Back in the 80's my grandpa had a glider that barely fit in his hobby room. Hist first radio came as a kit, built it podium style out of wood. I've been hooked since then.
It's so beautiful, Im on the verge of buying one. Today is my 40th birthday and I think that's a great excuse to buy one along with the 15cc engine. Great video!
@@UngluedModeler Thanks, yours came looking great. I ordered mine after several days of searching. They were sold out on every major hobby site until, I came across one on a small hobby store in Florida. It should be here tomorrow. I'm excited and am looking forward to the building process. Keep up the great videos, I learned a lot!
Awesome!! Great to hear that!! It’s a very popular plane and goes in and out of stock often. You’re gonna love it. Thanks for the kind words also! Good luck with the build 🙏
Love watching you two! Whether you’re unboxing, assembling or flying you always are having fun! And, btw, your wife is indeed very understanding. How fun that she loves it too. Always excited when another video is posted. Thank you for the entertainment.
Awesome!! I’m editing up the final build video now the plane came out great! We will be doing the maiden next week most likely!! Enjoy yours it’s a great plane so far!
Might even take a week :) 90" = 7' 6". The best flying cub is a Balsa USA 108" = 9' J3 converted into a Super Cub by installing flaps and cowling. 15 lbs of shear Cubness you have to try!
Thanks! I just ordered mine and it's on the way. Your build videos will be a big help. Thanks for posting them. And good luck with the maiden! Can't wait to see that in your channel.
That's one snazzy airplane! It might be easier to touch up the covering while it's apart. For sheeted surfaces I find if you put a small block of wood in a sock you can follow right behind the iron and press the covering down for a good bond. For the rest I just use the sock, wadded up or over my fingers. After laundering, of course! I also find an eggcrate mattress (or pieces of one) to be a great bench topper. Protects the plane, holds it in place and if you drop screws or other tidbits they fall into a pocket instead of onto the floor where they then roll into the hardest to reach dark recess in the shop. Or where I find them later when I step on them barefooted.
Some great ideas!! Thanks! Love the egg crate foam idea especially. And yes I've decided we are going to tighten up the Ultracote when all the pieces are separate. We'll do that before anything else. We're super excited about this one for sure.
Sweet unboxing, I've just ordered one. Have a twin nitro 160 I plan on using on this, believe it's a bit on the too big but it's gonna be beautiful with the four stroke twin! It was this or the blue cub from hobbyking but I decided this one looks better, has flaps, lights etc...
Nice!! Thanks and yes this one looks wayyy better than that blue on from HK for sure. I like flaps as well and they are mandatory on a STOL type plane. And ohhh man that big 4 stroke twin will be sooo cool. Cant wait to see it. I still have not started mine yet ugh. Life happens and well...ya know how that goes lol.
@@UngluedModeler I agree the carbon cub is a nicer looking plane for sure, I get it this big projects take time and part of the fun is doing it slow and making it a fun thing rather than a rushed job... Take care and happy flying! :)
Nice un boxing, you were very lucky to have no damage!! When I un boxed mine the one wing was wrecked, so the shop I bought it from sent me a new wing which was also damaged😣 so after a fight and me threatening to send it all back they finally sent me an undamaged wing😄 I decided to go for a UBEC wired straight to the lipo so if the Castle esc goes my servo's will still function!! Good luck with your build, I haven't started mine yet!! But hopefully will start soon👍😄
Thanks Ian!! I was very lucky indeed! I have actually watched your Carbon Cub unboxing vid when I was shopping for mine! I saw the damage you had and I was very bummed for you. Sucks about the fight you had to get into but I'm super happy to hear you got it all sorted out!! I plan on starting mine this week actually. I was having to wait for the proper CA glues and a few other tidbits before I started the build. Should be a fun plane for sure! Good luck with yours and stay tuned here as I'll be trying to document the build as best I can! Thanks again Ian!
Out of interest the prop adapter that comes with the power 60 the collete type is to short I had to get a long one!! Which I could only get from the USA!! After watching your video yesterday I saw you had a prop adapter type with washer and nut!! So I got the part number of your video and ordered one but then thought oh crap it might be to short!! Did you check this out as i know you definitely need the long one👍
Nice!! Glad I helped in a round about way lol. So that prop adapter I am using is meant specifically for the Power 60 and its what everyone recommends on the Carbon Cub thread on RCGroups. People use it and say thats the one we want soooooo we'll see haha. I have not fitted it up yet but it comes recommended from lots of folks.
Hey! We used M3x12 to hold the battery tray down and also for the receiver panel on the floor and then M3x20 to hold the wings on! Don't forget to use fuel tubing on the wing thumb screws. Here is the link to the exact ones we used just select your size. ebay.us/zH5eJx
Hey! Thanks for checking in! Im ashamed to say no I have not haha. Just been super busy with work and here in AZ we had a very hot summer and my garage is not air conditioned so it is just miserable being in there trying to do a plane up nice. BUT...its cooling down now so we are going to start back up on it very soon!! Looking forward to it it is sooo nice I wanted to wait and not rush this one. Thanks again for checking in!!
