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Just thought I’d close loop on this thread and offer my thanks once again to both Brian and Wookman who helped get me airborne last night - it turned out to be a lovely evening session up on Foreland Point! Upon arrival the track out to the lighthouse (which was my intended flying site) was closed and locked off so I parked up a little more west and walked out to the coastal path about 750m from my car. Flew a lovely WNW facing bowl near the old church at Countisbury and found just enough space to land coast side of the stone wall. Epic lift and flew till sundown. Awesome addition to this weeks family holiday in Devon - so thanks for the advice guys!!

Why "no longer viable"? I didn't fly glow for a good while and am using 5% nitromethane 20% castor fuel that's over 10 years old with no problems.

Evening all! There's a Bank Holiday weekend - in the UK at least - ahead of us, and it's also the end of the F1 Summer Break. P1 and P2 have already taken place at Spa, so it's time for the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! P1 was disrupted by rain and saw Sainz setting fastest time ahead of Leclerc, with Verstappen third and Russell fourth. P2 also saw some rain, with Verstappen setting fastest time with Leclerc second again and Norris third. Note that Verstappen and Leclerc are taking penalties for too many engine replacemtn parts and will start from near the back of the grid. Norris, Bottas, Ocon and Schumacher are also taking engine penalties. Better weather is anticipated for tomorrow and Sunday, with P3 at noon and qualifying at 3pm tomorrow (UK times.) Sunday's race is at 2pm.

I decided to fit inboard controls for the elevators and pull pull system Raised servo tray and servos with pull pull installed

Jim, nice to hear from you. Yes if you compare fuselage and tail shapes they are the same. Since no vintage models had ailerons I am saying that the builder of the model in the OP has modified the wing to have straight dihedral and ailerons. Sacrelige!

My Loaded Dice 30EP plan arrived yesterday. It looks like a fairly straightforward build. Ordered the cnc kit, canopy and extra wood last night.

Maybe Jean Tardif knows, if he is still on this forum? I think he may have posted it or at least responded to it. I also found a video of it, I'll ask on YouTube as well:

This got me out of the workshop this afternoon IMG_7127.MOV

Car packed, LiPos charged. Should be there tomorrow, Saturday.

It was a lot of fun.

I used some of this on a motor that had displaced a magnet. Three years later it is still going strong. Loctite Just my 2p worth. Kev

Whatever the book is, if you have been a subscriber in the past you probably won't receive it!

Thanks Ken,us golden oldies know their stuff. I see you are still in need of spelling lessons 🤩 JIm CARSS....ne23.....spelling tuition dept.

Andy: That doesn't look much like a UHF receiver! (Un)fortunately, I no longer have a Reftec receiver for comparison, but I seem to recall it had a few helical filters in it. The way the Reftec receiver worked was weird. 459 divided by 27 gives 17. So if you started with a 27 MHz crystal, and multiplied it by 16, you got 27 MHz below 459MHz, which gave you a first IF of - Ta-Da - 27 MHz. By careful choice of receiver crystal frequency, you could then use that same 27 MHz crystal against the 27 MHz IF to derive a 455 KHz second IF. In many ways it was quite clever, as you only needed one crystal to generate both IFs. The downsides were that 1) the first IF was 27 MHz and 2) neither IF was particularly accurate - they both varied slightly depending what channel you were transmitting on. This meant that the receiver was "sloppy" - ie, it was not very selective, as it had to cater for a varying 2nd IF. As far as I recall, they only ever offered the even numbered channels (50 KHz channel spacing) to get around this problem. This wasn't much of an issue, as there weren't that many sets out there. Very few clubs had more than one on their flight-line! 20 channels was more than enough, and a big improvement over the six or seven available on 27 Mhz. (Ignoring the "split" frequencies on 27 MHz, which were only introduce shortly before 35 MHz became available.) The early Reftec transmitters (the ones with the helical aerials) had NO FILTERING of the transmitter output - other than the tuned aerial! The first time I got one on a spectrum analyzer, I was horrified to discover that it was splattering right across the 459 MHz band and beyond! The later ones with the rod aerial were much better, though its just as well that most clubs only had one Reftec set at most! It would have been interesting to see two operating in close proximity! My own set was designed to be 25 KHz channel spacing from the outset, and was quite happy at that channel spacing, using 10.7 MHz and 455 KHz as the IFs. 10.245 MHz crystals (used to derive 455KHz from 10.7 MHz) were readily and cheaply available, as were 10.7 MHz crystal filters (MUCH tighter than ceramic ones at that frequency) for the first IF, and 455 KHz ceramics for the second. If I were doing it again today, I would do things slightly differently. Crystals accurate enough to allow crystal swapping were very expensive. This was rarely a problem, with 40 channels available, but for a commercial item, you had to be prepared for it. Nowadays a synthesised oscillator would offer better performance cheaper, both in the Tx and in the Rx, but back then we worked with what was generally (and cheaply!) available. To give you some idea of UHF Rxs, here's some pix of mine: The one in the middle is my original prototype (still flying!) with the Rx board underneath, and the decoder board on top (note the hand drawn PCBs!) The one on the left is a micro version made by Peter Valentine (of Lark Helicopter fame), and the one on the right is the single board version - the last one we made. -- Pete

