u/njsullyalex

I know this is unranked trucks so its the wild west but I was trying to keep it clean. I'm sorry for wrecking #6 twice.

Also #6 was a lapped car in both incidents.

Cycling my new 20 gallon tank right now, and it seems bladder snails, ramshorn snails, AND Malaysian trumpet snails have hitchhiked into my tank!

I have two Anubias, one of those seeded decorations that will grow plants, plus four bulbs. I’m planning on getting a long fin betta once it’s cycled.

I flew all four of these planes at my club’s event today!

Pilot Ace 20H: I scored this plane in a deal for $60 on FB marketplace. This is my first fuel powered plane after years of being purely electric! She’s got a .25 Enya two stroke glow motor on her that makes a surprising amount of power! She’s basically my glow trainer right now as I learn the ins and outs of operating a glow plane. She’s partially disassembled for maintenance rn as I have a new glow plug, fuel lines, and fuel filter on the way for the engine. I got a new DSMX receiver and new LiFe battery for it plus new firewall screws to mount the engine. New Futaba servos were installed by the previous owner. This plane is a 1986 vintage model meaning the plane and engine are older than me by over a decade! Unfortunately as a result info on this model online is pretty limited. It’s definitely neat though getting to fly an RC plane that is truly from a bygone era of RC flying, but make no mistake, this plane flies beautifully and tracks like an arrow.

ParkZone Bf 109: the other plane I scored in the deal with the Pilot Ace 20H, the guy selling it had no interest in foamies and sold it to me for a big discount because he didn’t want to hold onto it. It’s nearly pristine and flies like new once I got a new battery! HH should return this beauty to production, it would be a hit. Came with its original DSM2 receiver that bound up to my modern radio with no trouble at all!

HobbyKing Walrus: I bought this plane in the summer of 2021 as my first glider before my MtF transition. After flying her a few times she sat in my parent’s garage from 2022-2026 since I left the hobby until recently. Now that I’m back in the hobby I pulled her out of storage and got a new battery and she flies just as good as she used to! She glides beautifully and I really enjoy seeing how long I can keep her airborn without using the throttle. As a result she can get crazy long flight times. The Walrus is still in production and dirt cheap on Hobbyking’s website so it gets a definite recommend from me.

E-Flite UMX P-51D BL: this is the first gen brushless UMX P-51 before the 3S versions that come with SAFE these days. I got this plane as a Christmas gift in 2016, meaning I’ve had this plane for nearly 10 years!!! I also pulled her out of storage alongside my Walrus and one new battery later and she still flies as good as ever. AS3X helps a bunch in the wind, she’s much more stable than you would expect for her size!

My radio is a first gen Radiomaster TX16S, I’m still running OpenTX on it because I’ve been too lazy to update it to EdgeTX and I have all my planes properly configured right now so I don’t want to mess that up.

I did two flights with my vintage 1980s Pilot Ace 20H today with its equally vintage 1980s Enya .25 glow engine. On the first flight, the engine died around 5 minutes into the flight and I landed dead stick. On the second flight the engine almost quit again and did for a second but nosing the plane down to get speed allowed the engine to relight mid air and I was able to continue the flight and land with the engine running.

The engine produces plenty of power when it’s running, but will occasionally sputter especially during throttle changes. One of the guys at the field helped me adjust the mixture and refuel the plane but the engine still would occasionally sputter. Since I bought this plane used after it sat in a garage for who knows how long so I should consider myself lucky the engine ran at all and it flies as well as it does. I think replacing the glow plug is a safe bet to help the engine since I know they wear out and may struggle to maintain the catalytic reaction.

This is my first ever glow powered plane after being strictly electric until I got it a month ago, so I’m not the expert on glow engines and since this is an old and long out of production engine information online about it is limited. So can anyone with more experience point me in the right direction here?

Paris Orly LFPO to Basel Mulhouse LFSB

Its such a weird mixture of Airbus style modern systems paired with some of the signature features (liftdumpers + banana speedbrake most notably) taken from the F28 Fellowship!