Fear not Randy haha! We’ve started building and filming it! Been working a lot of OT at work (me and Mary both have strange schedules) so this plane has taken wayyy longer than we wanted too for sure. Also waiting on little bits and pieces to complete certain steps has taken longer than expected also. It’s a sweet plane and coming along nicely we should hopefully have some progress/build videos up soon!!
I agree building a plane from a kit used to be all that was available. Now it’s primarily ARF’s and RTF’s. Gets people into the hobby and into the air quicker but it would be nice to have more kits available for people who still like to build. I just don’t have time at all to build a kit so I personally like the ARF and RTF options haha
@@UngluedModeler I never trust any "RTF" kits, I always spend ages trying to drip CA into joints inside the already covered wings (also with ARFs) and usually replacing cheap disaster waiting to happen servos and other poor build or quality components and even that so simple sounding "ARF" supposedly "Almost ready to fly" as that kit is can take a lot longer than that "ARF" title suggests. I don't actually particularly enjoy the building of even ARF kits, I mostly just want to fly, strangely I do enjoy spending (wasting mostly) sometimes a LOT of time modifying and redesigning and making my own cowlings that I design to suit the type of motor or engine I'll be running to force air to where it's actually needed and not where it just looks like the full sized version with a completely different power plant. I like tossing canopies which stick up on models to look like the full sized thing and making my own MINUS the stupid bulge up for windows for a fake pilot who can't even see anyway out of either carbon fibre kevlar combination or sometimes just fibreglass so it doesn't mess with the radio signal. I appreciate and admire the replica looks of some and attention to detail of some of the builders I know, right down to exhaust smoke stains painted or rather dusted on with an airbrush etc I love getting things like a cheapish foamy I bought, a (sorry but forgot the brand, it's well known for FPV models though) flying wing called a "Falcon" of about 4 foot span meant for FPV work with a nice little hole up front pointing slightly down that's great for allowing a controlled amount of air in so I can cool electronics and has a quite big area under the canopy which was great for allowing plenty of room for a bigger 4S very high C rated battery and room to move it plenty to get the COG perfect and tossing that canopy, well, tossing it aside to use the EPO foam for shaping and patching if needed elsewhere then building my own that followed the curve of he wing only to reduce a heap of drag from the silly thing sticking up and also reducing air flow to the pusher prop then shaping the motor pod down and even chewing away the ply mount glued to the back of it as much as possible between screw mounting points then running a section of carbon fibre tube about 6mm diameter from the highest point forward to glue up against the carbon wing brace, sticking a little 2,200 Kv motor on it meant to run on 3S, putting a spare 5X5 prop that had come with an AXN floater jet on it (oddly I did experiment with various other much more expensive branded props of the same and different diameters and pitches around that size and the crappy spare 5X5 that came with an AXN that virtually never break a prop anyway worked the best in every way. I was still developing it and needing some major repairs after a bad crash at high speed thanks to sudden servo failure due to too much strain on the cheap but usually reliable seros at speed with the amount of reflex needed with that wing shape. I put a 17 gram GPS logger on it and had gradually overcome wing flutter bit by bit with different things like strips of 3mmX 1mm carbon recessed into the foam strategically placed and glass reinforced tape etc. I kept the speed runs to 1 fast pass followed by at least 2 minutes of slow gentle cruising while it cooled down again then another fast pass. I made sure to fly crosswind so I wasn't getting fake readings by flying with a tailwind, especially since I needed to know if something had really helped or actually made things slower. Remember this thing was designed with a big wing area for flying slowly with a good load onboard and that last flight the GPS logger read 185kph as the highest speed sometime before partial destruction thanks to those crappy servos! I will get 200 kph before I give up, some day lol. I was pretty impressed with it as it was, that wing flutter was videoed by a friend and to see it played back in slow motion I was amazed just how far the ends of the wings were twisting one way then the other, it was like slamming into a wall when it came in. It was doing that 185 odd when he recorded it do that once and It would have brought it back to about 50 kph at most almost instantly, I'm amazed it didn't launch the battery out through the front actually. I pointed it vertical and hit full throttle once and my mind had trouble telling my eyes to actually follow it. It shot up so fast my mind couldn't seem to grasp it was really going up that fast and I had to keep sort of jumping my eyes up, they just couldn't seem to just stay with it as it went, it just vertical so insanely fast it really messed with my brain trying to track something going straight up like only rockets are supposed to accelerate. I will rebuild it, reinforce the wings with more recessed in strips of carbon strategically placed and using the same tiny motor running a third higher voltage than designed for bit the way I changed the mounting it also forces much more cooling air THROUGH the motor so along with keeping it to short bursts it shouldn't lose it's magic smoke, I hope lol.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 that’s awesome! Yeah I really enjoy modding things also and adding scale details and such. Part of the fun of RC is experimenting amd modding! Totally agree. As far as RTF’s and ARF’s you are correct sometimes they cut too many corners which create major problems in the future. If not a crash.
