Look behind he curtain at some of our wizardry at work.
Street Sweeper Skunk Wurks Project
John Purtee’s Twin Speed 300 Stick
Example of how a well planned power system works. Model hanging in shop. Can’t wait to fly it again. John builds nice stuff. All of them light and strong. Many hand built models by John are listed on our front page as of the date of this post.
Lucky 13 Flight Test
Here it is. You can hear Bob stepping in the throttle on the take off. The model looked like it had pretty good power. He didn’t get around to removing the propless glow motor (donor fuse) so the actual flight weight here is about 10lbs 10oz. Yikes! On speed 300’s. Very sorry to say, shortly into the fight the rudder servo failed and after about 10 minutes of circling trying to work it over the field with throttle and elevator only, he gave up before it got too far away and it made an off field landing in a thicket. Might be a month or longer before this wounded soldier makes it out of refurb.
Jumbo Landing in a Crosswind
Although this is quite an interesting video there are a number of people in
the aviation industry that think it may not be a registered aircraft.
Indicators are that there are no N numbers, no navigation lights showing; the cross wind
appears to change significantly between the two aircraft featured, and also,
a ground-based guidance system is clearly not in use. Most experts are also
mystified as to how the flaps work on the second jumbo design.