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Thank you for sharing a day of fun.

Thanks for sharing...good luck with future E36'S

The current that the electric motor draws when static will be different to the current when flying through the air. Be interesting to hold the fuselage out of a car window with ammeter connected and someone else driving to see what affect the speed of the incoming airflow has on current draw. With IC engined Free Flight models I found the lightest yet most torsionally rigid structure was when the geodetic rbs. were close to 45 degrees. Lightest yet most durable covering I have discovered is 5 micron Mylar then covered with lightweight Esaki Jap tissue doped on with three coats of 50/50 nitrate dope.

I had a friend that had a similar motor/ESC issue with a RC plane. The ESC would run a similar motor but not the one mounted on the plane. Turns out he lost the grub/set screw and just stuck in a screw he had laying about his workshop. Replacing that screw with the proper one, fixed the issue. I am a retired industrial electronic technician, I have seen similar issues on much larger motors. Modern brushless ESCs used to be referred to as 'sensor less', which has since been dropped. (The first brushless motors on the market had three leads for the motor, and a few more for a sensor inside the motor to set the timing for the speed control.) They read the returning pulse from the magnetic field of the motor coils to time when to output the pulse for the next winding. All that metal near the motor may have contributed your ESC being short lived as well.

I am a Australian and i purched a cox 2.5 motor from USA in 1957 had a lot of fun flying control line planes which we built from plans only problem was the cost of the fuel you have to use the best other wise it will sound like a dead duck i an sorry i sold it good luck to all,

Been there its a nice place

Amazing. Hope most of those models had spare tailplanes; none of the retrievers seemed to be looking for them ...

HOLA ME GUSTA LA MODALIDAD ,F1A Y. F1B,PREGUNTO SI ALGUIEN RSTA DISPUESTO A ENVIARME ALGUN PLANO O REVISTA QUE LO TENGA,GRACIAS.

Thank you for sharing your adventure of flights..always enjoyable.

Someone gave Caleb one of these at the 2022 indoor nats. I cranked in some extra dihedral and set him loose. He got a couple flights in the minute range in the buoyant Round Valley air.

Your flights on a cheap Guillows last longer than some of my insanely expensive gas r/c planes

Thank you for sharing some fun time...as a kid ai collected coke bottles to make change to purchase these at local neighborhood hobby shop..along with kites when able.

always interesting, Bill., Thanks!

Your in video title says it is a Sky Streak, a smaller airplane than the Strato Streak.

Strong gusty wind all week, have not been able to glide test for wing position. Made a best guess. Short powered flights, it gets tossed all over the place. Rain forecast for the weekend. Looks like I will miss this one. I have a stock Guillows Strato Streak with enhanced dihedral, a stock North Pacific Star Flyer and an American Junior Hornet. I just heard that The City Forest is planting more trees at the larger neighborhood park where I usually fly. There's another field about 40 miles away, but last time I was there it had been taken over by star thistle. Looks like you were making progress with your flights. Isn't 1:07 a minute and seven seconds, total of sixty seven seconds? Not a hundred and seven seconds. That's not a bad time for that plane, but it can do more. What percent of maximum turns are you using? Your motor may have more in it. Test a short loop to destruction to find the maximum.

Looks promising.

Thank you for sharing the fun of Freeflight .

This is awesome! Thank you

That's freeflight. Experiment, experiment.

You are pushing the limit when your rocket blows up. Try something stronger than construction paper. Estes rocket tubes? Plastic tubes? Mylar sheet with strapping tape. The next SO event.

Great attempts

Watching the kid build the model Stinson SR-7 Reliant took me back to how I got started building model planes around 1949, and "hooked" on iconic gull winged Stinson Reliants. I built the exact same kit , and a string of others by Berkeley, Sterling, latest was a Pat Tritle/Brodak SR-10 that I bashed into an SR-7 and decorated as the 1937 Pepsi-Cola corporate PR version. Still have the Park Zone foamy SR-10 in good flying condition. Plans for the simple 54" wingspan Comet Aeronca Chief, Aeronca "K" model and Taylorcraft are available on Outerzone.

Thank you for sharing...it'l be fun to fly..enjoy.

This is pretty informative and funny: COMET shows the Earth rotating in the wrong direction! This isn't the 1st time I've seen the Earth's rotation shown going the wrong direction! Many other documentaries have been wrong, also.

Thank you for taking the time to share..

Hey there , you are really doing a great job for the kids. I am also teaching kids at a school in India , Centre Point School. But finding it nearly impossible to procure proper material online , like the rubber , props , O rings etc. Can someone please help me as to how may I call for these material to India. I and my students will be very grateful.

Hey, boss. You've reminded me of a few things. Remember water rockets? I sure do. Then there's the Jimmy Walker ceiling walker, also known as an aerial torpedo. I actually have one still in the box, although the box is losing the molecular structure of cardboard. Easy to make with the kids. Then there was the time a few friends and I we're flying peanuts at a local schoolyard when this kid showed up with a Strato Streak. So we lubed up the rubber, cranked in a bunch of turns and handed it to him. You can imagine what happened next. 😮 Thanks for all you do for the hobby and the kids.

Incredible flight and what a wonderful venue! For the Texas State finals we were only given tiny room that is 70 x 45 and only 16ft tall (smaller than a standard basketball court in every dimension. 1st place for Div B was 2:42 which is stellar for the constraints.

Is that the Ikara prop, or a custom prop?

Fantastic flight. A little turbulent air at the top but a beautiful place to fly. Well done!

Excellent flight. Congrats to the modeler.

This video is a thing of beauty! What an amazing run!

There was quite a bit of well-deserved applause afterwards as well. 😊

Good flight

I love the "let it go and walk away".. these students don't need to worry, they KNOW what their model is going to do!

Really nice looking indoor site.

Thanks Nancy, it brought back many memories of building many comet kits. I never knew the history of the company, how about a comet museum?

I chased my father’s free flight models throughout the sixties in giant fields southeast of Sacramento. He was a meticulous builder who never used much of the balsa in the “Starduster” kits preferring to cut his own parts from hand selected balsa. He also mixed his own dopes for the tissue covering process. His models were works of art. He unfortunately passed away in his early fifties as a result of a lifetime of smoking and his many models remained in storage since the late seventies. They now hang high in my aircraft hangar. He did pass along his love of flying to me as I have spent my life in the cockpit of jets.

Thank you so much for this demonstration.

What a cool vid. Shows how little time invested in helping a child can influence their future. Thanks for sharing, it warmed the heart, even if it was an old film.

That looks like a Scientific Sky Master that is being build around the 8 minute mark.

so nice - what we lost because of the jew and their wars...

Wishing we could turn back time. Thank you for posting this.

Sure wish we could have films like this restored. Model aviation is very much a part of American history. It really should be preserved.

We flew 1/2 A on 28 foot lines in the Sixties.

Well done!

Flying control line models in the early Sixties led me to a 29 year career as a United Airlines pilot.

I did in 1962.

Great look into the past, golden age of model planes when tons of people participated. Not one ARF there.

Great video! I love these planes and escpecially the ones dating back from the '50s a century ago. Good to bring these old plans back to live using modern electronics and sometimes a little R/C. By the way 33:19 the contribution of Mark Freeland is golden!