@@UngluedModeler Thanks. I do very much appreciate the effort a lot of scale flyers put into their models, it's amazing if you get down in the right position on the ground near one and make sure there's nothing in view to give it away how easy it is to think a lot are the full sized planes. While I admire them I'm not that into doing that myself so much as making them handle and perform better, plus logical cooling to suit the type of power plant in them. It's all a great hobby that can be very rewarding and fun. One of my greatest achievements so far is landing withing 6 inches of a bullseye we have painted onto our strip for that purpose, nobody has ever landed closer to it than that. One I'd been practicing a lot was sideslip landings and flying figure eights, circuits etc under full rudder one way then the other plus the landings. In a pretty light headwind I could almost bring one of those AXNs down almost vertically sideslipping it all the way till just as it was about to touchdown. I'd practice flying low and fast just above the strip and half loop it then fly it back inverted just above the strip. I really wanted to get to where inverted was just as natural to me as upright, that actually paid off when I put a model into a diving spin and it got a bit out of control but stabilised not far from the ground where before I would have tried to pull out of it with up elevator but it was more inverted and instinctively I pushed down elevator and flew out of it only just above the ground inverted, if I'd tried to pull up elevator it wouldn't have made it so that can be very handy to develop into a natural way of flying so you can react that way if it is the best way out of a situation. Incidentally, that's an AXN I mostly do that silly and close to the ground silly stuff with and as I said " it's almost impossible to break a prop on them, mainly because it's on top pushing. Well, doing those fly past low upright, flip and fast pass inverted repeatedly I got a little too close inverted and under power and accidentally er ahem, landed it on the bitumen. I fully expected to see the first broken prop on one of them I'd ever seen, especially since it was under about 7 eighths throttle but somehow even then, not only did it not break, I couldn't even find a mark on the thing. I tell you, those ultra cheap little props that come with those ultra cheap little fun throw around models are way underrated.
You need to see what "giant scale" actually is. Hint, that's nothing like a giant scale model. Try the giant scale forum or just bloody look for some on yt.
LOL yeah I know they get much bigger haha. But this is a giant scale. Anything over 80” is in giant scale class. This is 90” soooo. Oh and also this plane is in the giant scale forum 🤦♂️
@@UngluedModeler Yeah, sorry my bad technically at least. I'm stuck away from it interstate and due to health problems have been for a few years from the country model airfield I usually fly at. Where I am now the nearest fields are at least half hour drives away and ONLY electrics allowed so nothing particularly big. Back home we fly any size and power system we want including jets if we're game enough. We have clearance to fly up to 1,000 feet and we have the giant scale aerobatics competition there almost every year except 2 years ago when the strip was being renewed with a complete new bitumen surface so I'm use to a lot of BIG models with over 10 foot wingspans. Lot's of Yak 54s and 55s, Extra 260s etc etc and running anything up to those magnificent sounding flat four cylinder petrol engines in the competitions and practicing. I'm actually surprised that thing is 90 inches even, it just looks smaller somehow in the cover pic so apologies there, plus as you say technically it IS giant scale anyway. I have earnt my gold wings but I'm not that interested in that competition, it's fun to be a part of the event and awesome to see the skill of some of those guys but standing there day after day with someone reading out the next maneuver then the next time after time after time then even the comp itself is just about remembering the routine and then doing it as precisely as possible would all be as boring as hell to me. I like to do what another old farmer who flies with me a lot describes as just punching holes in the sky in whatever way and direction you happen to feel like as you feel like it. Sorry, I didn't mean to insult the model nor you, I was tired at the time and it's just so much smaller than what I'm used to calling giant scale, plus it somehow just looks smaller in that cover shot. My personal biggest is a balsa and ply cub that if I remember correctly is 12 foot span and I've got a 1.20 horizontally opposed glow fuel 4 stroke I plan on running it on WHEN I get home and get around to building that 1. I haven't exactly locked that in though. I'm going to try and keep all extra weight in servos, batteries and electronics as close to the COG as possible and very will see how much weight it takes up front to balance it correctly then will probably end up being sensible and putting a much cheaper to run but not sounding as sweet as the 4 stroke twin petrol and maybe a bit bigger if the weight isn't a problem. It's not a model for serious aerobatics, it's for general fun, a camera platform and sometimes a glider tow plane so I'd like it to have more power than it normally would need for scale type flying but, I don't care if it wont climb vertically on it's own, I just want it to fly economically (though that was an afterthought a while later after first thinking how cool it would sound with a twin cylinder 4 stroke) but I do want to be able to use it as a real workhorse as in towing up large gliders etc which means power to climb at a decent rate with that extra drag hanging behind. Apologies again, I think I'm just getting frustrated by not being able to play with any of my models that are 1,200 kilometers away and have been for the last few years combined with just being very tired when I wrote that. Happy accident free flying and I hope this one's still tearing up the sky too.
No worries at all man! Serious though thanks for coming back and apologizing. That shows some truly good character on your part. So kudos to you!! But no offense was taken at all! Sorry to hear about you being away from your planes and not being able to fly. I get the frustration of flying field restrictions it sucks. That’s too bad they won’t allow gas right now! I LOVE watching the huge massive 10-12’ wingspan aircraft flying around as well so cool. Your big Cub sounds cool!
