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 Post subject: Burnin' Holes In The Sky At 200 MPH
PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:41 pm 
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a few from todays play session.

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ill put the camera out on the wingtip mount for some stills to post up on this coming saturdays session.......

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:40 am 
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Location: My own little hole in ground.
How do I get an appointment to fly along?

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:27 am 
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I'm thinking the A/C is prop. So are you using smoke or are you putting enough lift into the wing to create the contrail?

Definitely some High G maneuvers. Keep us posted.

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yea we are pulling about 6 right there. the smoke is basically concrete form oil injected into the exhaust at a rate of a gallon a minute. works pretty well. it has about an 8 gallon smoke tank. it lasts about 15 minutes for a routine, because you are toggling it on and off at different times for manuvers. ill have some decent outside shots sat night.

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With those kinds of g forces just be careful you don't end up in outer space! :shock:

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:30 pm 
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haha yea and that was a mild day. we pulled 6.5 and pushed around -3 Gs yesterday. worked on some vertical maneuvers and the only real g's you hit there is in the pull to vertical. mostly we pull a 7g up line. saturday we will tune it up a bit. im going to try to get a vid put together. problem with the wingtip camera is you have to start it from outside. so you start it before you take off and shut it off either when you land or the batteries die. which ever happens first. we have 3 go-pro hd cameras in the bird. so i cant post up the entire flight cause its such a big file. however a 10 min acro session can be edited together just gotta set up the software to do that.......... adam.........

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heres a little inverted work for ya........

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Got any pictures from the ground? Pretty neat, I'd love to see a video of it. Also some photos of the plane would be neat...

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none from the ground but im setting the wingtip camera to stills tomorrow and the cockpit cam to video. so ill have some stills from outside the plane, the wingtip camera looks back at the plane. its a pretty cool view. ill take a good one of the plane on the ground.

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6 & 7g's is impressive. I can't recall any what points on the scale are significant, but I'm thinkin' you are approaching the range to need "speed jeans" / anti-g suits. It may depend on the duration, but bad things can happen real quick.

Yeah, I do want to see more pics.

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had the 3 cameras set on video today. great day, wore me out. going to bed ill try to get some quick vid clips edited out and linked up here soon. but here the bird again as per greggels request.......

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that last one is a freakin bad ass ground photo!...................... we gotta work on a bad ass background for it though

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hmmm, you mean me or the hanger i work in? must be the hanger

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just got done watching all the vids, wait till ya see them they are killer!

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haha... although I take any chance i can to verbally defecate on you, i did mean the hangar this time :wink:

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