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Visited Buckminster yesterday for the first time, the BMFA Auction. I was well impressed, a really nice facility and everyone involved was very friendly and welcoming. Nice little cafe, good coffee and bacon rolls, always a bonus! We are paying a flying visit (!) as a club later in the year which is something to look forward to. Good to see all the naysayers proven wrong.

Spotted minuets before the sub station fire.............

https://www.modelflying.co.uk/code-conduct/ A thread has just come to my notice which was started with a quote from a private message sent by me in my capacity as a moderator. This is clearly in breach of the code of conduct, and I would encourage all members to take a few minutes to read it (link above). The thread has been hidden until the moderators have a chance to study its contents.

Afternoon all! With the Channel4 highlights programme now well underway, let's have a look at the results from today. Note that, with the disqualifications of Hamilton (skid block thickness) plus Leclerc and Gasly (underweight), the results have changed since those published on fantasygp immediately after the race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 3 9 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 265 2 1 2 Pitts Specials john stones 222 3 6 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 208 4 11 2 PSS Power Flyer 206 5 5 2 teewrex John Tee 204 = 9 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 204 7 10 0 Iqonic racing iqon 194 8 8 2 Revers Racing Pete B 192 9 2 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 186 10 15 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 180 11 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 178 12 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 168 13 13 5 Essex Racing Tony Clark 164 14 7 5 Torque of the devil Stu 139 15 12 8 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 137 Our winner for today is fat brownie with 265 points. John S is second with 222 points. And Carl is third with 208 points. Well done to today's top 3! Moving on now to the overall chart after the second round, we have; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 2 Pitts Specials john stones 373 2 2 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 366 3 3 9 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 356 4 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 314 5 5 2 teewrex John Tee 313 6 6 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 311 7 7 5 Torque of the devil Stu 305 8 8 2 Revers Racing Pete B 304 9 9 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 302 10 10 0 Iqonic racing iqon 296 11 11 2 PSS Power Flyer 293 12 12 8 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 283 13 13 5 Essex Racing Tony Clark 271 14 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 236 15 15 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 221 So, place changes for nearly everyone today - only 10th, 14th and 15th remain unchanged! John S is now leading the table, with Kev slipping to 2nd. fat brownie leaps up 9 places to 3rd. Next up, in 2 weeks time is Japan. It's a 'normal' race weekend, but again early starts, with Saturday's qualifying at 7am UK-time, and the race on Sunday at 6am.

He went to my school!! Not many people know that !😂😂😂

Epoxy resin is very good as a fuel proofer on ply. Make sure that the ambient temperature does not drop below about 18C when applying and for the duration of the cure and you'd be ok after 2 or 3 days. Two coats is better than one, so if you can rub it down without seeing any balling on the glass paper you will know that you left the first coat long enough.

What is going on at FrSky? Late last year FrSky introduced a firmware update to the TX RF module along with a corresponding RX firmware. This was listed as V 3.0.1. Almost immediately there were reports of "bricked" RX's! It was later learned that the common thread with the bricked RXs was that the customer tried to update the RX using the much touted OTA (over the air) feature. In early January conscientious dealers (not FrSky) put out a warning to not update to the new RF firmware v3.0.1. It is now March and this RF issue hasn't been resolved! This is typical Frsky not having a robust quality system in place for firmware updates. (Using their customer base as unpaid beta testers!) This is unacceptable for a consumer product. I knew FrSky had employed a professional software engineer to develop their fantastic Ethos OS. I had hoped that the discipline need to write solid code would have trickled down to FrSky's engineering house. This fiasco that is the latest RF debacle is so disheartening proves to me that this is not the case. What is going on with FrSky? Are they working on the issue? Tis RF issue is hampering many of the upgrade features that were to come out with the Ethos 1.6 upgrade. Has FrSky abandoned the RC market? I love the dual RF bands of the Frsky product line! But the it is clear to me that FrSky still lacks the corporate structure to effectively manage the software and firmware side of the product line. These corporate and cultural issues of discounting the customer, customer experience is really getting old! Anybody know what is going on at FrSky and more to the point what is going on with the follow up the RF firmware to v3.0.1? Where's the link to Jeti?

As I said in a previous post myself and 3 other club members have updated to the latest firmwares with no problems whatsoever. I flew my Freewing 70mm F-16 today with a Tandem R-10 and no issues.

It wasnt him, he only blew the bloody doors off! By the way i didnt know he had a dog!

