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e-E-Sky Honey Bee- Lama- Belt CP- E-Smart > Video - Parallel Figure 8 Challenge

racin06
Veteran
Location: Indianapolis, IN

I don't believe anyone has presented this challenge. These are what I call parallel figure 8s. Unlike the traditional figure 8, in which the maneuver is performed perpindicular to yourself, this type of figure 8 is performed parallel to yourself. I guess you could also call these "north-south" figure 8s as opposed to "east-west" when describing the traditional figure 8. Anyway, the parallel variety is much more difficult to perform. You must be very comfortable with nose-in FF to perform the parallel figure 8. I believe many of you will find these fun and challenging to perform.

I would highly recommend either clicking on the video and viewing the high quality version in YouTube or viewing the high quality version at blip.tv. Have fun and post your parallel figure 8 videos!

High Quality - http://blip.tv/file/1421657?filenam...eSuperFP662.wmv

Today was an absolutely beautiful day to fly here in central Indiana!

11-02-2008 01:04 AM

DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

Here's mine racin

Sorry it took me so long

11-02-2008 01:18 AM

racin06
Veteran
Location: Indianapolis, IN

Yep...very nice, Doug. I also noticed you are performing those parallel figure 8s with a POS motorized tail heli

11-02-2008 01:22 AM

DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

Indeed I am racin

I didn't think it was possible

11-02-2008 01:24 AM

toolman18
Elite Veteran
Location: Portland, Texas

I vote to name the new maneuver............Racin 8's. Do i hear a second nomination?

I really loved those. I will get a video soon. Maybe tomorrow if its not blowing too much.

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11-02-2008 01:46 AM

dan the man
Senior Heliman
Location: Dorval, Quebec - Canada

Here's mine, just did it with the 4#3b in a very tight place.

11-02-2008 02:21 AM

TJinGuy
Elite Veteran
Location: Socorro, NM - USA

I second it. It sounds better than parallel 8s. I can not do them very well right now but I will try.

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11-02-2008 04:16 AM

shizack
Key Veteran
Location: Augusta, GA USA

"Racin 8's" - literally "Racin ovals" with a "twist". Aye.

So what do we have so far?
Toolman piros
Burleyman pop-ups
Racin ovals
Racin 8's

Who'd I miss?

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11-02-2008 07:47 AM

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DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

Shizack, Theres one called "Doing the fender' where you fly a large circle and within that circle you do piro's. It looked pretty cool.
Nice job "dan the man" harder than it looks in a very confined space with a very small heli

11-02-2008 12:31 PM

fenderstrat
Elite Veteran
Location: Aston,Pa

see now I must be different from everybody,I've been doing my 8's like that since day 1.its because of the shape of my back yard

has anyne been trying verticle 8's there 4 ways to do each orientation,and if you want to get your precision together,its awesome

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Theres one called "Doing the fender' where you fly a large circle and within that circle you do piro's

the piro is at the top of a sharply banked turn,it didn't seem to catch on,but i still do them all the time,it looks cool but easy to do

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11-02-2008 12:59 PM

TJinGuy
Elite Veteran
Location: Socorro, NM - USA

mfcrash has been doing the "piro at the top of a banked turn" for a while now but I just don't do "in motion" piros all that often.

I did something a long time ago that somebody said was called the TJ piro, that is where you leave the heli in one place and walk around it to work through all the orientations without having the heli have to move.

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11-02-2008 02:09 PM

DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

The TJ piro

It's a whole new way of RC ing. Leave the heli where it is and the pilot moves

I'm going to try that today TJ, it sounds harder than it looks, make sure you don't trip

11-02-2008 02:15 PM

TJinGuy
Elite Veteran
Location: Socorro, NM - USA

Yeah it is like patting your tummy while rubbing your head ... it is an odd skill that I am not sure is worth the effort but if you haven't tried it, you gotta do it once

- Chris

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11-02-2008 02:20 PM

DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

TJ, I tried it today--wicked hard

I almost tripped . I'm going to let the heli do the moving from now on. Although I can take the Heli for a walk like ShiZack does

11-03-2008 12:49 AM

slider46
rrProfessor
Location: Gloversville, NY

The vertical figure 8's will give your left thumb a good workout. It takes alot of collective management and you get some backwards flying time too.....

Tom..... No "D" flying....

11-03-2008 01:57 AM

DougsRC
Elite Veteran
Location: MA

In this one the heli is closer.

11-03-2008 12:11 PM

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