I remember as a young teenager going to this event at Glenview NAS in 1972. There was one area where some participants were flying their "Jetex" rocket powered gliders. That was pretty entertaining as some of the model planes literally lost their wings from the thrust of the engine (and consequential high speed) becoming instead missiles and thankfully not hitting anyone. But one "Jetex" glider drifting in circles after having spent its fuel came down just low enough behind a guy sitting in his chair casually watching things and simply tipped off his Panama hat with its nose. Fun times and thanks for sharing!

The ultimate hot rod of the sky!

Beautiful scenery and amazing flying! Younkin and Franklin were the best!

Bob "no engine, no problem" Hoover. Definitely an aviation legend!!!

Hi patty.

What a wonderful surprise to find Dwight on a KZfaq clip…he’s the man making flying smooth and safe…with love❤️ from the “Baby Gorilla” crew…

The DeBolt P-Shooter is a hoot to fly. The 4250 800KV outrunner brushless motor really winds up on an 11x6 propeller and provides plenty of power. It does tight little loops and is quite perky. The ailerons require about 50% rudder mixing to get it to roll properly. I remember now that back then you used full aileron and rudder together to get an axial roll. The strip ailerons are quite narrow so they need to deflect a lot to get adequate response. The P-Shooter was designed for reed receivers and slow Bonner servos so the slow ailerons hid the control blips. Loops were a full throw event. All that dihedral helps level flight but is a hindrance in cross wind landings. The P-Shooter is reluctant to snap roll and spin because it just won't stall.

The Astro Hog was a real surprise. It's a big airplane with a short nose and a long tail so it's easy to build it tail-heavy, Back in the 1960 modelers were used to building very light because the radios were so heavy and the motors were puny. This airplane has a lot of lead in the front end to balance correctly. Plenty of power made it go fast but it was difficult to slow down for landing. Because of it's weight it could only slow down a bit before it stalled. Also once it was into a 3 turn spin it really wound up due to the weight and was reluctant to recover normal flight. So the surprise was that it was fast and rolled and looped nicely. If it could lose about 3 pounds it would be a better aerobat. The wing is flat instead of the considerable dihedral of the original. I would add back a couple degrees to make it look better.

The Kyosho Pitts S2 got converted to electric also. An E-Flite Power 46 provided the power and flaperons were incorporated to help with take off and landing chores. A 3 axis gyro was added to help with the various typical Pitts muddles. The gyro especially helped in point rolls as the rudder wanted to un-roll the 3rd point which is typical of Pitts Specials. A Pitts likes to get off the ground quickly before it can ground-loop and a little droop on all 4 ailerons does the trick. The same flaperon helps with landing by slowing the aircraft down and delaying the stall.

The Art Chester Jeep was an old kit by Coverite powered by an OS .40. I decided to convert it to electric and substitute a modern radio system to see if it would fly better. With an 4250 800KV outrunner brushless motor on 5 lipo cells it really scooted on an 11x7 propeller. However it didn't want to turn but would rather fly knife-edge. Mixing in 25% rudder with the aileron got the nose to turn properly. It was still flying a bit goofy so a 3 axis gyro was added which helped a bunch. The tail moment of the Jeep is really short and there is a lot of fuselage area so flies a bit like a Gee Bee. I also used the ailerons as partial flaps which helped slow it down for landing. After all this it flies much better but it's very hoppy on landings. Low bounce wheels help and I'll tie the metal landing gear legs together with a spreader wire to reduce the spring action. So an old model was given some new life with appropriate modern technology.

