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Posted: 2024/August/04 at 6:52pm  Quote
 
We finally got around to doing the maiden flight on the Trash Panda Hellcat.

At 53lbs rtf, it flies very nicely and with the DLE111, it really hauls butt, it has nice slow flight characteristics as well.


Maiden flight video








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Posted: 2024/August/04 at 7:00pm  Quote
 
Nicely done Thomas, nicely done!

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Man Thomas, That was nice!!! Did you have a build thread here on RCSB. If so I totally missed it. I saw from the video information that it was a fiberglass fuse that you rescued from a trash can hence the name. That is a fine and powerful flying airplane right there! Congratulations!!!


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Posted: 2024/August/04 at 7:23pm  Quote
 
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Nicely done Thomas, nicely done!


Thanks Scot!

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Man Thomas, That was nice!!! Did you have a build thread here on RCSB. If so I totally missed it. I saw from the video information that it was a fiberglass fuse that you rescued from a trash can hence the name. That is a fine and powerful flying airplane right there! Congratulations!!!<br>



It was a “sorta-build” thread.   I didnt update it a ton due to lack of interest and it originally didnt start out as a project that was going to get much detail, but that didnt last long. Lol


It did come from trash pile, but didnt take much work to fix the fuselage.




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Posted: 2024/August/05 at 12:28am  Quote
 
Nicely done Thomas.

Is that how you found it in the trash, wheels, retracts, electronics etc. still installed and just thrown away?

 

 
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Is that how you found it in the trash, wheels, retracts, electronics etc. still installed and just thrown away?
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No, all of that was stripped out. We were able to get the gear from the previous ownee though.

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Good Job T she really scoots thats for sure, looks awesome!



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