I was always R/C from the 70's, never understood rubber powered free flight modeling. Now I do thanks to you and it's far more than just the model flying like R/C. Your videos show all that one gets from this form. Thank You much Tom.❤

Wow! Just wow! All of it, thank you

Always a work of art within the natural beauty of those sunrise and sunset hours. So relaxing to see those classic free flight models flying overhead and then with those fantastic colors as a background. You should get an award for excellence for your videography as well as your modelling skills.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. It was a magical day.

Does it ever get better than that? Lovely, just lovely.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

My feelings exactly. Glad I made a day of it.

You make rubber powered free-flight an art. Awesome.

Beautiful

Your videos are always a balm for the soul.Thanks a lot and Happy New Year.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx....the same is true for me during the flying. Heaven on earth.

just a perfect day , just a perfect fly thanck at you ......

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Yes, a perfect day of cheap thrills!!

That Spartan Bomber is sure a beautiful model. And flies so nice too.🥸

It is something magical in rubber powered models.

Beautiful as always.

The blast tube proved to be invaluable.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Cheap insurance, and worth the extra few seconds it takes to install one.

I realized that you spend 9 hours on the field and many more editing and creating this video. It is Wonderful! Thank you! The music score was perfect with the scenery and serenity of your experience. This may be your best yet, so pleasant to watch.

Simply gorgeous.

Of all the cameral angles and sun rises I've seen on KZread they are the best here.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx, it's fun planning out the angles as the sky and drift direction changes.

Thanks for the remind. You throw the inspire for pepil. You put me big happy to make the friend at you. Soon The fly I also make! Love You Tommy

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Ditto, Brother.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing the joy of flight with all of us. I don't know how you do it and I can't imagine how many hours of editing you put into each wonder that your videos are!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. It's time well spent.

Looks like a great day of flying, and great turnaround with the Spartan after such a big motor burst!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

That Spartan is a beast. And she's the closest OTR to what a scale model looks like in the blue. Always a pleasure to fly her. You should build one, OS. Brooklyn Balsa would be happy for sure.

❤ Gollywock ❤ She is like a penguin. Slightly ungainly until she gets into her element. Unsurpassed Mesmerising enchanting KZread as always. Thank you. Compliments of the season to you and your family. ❤

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx for the kind words. Cheers to the new Year!

Magnificent! Thanks for sharing. You really captured the beauty and magic of flight. And great timing with the winter solstice. Well done!

Completely beautiful.

As an "armchair modeler," this channel continues to entertain, amaze and uplift me. I admire the dedication of our host: even one of the shortest days of the year could seem long when outdoors all day in freezing temperatures ... unless, perhaps, our host is just too busy with his exploits and pleased with his results to notice. I especially like the Gollywock, which I first saw on this channel a few years ago. Although I appreciate and enjoy flying models based on actual planes, there's something to be said for designing mainly to explore the potential of balsa and paper and not with a view to looking like something in particular.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. I was late coming to the joy of the old-time rubber models. Their duration and beauty in the sky, any time of day, has turned my head in a huge way these past few years. It's what my dad saw flying back in the 30s, so it all makes it especially enjoyable, and full circle.

Beautiful!!!!! As always! Well-built and well trimmed models, and some of the very best video footage of model airplane flying I've ever seen on KZread. Perfect combination of the best models and flying on a perfect flying day (except for the temperatures, of course!). Keep up the beautiful video work of gorgeous models for all us other "hackers" to enjoy! Thanks!!!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx for the kind words. Cheers!

What a video !! Best wishes for all modelers out there !!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Likewise.

Thank you for making these videos, happy new year!

My father used to say, "Slow down. You'll last longer." It's hard to imagine a rubber FF guy flipping someone off or cutting in and out of traffic or being anxious about the highly strung world we live in. It's one of the few peacemaking human things that remain. That is except for 4:27! LOL There is far more to experience, see, and be grateful for when we ignore the "faster and easier" solutions to everything. Beautiful work in front of and behind the camera!

All the best foru you and your family for 2024 and thanks for all the lovely videos.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. Cheers!

man you fly amazing! keep it up.