Let's talk about the use of flaps. WW2 scale RC models have flaps and they are quite large. There's a desire to drop scale amount of flap for landing because it looks scale. However goofy things start to happen to the model with full flaps. Because of the scale effect the model weighs a fraction of the real thing and the wing area is much less too. It took a huge amount of drag to slow down an 8,000 lb fighter but there was 1500hp available and around 250 square feet of wing area to keep it flying. That's a lot of mass and lift and power there. A model is quite another animal. Everything is much more delicate. Dumping full flap on a quarter scale P51 Mustang can make for some wild effects such as pitching up and down along with the elevator being blanked out at a crucial moment. You may get an OK landing with full flap if the approach angle is pretty steep and there is some power on. This will require a fast flair to land which has to happen quickly and perfectly. A more survivable method would be to use half flap for the final approach and wait till about the last moment to drop full flap when the model is in ground effect. The approach doesn't have to be so steep and if the engine loses power it won't be catastrophic. The last minute full flap deployment feels like a Robin coming into land. It's pretty natural.

Это делает женщина! Великолепно!!! 👍🔥

The Zen of Stick & Rudder. No pilot was better.

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Unfforgetable,,,,

Its only a spin if,the airspeed is below the stall

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What. A. Legend.

Did he actually smoke the engine or was it just for effects

nice display boy

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That commentator is like a radio dj who does not know how to keep his mouth shut.

I flew as a passenger in this plane in 1979. I'm doing a short video about it. May I please use some of your footage for my video? I'll credit you, of course.

I highly recommend Col. John Morrissey's video: "Survive the Spin". A must-see explanation of spin recovery technique. He demonstrates inadvertent auto rotation in a Sukhoi-29, Pitts Special and a Cessna 150 Aerobat.

Very odd engine air intakes on that airplane. Very boxy.

Bob was the real deal. Probably the best pilot ever.

Even the lord sighed & shook his head 7:12

I have flown for over 40 years and still consider Bob Hoover the greatest pilot of all time. Chuck Yeager agrees with me.

I was at that airshow!

All of that dressed like a gentleman!

SHRIKE SO PRETTY!

I saw him once at the Dayton Air Fair. As he said... it's all about energy management!

He was a master of energy management.

I was fortunate enough to see mr Hoover at the Atlantic City air show I believe in 1985 I will never forget it!

Rode shotgun in one about 16 years ago as a frozen food mgr

I saw him at Cable Field in SoCal years ago in such a plane when I was in my teens. The man was incrededible.

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Did the aircraft have strengthened wing spars for aerobatic manoevres? In NZ in the early days the smaller Aero Commander had wing spar issues just in normal flight, with wing separations happening on occasions, and people lost confidence in them.

That man was an F'ing LEGEND! The stuff he could do with an aircraft would make you shake your head in disbelief. He was also Chuck Yeager's backup pilot on the Bell X-1 and flew the chase plane during Yeager's successful Mach 1 run......

Bob Hoover was friends with my dad Torrance airport. I got to go up with Him 1 day. He had his dog sitting there In the seat as We were doing Rolls and Loops

you had me totally fooled until #3 looks to be using a brushless motor, 😆 im super envious of your radio collection Sir ♥

That man is flying the aircraft, he’s not just along for the ride top three greatest of all time or most likely the greatest ever

Bobby Younkin was brilliant in any aeroplane but his Samson displays were superb. Everybody watched! I'm not sure how much it can be called a replica, Curtis Pitts provided a lot of information for the build (Steve Wolf and he were great friends).

Reading either Franklin or Younkin always makes me think about Amanda.

tight carrier approach, then pins on the wheel landing...awesome

GREAT FLYING. VERY SMOOTH FLYING HE MAKES IT LOOK EASY❤❤❤

amazing!!!

Samson used up huge amount of sky for such a little biplane. Most of the flight is full throttle so it zips by quickly. A muscular display as you can feel the G's and see the precision coaxed out of a vintage looking airplane. Unforgettable.

The Doctor is in! This was an early morning warm up before the races. Dwight gently lets the Merlin warm up. At 2:25 he stands up and switches off the engine to listen carefully to it wind down. He's listening to the valves and all the other clatterings that would indicate the health of the engine. We wouldn't have a safe and winning racer without the magic of men like Dwight.

June of 2009 Time flies!