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The Original O'l Farts Club.

Yarddog

Yarddog

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Wife bought this kit for me a few years ago. Large Guillows free flight kit. It’s time to carve the four blades out of block balsa and that’s where we have stalled the project for over a year. I really want to built another but modify it for RC flight. Corsair is a beautiful bird. But she is not a forgiving airplane. My favorite WW2 birds are some of the hardest to fly. I have a beautiful spitfire with a 7 foot wingspan. Come in a little too slow, or pull the stick back too much at any speed and she’s drops the left wing and snaps into a spin. Takes 2.5-3 rotations to get out of it. Better not be out of altitude or you’ll be picking up kindling.
I enjoy slow flying, and scale like flights vs hauling ass. I really want to build a 1/3 scale Piper Cub or Tri-Pacer one day. Just need about $3500 and maybe 8 months to build it 😂. Yeah I have two many diapers to buy to afford that.
 

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Yarddog

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My basement looks like a man child’s room. And I like it. Wife came downstairs and I was naked in the basement putting a few tools in the box and she was like WTF are you doing. I said putting tools up. She said Naked? I said it’s my basement. Case closed.

My dad built this Coca Cola Bobby Allison car back around 1973. It’s my most cherished model. All the NASCAR stuff was built by him in the early 90’s. I’d sit and watch. And sometimes I got to help with the simple stuff. Kids don’t build models anymore. Too busy jerking off on their phone or tablet. Wasting their kids lives.
 

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pop_rocks

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Yarddog said:
Wife bought this kit for me a few years ago. Large Guillows free flight kit. It’s time to carve the four blades out of block balsa and that’s where we have stalled the project for over a year. I really want to built another but modify it for RC flight. Corsair is a beautiful bird. But she is not a forgiving airplane. My favorite WW2 birds are some of the hardest to fly. I have a beautiful spitfire with a 7 foot wingspan. Come in a little too slow, or pull the stick back too much at any speed and she’s drops the left wing and snaps into a spin. Takes 2.5-3 rotations to get out of it. Better not be out of altitude or you’ll be picking up kindling.
I enjoy slow flying, and scale like flights vs hauling ass. I really want to build a 1/3 scale Piper Cub or Tri-Pacer one day. Just need about $3500 and maybe 8 months to build it 😂. Yeah I have two many diapers to buy to afford that.
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holy cow man, that thing is rad!
i recently saw this guy flying a scale model a-10 and had to tell him that thing kick ass! do you actually carve the parts out of wood, ive heard of some modelers who will do that
how about 3d printing, i know its not the same but is that something in the hobby?
 
Yarddog

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pop_rocks said:
holy cow man, that thing is rad!
i recently saw this guy flying a scale model a-10 and had to tell him that thing kick ass! do you actually carve the parts out of wood, ive heard of some modelers who will do that
how about 3d printing, i know its not the same but is that something in the hobby?
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Some 3D print but they are fragile. Balsa is actually very strong for its weight. Using the grain direction of the wood we are able to make models that are much stronger, scale wise than the real deal. I’m old school. I prefer balsa and engines over foam and electric. Building the model is the part I enjoy the most. Starting with a box of wood and a set of plans. And when you do the first flight it is very rewarding.
 
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Yarddog

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This one is made from Home Depot. Plastic gutter, an aluminum channel for a sliding door for the frame and foam wings. It would absolutely impale someone. Heavy at about 9 lb and that aluminum stock is going to punch a hole. It’s an older trainer. One that a club built to let new people train on. Was made to outlive any landing. And that it does.
 

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Yarddog

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The Spitfire. It has a Saito 100 four cycle methanol glow plug engine. It makes around 2 horsepower. She looks good in the air. I’ve been complemented a few times, she does an amazingly smooth barrel roll. It’s as graceful as the real thing. Put the throttle at 3/4 and manage your momentum and she will do the most realistic aerobatics. She’s heavy, lots of planes now days are light. Very very light weight. And they just don’t fly like they should. This is the closest I’ll get to owning a 3-15 million dollar aircraft. Just a man in his basement. Building and playing with model airplanes. I’m such an outlaw. 😂
 

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cola

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oldfogey8 said:
The Uniparty is still in power but there is hope that the country will still be a country 4 years from now. I am certain the brown shirts from the ‘summer of love’ are plotting the bonfires from their mom’s basements as I type this…
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Yep. The Uniparty's in power. They're hiding on the Boards of corporations. So far things have been peaceful.🤞Hope it remains that way. All unthinking Brownshirts preach both love and hatred. All wackos hold no allegiance to anyone.:(
 
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pop_rocks

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Yarddog said:
This one is made from Home Depot. Plastic gutter, an aluminum channel for a sliding door for the frame and foam wings. It would absolutely impale someone. Heavy at about 9 lb and that aluminum stock is going to punch a hole. It’s an older trainer. One that a club built to let new people train on. Was made to outlive any landing. And that it does.
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its the hog!!
thats crazy and you could fly that thing but everyone has to start somewhere
some o those are very nice models, did you paint them yourself?
there is also a nice collection of models from back in the day on your shelf
wowwie!
 
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