@@UngluedModeler Thanks mate, both for the forgiveness and the understanding. What I didn't mention was that I accidentally took a second dose of the painkillers I'm on that day and still affecting me a bit so rambled a fair bit in my apology too. I take 40 mg of basically morphine in the morning and again at night but really stuffed up yesterday and didn't think I'd had it and after I'd taken my other medications I realised I'd already had that one ten minutes before separately which as really stupid of me and meant I suddenly had 80 mg in my system which should knock an Elephant out. I've become somewhat immune to it so I can handle more than anyone who hasn't had it regularly but doubling that dose to 80 mg is probably pretty dangerous and definitely screwed with my head a bit. Thankfully (I think) it's slow release so cleared slowly but I can still feel it affecting me and I keep hitting wrong keys and having to correct my mistakes here, all thanks to the bike accident that's the reason I've been stuck here away from my planes. I did mention we can fly jets at our field if we want and people have, just not many. It's not terribly long and there's a creek 50 yards from 1 end and a fence a bit closer at the other so not terribly forgiving if you have something that needs to land with a lot of speed without brakes and still risky unless you're very good at flying your particular model, hell, plenty have hit both with much slower planes, including I have to admit me. That was Karma walloping me for being cheeky to a friend who'd just crashed into it thinking he was closer to the actual strip than he was and me bragging that I'd never hit either, I also landed a model in the creek about a week later, karma's always going to get you lol. I used to make a point of getting out and grooming the lawn beside and into a big triangle out into the paddock for months in preparation for the big comp and then maybe help out on the big day but nobody expected anymore from me after all the work I put into preparing the field. After the very first event I saw there it was obvious they liked taking off from the bitumen but much preferred landing on grass and our strip is almost ALWAYS a crosswind so the big clean smooth triangle gave the less skilled at crosswind landing pilots a better chance of finding an into the wind path. I actually filmed with decent gear a couple of the times once I got a good video camera but missed by pure bad luck and some glitch in the camera that should have had it switching to a second memory card automatically when the first one was full and only got the start up of one of the top giant scale freestyle pilots who's plane took off just moments after the camera stopped and I was trying to get it going again he took off and did a particularly savage snap which did exactly what the name implies and I'm not exactly sure what went wrong but the engine wound up several hundred yards away which opened the front up completely at speed forcing air into the fuse and wings essentially causing it to literally explode into thousands of pieces of balsa, ply and tiny fragments of covering film and somehow broke the carbon fibre wing tube too. It was genuinely extremely spectacular and everybody was spinning around to me yelling "did you get that?" and it sucks so bad to have had to say no. That would have gone viral I'm sure if I'd got it and posted it here. Yeah, I wouldn't really enjoy flying one of them because I'd always be scared of the cost if things went pear shaped which would take a lot of the fun out so I enjoy playing with foamies the most but do love getting one of my better glow fuel and of course overpowered ones out and blasting it around but I can really throw a foamie around and know 'if' I screw up or something fails it's no huge disaster, I do miss all that. The big Cub should be very cool if not spectacular but unless for some strange reason I find I hate the way it flies and I can't set it up to where I am happy with it I will be flying it very regularly when/if I ever get back there. If I can I intend to get a van or motorhome and stay out there for days at a time, if not weeks. It's well out of town and beautiful wide open country and just getting up from a comfy bed, making a coffee and stepping out the door and flying straight away sound awesome. That's all in the very uncertain future though so who knows. Must remember to sub before I forget because it sounds like you're getting pretty close to maidening it and I'd love to see that, preferably minus any of those maiden flight crashes you see so often. So sad when you see one someone's hand built and put incredible effort into the tiniest details and it crashes, sometimes on the actual takeoff so they haven't even really flown and just like that it's toothpicks. That is so sad. Sorry, rambling again despite having to correct damn near every second word I type. Good luck on the finishing build and that maiden.
Wow that’s crazy! Hope you’re doing well over where you are and stay safe out there! Hang in there man. Maiden went great by the way we have the vid up! Fly safe, take care!! 🙏
Haha nothing wrong with electric man. Performs just as good if not better than gas in some applications. Its clean and far less of a chance for an engine out scenario. I used to have a bunch of glow planes so I'm just more into electric these days. The plane will be doing its maiden next week it came out great! Thanks for watching!
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Back in the 80's my grandpa had a glider that barely fit in his hobby room. Hist first radio came as a kit, built it podium style out of wood. I've been hooked since then.
That’s awesome!! What a great hobby love hearing little stories like that. I’ve been hooked since I was a kid also!!
It's so beautiful, Im on the verge of buying one. Today is my 40th birthday and I think that's a great excuse to buy one along with the 15cc engine. Great video!
Nice!! Its an awesome plane for sure! We love it and are going to be making more videos with it for sure. Good luck with yours!
@@UngluedModeler Thanks, yours came looking great. I ordered mine after several days of searching. They were sold out on every major hobby site until, I came across one on a small hobby store in Florida. It should be here tomorrow. I'm excited and am looking forward to the building process. Keep up the great videos, I learned a lot!
Awesome!! Great to hear that!! It’s a very popular plane and goes in and out of stock often. You’re gonna love it. Thanks for the kind words also! Good luck with the build 🙏
Love watching you two! Whether you’re unboxing, assembling or flying you always are having fun! And, btw, your wife is indeed very understanding. How fun that she loves it too. Always excited when another video is posted. Thank you for the entertainment.
