GWS C-47 Skytrain
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rcdude07
70cc twin V2
Got tired a week at so ago of the green fuse, so took a few minutes before bed one evening and put decals on. The stock set only has emblem for wing bottom, none on top. So I used the stock to make a template and painted my own. The blue is wrong, but in the air, can't tell. I used Testors gloss blue as that's the only foam safe blue I had.
Last weekend mounted the cowls and epoxied in the motor mounts. Had to cut the sticks down so the motors weren't sticking all the way out.
Now to program ESCes, install electronics, pushrods, and balance her.
Last weekend mounted the cowls and epoxied in the motor mounts. Had to cut the sticks down so the motors weren't sticking all the way out.
Now to program ESCes, install electronics, pushrods, and balance her.
rcdude07
70cc twin V2
Thanks, we'll see what everyone says after I get the maiden flight video up. Definitely going to get someone to record the maiden flight. I tell you, she's creating quite a buzz on the various forums I've posted pics on.
rcdude07
70cc twin V2
Stock CG is 50-55mm, I moved mine to 60mm per many more successful stories on the webs with a 60mm CG. She flew really well, surprisingly well. So many "this plane is crap" stories out there, I'm trying to share and show my positive experience.
Here's the only pics of the day prior to the maiden, and then one after the prop broke while taxiing back after the second flight.
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rcdude07
70cc twin V2
My Gooneybird is in a GWS contest to win an F-15 kit. Help me out by going to Grand Wing System US on Facebook, like them, then vote for the C-47 with GI Joes doing field work. First place is an F-15 kit with servos, second place an F-15 kit, and one random voter will get an F-15 kit too. You can vote daily, maybe even twice daily, to increase your chances. Voting ends 11:59pm on July 4th.
rcdude07
70cc twin V2
Flew my GWS C-47 at Warbirds Over Dixie today. After one flight I was stopped and a fellow pilot was asking the usual questions. The man beside him, his dad, proceeds to tell me the uniqueness of jumping out of a C-47 and due to the location of the horizontal stab the deaths that happened. He proceeded to tell me he was a paratrooper and jumped out of them and C-119's during Korea. He pointed out some non-scale things on the plane, which I understood and explained stand off scale and choices to make a model fly better. As he told me more stories, he would stop, get emotional, and tell me he was trying to remember more. He thanked me for flying it today, although it's painted in WWII invasion colors. I told him it was I who was thankful and that I fly r/c warbirds in their memory and honor.