Scratch built B-29

jsesere Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:48 pm

To: "Cecere, Joe/Lisa"
Date: Friday, March 23, 2012, 9:22 AM
My uncles club in San Diego has almost finished this bird.

Hi Joe. Hope all is going well for you and the family. I have a short video of the first flight of the giant scale B-29 we have been working on for almost four years. I turned out at 58 pounds and was timed at about 65 MPH at half throttle. The link gets you to the You Tube clip.
Ron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvDNshDvX64&feature=youtu.be

Godsey3.0 Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:05 pm

Wow. Beautiful plane. Love how the sun glinted off of it.

WingingIt74 Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:23 pm

I had one with a 7' wingspan and 6' fuselage once... A guy was rebuilding it for me and I was laid off from there and later he got a divorce... who knows where it is now.

Ivanhoe Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:46 pm

Very nice model and a VERY good pilot! All it needs now is a set of retracts.

WingingIt74 Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:00 pm

Ivanhoe wrote:Very nice model and a VERY good pilot! All it needs now is a set of retracts.

It may have had them, most maidens you don't use the retracts as you already have your hands full getting the feel for a new plane and getting the radio trimmed out.

Oddly enough, mine didn't have them.

Ivanhoe Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:39 pm

WingingIt74 wrote:
Ivanhoe wrote:Very nice model and a VERY good pilot! All it needs now is a set of retracts.

It may have had them, most maidens you don't use the retracts as you already have your hands full getting the feel for a new plane and getting the radio trimmed out.

Oddly enough, mine didn't have them.

You can hear a bit of discussion about that on the video, I got the impression from what is said that it doesn't have retracts, but perhaps I heard wrong! Very Happy

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