David perry 1

I ordered a print copy last week. Still nuffin

I agree. I lost 14,000 photographs once because of a hard disk failure. Yes it was backed up but the system I used had corrupted them and I didn’t know Half a lifetimes photos gone. The ones I printed in an album? Well, they’re still here.

It probably does, and this supports the assertion that older people want paper whilst younger people do not. My youngsters (eldest modelling son is 29 and youngest is 25) never ever ever read magazines. Not even the magazines of organisations they belong to, bmfa, bhpa, laa. Instead they watch videos. I read the magazines or they lie unopened. even when I find a very interesting article and leave the pages open the magazines stay unread, and my sons have masters degrees in real subjects so I know they CAN read. im afraid youngsters get info from different sources today. Give me a magazine any day. maybe RCME needs a video channel. Maybe it has one. What’s video anyway? Where are my meds?

Ah thank you. 🙏

Interesting comments and for those who see a reduction in quality, I’m sorry for you. (I wonder if I’m alone in thinking the quality of photos in the magazine was a tad TOO good? I loved the photos in the 80s which whilst less crisp and clear had atmosphere and feel. When messrs Whittaker and Co produced there admittedly stunning images I felt image quality dominated context. That was a shame, in my eyes) However, I try, casually, every month to buy a copy but I haven’t seen one on the shelves for years. I have probably bought three copies in the last decade mind you, partly because I never or hardly ever see one but mostly because I’ve read much of it before. All magazines regurgitate stuff for the new generation so those of us who were that generation at least one generation ago if not two have seen most of the articles long ago. I’ve written some of them and find it amusing to see ‘my articles ‘ being written again. If you’d see what I mean. Some months I’d buy, others I’d find nothing of interest. Why is it not possible to buy the magazine monthly in digital format? I don’t want to subscribe but can’t buy paper monthly. I’m a lost sale! Ssomeone mentioned RCME being a magazine with boats in it..,I’d read that. More variety. I wouldn’t read cars though or fpv which bores me to tears or drones / quads which I hate. Finally, what absolutely amazes me is that in an age where model flying is so easily accessible and where it seems every household has a flying toy of some sort, RCME is not more popular. There are magazines for blooming air fryers for goodness sake. I’d have thought there were more people flying ‘models’ now than at any other time previously. I hope the current team have safe jobs and continue to applaud their work. The heritage of RCME and the old MAP is a golden one and it would be a very, very sad day if it were lost.

Yep. Still got them all. If you’d like them pm me your addresses

Sun shine and warmth so took my electric mini p51 , my electric 1939 panther and my proper glow powered Galahad p51 flew well but the panther got tossed into the ground by thermic turns and was destroyed. Sad but not that sad. Never did like it Galahad flew a treat on the .30 four stroke. all in all a very pleasant few hours pottering round the sky

They don’t have to. Not when the blades are free!

No one ? Next stop the bin

It’s frightening. I recently went to place an order for wood for a leprechaun glider but when I saw the total price I spooked. I’ll build smaller…

PM you

I used to belong to Martin down flying club, sadly now extinct due to rspb. They said we affected the birdies, which I never did believe. I recall sitting at the hold to runway 08 at Gatwick one day watching a kestrel hovering and hunting in the grassy undershoot. Every time a jet landed the bird move to one side and as soon as the jet had passed he moved back again. When our turn came I lined up under him, he moved to one side and off we went. Presumable he just slid back to his hunting position. he didn’t care about us, just another bigger noisier bird. I never believed my models affected Martin down and still don’t, just grumpy “say no” blasted do-gooders.

That’s actually a link to nepoprene. Did you mean to be so specific? Will neoprene handle diesel? Or just a link to Leeds? I have used LMS before. thank you though.

Well progress. I’ve discovered to my cost that diesel fuel tube isn’t available anymore. There’s 2mm tube and 3/32 tygon. A couple of feet of 2mm later and I bought tygon. Anyway, I found this gorgeous Christmas tissue which I could not resist. It’s awful but it’s pretty. Oh you are awful but I like you, pretty tissue. Onward!

There will always be model aircraft. Maybe not foamies maybe not even RC, and I can see a future where that is banned, there’ll always be model planes. Take away my ex and power and glow and diesel and electric and I’ll make a rubber powered model. I love seeing model planes fly and that’s just the way I am.

Aye. Always gonna be. As for the faf of glows I feel quite the opposite. Charging, discharging, storage, safe handling… battery power is a faf and a half in my book. Electric flight is a pain in the bum and is far more dangerous than any glow. If you don’t have the dexterity to adjust a needle valve sadly how the heck do you fly the sticks? It’s a matter of experience and confidence. Horses for courses.

But it doesn’t matter at 100 ft distance and 50 mph does it?

Thats partly what kills IC engines. Not the fact that there’s a big silencer hanging down but the fact that you want there not to be because you want perfect scale. Young modeller / new modellers are attracted to the ludicrous scale available in foam rather than the perfectly adequate sport- scale or cartoon scale that we all loved as youngsters ourselves. Frankly as an old fart I don’t see the need for the mental ocd scale we now see and which the scale gods of the 80s would have slaved weeks for. What’s so bad about a sports model with a big silencer ? Still flies the same.

You don’t have to put on the red light…. sorry. Couldn’t resist. I’ll need to google roxel

Sadly the loss of any engineering output in this country is coming back to bite us. We have invested heavily in financial services and so called “products” which aren’t anything of the sort. Now the world is falling apart and we could do with homegrown actual manufacturing of things to sell, we can’t do it. My son recently needed to find a manufacturer of rockets in the Uk. Have a guess how many can actually make a proper rocket over here. I’ll help you, it’s more than zero and less than 2. Still, at least we have a good selection of mortgages eh ?

Very sad for them and for us if they have gone. A sign of the times and the miserable rise of electric and the ditto decline of IC. Something about genies and bottles.

So after much fettling, rerouting a snake for the better and some lateral if risky thinking, the tank position is sorted. A preliminary check shows balance at or about the right place. Getting there.

Symmetrical right hand. Probably off a sceadu which was my last machine. Unused anyway.

How pretty is this. ???