My first RC Corsair was a Control Line bird when I was 9 years old. I was not good and it did not last long but it did make it through 3 wing replacements. I bought my first electric Horizon F4-U Corsair, about a 40" wingspan BNF. I set it up in my DX6. That was before they gave you all the numbers and switches and such by the numbers but it was only TH, Ail, Elev, Rud so it wasn't hard and I plugged in a battery and made sure everything was right. The night before I got an email from Horizon that had a link to their "file" for all the settings for the DX6, just download onto your SD card and upload it into your aircraft slot. WOW, I thought, their expert setting for my TX and their airplane. So I did it ! I took it out the next morning and did a quick preflight, heck I had Horizon's settings for my TX and their airplane, what could go wrong. I set it up on the track for TakeOff. Off it went, YeeHaw it was EXCITING ! ! ! - the danged ailerons were REVERSED ! I kept it up for almost 30 seconds and it was all over the place util I finally nosed it in and broke the nose clean off. I figured out what happened after I got it home and put the nose back on and did a PROPER preflight. I flew that Corsair for several years. I love the Corsair. I have the ugly green stipe nosed version, the next version, a 50" TopFlight balsa version, the UMX version, an FMS version and the CARTOON FATTY. I think that's all, well except for the carved and painted wooden version on a pedestal on my desk. Don't you be hurting that beautiful bird. If you need some weed up there in Canada, just go out and buy it like everyone else, hehe ! Yep, Stephen the VaBarefootBoy is unabashedly an F4-U Corsair lover ! Thanks for the shout out.
@8poundquark
Ай бұрын
Ha! I too have a few of these in the stable. I have the 1400 FMS, this one and an ancient Great Planes version. All of them fly fantastic. I'm not much for weed😉. This one incident gave me a shudder. Dozens of flights and I hit a darn shrub. I was surprised I didn't get a mark on this beautiful bird. I'll be careful. You can bet on that. Those big props are hard to find! Thanks for popping by. I always appreciate your insights and comments.
@RARenfield
28 күн бұрын
A brush with greatness.
@8poundquark
27 күн бұрын
Dad joke 😂. George, always with the wit😊
@capnhardway
29 күн бұрын
The pilot does look injured lol😂
@8poundquark
28 күн бұрын
It's one of my Zombies. I made a few of them.
@capnhardway
29 күн бұрын
Quite a wind looks like..
@8poundquark
28 күн бұрын
Darned gusty. But whatever. Never stop 🛑
@danielwoehr2733
Ай бұрын
That crash wasn't so bad. I tore a wing clean off my Corsair last month while starting a loop over a corn field. Then I did the same thing with my Dynam Turbo Jet yesterday, same place. Took me a half hour to find that jet yesterday while wandering around the 7 foot corn!
@8poundquark
Ай бұрын
I got lucky today 😂. Weird winds for me. too slow. Too low..😊
@helmuthuneke1775
Ай бұрын
She's fast
@8poundquark
Ай бұрын
Not through weeds😂. Thanks my friend 😁
@twooldcampersandadog8169
Ай бұрын
Hi back!🎉🎉🎉🎉
@8poundquark
Ай бұрын
What, no ribbing about the weed encounter? C'mon 😅
@twooldcampersandadog8169
Ай бұрын
@@8poundquark I did the very same thing out of the flying club the other day so I shall not cast stones lol!
@8poundquark
Ай бұрын
@@twooldcampersandadog8169 It was glorious. I can't believe I didn't get so much as a scrape. Nothing to see here...😂
@capnhardway
29 күн бұрын
Depth perception I hate that..
@8poundquark
29 күн бұрын
Yeah, the wind was blowing inconsistent and the weed was reaching out for me. Hahaha
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