Free Flight Rubber Flying The Korda Wakefield May 2009

[androsborsato]

It should have showed at least ONE flight from beginning to end..... EPIC FAIL! Too strict with the kids too..... model airplanes should be fun..... don't scare them away...

[Magnumscoffeefreek]

I didn't know you had to lube rubber up... untill it was to late and it broke. I was very sad.

[f4udhorn]

My Korda won so many free flight contests back in the day with 2min, 3min flights. A great design that keeps on winning for the Society of Antique Modellers and even for today's event rules in the AMA.

[phil123711]

The man has no manners towards those children.

[gwheyduke]

People are using Horizon Hobby R/C ready to fly airplane components to control rubber powered kits. I have used the "three way control" unit from a Ultra Micro Champ foam airplane to fly a rubber powerd Skokie kit. It works! Horizon has a pretty good website where you can order the individual components. However it is often less expensive to simply buy a complete Ready to Fly airplane. $99.00 ! ! !

[SAYYOURROSARY]

I started like that and now I have a garage full of 40-70 size glow airplanes ...

Thanks for posting this video it was really great , Cute kids .....

[gwheyduke]

@SAYYOURROSARY Thanks for the comment! I'm still flying from time to time and have many airplanes hanging in the garage. My son has now taken to RC flying, as well a FF hand launch, and is doing quite well.

[SAYYOURROSARY]

@gwheyduke I want a radio control (elevator and rudderr only ) R/C yet RUBBER POWERED plane .

 anyone know of such a thing ?

[RebuildReach]

i always lube my rubber.

[baloneyjazz]

Looks like fun. You should make up a fleet of Squirrels for you kids so they can all have their own.



[36POINTBLANK]

1:18 lmao

[MissileMist]

This is a great video. Thanks for posting and the zoom camera work to point items out, wonderful. Hats off to your helpers, I hope you all have continued flying, working together.

[N37BU6]

Wow, kids being kids instead of trying to have sex with everything.

Congrats on doing something right.

Great vid!

[hollyrollerful]

"It's always important to lube your rubber." You are a stooge! I'm pointing the camera at your pissy face...you dumbfuck.

[filmbuff64]

I loved your vid ..brought back memories ,great to see the kiddies learning with dad...best regards from Orkney Scotland

[mig15fan]

@filmbuff64 right!

[easyeagle2]

Your prop is interesting. Our Wakefield prop was a full double bladed folding type. Hand carved and constructed. Couldn`t see from the video, but was that single blade prop a free wheeling type?

[gwheyduke]

@easyeagle2 Yes it is a single bladed prop. It was the propeller that was suggested with the original kit. Had never used one before so I went with it. Also a folding prop. It worked pretty well.

[jdmk20aek]

what an awesome dad/grandpa !!! great video !!

[canals22]

Atta boy to the kids ! Nice to see a family thogether at the field...

Thanks fo

[gwheyduke]

awsem: IN answer to your question the wingspan is 44 inches. I went back and found the plans for this kit. The plan says Drawn by Paul Kelly 1974. Based on Megow's kit Number 72. The kit was purchased in 2006 from Penn Valley Hobby Center in Lansdale PA 19446. They have a web site. Also on the plan is a note stating: R/N Models Design by Shive Specialties, Lansdale PA.

[mandunya]

Nice loops from the plane, but I was thinking if you had a small electric sharpener, you could take it apart and take the motor out, the attach the motor at the front of the back of the prop, where the prop comes through, ad one extra rubber band motor just to help it fly before the rubber cuts off then let it go, after the rubber band motor is done rotating, the motor electric motor would take over and pilot it around, I was still thinking of the landing mechanism.

[awsem1o1]

whats the wingspan on your model i got the plans on a web site, and i want to know is that mine is the full size.

[awsem1o1]

im planning on building the same model, what is the wing span on yours? i got the plans on some web site and enlarging them 300% at staples. if you have any tips or suggestions let me know

[aeroearth]

Enjoyed the video! Good idea to light DT fuses with a second piece of DT fuse going through a piece of snuffer tube. Dope is nitro cellulose and burns readily and fast as I once found out.... Hold the two fuses together when ready to fly, then pull the 'land based' fuse back into the 'land based' snuffer tube to put it out. Fifty years of flying Free Flight has to count for something!

[petesworld69]

let the kid shoot omg

[gwheyduke]

Sorry about that, saving on camera operator fees you know the economy and all that ! Hope you didn't get sea sick !

[bachmanthomas21]

sorry I didn't catch what dose the fuse actually does?

[gwheyduke]

The fuse acts as a simple timer. It burns at a rate of 1 inch per minute. When the burning part of the fuse reaches the small rubber band holding the back of the horizontal stabilizer the rubber is burned through, releasing stabilizer to a 45 degree angle. This forces airplane into a full stall condition, causing it to decend. device was created  to save an airplane from flying away and getting lost. A strong thermal can often carry light models out of site. Hence the name "de-thermalizer"

[mattman1515]

nice video and flights but you will get much long flights if you dont stall so much. keep posting

[gwheyduke]

Aviathor: Yeah , it needs a little down thrust. It was windy and I had just put two shims under the leading edge and a shim on the stab TE also! Still needs some tweakiing.

[mattnsim]

how many other planes have you made? I agree with aviathor. You might want to add some nose weight judging by that first flight footage.

[gwheyduke]

I have 6 other free flight airplanes. The flight was actually longer than the video shows. There were two flights. After it stalled it climbed back up and did rather well. It only had about 350 to 400 winds. Probably should go for 700 or 800+ but it will definately need some down and rt thrust.

[aviathor]

Great job, just add some adjustments, perhaps more CG to the front, down trust? may be