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When I first met my Mother in law I noticed a great big pimple on her jaw. I found out later it was a grease nipple.

At least diesel has come down to the same price as petrol…

Slightly misleading to post this in the Single Channel thread - but not completely. Got bored and have built a Veron Robot from plans I downloaded. When I'd printed and patched together all the A4 sheets it looked little distorted in the wing department so I re-drew the wing plan on tracing film to be straight and true. Model is now largely built. It will have an OS15 and three 9g servos for R.E.T. I will use it initially with 3 ch propo but intend to try it on single channel in due course. I have built an S/C transmitter using the info from the recent RCM&E article. Need to get it all covered and install the engine and radio next. Wonder how good my thumb-on-button technique will be after all these years?

Now got the engine and tank sorted.

Paul you have obviously not attended a decent grass fire let alone a fire in a standing crop. I have spent many hours of my working life as a fireman extinguishing and in some cases trying to extinguish crop and stubble fires. It only takes a 5 or 6 mile an hour breeze and the fire will spread quicker than you can run! NEVER underestimate a grass fire or any fire . A few cans of water might work if there is no wind and you are close enough fit enough and fast to get there and extinguish it before it gets a hold but add a slight breeze and they will be less than useless. Add to this that the majority of modellers are getting on and most of them would undoubtedly try their hardest in the case of a fire to put it out putting their lives at risk not from the fire but from heart attack etc. If a grass , stubble or worse still a standing crop catches fire leave it to the professionals to deal with and get to safety. Re the OP . In all the years I have only seen turbines and electric models catch alight when they crash but would also be wary of petrol power . The only time Ive seen diesel or glow engines catch alight is in the pits while starting them. As Paul says having an extinguisher with you is a sensible precaution in any weather. Oh I forgot that I set some grass alight many years ago flying a jetex model with my son but being a lot younger and fitter we put it out using our jackets as beaters !😳 Better to be careful and keep your farmer landlord happy . It may pay dividends for your club later . As for those that criticise you for being over cautious, they wouldn't be seen for dust in the event of worst case scenario.

So it seems the Chippy will be entering the Nationals this weekend F4h, Stand-off-scale. It will lose loads of marks for starting life as a humble artf, but the more I do the better. Added a few more details... So I made some new wheels. And a static prop and spinner See you at Buckminster maybe? Cheers Danny

Paint straight on; goes on fine!

You could re-attach them using polyurethane glue, E.g. Gorilla, which could expand into the voids and secure the les and tes (no apostrophes). With the glue foaming back into the gaps I would think it would be secure. You will need to keep on top of the excess glue foaming out of the gaps to avoid a mess when it cures. BTC

I was asked to check a model years ago for an elderly member of our club. He said the serrvos were slow. I checked it over and they were as slow as a slow thing ! I said when rid you charge the battery? He told me they were on all the previous night. Next question was how old is the battery, he replied "as old as the model" as he had built the battery in . So battery , a nicad was about 15 years old! Why do people build these servicable items into the model ?

That's what I did

I think that instructors should ensure that their pupils know how to set up their own failsafes, with reference to the manual or with the assistance of a club member operating the same brand/model of tx (and who may well be the instructor). But as written the inference is that that instructors should be familiar with the failsafe systems on all commercially available txs, which is a bit of a no-no! The problem with failsafes is that some are ridiculously awkward to set (JR) and some are incredibly easy (FrSky). I digress, but ones of the things that the UKRCC could (or should) look at is requiring standardisation (and simplification) of failsafes across brands - this would go a long way to securing compliance.

Must be installed on the wrong side, should be easy to swop over, the leads might be the hardest part

I know the feeling!!!

I have to concur with Jon, in recently acquiring a model from a retired friend. Wanted to run the engine up to check it before the rest of my minor refurb and checks. Needless to say, I managed to fill the fus with fuel as the pressure feed had come off!!.. Odd for me, as I usually strip everything down and make sure it is right before I start.

