A Day of RC Flight

December 25th, 2011 was Christmas and also an afternoon of RC flight! I had my family around for the holiday and I convinced them all to come out and watch the maiden flight of my new big RC plane, the A1-Skyraider. It was my first flight of the new plane and I was a bit nervous, but it flew awesomely!

I brought all 3 planes to the flying area for the afternoon, the first time I was able to fly all of them. It was neat to get to see them all lined up next to each other in a row, little to medium to biggest!

I started with the smallest plane, the T-28 Trojan as a nice warm up. This was my first 4 channel plane and the plane I've had the most time with so far, and it's still a very fun little plane to fly. Next I took the P-51 Mustang for a spin, and I was able to have a sucessful takeoff and landing. FInally, I took the A-1 Skyraider out for its first flight. The plane took off with only about 1/2 throttle and quickly climbed. The propeller on the plane is large and 4 bladed, and it makes an awesome nosie as it passes by almost sounding like a real plane. The Skyraider has far more power than my other two planes making it a joy to fly! I had a good landing on it, but unfortunatly the rear landing gear wire broke and left me unable to steer it once it landed and it ended in the grass. But no harm done, just a little scratch on the prop, a little sand paper and I'll be right out!

Check out some of the pictures from the day below

View the video of the first flight below!