Stardust is the most beautiful free flight power model you've ever seen!

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@johnmajane3731 2 жыл бұрын

That last fight with the buzzards was excellent.

@scottjohnson7466 2 жыл бұрын

Ole Beakey and the gang done thought they had found the dinner mama had mentioned that he needed before being allowed to return home.

@RCSoaringDiaries 2 жыл бұрын

The look on your face when you said "let's see it fly" said it all 👍 Loved every moment of this video. It was so nice to see it fly in such an open space to witness what it is capable of. And wow the buzzards at the end 😍

@ratratrat59 4 ай бұрын

Her stalls are so graceful. Love how she floats home. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

@kayeninetwo3585 2 жыл бұрын

One of your prettiest videos to date, Josh (IMHO.) Old model airplane designs are so beautiful and graceful, and to see them flying well is wonderful. It was nice that you gave a history of the plane and mentioned the gentleman who built it.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I really enjoyed this one. Such a wonderful airplane to work with.

@kenwiberg6517 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the memories of days gone by .......... indoor taught me so much more than having a radio in my hands ever did ...........

@hadleymanmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a nice plane. I luv homebuilts Everytime I see a new one on these videos i imagine what a real homebuilt full size could be built like.

@higgs923 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the beautiful video. Seeing the Stardust thermaling with the hawks reminded why free flight is the closest thing to magic.

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's hard to capture that kind of flying on video and this was a rare and special opportunity to do so.

@dlemon90 8 ай бұрын

Wow. You’ve got that model flying great. Beautiful in the air and just lovely to see it soaring with the birds at the end!

@joshuawfinn 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've really enjoyed owning this one!

@shrevewaxter4876 2 жыл бұрын

Way cool!! Nicely done. Fun watch 👍👍

@williamrobinson7435 2 жыл бұрын

I have always loved the fact that the transition in all types of free flight is in the hands of the gods.. Whatever you do with relative incedence angles or whatever, the slightest difference in thermal conditions &c can make the difference between a huge tail slide and a seamless power/glide transition.. This vintage plane really is beautiful. Thank you so much for showing us this lovely plane! 👍

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@xpump876 2 жыл бұрын

nice - and getting the birds to join is a gift !

@jimbos3421 2 жыл бұрын

My hats off to you sir, perfect roll-out!

@Colin399 2 жыл бұрын

Superb, and flying with the Vultures was something else 👍

@craigh3381 2 жыл бұрын

I once had my P-30 fly with buzzards..it was a beautiful sight ..but it went out of sight..but its a great memory .thanks for sharing,

@user-uu4qx4zo6z 2 жыл бұрын

At last it seems like the model got thermals. Well done,Joshua! Greetings from Uzbekistan.

@Glicksman1 2 жыл бұрын

Salom, Birodar, bunday model termalni ushlab turishi mumkin. Biroq, kuchli issiqlik va ko'tarilgan shamol uni qaytarilmaydigan joyga yuborishi mumkin. Of course, a model as good as this one could catch thermals. However, a strong thermal and a rising wind would be likely to send it where it would not be recovered.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

The dethermalizer ensures that it comes down nicely out of strong lift.

@crashrr2993 2 жыл бұрын

I could watch this all day. Thanks for posting.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to do it. They still have contests for these too!

@crashrr2993 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn I’ve just this moment glued together the 100” wings of an Olympic II, so I don’t think I’ll be taking this classic to any contests anytime soon! 😂 Can’t wait to get it up in the blue.🛫

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

@@crashrr2993 that should be a ton of fun! Oly is a great airplane.

@crashrr2993 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn I sincerely hope so, I’m so excited about it, I can’t sleep!!!😂

@101brydon 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic can't believe the vultures. Were I am in England might be lucky enough to catch a seagull flying alongside ❤

@adolfosimon8176 2 жыл бұрын

bestial!!...no esperaba ese planeo tan bueno..al verlo tan grande pense que seria pesado para planear ..pero el sustento es muy bueno ..saludos !

