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  1. love it. Watching with interest 👍
  2. I managed get out for a session today. I decided to take out my electrically converted Capiche 50cc. She has only had 9 flights so far and now I have sorted out the trims today was a good day for a test. Light cloud, wind 4-6mph down the strip. On the first flight when opening to WOT in the air I noticed a short high pitch wine which disappeared at lower throttle settings. I thought may be the timing was too advanced or the thing was about blow up! Landed and after examination on the ground at full throttle I notice a 6-7" loose of seam covering on the starboard leading edge flapping around in the slip stream. Out came sellotape from my tool box and put that right. And viola on the next flights not a peep so all good now. I am sure this has happened on a previous model some time ago. Anyway the session continued without trauma and I must say I am warming to her. She is very precise and always stays in the position you put her in until the next TX input. 👍I think one of our regular contributors, Peter J. is right in saying she is a bit porky in his experience. I do think she could benefit from a bigger motor (mine is a Dualsky 6000.8 model) as largely all the weight is in the front with the power packs well forward. Something to think about.......
  3. Hobbywing Platinum ESCs every time for me 👍
  4. Bit of a wet field there Aidan! 😉 Nice flight though and one of Hanger 9's finest. ✈️👍
  5. Start your engines .......... Really nice morning today. Almost no wind so no turbulence to contend with. Newly mown strip what could be better? ✈️😄 A bit of a loosener first flight, as I began by being a bit tentative. After that a really good morning. Here's to the next one!
  6. I am a bit surprised at your initial impressions of Overlander ESCs and number of them that don't seem to work, Toto. I speak as I find and the ESC gear and lipos from Overlander have been bullet proof and proved faultless. (albeit more expensive than some). Given the poor strike rate, the ESCs should go back to the retailer to check and testing. Hopefully you can resolve things to your satisfaction. However, I always go back to basics and check and check again when installing ESCs and soldering is involved, also check the correct power packs are applied. I mainly use HobbyWing ESCs now and they seem to be top notch in my experience (not cheap though) .
  7. I will measure stand advise. No expectations just postage cost is all if the cowl suits.
  8. Hi Halsey, I will have a look early next week. I am sure I have a couple spare down the work shop. I will PM you with a photo when I have been to see what you think.
  9. Halsey, you might be able to source one from Carbon Copy if you give them a call. I bought some spats from them not long ago so they are still operating. The don't do online payments so it's done over the phone with the card only being charged when the item is posted. Depends if you are comfortable with that. Failing that I am sure I have a couple of used examples down the work shop so I can look there this week if that's any use?
  10. On my trip to the field the sun was shining, but it didn't last long. By the time I got there it was distinctly DULL. The silver lining was that the wind was 4-5mph mostly down the strip. Just the type of day to give a run out to my SkyWing 74" Edge. When I referred to my previous notes I was surprised find it was over 4 months since she last had an outing. Just 2 hours of flying on the clock. I had forgotten how precisely she flies and holds the track very well. Anyway gave her a good work out and came away satisfied with the tidiness of the aeros. Note to self - must fly her more often ! 😀
  11. Sorry to hear that EB. Given the apparent large scale nature of this scam it does seem to point to some sizeable data breach somewhere, although I doubt we will hear about where for some months, if at all, based on recent history of these type of events.
  12. That's good, Jonathan. I am still waiting for my two cards reissued on Monday. I had sort pencilled in Friday, but Royal Mail round here is useless and it delivers bundles of letters here saved for only twice a week at best. 😒
  13. Yes, Jonathan you are right I had a feeling early on this was being done on a larger scale than usual. I feel your pain particularly as us good folk will be with credit cards for at best 3-5 days working days or worst for 10 working days. I doubt the Paypal angle as you say as I don't have a Paypal account anymore - for some 3 years or more when Ebay changed its payment methodology away from PP. All we can do is keep vigilant and share information here.
  14. The reason I knew it was my bank texting me was because I phoned it back using the telephone number on my credit cards. The two amounts were initially declined and the bank wanted conformation it wasn't my entry. This is standard practise and it has happened before last year and the methodology is the same now as then. And by the way Paypal is also subject to potential scams so I wouldn't get into a false sense of security with them either.
  15. My bank contacted me straight away fortunately so no harm done - new credit cards on the way with different numbers.
  16. Mmmm.... it's got me thinking given there seems to be a few victims coming forward who are modellers on here. This may be something and nothing, but a few weeks ago Nexus models changed its web designer and a lot of us received an email asking us to sign in again to a new account with a fresh password. Before doing this I phoned the boys at Nexus and said they had been on the phone from 6am that day as its new web designers had set up an imperfect system and what was happening was as a result of this. And customers in their numbers were querying the e-mail. Funnily enough the web designers were based in the USA. I am not say this is the reason and heaven forbid I am not slandering anybody so apologise in advance. It just seems rather strange.
  17. Crikey! This is crazy. Hope your banks' caught this all in time 😒 Seems like someone is have a field day. Be vigilant gents.
  18. I had a bit of a wake up call today when my iPhone started going mad with simultaneous texts from both my c/card providers saying they had detected fraudulent activity. Both were small amounts were 0.65p and 0.53p respectively both from somebody called LIFEWATCH. Apparently both these occurred in the USA. Fortunately, when this has happened before the banks have picked these things up straight away. Phew! I now have to wait for replacement cards on both providers which is a bit of a worry because I go on holiday in 2 weeks. 😒
  19. Today was a day for a "horses for courses" aircraft. This morning started sunny, but with a brisk wind down the strip of 10mph+ and gusting more. So out came my 91" GW Slick which is of a size and AUW to cope with the conditions. So it proved. The sun is still a bit low in the sky first thing, but she looked a treat in the light. Over the period since she last flew in November, I had done a bit of fine tuning taking out the trims and resetting the working surfaces. Turns out she still needs a bit more right aileron trim, but I will fly here again in less windy weather to be absolutely sure. The rest of the adjustments seemed fine and a good session was enjoyed. It was good to blow the cobwebs off and I vacated the field feeling very satisfied.
  20. Well I must admit I didn't get the email alerting us of the website update. I only got the request for a new password email. 😒 All good now with order history still intact.
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