "Korea and Beyond" and it'll be everything from MASH to Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, CCR, King Crimson, Hendrix to Brubek, news reels of war reporting, the first steps on the moon, The Monkeys, and even some from the Broadway Musical "Hair".... lol We will be in MASH tee shirts, and Tie Dye Tee shirts. Pilot Prizes are a Clock from the instrument panel of a Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, the Mach Meter from an F-86, and the Russian slide rule from the 50's to calculate Nuclear yields... But you have to decipher a code word to be eligible !!

We fly a lot and laugh just as much...

Joe

[Dave Smith]

That's a great video! Someone went to a lot of trouble to put that together so well. Had me smiling! Kudos.

[Joespeeder]

Awesome work Mike !!

Wish you could join us for one of our Flying Circus events !!

Careful with the Magic Mike tagline... lol You'll need to hit the gym and find some others to dance with... Google it...

We have a great time at our Flying Circus events as the CD dresses in 100% accurate flying uniforms. He has done the Red Baron and an RAF WWI uniform so far.

Video from the very 1st Flying Circus we held and after a long morning of rain... Each year it just gets better. Everything from very high end scale to intro WWI stuff to join the fun.

https://youtu.be/QGetj403BJM

During the pilots choice award time period when the airspace is closed we play Christmas Carols to replicate the 1914 Christmas Truce. It's haunting to watch WWI aircraft landing to something like Silent Night as we close the airspace...

Joe

[ARUP]

Thanks, Deb-biddy-dawg! I might could use a 'magic eraser' for some blunders on these things.

[ARUP]

Thanks, Man... it even has a 'track bar' on the axle. The axle can move up and down as confined by the bungees but it can't move side to side. How's that for NASCAR action in the RC airplane world!

[Mosquito]

Beautiful "Magic Mike".

[lenb]

We've all voted,
Your forum name is being changes to MAGIC MIKE........

Now don't go getting all excited, its because of the amazing stuff you seem to magically produce. Nice stuff buddy

[ARUP]

Here is the last wing panel with some cap strips in place. It will be done this evening then the LE will get put it place and sanded. It's surely getting down to the wire!





On a side note: here is a scratch built 1/4 scale DH-5 I hope to finish for the 2018 Dayton Dawn Patrol. I've been working on and off this thing for quite a few years. All scratch built from my own plans. I had to make a mold to make the cowl then make a mold to make the cowl stiffeners. What an ugly but unusual airplane! You don't see these every day!

[ARUP]

Thanks, Mark9! Yessir... I can sure make some mistakes but it's all good! Shoot... I don't even cuss about 'em any more, . The wings are all closed up and only the cap strips on one side of one panel to go! I just might have this thing ready for Horizon!

[Mark9]

I continued to be awe struck on your build. On the "blue wrench", I can't remember where I read it, a master builder makes mistakes too they just recover from them better than others.

[ARUP]

All the pull-pull aileron cables have been run so the wing can get closed! I decided against the shackles and went with conventional clevis attachments to the horns.




Gotta get busy!

[ARUP]

Thanks, Alexis! I love vintage birds of all genres. I had a set back this weekend when adding ballast to the nose some 2 hour cure epoxy seeped into the tow release mechanism and locked it up tighter than the Gold Vault in Fort Knox! Soldering iron heat just couldn't budge it so the 'blue wrench' was put to task. Unfortunately some wood burned. Now THAT has to get repaired. The tow release was refit this AM. Sump'n about 'noses' and me ain't gettin' along lately! lol

[Alexis Scott]

Great work as expected , I'm a bit surprised it's taken me this long to check in on this build, cant wait to see the finished product I do love stain and linen gliders

[ARUP]

Thanks, Al! I can't wait to fly with y'all in October!

[ARUP]

Your surgery sounds a lot more painful than mine. Glad you are on the mend!