@peteronel4051 4 ай бұрын

Gracefull ,time to fly again

@innovatorx2112 2 жыл бұрын

Great flying wow 🤩 I think I need to make one 👍 😁

@youknoweverything7643 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for risking the plane to show us this beautiful vintage plane and risk it being torn up and crashed like every plane we fly rc or free flight even rubber power everytime they go in the air we risk them crashing and going into the trash bag of doom for gold. So thank you so much for this.

@stephaniekent8483 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful.... hi from NZ.... subscribed :)

@henkvanderbij6448 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastisch!!

@steveschlesinger3459 Жыл бұрын

Hey Josh and Hope, nice video.

@joshuawfinn 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@bearshield7138 2 жыл бұрын

very nice indeed

@scottjohnson7466 2 жыл бұрын

Turning out of a stall...that is perfect!

@archivist17 2 жыл бұрын

B-E-A-UTIFUL!!!

@jimbos3421 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, that is the flying of the gas engine gods!

@oscarjonesxxx2893 Жыл бұрын

Sailplane hands down.

@williamwinter2638 2 жыл бұрын

I love watching the flights. Every free flight model I ever built ended up in a tree. I may be related to Charlie Brown.

@krist370 2 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain, same here…

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

The number of planes I've dug out of trees doesn't bear mentioning. 😉

@jimpollard9392 2 жыл бұрын

Still a thrill to see one of these spiral up, transition, and float around in a big circle.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

It never gets old.

@phillipwigley6806 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Josh. Nice vid, The Sawdust would be a good contest model for slow open power here in the U.K. England. As you know I'm from Nottinghamshire - Robin Hood Country. We fly at Barkston Heath the home of the BMFA National Free Flight Championships. But due to covid restrictions we have not been allowed back on there untill recently.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can see it doing quite well in that event. It's a sweet airplane, very forgiving on trim, and incredible glide performance.

@brookelinford1910 3 ай бұрын

I wonder what the vultures thought when you dethermalized?

@RMJTOOLS Жыл бұрын

I now it’s a year old however it just showed up in my feed. It looks like a BoT with motivation

@joshuawfinn 11 ай бұрын

Yeah this was a predecessor of the BoT. Pure magic!

@TheButlerNZ 2 жыл бұрын

This looks a bit like the 2 piece one I have upstairs build by my dad around the 50-60's cept for the trailing bulbs on the wings.

@MouseSquadron 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have to agree. That is a gorgeous model. And a great flier. i wonder would it fly with my old OS 20 four stroke?

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

It would, with probably a little reduction in climb performance. You can find OS Max III .15s for pretty cheap on ebay though, and that would make it really come alive with a 7x4 APC prop.

@tonywright8294 Жыл бұрын

If you need to ask don’t bother

@f4udhorn Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful old design you've found, Josh! Looks great, but I think I'd put a little left thrust in the engine to combat that dippy swoop on the first circuit.

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

You are quite correct. Unfortunately this plane has been in the repair pile since that last flight because I observed cracking around the firewall. Dude that build it didn't glass the blasted front of the plane!!!

@shop970 2 жыл бұрын

It almost stalls and has an unusual angle of attack. Then glides like a parachute. That elevator movement is also effective. It's a real floater design

@hadleymanmusic 2 жыл бұрын

This launch reminds me of pop pod rocket gliders I used to be into in my rocketeer days

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

I've flown a pop pod glider or two. They're wonderful!

@Glicksman1 2 жыл бұрын

A gorgeous airplane. I think R/C assist is warranted for this one.

@ryanfritts1574 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd build it trim it and first flight it would be gone forever!

@user-lk2cj2qs1d Жыл бұрын

great plane have done the TopKick Thermic 50 and 50X Now have one viking and 2 Blazer kits found the hardest thing these days is finding an area big enough with no trees

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

Radio dethermalizer has saved freeflight for many of us. Lets you fly in much tighter spaces.