I Went to school with his dog, Even less know that

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What a sad laughing stock this incident has made us look. I don't get how people who are paid considerable salaries/bonuses and claim to be the best of the best to justify the £s they're paid in order to be on top of this type of thing, continually fail, yet still get away with it. I understand that a potential catastrophic single point of failure in the airport's electrical supply was identified about ten years ago.

Eflite F14 Tomcat. Strangely the Xfly one I think is better, larger and has ailerons and detail better on the Xfly. Uses the same battery so reckon the Elite one will need a very good runway and fly faster due to higher wing loading.

Some new ones from the BMFA Auction. These are sorted and ready to go. Also got 5 more airframes still in boxes and will get posted as of when...

Outside, the drizzle had set in so might as well do something productive in the workroom, even if mundane, the jobs have to be done. A small milestone reached with the rib stitching being completed on one wing. Using micopore tape is a much better option, it will follow the curves and provide, to my mind, a more realistic result. A couple of cross braces had been built in for the wing rib at the root of the aileron to prevent the starved horse effect when shrinking the covering, but overlooked to do the same with the flap box. There are a thousand little errors that can be made when building but I never seem to learn!

I completely agree with Konrad. FrSky’s modus operandi, in terms of firmware updates, is a mess. Plenty of evidence of multiple firmware that has bugs through their history. I know people that have left the brand after the 3.01 release. As mentioned, some dealers flagged it and advised their customers against it based on complaints. Crystal clear. I think what keeps FrSky afloat is a powerful system, very competitive pricing and customers willing to accept the aforementioned modus operandi. I own a FrSky Twin transmitter but I only use it in my overseas travel with a foam glider and I plan to keep it on fw 1.5.19. This version still lacks some features but flies the foamy just fine. For all my other aircrafts, I fly with a brand that makes me happy every time but costs 3X more.

A latching switch on the Tx prevents accidentally switching on or off. Really easy to fit and worth their weight in gold! Something like this:

Photos taken at the club concours on Friday night. The owner of Macsalvors crane higher was delighted

My wife came downstairs this morning with a suppository sticking out of her ear. When I pointed it out to her she said, “Ahh, now I know where my other hearing aid is.”

A bit more on the Mossie chaps . The nacelle mouldings came out really well . Nice and crisp with sufficient thickness to require little internal structure . I also made a wooden tail cone , which I sent to Paul to convert to a 3D model before creating a vac formed male mould . That will save a lot of time for the kit builder . The laser cut ply internals for the nacelles have a very close fit and by being jig tabbed cannot be out of true . So far so good . We will be moving onto the forward part of the fuselage next . I have already completed most of the back end .

Radio fitted (etronix 17g) cowl blocks added pre carving and PAW149 fitted to check spaces. It’s coming along now I have no idea where to fit the fuel tank yet.

Nicely built model originally had a four stroke 60. For sale with all JR servos , push pull rudder, independent flaps, dual ailerons . 2 piece wings with alloy joiners and internal screw fixing. Sprung engineered scale undercarriage. Lightweight tex covering with sprayed fuselage and under surfaces. All fuel proof. Flown only a small number of times then bought by me from a club member on impulse and stored since. Afraid to risk damaging it. Lovely lightweight plan built. Pm for details. More daytime outdoor pictures asap. Big undertaking to build a model like this so a steal at £165 must be collected from Monmouth

Hi all! Switched from "rubb-on" system to selfmade waterslides : much better ! X

Never bothered with it. I give them a few wiggles right out of the packet, then slap them in the model and go for gold. By the time i am done setting up all the throws and messing about they have an hour of up time on them. I have only ever had 2 branded servos (eflite) actually fail on me and they were years old by then. A few cheap ebay 9g servos gave up on me but they were about 70p each and i was 15 so didnt know any better! I dont count them as they were crap in the first place. Personally i would wonder if running a servo from end to to end of its travel constantly for an hour would actually be good for it. Its not a use case they will ever see in service and its beyond what i would expect one to tolerate. I would be concerned about heat build up when there is no rest for that amount of time. I know there is little load but the thing is still driving itself.

I too have a number of Freewing models and have never had a problem with their servos. Durafly is a different matter - I've had multiple servo failures with Durafly models, causing at least three crashes, to the extent that I now routinely replace all of the servos in these models. I've also witnessed or directly heard of at least three other crashes with Durafly servos, attributed to in air failures.