Spotted®: West Texas Warbirds

Spotted®: West Texas Warbirds

Ok - this blogger made it into the local newspaper - the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's online edition known as "spotted.lubbockonline.com".  Plus the photographer took a few pictures of my (dirty) eRC B-25J "Apache Princess!"   Imagine my shock and surprise (some would even say horror), to see a cropped version of the center picture as the "icon" in front of the event headline!

Good thing he didn't post any pictures on my one and only flight of it today!  The canopy flew off on take-off.  The retracts didn't retract!  But the nav- lights still work!  I had much better luck in the morning with my new toy - the UMX Mig-15 BNF(Bind n Fly) from E-flite.  It was a shaky flight on my part but I managed to FINALLY fly a electric duct-fan model aircraft and land it safely without it being destroyed!  I am now ready for our T-38 Jet Rally in October!  Bring it on!

Last Flight of my PC-9

Hello blogverse-

I just lost my one and only glow engine powered radio control model airplane today. Seagull Models semi-scale PC-9.

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I was having my friend Ricky fly the model while I shot the video.

Foam RC Harrier Jumpjet

I never heard of Guanli as a rc model kit manufactuer until this year when I kept checking out websites such as Nitro Planes and Banana Hobby.

This is now something that I want to get ahold of sometime this year. And I would love to be able to modify it to do what you can see it doing in the video below.

It appears that there is a foam kit of the British Harrier jump jet out there and one individual has manage to figure out a way to make it take off and land vertical. And from the video, its using (4) brushless lifting motors. The type that are used in small, indoor flying helicopters. He also has three gyros and sensors.