The official Riff-Raff thread (never ending engine thread, East/West)

[Sibola]

As Canadians we are so far behind the Americans when it comes to healthcare. Repeating this for all of you is about all I can do to close the gap.

U.S. health officials issue reminder: Condoms are not reusable

SEX
Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore .....
A friend of mine was wearing one when he was
shot by the woman’s husband.

[itizme]

Today I maidened my AJ Aircraft Raven with the DA70 and servos from the 93” AJ Laser I sold. It flies great, I got 2 flights on each of the wing sets. Here’s a photo with one of each wing installed just for fun.

Saw a nice video, nice plane, great setup, awesome pilot.

[rpm]

Saw a nice video, nice plane, great setup, awesome pilot.

well thanks for the kind words... here is the video - Maiden 92" AJ Raven with Edge wings.

I've mostly been flying Extras and Lasers for a while and was craving an Edge. Really like the way this model gives the option for both. Looking forward to getting more stick time on both, it seems like the Edge wings are better for high alpha, low, slow (probably tumbles too but not tried yet) and the double taper wing better for scale aerobatic type flying

Flies much lighter than my 93" Laser did and I switched this one to a rear exit canister, my Laser had front exit which may have robbed some power

https://youtu.be/N8JZtXZtf2s

[Always Flying]

Well done Paul! Nice plane

[Buck Tracker]

FINALLY maidened the 111" Egde, ya big floater as advertised!! What am most impressed with was the GP 123 right out of the box, started to rip the 29x9 on the second flight. I leaned the low end from factory a couple blades and then its ripping that prop easy. Temps stayed in the 260-290 range, as usual the forward cylinder is hotter. It took my 120 about 90 flights to reach this level of prop rip. Day was cut short as the canopy dowels both went MIA, had epoxied them in but apparently the glue did not adhere to the carbon fibre.

[Bhughes]

FINALLY maidened the 111" Egde, ya big floater as advertised!! What am most impressed with was the GP 123 right out of the box, started to rip the 29x9 on the second flight. I leaned the low end from factory a couple blades and then its ripping that prop easy. Temps stayed in the 260-290 range, as usual the forward cylinder is hotter. It took my 120 about 90 flights to reach this level of prop rip. Day was cut short as the canopy dowels both went MIA, had epoxied them in but apparently the glue did not adhere to the carbon fibre.

Sweet dean good to hear. Boo on the dowels.

[Bhughes]

PEI is one of my favorite places in Canada. I will summer there when I retire

I would love to live there again just no money. There is a cottage draw there for charity. You win a fully finished and furnished cottage just need a plot of land. There’s your summer home better buy some tickets lol

[Buck Tracker]

Sweet dean good to hear. Boo on the dowels.

LOl ya even after i added glue, no worries. balanced came out just a hair behind the wing tube, a full 3" back of the manuals stupid recommended spot and it's still nose heavy

[Bhughes]

LOl ya even after i added glue, no worries. balanced came out just a hair behind the wing tube, a full 3" back of the manuals stupid recommended spot and it's still nose heavy

Yeah not sure what they think balanced is overseas lol. My laser is half inch behind where it’s tail heavy in their books. And still slightly nose heavy lol. Only thing i can do is heavier servo in the tail, put a battery tray in the turtle deck, or the dreaded lead weights on the tail.

[Buck Tracker]

Rodger that, ya I'm gonna fly it like it is for what few times I will get out before guiding season and then I'll switch it from pull/pull to push pull, that will cure it. Really just want to get some fuel thru the motor. This is the first plane I have flown without weighing it first LOL but I am impressed with the vertical pull out on the 123, the airframe is quite draggy which is what I wanted so happy happy thus far, not sure this motor needs pipes other than to tame down the noise haha