Depends on if you want an accurately aerobatic model or not, and whether it is high or low wing. Generally, low wing high tail or vice versa. It can greatly influence knife edge flight although there is much more to it than that. Most current F3A types are mid wing/mid tail. On a simple fly about model you probably would not notice any difference.

It's a Spook, but it's hard to identify because the builder has straightened out the gull type polyhedral and fitted ailerons.

Yes as already said the main issue is its proximity to the ground. Super sixties were frequently modified so that the stabiliser was on top of the fuz to avoid damage when taking off or landing . No difference in the flying or handling though.

It's like wine, 10 years old and it is still a bit early to use, maybe the nitro has evaporated but still good to go.

Hi all Ive been unable to fly my little carbon cub in the field over the way over summer. Hopefully they will turn it over soon and leave a flattish bit for me to operate from 🙂 Ive been busy since early this year scratch building this model ejection seat. I know its not an aircraft, but it could fit in one !!😜 So, who of you have a scale F-35 Lightning almost ready to go but needs an ejection seat 🤣 I dont know the scale, I just started making it and it came out at around 19 inches tall, its HUGE ! I made it with the help of Martin Baker who provided some images and other details. I built 2 and they have the other one, though its not as detailed as my one as I wanted to go to town on mine. Seat is completely scratch built from aluminium, brass and SS fittings, webbings and other materials. Hope you like it ( even if it isn't an RC aircraft ) Thanks for looking in. Carl

Well excuse me, laws were broken, the Police enforce them the Court administers the justice. It is appalling because we continually overlook the 'minor' infringements thereby doing away with respect for the law. As for the drone being flown unlawfully it may have been hence my query. Heavens above the newspaper contradicts itself.. I see that there is an article in the Daily Mail concerning the poor state of Policing in the Country, I understand it is written by a former Police officer. I must get a copy and read it.

LHF you do spout a load of old spherical objects some times!

Guys, it is the Daily Mail doing the reporting. . . They are unlikely to ever look favourably on drone flyers or people with guns. Even if they have the true facts at their fingertips, they will be unlikely to reveal them. They wouldn't want the truth to overshadow the opportunity of a shock headline. With a touch of creative reporting, they can kill two birds with one stone.... and can give their readers something to get enraged about during breakfast. 🙄 .

I'm staggered that herons and cats use Google Maps...

This was my Loaded Dice EP30 built from the Sarik kit and Laser shortkit a couple of years ago. I powered it with 4S 2650 mAh giving lots of performance and close to 10 min flights. It's a very capable, great looking classic aerobat that is really nice to fly . The fuselage side area isn't that great so I struggled to knife edge it consistently without ending in a long dive, but then I'm def lacking in skills for manoeuvres such as that. The result was that this beautiful fuselage is no more and I've just had to rebuild a replacement for the 2nd time....... Need to remember the 2 mistakes high trick !