It actually met its poetic fate with the cows, who it apparently crashed into.  Unfortunately, they make more. 

QuoteYeah, that landing gear.....!

Not my favorite, for sure.  The real thing sits pretty low to the ground.  Wally and I were going to modify it to make it more scale, but since this was a prototype build, we had to do it out of the box.  The main gear could have been cut down pretty easily, but it would have been a little work to modify the nose strut.  The kit comes with 4 1/2 inch main wheels, we used 3 1/4 inch instead and it looks a little better.  But that tall gear will keep you out of the cow patties!! 

Going to try again tomorrow to fly the Skyraider.

Jaime, is this the same Skyraider?  He mentioned there were 2 others in Texas....

https://youtu.be/_-n-r9lI5NY

I never realized they made a side by side version of the Skyraider.

But man 12 cell, 7k mah batteries works out to what, about 12 bucks a minute of flight time. Ouch.  Sure makes an expensive gas engine look appealing even with gas at 4 bucks.

I saw one once....somewhere in Washington. The thing is huge! It had a door on the side and could carry something like 12 people inside the fuselage!

Yeah Lectrics start getting expensive when you get over 6 cells....

If you want a little history on the Skyraider, and a ride-along, check out this pirep from Budd Davisson:

http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepAD-5.2.html

QuoteJaime, is this the same Skyraider?  He mentioned there were 2 others in Texas...

Nony, it is indeed.  That's Chris, the RC Geek, out in Kalifornia.  He's one of our team members, and that airplane is in one of several schemes offered on the model.  The others are the Navy gray, USAF camo and a bare ready to cover version.  I'm trying to talk the boss into adding a white and red training scheme. The two others he mentions are the gray one that Wally and I have, and a camo bird that one of the other team members, Larry H., is finishing in a South Vietnamese camo scheme.  The gray one is ready to go, but weather has not been cooperating with us for first flights, been really windy out here.

The first prototype single seat Skyraider that Wally and I did was electric, but didn't last long.  On a flight at Bomber, the motor overheated due to too much prop pitch, which fried the speed controller, and it crashed.  We have an electric expert now, he's in Florida.
This Skyraider is better done as a gasser.  Those big batteries ain't cheap, and neither are the speed controllers.

Thanks for the info!!

I saw a pair of 2 seaters (?) at a warbird show in Williams AZ 20 some years ago in CG colors and was told were trainers. All I remember was how loud those puppies were.