Thanks for the kind words! Mary loves the RC planes thats for sure hahah
I am also quite excited about your building process 😍
Thanks!
They’re back in stock so I should get mine anytime now. Thank you for these videos, I’m going to use some of your suggestions when building mine.
Awesome!! I’m editing up the final build video now the plane came out great! We will be doing the maiden next week most likely!! Enjoy yours it’s a great plane so far!
Might even take a week :) 90" = 7' 6". The best flying cub is a Balsa USA 108" = 9' J3 converted into a Super Cub by installing flaps and cowling. 15 lbs of shear Cubness you have to try!
Sounds awesome! I'll have to check it out!
I love this plane. Mine is electric and flies so well. It’s a bit heavy so I keep a little power until touch down but it is a good stable flyer.
Thats great to hear!! Very excited about this plane just trying to find the time to clear the bench and start putting her together!!
Build video 1,2,3, and 4 are up!!
Hi, could you add the links to the build videos in the description? Really enjoyed watching the unboxing episode
There ya go! Done!
Thanks! I just ordered mine and it's on the way. Your build videos will be a big help. Thanks for posting them. And good luck with the maiden! Can't wait to see that in your channel.
Nice!! Thats awesome!! You're gonna love it! Glad we could help!! Means a lot to us. Maiden is going to be fun for sure can't wait.
That's one snazzy airplane!
It might be easier to touch up the covering while it's apart. For sheeted surfaces I find if you put a small block of wood in a sock you can follow right behind the iron and press the covering down for a good bond. For the rest I just use the sock, wadded up or over my fingers. After laundering, of course! I also find an eggcrate mattress (or pieces of one) to be a great bench topper. Protects the plane, holds it in place and if you drop screws or other tidbits they fall into a pocket instead of onto the floor where they then roll into the hardest to reach dark recess in the shop. Or where I find them later when I step on them barefooted.
Some great ideas!! Thanks! Love the egg crate foam idea especially. And yes I've decided we are going to tighten up the Ultracote when all the pieces are separate. We'll do that before anything else. We're super excited about this one for sure.
@@UngluedModeler You've got reason to be excited, you just know it'll be a great flier. Good looking, too, and even better with the bigger wheels.
Beautiful 😊👍💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Sweet unboxing, I've just ordered one. Have a twin nitro 160 I plan on using on this, believe it's a bit on the too big but it's gonna be beautiful with the four stroke twin!
It was this or the blue cub from hobbyking but I decided this one looks better, has flaps, lights etc...
Nice!! Thanks and yes this one looks wayyy better than that blue on from HK for sure. I like flaps as well and they are mandatory on a STOL type plane. And ohhh man that big 4 stroke twin will be sooo cool. Cant wait to see it. I still have not started mine yet ugh. Life happens and well...ya know how that goes lol.
@@UngluedModeler I agree the carbon cub is a nicer looking plane for sure, I get it this big projects take time and part of the fun is doing it slow and making it a fun thing rather than a rushed job...
Take care and happy flying! :)
Nice un boxing, you were very lucky to have no damage!! When I un boxed mine the one wing was wrecked, so the shop I bought it from sent me a new wing which was also damaged😣 so after a fight and me threatening to send it all back they finally sent me an undamaged wing😄 I decided to go for a UBEC wired straight to the lipo so if the Castle esc goes my servo's will still function!! Good luck with your build, I haven't started mine yet!! But hopefully will start soon👍😄
Thanks Ian!! I was very lucky indeed! I have actually watched your Carbon Cub unboxing vid when I was shopping for mine! I saw the damage you had and I was very bummed for you. Sucks about the fight you had to get into but I'm super happy to hear you got it all sorted out!! I plan on starting mine this week actually. I was having to wait for the proper CA glues and a few other tidbits before I started the build. Should be a fun plane for sure! Good luck with yours and stay tuned here as I'll be trying to document the build as best I can! Thanks again Ian!
I've subscribed to your channel so I won't miss your build👍😄
Out of interest the prop adapter that comes with the power 60 the collete type is to short I had to get a long one!! Which I could only get from the USA!! After watching your video yesterday I saw you had a prop adapter type with washer and nut!! So I got the part number of your video and ordered one but then thought oh crap it might be to short!! Did you check this out as i know you definitely need the long one👍
Nice!! Glad I helped in a round about way lol. So that prop adapter I am using is meant specifically for the Power 60 and its what everyone recommends on the Carbon Cub thread on RCGroups. People use it and say thats the one we want soooooo we'll see haha. I have not fitted it up yet but it comes recommended from lots of folks.
Cool that's good to know!! Thanks👍
I use the same motor and letting you know I use 9s to power this motor and it doesn't get hot
Wowwww!! That’s crazy!! I bet it’s got power for days on 9s. How do you do that? A 4s pack and a 5s pack together?
Hearing before and what size thumb screws did you use to hold the wings on the cub 15cc
Hey! We used M3x12 to hold the battery tray down and also for the receiver panel on the floor and then M3x20 to hold the wings on! Don't forget to use fuel tubing on the wing thumb screws. Here is the link to the exact ones we used just select your size.
ebay.us/zH5eJx
First build video up!!