Thanks for our Christmas present

Tom, you earned those great flights for braving the cold weather. Beautiful from sunrise to sunset. Happy New Year.

The propeller must like that cold dense air.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

I find it all incredible. They all flew much better than I'd ever imagine.

Beautiful...

Very nice, Tom. Hope you and yours had a good Christmas 🎄. Blessings for a good 2024🎉

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx, Paul. Cheers to you and your family in 2024.

Wonderful 👌🏻 A joy to watch 😊

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm still waiting for the book and I'll pay more for the signature. I love your videos and thank you so much for the educational series but I can't watch them when the powers off or the WiFi doesn't reach. You know books better than most. 2024 just feels like the year when simplicity will come again. God bless us all. Happy New Year.

Good stuff, Bubs.

WOW. Now I know why you guys wind your motor rubber in a plastic or cardboard tube. That really saved the model.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Really saved my arsenal this time. It's a good preventative routine, since you never know when it'll break.

Wow Tom! Another fun video! It is always fun to see a Gollywock flight! The steep climb, then the good. stable flight! LOVED the Spartan Bomber flights too, though, I think my heart stopped when the rubber broke. But it started again when I saw the plane was NOT disintegrating and I knew you had a blast tube in! The ROG performance was special! The plane that really amazes me when I see it on your videos is the Jabberwock! MAN that is NICE! The DT setup on that one is amazing too! Just seems to float slowly down pretty vertically! The Dynamoe is also a fascinating design!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

The OldTime Rubber jobs are so much fun. I love them all.

You are to free flight what Rodney Mullen is to skating, the skill to not only build but trim something to fly so well is something I haven’t mastered in 30-something years of flying although I fly too much RC and never gave FF my full focus. I feel inspired to after every video you share.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad u enjoy them. Thx for the kind words.

Tom, Your works are legendary. Happy New Year to you and your family.

Beautiful. Seems like Gollywock nearly reached the Moon. Happy New Year Tom. Noel

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx, pal. She indeed is something special. I’m forever smiling when I release her. Enjoy the holidays. Cheers!

Absolutely magical. Thank goodness for blast tubes, it would have been such a shame to see that beautiful Spartan Bomber implode.. As it was, the very thing that made it so much more likely on a molecular level that a motor might go, in the event facilitated the breathtaking ROG.. I'd like to comment further on this lovely film in the coming days, I have thoughts on the benefits of having those little under fins when seeking air currents in cold air, I mean, especially in the last (Gollywock) flight you can clearly SEE the ship putting herself into the slight forward facing current.. Cold is a leveller, a real test, and one which ALL these exceptional planes pass with flying colours! Thank you so much for showing us this, and have a great Christmas and a happy new year Tom! ⭐⭐⭐⭐👍

@UguysRnuts

7 ай бұрын

I was waiting for a motor to explode. Incredibly violent!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx for the kind words, William. Cheers to the New Year.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

I wasn't...but I'm glad the tube was there!! :-D

Jabberwok is a real flyer. I still have an unbuilt Midwest kit. I have to get to it.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great way to start 2024!! I built mine in a couple of weeks. Plus it's always fun to carve a new prop...13.5" in the case of the Dyna-Moe, Gollywock & Jabberwock. Then get a box of 3/16" & 1/4" rubber, 'cause they'll love it...and use it in big chunks.

@johnmajane3731

7 ай бұрын

@@maxfliart I must have two dozen built planes in the basement that have not flown. We don't have anywhere to fly them that is big enough.

Fenomenalne ujęcia i kolory. Bardzo fajne loty , serdecznie pozdrawiam z Polski 😊

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Dzięki za miłe słowa. Wszystkiego najlepszego w Nowym Roku!

If anyone ever doubted your enthusiasm, this video would dispel that. It's obvious you live and breathe free flight. I can think of a lot worse ways to spend a lifetime. For me, it's always been radio control. I've got turbine jets, big radial powered war birds and even helicopters but I would not consider my endeavors one bit more valid than your beautiful creations and the flight thereof (that you record so fantastically).

