[Sebart Wind S 50E - conversion to DLE 20 - recommendations]

Don't go there, MikeQ! 

The U/C will be the first thing to go. I had one some while back and needed one or two mods even for electric. 

[Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited]

I will give it a go

[Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited]

I guess non-slip rubber matting is sourced from Amazon, Peter?

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

A brilliant way to encourage fresh blood into our hobby (or sport if you prefer), David 👍

[Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited]

I have had to bow to the inevitable today and decided to do a modification to allow easier inserting and removal of the power packs.

 

 

The easiest option is to remove the cross piece that holds the throttle and ignition servos for I/C variations. On close inspection is doesn't look like a structural support for the fuselage so I am going to give it a whirl.

 

 

Not a long job. I was originally concerned about heaving the lipos in and out and compromising battery connections before this mod. That should do it with a bit of luck. If needs be I can always put in a new cross piece further back which won't interrupt access.

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Yeah, I know what you mean, Peter. The Citrin looks a lovely piece of kit and I can see its appeal. The Bell Hops do indeed seem to have a similar look to the Chilli Breeze. Nice photos too. I tended to prefer the larger Chilli Wind when I was cutting my flying teeth some years ago, although I did build a Chilli Breeze too. Aah,  happy days then😊 

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

I had to scrape the frost off the car before I ventured to the field this morning, although the sunny start provided all the encouragement I needed get out and fly 😀

I wheeled out the Sbach 342 which hadn't seen the wide blue yonder since January. 

 

 

 

Three glorious flights with her. I had forgotten how frisky this plane is. If the cold hadn't woken me up, the first minute or too in the air would have done. Ops. were curtailed after that due to the tail wheel connecting rod to the rudder coming loose. This has happened before and despite filing a flat on the rod and using blue thread lock on the grub screw it has happened again. I can't say I am surprised as the tail takes the occasional thump on landing. I am going to have a think on doing some sort of modification the stop it happening. 

 

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Looks to me you are up to date with your gardening (very nice it is too), but don't give up on the flying yet!! ✈️😀

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

A lovely selection of of my favourite planes, Philip. Looks great!😀

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

The S6 is a thing of beauty, Chris. Lovely snaps too 👍

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Lovely setting, Aidan. Makes you realise this is one of the reasons we do this hobby. 😀

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

This is what sometimes happen to me!!!!

 

 

 

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

She is a looker, Martin. Nice one.

[Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited]

I tried the more powerful servos today and was pleasantly pleased by the improved liveliness. I still have 2 oz of weight in the nose but I really don't think it needs to be there in future. That's the next job coupled with increasing the aileron EPAs slightly. 

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

 

Lovely flying day today if you don't mind the cold and a 10mph+ NNW crosswind blowing across the strip.

Just look at those clouds!

 

Today was the day I found out how good my use of the rudder is. Landings were quite tricky bearing in mind the pitch\diameter of the prop are no help in slowing her down (23x12). Adding to the landing speed was the only help the wind was in the cross leg and not on finals, hence she came in like a racing car. It doesn't help that the throttle needs to be kept on a bit otherwise one can see the stalling wing waggle beginning to develop. That said I managed to get it right by the third landing . Lovely day never the less.

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Yup, I am ready to go for tomorrow. A bit nippy but gotta get out there! 

[Essential RC's videos]

scary, leery. Glad you got down safe!😣

[Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited]

As I had a few days to my kick heels in the work shop due to bad weather I decided to do a job on the Capiche I have been promising myself for a while. Partly due to my  wanting to save costs I put a set of HV Macgregor digital servos with a stalling reading of 21kg/cms at 8.4v in the Capiche. In my defence I was guided by the manual which was written for another time which featured a similar recommendation for most of the servos around this sort of level.  Well after a few flights I thought a move to more powerful HV 31kg/cms at 8.4v servos was more appropriate as per the rest of my 50-60cc squadron. Well in my musings in the W/S I notice my SkyWing 71' Edge 540 sporting an equivalent 35cc Dualsky motor on the front has these more powerful servos installed. A bit of an overkill possibly. Anyway the current servos in the Capiche would be just fine in the SkyWing Edge. Therefore for I set about swapping them out both planes this morning. It was a fiddly job mainly because of the elevators wires going through the fuselage, but in the  event it didn't take too long to do the job. I am looking forward to the next outing for both and I will report back here. 

[Stir crazy cos can't go RC flying? I have a plan! Design and build a parachute transport plane.]

You know as soon as you get into it, Bonzo the weather turn out to be perfect for flying!

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Nice day for flying and although the wind was flyable it would mean having to wrestle with my planes too much. I do actually want to enjoy flying, therefore took the  opportunity to cut the grass strip and fiddle around in the work shop. 

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Just gagging to fly today given the recent poor weather conditions. I was greeted at the strip by sparking sunshine and a nice steady 7-8mph SSW breeze. You can't wish for anything better so on with my varifocal over shades and off we go. 

 

 

 

When I was clearing up one of the full size flying boys came across for a chat. This time of year it's the RV8 MOT and service. Apparently, apart from the weather, they are grounded because of the delay in spares being delivered. Something that has never happened before. Their bad luck is my gain in the short term I guess. 😀

[Spring is here again - who's been flying?]

Nice one plane there, GG. I am going to test out your flying weather theory tomorrow! 🤞

[Small Syndicate of RC Modellers With A Private Flying Site in North Hertfordshire With Limited Vacancies]

cracking find 👍

[Transfer of model memories by SD card to a replacement Futaba TX]

I greatly appreciate the clip Jesus. Thank you very much. This answers all my questions 👍

[Goldberg extra 300]

I used to own a couple these great aircraft. From memory they both had OS91FX in the front. Lovely aircraft to fly and great fun. 😃