So have you finished the build? Maidened?
Hey! Thanks for checking in! Im ashamed to say no I have not haha. Just been super busy with work and here in AZ we had a very hot summer and my garage is not air conditioned so it is just miserable being in there trying to do a plane up nice. BUT...its cooling down now so we are going to start back up on it very soon!! Looking forward to it it is sooo nice I wanted to wait and not rush this one. Thanks again for checking in!!
@@UngluedModeler Used to live in PHX, fully understand.
Hhaha yeah wow! Thats wayyy hotter than Kingman where I am lol
So its been 4 years do you still have it and love it the same?
7 months no update? 😥 Was hoping to see the build video or maiden....or something.
Fear not Randy haha! We’ve started building and filming it! Been working a lot of OT at work (me and Mary both have strange schedules) so this plane has taken wayyy longer than we wanted too for sure. Also waiting on little bits and pieces to complete certain steps has taken longer than expected also. It’s a sweet plane and coming along nicely we should hopefully have some progress/build videos up soon!!
First build video up Randy!! Very sorry again for the delay man. Hopefully we can keep the momentum going!
People used to build now they just unbox.
I agree building a plane from a kit used to be all that was available. Now it’s primarily ARF’s and RTF’s. Gets people into the hobby and into the air quicker but it would be nice to have more kits available for people who still like to build. I just don’t have time at all to build a kit so I personally like the ARF and RTF options haha
@@UngluedModeler I never trust any "RTF" kits, I always spend ages trying to drip CA into joints inside the already covered wings (also with ARFs) and usually replacing cheap disaster waiting to happen servos and other poor build or quality components and even that so simple sounding "ARF" supposedly "Almost ready to fly" as that kit is can take a lot longer than that "ARF" title suggests. I don't actually particularly enjoy the building of even ARF kits, I mostly just want to fly, strangely I do enjoy spending (wasting mostly) sometimes a LOT of time modifying and redesigning and making my own cowlings that I design to suit the type of motor or engine I'll be running to force air to where it's actually needed and not where it just looks like the full sized version with a completely different power plant. I like tossing canopies which stick up on models to look like the full sized thing and making my own MINUS the stupid bulge up for windows for a fake pilot who can't even see anyway out of either carbon fibre kevlar combination or sometimes just fibreglass so it doesn't mess with the radio signal. I appreciate and admire the replica looks of some and attention to detail of some of the builders I know, right down to exhaust smoke stains painted or rather dusted on with an airbrush etc I love getting things like a cheapish foamy I bought, a (sorry but forgot the brand, it's well known for FPV models though) flying wing called a "Falcon" of about 4 foot span meant for FPV work with a nice little hole up front pointing slightly down that's great for allowing a controlled amount of air in so I can cool electronics and has a quite big area under the canopy which was great for allowing plenty of room for a bigger 4S very high C rated battery and room to move it plenty to get the COG perfect and tossing that canopy, well, tossing it aside to use the EPO foam for shaping and patching if needed elsewhere then building my own that followed the curve of he wing only to reduce a heap of drag from the silly thing sticking up and also reducing air flow to the pusher prop then shaping the motor pod down and even chewing away the ply mount glued to the back of it as much as possible between screw mounting points then running a section of carbon fibre tube about 6mm diameter from the highest point forward to glue up against the carbon wing brace, sticking a little 2,200 Kv motor on it meant to run on 3S, putting a spare 5X5 prop that had come with an AXN floater jet on it (oddly I did experiment with various other much more expensive branded props of the same and different diameters and pitches around that size and the crappy spare 5X5 that came with an AXN that virtually never break a prop anyway worked the best in every way. I was still developing it and needing some major repairs after a bad crash at high speed thanks to sudden servo failure due to too much strain on the cheap but usually reliable seros at speed with the amount of reflex needed with that wing shape. I put a 17 gram GPS logger on it and had gradually overcome wing flutter bit by bit with different things like strips of 3mmX 1mm carbon recessed into the foam strategically placed and glass reinforced tape etc. I kept the speed runs to 1 fast pass followed by at least 2 minutes of slow gentle cruising while it cooled down again then another fast pass. I made sure to fly crosswind so I wasn't getting fake readings by flying with a tailwind, especially since I needed to know if something had really helped or actually made things slower. Remember this thing was designed with a big wing area for flying slowly with a good load onboard and that last flight the GPS logger read 185kph as the highest speed sometime before partial destruction thanks to those crappy servos! I will get 200 kph before I give up, some day lol. I was pretty impressed with it as it was, that wing flutter was videoed by a friend and to see it played back in slow motion I was amazed just how far the ends of the wings were twisting one way then the other, it was like slamming into a wall when it came in. It was doing that 185 odd when he recorded it do that once and It would have brought it back to about 50 kph at most almost instantly, I'm amazed it didn't launch the battery out through the front actually. I pointed it vertical and hit full throttle once and my mind had trouble telling my eyes to actually follow it. It shot up so fast my mind couldn't seem to grasp it was really going up that fast and I had to keep sort of jumping my eyes up, they just couldn't seem to just stay with it as it went, it just vertical so insanely fast it really messed with my brain trying to track something going straight up like only rockets are supposed to accelerate. I will rebuild it, reinforce the wings with more recessed in strips of carbon strategically placed and using the same tiny motor running a third higher voltage than designed for bit the way I changed the mounting it also forces much more cooling air THROUGH the motor so along with keeping it to short bursts it shouldn't lose it's magic smoke, I hope lol.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 that’s awesome! Yeah I really enjoy modding things also and adding scale details and such. Part of the fun of RC is experimenting amd modding! Totally agree. As far as RTF’s and ARF’s you are correct sometimes they cut too many corners which create major problems in the future. If not a crash.
