09-29-2019, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Ft. Thomas, KY
Posts: 8,620
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Lucky #7 would not be a first flight, but a first in full livery. I bought the Custom Dynamic Carrier off of Chan Stevens back in 2007, having fallen in love with the early Custom kits. Construction foul-ups and general malaise contributed to it not being finished for ten years, but the DC finally got airborne in 2017. In that time I had managed to misplace half of the decals, but they turned up several weeks ago, tucked into the folded up instructions for the Estes Bail Out. The C6-5 flight was fairly wiggly, something that most attributed to the forward fin design, but I thought might be due to the less than straight alignment. This bird definitely has third grade construction values. Still a fairly high flight with recovery deep in the soccer fields via what may be the last of the 18" checkerboard chutes that I got in a bulk buy on Ebay years ago. Best buy ever.
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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563
http://wallyum.blogspot.com/
I miss being SAM 0058
Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle
In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III
Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2
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