C-17 On snow Maiden Flight

by Chiu443 | November 11, 2013 | (5) Posted in Projects

 

So this is my porbably 3 flight with my c-17 got it for christmas and i just couldn't to fly so i did not XD and it was great that i didn't or else i might never have been able to put skis on my c-17 :D

I have recently moved were there is no snow so my next big project shall be to make my c-17 be able to go on water ;) it is gonna be a fun adventure 

Here are how the skis look and thumbs up for my vids please means alot

so first you get really big skis and you measure it to 24.5cm because when you start lifting off you dont want to rest of the ski to stay on the ground and kinda pushing it down. So basically you want to stop were the normal wheels would stop

 

So this if the front ski nothing complicated this is the original ski i did not change anything about it. I only made the whole bigger the fit the elastic like that it stays stuck to the wheel's and while its flying the front of the ski goes up and not down like that you get a great landing

 

So here is what i used you see the little things that go in the wholes of the big ski, We'll basically i but one on each of them and made sure that they stayed there. Since there are sooooooo many wheels on the plane basically you a good long piece of the t-shirt hanger and you stick under the metal of the ski, the little piece and then you kinda just try to bend the stick into all the wheeels and make it stay there it worked perfectly for as you see

Have fun with what you have its a hobbie :)

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andre on November 12, 2013
I know that park :)
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Chiu443 on November 12, 2013
you from ottawa?
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andre on November 12, 2013
Yes we fly out of the park weekly ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5f8fRAG9m4
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Chiu443 on November 12, 2013
Damn i just moved lol
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enivid on November 17, 2013
Ottawa guy here what park is this?
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andre on November 18, 2013
Millenium Park in Orleans
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KhostrRC on November 12, 2013
Excited to see how you do the water floats :)
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Chiu443 on November 12, 2013
yeah its gonna be hard tho cause to make the wing tips not tpugh the water its a big problem
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rcflyer729 on November 12, 2013
That is neat
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earthsciteach on November 12, 2013
That plane looks great in the air! Nice landing.
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Chiu443 on November 12, 2013
thank you :)
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C-17 On snow Maiden Flight