@Glicksman1 2 жыл бұрын

When you started that engine I could smell the burnt castor oil. Such a strong memory of my youth.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Best smell ever!

@Glicksman1 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn :D

@FranksModelAviationWorkshop 2 жыл бұрын

That is a nice looking plane. I’ve always wanted to build a Goldberg High Thrust Viking. Any experience with those?

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

I have pretty limited experience with the Viking but it's on my build list. That plane is legendary both for those who love it and those who hate it. And thus my desire to try it out. The Blazer is the overlooked predecessor. It's a very docile flier and well worth your time.

@FranksModelAviationWorkshop 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn the 1/2A Blazer is another one I’d like to try as well. One day. 👍

@wdtaut5650 2 жыл бұрын

Is there just a touch of stall in the first few glide circles?

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's common. Unless it's costing noticeable altitude, it's best to leave it alone and concentrate on getting the climb and glide optimized.

@themadscientest 2 жыл бұрын

I really need to build a piston power airplane, currently all my small model engines are for ground vehicles except an ancient Cox .020 still in the blister pack.

@joshuawfinn 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you gotta do it! Glow power is fun!

@Norminal1 6 ай бұрын

Very nice but I would still put a controllable rudder in it.

@joshuawfinn 6 ай бұрын

Anybody can do that. The beauty is in making it fly perfectly on its own and sitting back to watch.

@sauce25 2 жыл бұрын

That looks a bit like the airplane used in the stardust music video “music sounds better with you”

@billstolz9587 Жыл бұрын

I bought a box of bodies and wings just parts and one of the wings was for a stardust

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

That's half the build right there!

@mauroignacio3907 2 жыл бұрын

esse e bom voa alto e junto com os urubus kkkk bom vou

@clforever1 2 ай бұрын

How do you find and get permission to fly on these places ....in Europe where i live,you could end up in yail or shot at by a very angry neighbour....(every model airplane is now categorised as a "drone" overhere and therefore considered as being extremely dangerous ),almost evrywhere nitro engines are outlawed (or in the proces of being...)

@wolfrv695 2 жыл бұрын

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

@youknoweverything7643 Жыл бұрын

You could add a emergency parachute to it that gets let free by a micro 3 gram servo that way when you fly it and something happens and it is gonna crash you can flip a switch and parachute is let go and plane floats down safely with no damage from the error or what ever happens to cause it to almost crash that's what I do with all of my balsa free flight electric or nitro powered planes and my smaller 25-50 inch wing span electric balsa rc planes they are equipped with a good size parachute that is launched out of canopy or a small hatch out of back or anywhere I can hide one in so I don't lose aircraft due to mechanical or more of the problem me operator error biggest influence in any rc airplane crash is humans lol

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

I've been putting radio dethermalizer on most of my freeflight stuff these days. Works better than a parachute. Unfortunately for my RC stuff, if something goes wrong, a chute won't fix it. Typically less than a second from problem emerging to splat.

@youknoweverything7643 Жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn yes I was experimenting with parachute type things with rc planes and I got a system close to working but not flawless and I saw dethermalizer like 5 mins after commenting I didn't know that's what it's called I just added servo to my free flight stuff and didn't know it was called dethermalizer cool.

@joshuawfinn Жыл бұрын

@@youknoweverything7643 yup. The parachute idea came out around 1945-46 and was dominant into the late 40s when Carl Goldberg introduced the pop up tail. There were a few holdouts into the early 50s but most folks quickly realized the pop up tail brought planes down more reliably, at least in the wingloadings we use on freeflight planes. Several military drone companies use that method combined with an airbag for drone recovery. Fun factoid, the recovery system on Spaceshipone is based off the pop up tail. Burt Rutan was a highly successful rubber power flier back in the day.