Dave from the future
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How About This For Your Next Project?
Dave from the future replied to Stearman65's topic in Scale Matters
I wonder where I could get hold of the 2CV plan... anyone know? My wife and I met through both having 2CVs, and we still have them 20 years later! If I ever get mine back on the road (needs a bit of welding) I could take an R/C 2CV in the 2CV... -
M4 would normally be 0.7mm pitch, M4 fine would be 0.5mm - could that be it? Dave.
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12v charger adaptor supply
Dave from the future replied to fly boy3's topic in Batteries and Chargers
I'm running an Imax B6 clone charger from a 6A Toshiba laptop power supply. One other thing I have found with the DC coax plugs is that the length varies - I have a digital radio I'm having trouble getting to work because the replacement adaptors all have shorter plugs than the original one did. -
I would say grain side-to-side as in the plan above, then the formers are better able to support the compression forces when the sides are pulled in at the tail (or nose).
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Apparently Vauxhall/Opel haven't made a profit since 1999, so I imagine PSA got it for a good price!
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I got a copy of Gordon Whiteheads book for £22 from the ABEbooks website last week, so they are out there without paying £100s. I see now why everyone raves on about it, looks like a good read. Edited By Dave from the future on 05/02/2018 21:17:48
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Coming back after 50 years: bit lost
Dave from the future replied to 911hillclimber's topic in Beginners
How big is the Super Scorpion? I'm just wondering as that seems a really big motor for a vintage model. My Junior 60 has a motor of half that power and still takes off at half throttle. Vintage models only need about 50w/lb. -
November 2016 and Nov 2017 issue feedback
Dave from the future replied to Adrian Smith 1's topic in RCM&E Magazine
Another Mercury-powered plane, the PZL P11c, with the same front cowl ring set up: **LINK** -
Posted by Old Geezer on 14/10/2017 08:46:22: Thirteen steps up to the scaffold? That would depend on the the carpenter
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Ask..Peter Miller
Dave from the future replied to David McCulloch's topic in Peter Miller plan builders
Posted by Peter Miller on 13/10/2017 18:23:48: The day that electric motors come with an IC conversion figure and propeller sizes I might consider designing specifically for electric. The Ripmax Quantum ones do. It's kind of missing the point about the flexibility of electric, but it gives a setup that presumably works. -
Flair Junior 60 Build
Dave from the future replied to Arron Davison's topic in Building from Traditional Kits and Plans
Is it just because the centre ribs are flat bottomed and don't have the undercamber that the other ribs have, so the centre section sits flat on the fuselage top? -
Mine weighs 3.5lbs and flys with an electric motor at 210 watts (full throttle), so about 60 watts/lb. It takes off happily at 1/2 throttle so even less power would be fine. It has spruce spars and 3mm ply dihedral braces as I'd already watched a club member fold the wings on his .30 4-stroke powered one doing fast loops!
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I put the battery immediately behind the motor in mine (a 3s2200 sitting vertically), and the top of the nose lifts off for access. The further forward everything is the better, to reduce nose weight required for the CG.