@maxfliart

4 ай бұрын

Thx, Mitch. I tried RC many years ago, but quickly realized the immediate and constant focus it required. While I enjoyed it at the time, a decade later, I came to fully embrace the more gentle, passive nature of FF, and I was hooked. It has its moments, but for the most part, it's my juice, and I long for it more often than not, when free time allows.

What a great day of flying! Your dedication is amazing, my guess is that on a day that cold there isn’t much competition for airspace. Can you really call it ROG when lift off takes place in less than a fuselage length?

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx...yeah, I had the field to myself. I suspect the Spartan's 'feet' were cold, and wanted to leap off the turf asap.

Absolute poetry in motion as aways. What is your secret to winding the rubber in that sort of cold? I find that I get the rubber knotting out to the side by mid turns when flying in lower temps. Or it simply gives up and snaps like you got with the Spartan..... It's OK for short test hops but you seem to be getting decent height and climb angle.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. I didn't do anything differently. Only after the new motor broke on its second winding, did I start to back off what would've been max turns in warmer temps. I didn't notice any change to how the rubber reacted inside. Mostly I was impressed and surprised by how well the models still flew...and even had enough duration in some cases to use the DT. But 18º is probably cold enough to challenge the integrity of the rubber...

Tom, beautiful as always...I want to say thank you for inspiring some of us to take up a hobby we left behind us in childhood. I do have one question. Where do you find the music for your videos? It is always perfect.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. There's a beauty to free-flight that needs to never be forgotten, so I'm pleased to hear when folks like yourself take another look. Enjoy it. The benefits are many throughout the entire process. I always list the music in the film description, sometimes the specific tunes. There are many royalty free services available, but in the past I've used Motion Array and most recently, artlist.io. Thx for asking.

What wonderful farmland, sky, models, and flights! ... Seems like many of the aircraft have a much larger horizontal stabilizer (relative to the main wing) than is typical on a full-scale aircraft. Any idea why that is?

@UguysRnuts

7 ай бұрын

To compensate for the inability to actively counteract yaw with a controllable rudder?

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

@@UguysRnuts For sure. The increases stab and rubber area leads to better stability with our little rubber FF models. The stab is typically 25% the area of the wing, and the rudder between 12-15%. Props dia. is around 33% the wingspan. It's all a starting point at least. Then the fun begins... But if you go with scale sizes, you'll spend a lot time being frustrated and disappointed.

At 3:57 in the video you show a close up of the plane coming in for a landing. Were you lucky enough to have a camera right there or did you restage that landing (most likely). Either way, it's a great effect!

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. Well it takes spontaneity, planning, & a bit of luck, but my elves are everywhere on that field.

@UguysRnuts

7 ай бұрын

@@maxfliart Old time FX/Propmaster here. When I saw that part my impression was it was shot as a separate insert like a glide test. Whatever you did, it worked.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. I enjoy the movie magic, and whatever it takes to complete the story of a flight.

@whhsfordian

7 ай бұрын

@@maxfliart OK, I went back and looked a little more closely and the drainage ditch did you in! It is not the same section of ditch in the before and after clips! But Great effect and much appreciated!! LOL!!

Wonderful as always! And a northern harrier to boot! Does temperature impact the performance of the rubber?

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Thx. Yes, the cold drops performance to torque at least 10%, maybe more. It's hard to say.

Now why didn’t I have a plastic blast tube 60 years ago !! 🤔😊.

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Haha...yeah...they would have saved a lot of ships for sure.

I thought the planes were so fragile that you'd only want to fly when the grass was tall....

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, sometimes....but these OTRs are a bit more sturdy, so they're always up to the challenge of a beefier landing.

Max the music of your videos it's amazing, where did you got?

Could I ask do you dope your covering?

@maxfliart

7 ай бұрын

No, I use a dusting of Krylon clear or matte. It's not water resistant like dope, but the bonus is that it prevents the continual shrinking of the tissue, and prevents warps. Looks lousy in the damp air, but amazingly, these OTRs still fly.