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  1. I’m responding by ignoring pointless speculation, pessimists, doom mongers and those that look to the past with rose tinted spectacles. Rather I rejoice at still being able to partake in this wonderful pastime & enjoy the ever increasing quantity & quality of products that are available from all around the globe. …and I look forward to my next flying session and the sheer joy I experience when flying my models.
    7 points
  2. What’s the correct way to address a media studies graduate? ”I’d like large fries with that”.
    7 points
  3. I began flying R/C when I was a kid and have been into the hobby for 60 years. It seems I just forgot to grow out of it. Yes, the hobby/sport has changed, but I prefer to call it "evolved". The advances in technology have been fabulous to behold. Personally, I simply look forward to my next flying session rather than lament the so-called "good old days". The equipment we have now surpasses anything we could have imagined 60 years ago, and it just becomes more fun as time goes by. I have been involved in introducing the game to youngsters. . Their enthusiasm to have a go remains the same, BUT in the past many were keen enough to take up the hobby. Today's youngsters can't be bothered to invest the time to learn the skills required to fly a model. They would rather keep their noses pointed at a mobile phone. I stop at red lights and also have respect for pedestrians. Plus, I laugh at the sight of people dressed in lycra, so I probably wouldn't be allowed to get involved in cycling. ? That means I shall carry on being a model flyer. . . . Could be a title for a film, eh. ?
    3 points
  4. hello Erfolg,the hobby which is now classed as a sport has changed...yes we still fly toy aircraft,but how we do and how we are allowed to do it has changed.the equipment we use is readily available and the choice is immense,the shops that were known as model shops hardly exist,probably because of the internet. Everyone wants instant gratification, buy it today, fly it tomorrow...no sitting around for weeks building, and trying to find the bits we need. we think a few £100 is a lot of money,but money isnt worth what it was,and there are plenty who are happy spending it on the RC hobby...the world is changing and so is RC modelling, I don't think that this generation and the ones that follow are bothered about the "traditional " modelling world we evolved from......they look at it all different.....like it or not we are fast becoming dinosaurs...... ken anderson...ne...1........Jurassic dept.
    3 points
  5. And a removable top-cover too. I love the shape of this bit; this is probably why I bought the Scorpion. You can see a couple of 'spare' fuselage pieces in the plastic container on the bench; I have no ide where they're supposed to go ?. But I daren't throw them away; just in case !
    2 points
  6. Spent the last few days or at least a couple of hours in the evenings doing a little covering of the wings and hinging the ailerons using a top hinge techniques with the heat shrink fabric then cracked on installing the ailerons servos, hitec mini metal gear in this case side mounted onto hard wood blocks that are glued onto the ply plates with arm passing through a slot and short 2mm wire link to the ailerons a bit more paint work now required before final set and then off to the field. Linds
    2 points
  7. We already have a rule, each individual is responsible for his/her own actions, cost of the model is irrelevant, no matter how much blame shifting rears it's head.
    2 points
  8. I built the Boulton Paul Defiant (Chris Gold plan ) but not flown it yet . The model is electric powered with 6s lipos and retracts and flaps. Has anyone built this model and flown it yet
    1 point
  9. I'm not convinced IC is on its way out. I'm newish to the hobby, about 2 years in and all my models are IC apart from a small foam spitfire that is yet to fly due to my skills. I really don't mean to offend anyone but how many models do people actually need? Yes the cost is quite high but divided by the number of years you may use it, I don't think it is that bad really. Seeing some of the things people buy these days, I think something for a hobby that lasts is a good purchase. Eating out, coffees and takeaways are becoming so normal now. Everyone has a new car, posh phone, monthly subscriptions. There is money to be saved and spent if people want to.
    1 point
  10. Whilst I have embraced electric power, I draw the line at 4s. Beyond 4s it just becomes stupidly expensive..... and a single Lipo can easily cost more than a case of Prosynth. ? Therefore, I.C. power is very much alive and well in my hangar.
