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Post by thevon on Jun 14, 2009 21:15:59 GMT 10
The latest Aviation Modeller International mag has an article about the Vector. The one the guy tests is exactly the same colours as mine! Link to the file can be found here. www.rcrcm.com/pdf/VECTOR-AMI-Magazine.pdf |
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Post by thevon on Sept 10, 2009 20:53:56 GMT 10
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Post by sean on Oct 8, 2009 17:59:24 GMT 10
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Post by thevon on Oct 8, 2009 18:35:42 GMT 10
Aaaaawwwww Maaaaaan! that is fantastic! I was on the edge of my seat for that video! Rolling circles is one thing, but rolling right thru the DS circuit - amazing! Jeeez, that's a fantastic display. The aerobatics never stop.
I loved it all the more because it's the same as my Vector. Interesting how you hear them saying "I don't think there's any twitchiness in this thing". Soon as I DS'ed my Vector, even with my limited skills I had a strong feeling that it was the best DSer I'd flown - not the best in terms of outright speed, but so stable and fun.
That guy's a master. Sean I can envisage you doing stuff like that!
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Post by thevon on Dec 19, 2009 16:31:50 GMT 10
I just had a bit of a bingle with the Vector. Nothing terminal, but I'll have to do the compulsory AvB guilt-purging report.
Nice wind and I ducked over to Shorncliffe about 2:30pm to get a fly in. There was a storm on the way so I knew it could be short. The wind was about 12 kts NE and the lift was pretty good, so I was soon carving it up with the Vector. Gee I love that plane. I dunno what they did to get it right, but I can't think of any other 2.5m moldie that can do such tight chop-and-stop flying in a small spot like SC. I did rolls across the lip, serial loops, loops across the face, inverted laps, F3F runs, outside loops and so on.
I'd noticed a foamie flying further up the hill, so I did the keep-the-plane-up-high-and-sight-it-thru-the-gaps-in-the-trees walk up along the path until I got up and climbed thru the fence. It was young Brad and his Dad. Brad used to be a SC regular but hasn't done much for a long while now, so it was good to see him and hear his plans.
Meanwhile the wind picked up and the Vector was in its element. Fantastic fun. Brad landed his Bee and we all stood chatting. They were really impressed with the Vector. Particularly when I said it was 2.5m - they both said "doesn't look like it", so I brought it past close and slowly with flaps and it grew lots bigger!
But then the wind and lift got slacker so I excused myself to land down the end. But I was worried that the plane wasn't getting much lift and doing the tree walk seemed too risky, so I returned to work out how to land. No possibility of landing on the top - it's all rocks, and a very small spot. I could have plopped it onto the soft-ish jungle slope on the right as I've done once before, but as Brad said, it looks easy to hand catch.
The appeal of being a hand-catch hero was too much. So I did a couple of runs and sure enough, with practise it was coming past closer and slower. Next time I dropped low, came up, pulled flaps and the Vector came hovering beautifully directly towards me in a rather impressive manner, and when it was about 3 metres away and shoulder height I confidently said "I've got it now!" and started to reach for it ... then it suddenly dropped like a stone into a rocky cutaway on the lip! Crash! It more or less dropped onto a wingtip from about 6 foot height. Very embarrassing. Must be a dead air zone or rotor there due to the cutaway.
Anyway, the damage isn't bad. One mushed back corner of wingtip and another small dent in the LE.
I still reckon ... it was worth it!
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