The reissue MPC Eagle kit was on the Hobby Lobby shelf and who can resist with the 40% coupon on the fancy phone. It must take off horizontally like the real ones on the show and it also must look marvelous. Not enough cash to buy the $250+ Centuri vertical launch ones that come up on Ebay once in a blue moon. $16 is more like it! Nice short motors in the cargo pod with rear eject! It can be done! Four tiny A's in a cluster? Maybe, but then the little red odd roc devil popped up on my shoulder and whispered in my ear there is another way, another 24mm motor will fit! So with a little modification, hacking and slashing, I built her up. Just a tad of BP on top of the chopped C11-0 for ejection and she is done! A nice long 1/4 inch rod, a bit of luck and who knows. Probably my worst idea since the flying Easter Egg. The local launches are all canceled due to fire bans, so I took it to the club lunch to see what everyone thought of this little abomination, just twelve inches of terror! How many grievous violations can you count?
Hey guys, look at this, ain't she cute? There are guys who can fly bricks and soccer fields, so why not this??? My overtures were brutally rejected. In the right conditions it will be lucky to fly not on the level one, or level two high power pads, but all the way out to level 3, with the big boys on research day. Hey guys, whatcha flying? A quick burn O research motor for your home built ABM system! Great! I'm a flying a chopped Estes C11-0 in a PMC!
I was thinking of hanging some streamers off the cockpit up front and motors in back. More drag to more equal out and difference between front and rear. But that would not look as good and I am curious to see how it flies with out silly streamers. If it spins then great - they did that a lot on the original show. If it goes end over end then . . . Not Mindsim, not even Hopesim, I am reduced to blowing on each end to determine drag. . . Blowsim! Or just get in the back of the truck, tie on a string and yell out "were a gonna need at least a 100 miles per hour!" Do not listen to that little red devil popping up on your shoulder. Time for the little 4FNC angel to pop up on the other shoulder and talk some sense!
Here it is pictured with a real kit from a trusted producer. An old favorite flown many times. The Pad Fuhrer likes that one!
Hey guys, look at this, ain't she cute? There are guys who can fly bricks and soccer fields, so why not this??? My overtures were brutally rejected. In the right conditions it will be lucky to fly not on the level one, or level two high power pads, but all the way out to level 3, with the big boys on research day. Hey guys, whatcha flying? A quick burn O research motor for your home built ABM system! Great! I'm a flying a chopped Estes C11-0 in a PMC!
I was thinking of hanging some streamers off the cockpit up front and motors in back. More drag to more equal out and difference between front and rear. But that would not look as good and I am curious to see how it flies with out silly streamers. If it spins then great - they did that a lot on the original show. If it goes end over end then . . . Not Mindsim, not even Hopesim, I am reduced to blowing on each end to determine drag. . . Blowsim! Or just get in the back of the truck, tie on a string and yell out "were a gonna need at least a 100 miles per hour!" Do not listen to that little red devil popping up on your shoulder. Time for the little 4FNC angel to pop up on the other shoulder and talk some sense!
Here it is pictured with a real kit from a trusted producer. An old favorite flown many times. The Pad Fuhrer likes that one!