Dave from the future

Have you seen the BE2C build on RCGroups? https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2732829-RAF-BE2C-build/page34

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.

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).

Apparently Vauxhall/Opel haven't made a profit since 1999, so I imagine PSA got it for a good price!

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

My J60 weighs 3.5 pounds, flies well with 3s2200 battery right behind the motor, 240watts, 11x4.7APC prop. It currently has a different motor in it which draws 300 watts with the same setup, but the less powerful motor was better.   Dave.   Edited By Dave from the future on 30/07/2017 00:46:48

It sounds interesting but I'm not seeing any photos...

Looking at the Wikipedia page for the QED I see that a Pete Miller is credited as one of the designers! The QED 2 replica is a beautiful looking plane, even better than the original.

I would just use PVA wood glue to stick the fibreglass tape on. I'm refurbishing a kit I built in the 80's with the wings joined like that, needed to remove some of the tape to fit a servo in and I can hardly shift it it's stuck that well!

48. Felt like a few lucky guesses though.

Posted by Raymond Richards on 02/01/2017 20:02:50: Sorry,This not a proper build thread really. I posted this originally in Ton Van Munsterens sticky thread on RCME plan built models. "Here is my version of last weeks free plan...Das Ghosten Flugboot...I always liked the 'look' of this years back and it reminded me of a Dornier Wal....Anyway here she is, running a 1400kv motor, 1300 3-cell lipo and a 5" x 4 bladed Drone prop. I must say for a 3 channel model she flies brilliantly....very stable and predicatable.....and as an English,am living in the Netherlands, here she is as she might have been........if she has served with the Dutch Navy !" Hope this helps Ray Edited By Raymond Richards on 02/01/2017 20:03:51 Thanks, that's helpful. I meant there wasn't much info in the RCM&E article, sorry if it sounded like I meant your post!

That's brilliant, looks great! What motor/prop did you use? There wasn't much info in the article.

Posted by Michael Ramsay-Fraser on 21/04/2015 11:52:01: Posted by Monz on 21/04/2015 11:19:40: How is it a double taxing ripoff? Because, I think I'm correct in saying, you only get a full month refund. Therefore, if you sell your car towards the end of the month, the vendor only gets a refund (if one is due) to the end of the previous month whilst the purchaser has to tax the car from the beginning of the month in which he or she buys it. Hence, double tax paying rip off. Nothing's changed though, it's always been the case that you could send back an tax disk for a refund, and you only got the whole remaining months back. My wife does it regularly, she has a car she only uses in the summer and cshes in the tax disk when she takes the car off the road.