    1 point
  11. With respect to recruitment of new modellers or fliers, I have tried with my family, in recent times with my three granddaughters. With the first it was scene of a prehistoric site with cave, lots of pappy mashie, painting with spray brush. Then a weather system model, using polystyrene, plaster, other mixed materials, again with spray brush and airbrush (foam on waves, speckled grass rocks and water fall. Then an "X" type fighter, from a foam type board, which i hoped would glide after a fashion. Finally just a week back a moving railway engine (the option was a moving vehicle). The picture of this cardboard and printed model is below. All the others there are no longer any images. The last, involved some maths Pi, scaling from internet pictures of a DRG class 80, 3d modelling, slicing, 3d printing. In all cases project done, I need to get back to my X box games, with all three girls. I tried introducing them to the cheap 27, £20 quid type models. I briefly though I had hooked one, who loved her multiplex foam chucky. All to no avail, beyond a transient interest. Every day here light aircraft pass overhead, the occasional Typhoon is seen, mostly heard, nothing magical with aircraft for many today. My model flight simulator, is just boring. There is nothing to blast. It is me that has failed, although I guess I am not alone. As for these +£300 models, I am not interested in paying so much for something I will crash. Then again my ARTF models have been somewhat lacking in build quality (must be the low price I paid). Like a previous contributor I now tend to live for the moment, and more often than not, with my increasingly imperfect self builds. Although if I spend £100, it tends to be over some time.
    1 point
  12. I tend to agree with Nigel R. The 90s and 00s were almost a golden age for many modellers when Chine in particular could make complex mechanical, electrical and electronic items, which included shipping, at 'pocket money' prices due to both the sales volume involved and relatively cheap labour. It is not surprising that ART and RTF became so popular as they were available at prices clearly below that of a kit. Several world events have rather altered the equation so I fear there will a significant reduction in conventional aeromodelling to a point that is actually below what it was before the Golden age due to not only from the normal aging losses but also many of the ARTF and RTF devotees will 'drop our' rather than accept the higher costs or be willing to change to any form of cheaper home construction. An aeromodelling hard core will of course continue but 'new blood' will be just as scarce as it has always been. I could be wrong.
    1 point
  13. Denis he ( normally) sells laser cut ribs and parts for all sorts of classic designs.
    1 point
  14. My club is organising an open day for beginners tomorrow. All of the local colleges have been canvassed. It'll be interesting to see if anybody turns up!
    1 point
  15. I'm on record on this forum as stating that most folk massively underestimate what they spend on an ordinary model. Artf in particular have been living on borrowed time, surviving only with low labour cost and tax loopholes to import them through.
    1 point
  16. Ken, I agree in general in your view. I recognised that from my youth, to my early thirties, ther had been changes. Free flight, control line were already a peice of history. That pretty reliable of the shelf RC was available at a price. My return to modelling corresponded with the rise od the ARTF model, that Lipos along with the brushless motor was becoming the norm. I have observed that the IC engine in all of its forms has now reduced very near to being a niche, extinction all but beckons, with determined conservationists determined to save the breeds. I am not convinced that the numbers of aeromodellers will even remain stable (hence the BMFA pursuit of drone flyers). I suspect that the long time viability of ARTF models at the apparent higher prices is sustainable. There could be a number of reasons, disposable income that is uncommitted to food and transport may not be there very shortly (I think this is by and large independent of any UK government, although could be made much worse by various issues or believes). Times do change, my previous hobby (cycling) went from oblivion to mass market, where unbelievable sums of money are spent on a excellent one, by people who are born again evangelists, with a hatred of motorist, contempt for traffic light and pedestrians. I would never have believed it was possible. On that basis I am no Nostradamus. Now can I still fit into my Lycra? Will Aeromodelling last long enough to enter a new Golden Age?
    1 point
  17. Tx switches are commonly just soldered to a small daughter PCB that is just bigger than the switch footprint. A cable harness then link the switch PCB to the main board. No need to heatsink such a PCB.
    1 point
  18. Not flying this year and debating going as a spectator. Im not sure there is much point, and i am also worried i will buy something expensive!
    1 point
  19. Now on with Starboard Wing. This side needed more force to get it into shape over the bend, don't really know why? I have also inserted 5 pieces of webbing before I unpin the wing from the jig.
    1 point
  20. Exactly Paul, life is too short 2 Mid airs, have chopped my model in half both times, But did they chop me Or did I just get in the way? We just got our other models out and tried again.
    1 point
  21. I have seen a few mid air's and a couple of planes walked on ( my Stuka tail in the 80's)it's your plane, your risk, your loss, it's a risk as you say so just get on with it life is to short,,,
    1 point
  22. Defiant landing, slower than I expected with its 13lb weight
    1 point
  23. The turret doing its thing. It has to whizz about like a demented Dalek or you cannot see it in flight!
    1 point
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