Wingman

Not just you Bob - at last years Nats swap meet thingy I bought a lovely looking scratch built leccy Auster Autocrat - when I tried to fly it it turned 90degs to the wind as soon as the wheels left the ground - couldn't see anything obvious nor could anyone else - tried all sorts to fix it until it eventually stalled and did the dive of death - when I picked it up it had effectively shattered as the wood was so dry - bin bagged

"How can having a wing torn off, lower fuselage damage and the engine and firewall potentially damaged be 'not too bad'?" The linked article picture doesn't show the Port Side

No Bob it's the German Hanger 10 machine - think it's up for sale at the mo - although maybe not

Doesn't look too bad - BBC News

Not a problem here but in the USA there would always be the problem of people shooting down drones with the assault rifles they buy down the local WalMart - sort of High Sky robbery

Does her phone connect to your WiFi?

Looks like they are given some sort of transponder from the table at the start which they attach to their quads

Boz - you don't seem to be getting much help on here do you? I'm no builder but it looks like if you pull the split pins hard into the wood you would be left with just the end 'curve' of the pins where they interlink showing and I'm pretty sure they would still give the hinge movement required. The horizontal pins would be no bother when it came to bending back the legs but the vertical ones would have to have the legs cut very short after bending so they don't touch the covering - it's probably done that way because that's how the full size aileron hinges probably look and Mick Reeves is of course a scale champion. You could always ask Mick or Jim via the website also there may be a forum somewhere else more dedicated to scale matters which would be better (sorry Mr Ashby Sir) which they may be able to point you at. Anyway good luck to you - it will certainly be a cracker of a model when you finish it. Edited By Wingman on 31/08/2015 18:43:45

A Super Guppy

Mine fit nicely into a black bag

A couple of points Trebor - first I see that because of the aileron your top overlap strip looks like it's not going to be very wide and that means that when you shrink the covering after you've tacked it down you run the risk of the straight edge of the overlap being pulled out of shape - to prevent that happening cover the overlap joint with a tissue (kleenex etc) soaked in water and this will keep the edge cool preventing the glue from softening and the edge from pulling out of straight. Second, I suggest you experiment, say from a table edge with stretching the Ultracote under heat to give you a bit of confidence in how much you can pull at it (more than you might think) it goes quite soft with a lot of heat and Ultracote doesn't melt until about 500F which is more that a covering iron can give but less than a DIY type heat gun. Anyway as mentioned in other posts you can always unstick a cock-up and start again posted before I saw the pic - looking good - just needs stretching more..................... Edited By Wingman on 25/08/2015 16:59:57

Planes TV filmed the whole maneuver from start to finish which I linked to in my thread at the time however I see that the clip has now been made private, unsurprisingly - you could see that the aircraft appeared to stall at the bottom of the loop - the wings rocked - and it just mushed into the ground.

Time 2.23 here:- Edited By Wingman on 22/08/2015 14:34:33

Try Lee Springs - great for all things springy. Just for a check I put in a search for wire dia 0.25mm by 3mm spring dia and got 76 hits - cost £10.95 for 5 for the biggest one.

YEAAAAAAAA! Well done that man!

Currently reading "The Kamikaze Hunters" by Will Iredale - hardback - Macmillan publishing - 2015. Very interesting book about the FAA role in supporting the American Pacific fleet in WWII - a facet of the war that I knew nothing about. The first 7 chapters are about the pilots training in America so there's actually effectively two parts to the book - training and Pacific Ops.

Ah CS not as sharp as these but nice work on the exhaust stubs

"Mr Borschberg's plane experienced damaging overheating in its lithium-ion battery system. Although the battery units performed as expected, they had too much insulation around them, making temperature management very difficult." Been there done that!

Solar Impulse

Welllll - how about these guys - or BAE or Rolls Royce Aero - all world class innovators.

Yep, popping in often - great work - although I have one criticism - the nose isn't sharp enough

Yep - at 250 watts a one pound model will try to rotate round the prop and turn on its back as soon as the wheels leave the ground - I have learned this lesson

I use a SkyRC Quattro - AC or DC supply 4 x 10 memories - excellent!