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Rustik
Flight Videos
Once again, Mike Phillips is at the controls while I try to figure out how to
shoot decent video.
These videos were taken on the second day of flight tests.
To this point, the plane has been trimmed for straight and level flight and
one center of gravity adjustment has been made.
Additionally, the engine is not broken in yet. Months of trimming and
dialing in are in Rustik's future.
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rustik_maiden_flight.wmv
(7.4 MB) |
This video was 90% blue sky with no airplane in it. I
was so involved prepping Rustik for her maiden flight that I never prepped
the camera and I had it set wrong. What you will see
is Rustik on the table, taxiing, its first take-off run (the best part of
the video) and a little very blurry flying. The rest was cropped out.
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rustik_02.wmv
(3.4 MB) |
This was Rustik's second flight. The engine dropped
power after take-off. Mike brought her around
immediately for a very nice landing. |
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rustik_03.wmv
(6.5 MB) |
The engine was tuned much better for Rustik's third
flight. Mike starts to put her through her paces with some gentle
aerobatics. |
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rustik_04.wmv
(2.9 MB) |
An aborted take-off due to loss of power again.
There is not a fundamental problem with the engine or fuel system.
The engine needs more break-in time and still is not tuned properly.
Mike always exercises good judgment and will immediately abort a
take-off run that he's not happy with. More often than not, pilots
will force a bad situation to get into the air. This is a good
example of what they should do instead. |
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rustik_05.wmv
(18.3 MB) |
Mike is starting to push her a little harder, but still
nothing extreme. This video and the next
combined to make Rustik's last flight of the day and the first time I
flew her. All the video is of Mike flying, however. |
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rustik_06.wmv
(13.0 MB) |
We played with the
Crow a little and found it works very well, although I would like to
increase the throws a bit and see if the plane can slow down even more.
Something Mike told me about crow is that an aircraft can be put in a near
vertical dive and then set up for landing as he demonstrates in this video.
The same dive would have caused Rustik to pick up way too much speed to land
if the plane did not have a crow configuration.
Rustik flies very smoothly. She has nice
handling qualities, a gentle stall and is incredibly easy to land which
is a good thing because I do not fully trust the
landing gear yet. So far no problems, however.
The way Mike lands a plane the wooden landing gear will hold up
forever. In my hands, it is a different story. I am the
master of the splatter landing so only time will tell if the gear can
handle my kind of abuse.
This flight was 13 minutes and when I disassembled the
model I found that the 8 ounce fuel tank was over half full. The
model is still a little nose-heavy, so the 8 ounce tank will be replaced
with a 6 ounce and possibly a 4 ounce eventually.
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