Your experience echoes mine from a few years ago when trying a flight sim: everything is too small and distant, even on a large external monitor. I hear what you say about Clearview: even if RealFlight is far superior, there's a limit to how much I'll spend on software that doesn't really simulate the real thing properly. I just want to play around, exercise my TX, boost my confidence before trying solo flight again at the field. rgds Tony

Nice project, David! I've actually got a Robot, powered by an OS15 which flies it really well. I usually fly it on 6-channel "reeds" (Rudder, Elevator and Throttle), though occasionally I switch it back to a propo transmitter so that learners can experience how a PROPER training aircraft flies. Compared to most modern trainers, it is an absolute joy. Not as "floaty" as a Super 60, yet extremely stable and easy to handle. Brian: I still have a couple of genuine single channel models, flying on the button. One is a Mini-Robot, and the other set of s/c radio gear swaps between two models: A Sub-Mini (half size Super 60 for a Cox .049) and a Sharkface (also Cox .049 powered). These last two both use Elmic rubber driven escapements, and are a hoot to fly! -- Pete

I would do the surgery and get the tank out. You have no idea if a pipe has broken, the clunk has fallen off or the tank is just full of gunge. It will be a lot less work to sort the tank now than repair the model later.

Years ago I flew on a farm strip surrounded by cereal crops. I should mention that the farmer was a keen modeler and flier. Each July as the crops ripened we would stop flying until after the harvest, usually about a month. The risk of fire was not the reason however, the farmer being a model flyer knew the risk of fire was extremely low. His concern was the damage to the crop caused by fliers looking for and retrieving any models that landed out in the crop. A very good reason we thought. Some of his fields ran alongside the railway line and in the age of steam crop fires were a regular occurence. He likened a crop fire to a pool of petrol burning. The fire would take out the ears of grain and would spread even in a light wind faster than you could run . So trying to put out a crop fire is a non starter.

Well done Chris et al, last week was a fluke, stopping at Igors next weekend, team does better when I'm away. 😉

Other than the immediacy of the impact, if I’m reading Andy’s post correctly, meaning that failsafe may not have initiated before the accident, isn’t transmitter failure a very likely scenario where a correctly programmed failsafe may reduce the energy imparted by both airframe and propeller?

There you go Boss. It won't make them nasty noises any more.

Thank you, gents. Congrats to GrumpyG and Simon as well. Same as Grumpy, when calculating my points I was convinced that it would be a genuine 'mid-field' result with just around 150 pts. Big surprise when discovering that our League colleagues didn't handle it better... I'll just try to have a bis repetita in Italy then (sorry Igor)... 😉 Chris

If you want the article on foam construction by Chris Golds I will let you have the pdf copies. Basically he hot wire cuts foam ( or it can be shaped by coarse new glasspaper very easily ) then covers with brown paper and PVA.

There is a B17 plan by Pavel Bosak on Outerzone which uses four 3.5cc engines Maybe print the plan at a reduced size if it's too big. But first get some opinions on equivalent motors to 3.5cc to see if your motors would suit. as a larger model will fly better.

Hi bit more progress. Wing fairings added and fin. Nacelles glued on. Just need to add stabiliser, final sanding of spot putty and will be ready to prime for real. A week off work so hopefully can get something done. mike PS. The engine inlets and and exhaust look good but arent exactly to scale. The nacelles are a smidge too long. Thought about cutting them back and adding redesign components but then the wife slapped me with a wet fish 🤕

Evening all! Vandvoort this weekend, so first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! Mercedes seem to have bounced back somewhat at Zandvoort, and headed P1, with Russell setting the fastest time and Hamilton 0.240 seconds behind. Sainz was third with Norris and Ricciardo next and Leclerc 6th. Perez was 7th with Verstappen 19th having completed only 7 laps. P2 saw the Ferraris on top, Leclerc ahead of Sainz, with Hamilton next followed by Norris, then Russell. Verstappen was 8th, with Perez 12th. P3 is at 11am (UK-time) tomorrow, with qualifying at 2pm and the race at 2pm on Sunday. Good luck everybody!

dry run of all the parts The covering begins.

Someone is having a laugh..... 🤣 . . . . . . I hope. 🥴 .