Fokker Dr1 Dancing Wings - Flight Club
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Dusting off some old and new models to fly.
I let you know what`s what and what these models can do.
You may want to buy one in the future.
Today we start with the Dancing Wings Fokker Dr1 Tri Plane.
The Red Baron!
First rule of flight club, don’t talk about flight club.
Blown away with the flight, and a prop hang. She looked great as well, love the sound track. Nothing wrong with the noice of a IC engine 😂
Thank you, you are a generous gentleman.
Yeah, always fancied doing one of these... I live in Germany (Ex Brot Squaddie) so the Germans would love to see this one in the air! Great flight👍
It’s the one model every one should build at least once in there lives.
@@thebarronflightsWell I bought it....build going well! How did you mount your motor... I'm puzzled... Got a Sunnysky X2212 1400kv...how did you fit yours... Pictures or info much appreciated! Ta very much.
Nice DR-1 !!! Fly’s great and the Pilot is not too bad ether 👍🏻✌🏻🖖🏻
Thank you, appreciate that.
Hi enjoying your video, My name is Paul Barron and have been flying RC 45 yrs myself and my Father Michael Barron sadly pass away three yrs ago age 86, won the Concours de Elagance Trophy at the David Bodington Scale day flying the Avro 504 K example as the one in the Shuttleworth
Paul,
Thank you for contacting me, well, you may be wondering why The Barron Flights at all?
Its quite simple, I was looking for a catchy name that people would remember.
So, it’s a borrow from the pop group The Barron knights with a double R.
Not because I liked them particularly, but because it has a certain ring to it.
I know the Avro 504, and I have been to the Shuttleworth collection.
To win the Concours de Elegance Trophy is quite the accolade indeed.
I bet your father was quite a builder.
I am not sure I could match that one.
I will give you a shout out in my next “Flight Club” video.
If you are enjoying the series then I hope you will like and subscribe and may be tell ya mates.
I make these videos mainly because people are losing the skills that were common when I was
a lad.
A bit like keeping a nice lawn I suppose.
I don’t know everything, no one does, but if I can get people interested in building then all the better.
But I have been advised by my club members to do more flying videos, so I am giving it a go.
I hope to use humour as much as I can.
Well, I have to go to my workshop now, I have to prep some Me 109`s in the hope of encouraging
others in my club to fly some spits and Hurricanes for September.
Well, that is the plan anyway.
Thanks again, I appreciated your time.
Nick.
Cool beans, nice plane for sure.
Pulled mine out two weeks ago and fly almost every evening that's not blowing up a storm here in the Catskills of NY.
Thanks for your comments. Well, the weather has been very rainy since Christmas here in the UK, and we had a slot of good flying this spring which did not last long as the rain has returned.
I did visit NY a few years back, that was a windy place what with the air breezing in off the Atlantic.
But I would think up un the mountains there should be some good slope soaring?
Talking of which may make a good video, as I have a Spitfire fun fighter that fly’s very well on a slope.
@@thebarronflights It would be great slope soaring were there not the forest, but I have some really great thermal sailing fields. A small 5 acre field is right out my back door & its easy to take advantage of with small sail planes. A much bigger 20 acre field is a 15 minute hike but suits the bigger sailplanes. I actually like sailplanes, slope or thermal, best because it seems a bit more challenging.
Nick amazing looking and flying Dr1. Great flying, I thought you had a Ghost Pilot 😊😅. Jeff in LA USA
Shooooooosh, some one may hear you.🤗🤣
Lands great in trees! Try it sometime 😀
I have to say, I was most impressed that you got those chaps in the highab to fetch it out for you. That would never happen in the UK.
Beautiful job of the covering Nick, looks glorious on the ground and in the air!
Thank you Tim. That’s the original coverage.
I just changed the servos, motor and prop. The rudder would not centralise so finely got around to it.
I am glad I did now. Fly’s much much better. Yours flew great first time, so hats off to you really.
Fun video Nick, enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you Cliff. I appreciate that. Top man.
@@thebarronflights One other thought, I might be worth mentioning in the description this is the small Dr.1 from DW, we wouldn't want a potential builder being put off due to the price of the larger one!
A cracking video Nick. Yer lookin a bit like Jeremy Clarkson my friend !!
Ya know, the amount of people who say that is staggering.
I wish I was a better builder and a better flyer, because then I could say
( In the world)!
Just keep practising and give the jet washing the patio a break!
Good to meet and speak to you last weekend
Hello Paul, yes thank you, and the weather gods were smiling too!
I have turny bright orange 🍊
That sound track absolutely made me crease!
is that good or bad? 🤔
@@thebarronflights it was fucking great!
Nice Flight!
Thank you.
Hi Nick. I'm building the 1m dancing wings dr1 at the moment. Does yours have dihedral in the wings? and any hints on cg. thanks.
Vimy, Thank you for your question.
This is a particularly good question for the Dr1 which is not an easy build for a first attempt.
To answer your first question, reference the dihedral, No, there is no dihedral worth mentioning.
This is on purpose, a deliberate design to be unstable, because it is meant to be a manoeuvrable fighter.
C of G, never trust the instructions, especially with dancing wings.
I used the rule of thumb and law of averages, to start, use the middle wing as your base measurement.
Divide the root measurement in to 3.
Example, if you measure from the leading edge of the middle wing to the trailing edge, and let’s say that is 100mm, you divide that by 3.
This equals 33.3 mm.
Measure this from the leading edge back towards the trailing edge.
That is your start point and register this as your
C of G on the middle wing.
Remember, every model is different, some are built tail heavy by the modeler, and some are not.
Once you are ready to fly, you will need to adjust that position after a test flight a few millimetres, back or forth to get it just right.
🤔Flying inverted will be a great guide because if you have the model trimmed hands off and you fly inverted, and the nose points upwards, then you are tail heavy. Further, also remember, this is a snub-nosed aircraft, the tail will naturally be heavy, so you will need a lot of weight in the nose to compensate.
I hope this is of some use to you.
Good luck and god’s speed.
Let me know how you get on.
@@thebarronflights Thanks Nick. I'm an experienced builder, just the laser cut spars in the kit seem to be shaped for the center ribs to be set at an angle. I have now glued the wings to be flat. Of course there are no instructions.I have a Sato 50 to go up front so should be plenty of weight up there. I may remove some of the ply at the rear of the fuse as there seems to be a huge excess. A gram off the back 10 grams off the front.
@@vimy385 Vimy, my wings join in the centre on the top wing, and so no separate centre section.
just a totally dumb (antique) design. three effing wings and stabs that are a design disaster.
In some ways yes, you are correct. But aircraft where in their infancy. Thank you for your comment.