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Maybe it's time to close this thread. It's too hot to try engaging with the multifaceted facetiousness anymore.

£16 seems ok to me. I expect the costs of putting on a show are immense and a long-winded process, so for the price of a couple of servos it is reasonable.

Name one conventionally designed, electric powered, common club aircraft that doesn't make a high pitched whine. And what is it about the swarm light displays you find so offensive? It sounds like hyperbole for effect.

I've experienced the hot glue softening issue. Fortunately the fact that the glue can be softened means everything can be put back in place. I also loath the way some have got into the habit of dismissing differing views as wokeness because it's a handy, ill defined buzzword they can use without applying any kind of thought outside of their own experience. (Post deletion in :3... 2.... 1...)

In a case of UAV vs loco, my money is on the train.

There already is for model planes: Article 16 exemption in the ANO. Trying to fiddle with it further would just muddy the waters even more and provoke more repetition of old arguments on forums. Legislatively it's simply easier to place all UAVs in one main category with subcategories for weight etc. Oh, that's what the CAA have done!

A lot less than £400! Second hand is only worth what people will pay, so whilst there may be an enthusiast/idiot/collector of things with money to burn, anything more than £150 on an airframe that old - regardless of the restoration- is throwing money at a probable crash. It's more of a display piece now, which is where Pritchards expertise lies, which is probably why he finished on £2k - £2.5k (if that was his actual assessment and not the producers spinning it - tv is all lies).

Yes, he revised the estimate uowards from his initial thoughts.

Drew Pritchard: "I could get £400 for that." Ahahahahahahahahahaha! No. But a nice restoration with a dip into several techniques.

I don't think "Wings on my Sleeve" worked very well as an autobiography.

Try going into the prepare menu and set the HE and bed preheat temperature. Then before selecting the file to print, select preheat PLA. This will heat them up together and let them sit at temperature for a few minutes before printing. It may make a difference.

This is going to come down to "how valuable is a training tool to you, or, how much do you want to pay for supported software?" Phoenix is no longer officially supported, and people have had problems making it work on more recent computers; I assume this is something to do with software architecture. Realflight IS supported and updated. Realflight Trainer on Steam is only £43 and I suspect using the 22-in-1 dongles from Amazon/Ebay will work. I have RF8 from Steam and use one of those dongles and it work fine for my purposes. I hevent bothered upgrading. read this thread to witness one man's horror show regarding Phoenix:

I actually quite like taking a small, light model in the wind and seeing how long I can make it hover on just enough throttle to keep it airborne and how vertical I can make landings and take offs.

Nope, not once. I'm perfect.

That's their silly fault for not taking proper precautions. The plane is just an object, it's the user who makes the mistake.