Temecula Valley Flyers est 1988
Dec 2011
Romeo Balos with his 3D Extra 260.
Nov 2011
Ed Kutcharas Beautiful Blue Butterfly by Dynaflight. He covered it himself and it is absolutely gorgeous.
Power by and OS 15 size motor, two controls for the rudder and elevator. Looks great and flys great on 4 oz tank.
Oct 2011
Ed Soleau with his wonderful vintage (25 yrs old)
Sig Kadet Senior that was built and belonged to his father.
Ed stated that "My late Dad's big yellow Sig Kadet Senior flew today, 7 Oct '11! The plane is 25 years old and has been following me around since I brought it from Nampa, Idaho to Dallas in the back of my full-size Cessna 172 a dozen years ago. From there it moved to Arkansas, back to Texas and then to Temecula in December. I had to do a few minor repairs to the wing tip and patch a small hole in the wing due to careless movers and I installed new 2.4 gig radios and new servos since the old radio did not comply with current FCC regs. Other than that, it "flew right off the bench". No balancing, trimming or adjustments needed! After the first flight one of the guys stated: "well, your Dad really knew how to build an airplane, that's for sure!" A nice tribute for a life-long modeler that I'm sure he heard.
Sept 2011
Marc Guerra and Jim Brauch with their stunning Talorcraft and yes they both fly well!!!!!
The Taylor-Craft (or T-Craft) was a design created between Mr. Piper and Mr. Taylor who were involved in the business of producing Piper Cubs in the 30s and 40s and were very successfully. Mr. Taylor had some ideas that side-by-side seating as well as a control wheel instead of a stick would be a more civilized way to promote small aircraft sales. The pilot and passenger could carry on a conversation-something missing in the Cub. Mr. Piper thought that side-by-side seating would sacrifice performance due to the increased frontal area of the fuselage. As a result, they decided to go their separate ways and the Taylorcraft was born. As a result, it turns out performance (cruising speed) was not affected; also the T-Craft had a rather long wingspan (40 ft) making it a very stable plane to fly. These wings, of course, were clipped in the Hangar Nine version, for faster roll rate. A stick was also added, since this is a more natural way to do aerobatics than a control wheel.
Jim has a special connection to his T-Craft as in bring back happy memories. In 1948 (the year he was born) this was the same aircraft his Dad owned and flew. As Jim grew up, it was the first airplane that he ever flew in. Jim has memories growing up around small airports and small planes. Being a fabric covered airplane in those days (1960's) the fabric covering that was used on our T-Craft was cotton, which meant you had to re-cover your plane every 10 or so years due to damaging ultra-violet rays. He remembers many weekends at the airport working on that plane! Jim even paid the ultimate tribute to his Dad as he applied the T-Craft "N" number (N64J) to his model in honor of his Dad. What a story and wonderful way to remain every so young at heart.
July 2011
Les Crooks new FunJet...Powered by a small outrunner used in his 400 sized helicopter, pearl paint and a 3 cell lipo---Pretty and Fast!
