First flight and “landing” of the HobbyKing Cessna RC model plane
Here is the maiden flight of (and subsequent damage to) Ron’s Hobby King Cessna 182 foamie RC model airplane. Note the cheerful banter and encouraging words that can be heard on any Sunday at the South Waikato Model Aero club as the members gladly assist in helping a follow modeler to fix is damaged model. Yeah – right!
This is a video of me landing at night in a Cessna 150. Sorry about the night shot, it was the only way to see everything. This flight was for my long cross country for my commercial pilot training. I flew from Salisbury, MD (KSBY) to Wilmington, NC (KILM), to Norfolk, VA (KORF) and returned to Salisbury. Notice the horrible nose-wheel shimmy haha. The plane is old.
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My first solo flight at 14hrs total instruction time. All three takeoff/landings in late evening at KFWS, Cessna 172 – 8488X, winds calm, wife and kids watching from west ramp cheering me on, camera rolling, pretty much everything in place. Was very nervous as made apparent when talking to ATC before initial taxi from east ramp, and during my hold-short at runway 35L, I didn’t repeat the ATC clearance correctly, kinda backwards actually, I nearly forgot the call sign of my plane so stuck with 88 X-ray like I normally do. =) All in all it went very well and I felt much more confident afterwards. Thanks to the folks at Fly Texas Now and my instructor Shawn for getting me this far so quickly. Time to grind to the end and get that check ride!
Hi Everyone We finally got the Cessna 310 maiden flight in, with the assistance of a lot of my RC friends and special thanks to Chris M and Chris O !! The flight was awesome, as you will see and hear her scream by…Enjoy!! Thanks to my wonderful wife for the filming and putting up with me.you’re the best..
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