@@UngluedModeler Thanks. I do very much appreciate the effort a lot of scale flyers put into their models, it's amazing if you get down in the right position on the ground near one and make sure there's nothing in view to give it away how easy it is to think a lot are the full sized planes. While I admire them I'm not that into doing that myself so much as making them handle and perform better, plus logical cooling to suit the type of power plant in them. It's all a great hobby that can be very rewarding and fun.
One of my greatest achievements so far is landing withing 6 inches of a bullseye we have painted onto our strip for that purpose, nobody has ever landed closer to it than that. One I'd been practicing a lot was sideslip landings and flying figure eights, circuits etc under full rudder one way then the other plus the landings. In a pretty light headwind I could almost bring one of those AXNs down almost vertically sideslipping it all the way till just as it was about to touchdown. I'd practice flying low and fast just above the strip and half loop it then fly it back inverted just above the strip. I really wanted to get to where inverted was just as natural to me as upright, that actually paid off when I put a model into a diving spin and it got a bit out of control but stabilised not far from the ground where before I would have tried to pull out of it with up elevator but it was more inverted and instinctively I pushed down elevator and flew out of it only just above the ground inverted, if I'd tried to pull up elevator it wouldn't have made it so that can be very handy to develop into a natural way of flying so you can react that way if it is the best way out of a situation.
Incidentally, that's an AXN I mostly do that silly and close to the ground silly stuff with and as I said " it's almost impossible to break a prop on them, mainly because it's on top pushing. Well, doing those fly past low upright, flip and fast pass inverted repeatedly I got a little too close inverted and under power and accidentally er ahem, landed it on the bitumen. I fully expected to see the first broken prop on one of them I'd ever seen, especially since it was under about 7 eighths throttle but somehow even then, not only did it not break, I couldn't even find a mark on the thing. I tell you, those ultra cheap little props that come with those ultra cheap little fun throw around models are way underrated.
You need to see what "giant scale" actually is. Hint, that's nothing like a giant scale model. Try the giant scale forum or just bloody look for some on yt.
LOL yeah I know they get much bigger haha. But this is a giant scale. Anything over 80” is in giant scale class. This is 90” soooo. Oh and also this plane is in the giant scale forum 🤦♂️
@@UngluedModeler Yeah, sorry my bad technically at least. I'm stuck away from it interstate and due to health problems have been for a few years from the country model airfield I usually fly at. Where I am now the nearest fields are at least half hour drives away and ONLY electrics allowed so nothing particularly big. Back home we fly any size and power system we want including jets if we're game enough. We have clearance to fly up to 1,000 feet and we have the giant scale aerobatics competition there almost every year except 2 years ago when the strip was being renewed with a complete new bitumen surface so I'm use to a lot of BIG models with over 10 foot wingspans. Lot's of Yak 54s and 55s, Extra 260s etc etc and running anything up to those magnificent sounding flat four cylinder petrol engines in the competitions and practicing. I'm actually surprised that thing is 90 inches even, it just looks smaller somehow in the cover pic so apologies there, plus as you say technically it IS giant scale anyway.
I have earnt my gold wings but I'm not that interested in that competition, it's fun to be a part of the event and awesome to see the skill of some of those guys but standing there day after day with someone reading out the next maneuver then the next time after time after time then even the comp itself is just about remembering the routine and then doing it as precisely as possible would all be as boring as hell to me. I like to do what another old farmer who flies with me a lot describes as just punching holes in the sky in whatever way and direction you happen to feel like as you feel like it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to insult the model nor you, I was tired at the time and it's just so much smaller than what I'm used to calling giant scale, plus it somehow just looks smaller in that cover shot. My personal biggest is a balsa and ply cub that if I remember correctly is 12 foot span and I've got a 1.20 horizontally opposed glow fuel 4 stroke I plan on running it on WHEN I get home and get around to building that 1. I haven't exactly locked that in though. I'm going to try and keep all extra weight in servos, batteries and electronics as close to the COG as possible and very will see how much weight it takes up front to balance it correctly then will probably end up being sensible and putting a much cheaper to run but not sounding as sweet as the 4 stroke twin petrol and maybe a bit bigger if the weight isn't a problem. It's not a model for serious aerobatics, it's for general fun, a camera platform and sometimes a glider tow plane so I'd like it to have more power than it normally would need for scale type flying but, I don't care if it wont climb vertically on it's own, I just want it to fly economically (though that was an afterthought a while later after first thinking how cool it would sound with a twin cylinder 4 stroke) but I do want to be able to use it as a real workhorse as in towing up large gliders etc which means power to climb at a decent rate with that extra drag hanging behind.
Apologies again, I think I'm just getting frustrated by not being able to play with any of my models that are 1,200 kilometers away and have been for the last few years combined with just being very tired when I wrote that.
Happy accident free flying and I hope this one's still tearing up the sky too.
No worries at all man! Serious though thanks for coming back and apologizing. That shows some truly good character on your part. So kudos to you!! But no offense was taken at all! Sorry to hear about you being away from your planes and not being able to fly. I get the frustration of flying field restrictions it sucks. That’s too bad they won’t allow gas right now! I LOVE watching the huge massive 10-12’ wingspan aircraft flying around as well so cool. Your big Cub sounds cool!
@@UngluedModeler Thanks mate, both for the forgiveness and the understanding. What I didn't mention was that I accidentally took a second dose of the painkillers I'm on that day and still affecting me a bit so rambled a fair bit in my apology too. I take 40 mg of basically morphine in the morning and again at night but really stuffed up yesterday and didn't think I'd had it and after I'd taken my other medications I realised I'd already had that one ten minutes before separately which as really stupid of me and meant I suddenly had 80 mg in my system which should knock an Elephant out. I've become somewhat immune to it so I can handle more than anyone who hasn't had it regularly but doubling that dose to 80 mg is probably pretty dangerous and definitely screwed with my head a bit. Thankfully (I think) it's slow release so cleared slowly but I can still feel it affecting me and I keep hitting wrong keys and having to correct my mistakes here, all thanks to the bike accident that's the reason I've been stuck here away from my planes.
I did mention we can fly jets at our field if we want and people have, just not many. It's not terribly long and there's a creek 50 yards from 1 end and a fence a bit closer at the other so not terribly forgiving if you have something that needs to land with a lot of speed without brakes and still risky unless you're very good at flying your particular model, hell, plenty have hit both with much slower planes, including I have to admit me. That was Karma walloping me for being cheeky to a friend who'd just crashed into it thinking he was closer to the actual strip than he was and me bragging that I'd never hit either, I also landed a model in the creek about a week later, karma's always going to get you lol.
I used to make a point of getting out and grooming the lawn beside and into a big triangle out into the paddock for months in preparation for the big comp and then maybe help out on the big day but nobody expected anymore from me after all the work I put into preparing the field. After the very first event I saw there it was obvious they liked taking off from the bitumen but much preferred landing on grass and our strip is almost ALWAYS a crosswind so the big clean smooth triangle gave the less skilled at crosswind landing pilots a better chance of finding an into the wind path. I actually filmed with decent gear a couple of the times once I got a good video camera but missed by pure bad luck and some glitch in the camera that should have had it switching to a second memory card automatically when the first one was full and only got the start up of one of the top giant scale freestyle pilots who's plane took off just moments after the camera stopped and I was trying to get it going again he took off and did a particularly savage snap which did exactly what the name implies and I'm not exactly sure what went wrong but the engine wound up several hundred yards away which opened the front up completely at speed forcing air into the fuse and wings essentially causing it to literally explode into thousands of pieces of balsa, ply and tiny fragments of covering film and somehow broke the carbon fibre wing tube too. It was genuinely extremely spectacular and everybody was spinning around to me yelling "did you get that?" and it sucks so bad to have had to say no. That would have gone viral I'm sure if I'd got it and posted it here. Yeah, I wouldn't really enjoy flying one of them because I'd always be scared of the cost if things went pear shaped which would take a lot of the fun out so I enjoy playing with foamies the most but do love getting one of my better glow fuel and of course overpowered ones out and blasting it around but I can really throw a foamie around and know 'if' I screw up or something fails it's no huge disaster, I do miss all that.
The big Cub should be very cool if not spectacular but unless for some strange reason I find I hate the way it flies and I can't set it up to where I am happy with it I will be flying it very regularly when/if I ever get back there. If I can I intend to get a van or motorhome and stay out there for days at a time, if not weeks. It's well out of town and beautiful wide open country and just getting up from a comfy bed, making a coffee and stepping out the door and flying straight away sound awesome. That's all in the very uncertain future though so who knows.
Must remember to sub before I forget because it sounds like you're getting pretty close to maidening it and I'd love to see that, preferably minus any of those maiden flight crashes you see so often. So sad when you see one someone's hand built and put incredible effort into the tiniest details and it crashes, sometimes on the actual takeoff so they haven't even really flown and just like that it's toothpicks. That is so sad.
Sorry, rambling again despite having to correct damn near every second word I type. Good luck on the finishing build and that maiden.
Wow that’s crazy! Hope you’re doing well over where you are and stay safe out there! Hang in there man. Maiden went great by the way we have the vid up! Fly safe, take care!! 🙏
Spoil a good model going electric for this model..
Haha nothing wrong with electric man. Performs just as good if not better than gas in some applications. Its clean and far less of a chance for an engine out scenario. I used to have a bunch of glow planes so I'm just more into electric these days. The plane will be doing its maiden next week it came out great! Thanks for watching!