David perry 1

I think all references to sealed ammo boxes also include a phrase along the lines of...sealing gasket removed. Ive seen some drilled and grommeted to allow charging leads through as well. All you want is to stop the flaming carcase setting fire to anything else.

Me. Lipo , a small one about 1300mah, on charge in sons bedroom caught fire. After the fire brigade had done their best the clean up started. Whole house ruined. Windows gone, ceiling burnt, every piece of furniture changed. My sons room and all.his stuff turned to ash. We were lucky it happened by day or we'd have all been dead. We never ever charge lipos in the house now and we store them in tins in a second hand fridge in a shed outside. Fire amd insurance investigators traced the cause to the lipo not the charger. The same son also had his employers workshop burn down during lipo charging...big lipos though, commercial but still the same chemistry and chargers as we use. He wasnt nearby nor had he set the things up so no guilt!! They lost a whole workshop so he instigated the same protocols for charging and storage after that. I must say it is lipos that are driving me back to glow.

My 150 has lived for ever on its side. No probs

Well im very happy to be in the clear minority in this one. I agree the vampire has a goblin like sound but its nice, not annoying. I really do find drones extremely annoying to listen to, like mozzies. As for helicopters...not so much, they will at least fly if the engine stops. What I DO dislike, even though its very clever, is heli 3d. But the drone light displays, no, i really dont enjoy them though i concede they are clever things. Like i say, always happy to be in a minority of one! No hyperbole, no effect sought and no offence taken, even from pseudonymous posters. No need to close the thread either...that would be the fascist woke reaction. Now, where's my Blighter...?

Not quite sure what youd think id gain by using hyperbole to effect. Well, my common club Vampire edf doesnt make a horrible whine. My sons Trojan doesnt. My spitfire doesnt. The thing is the drones have very small high revving props, hence the whine. Maybe youve never seen a drone. Sounds like it. As for the lights that make my skin crawl, its the absolute unaerodynamic- ness of it all. They cant glide...taint natural! I hate them. I dont even find them attractive in the same way that ,say ,fireworks are. No, its not hyperbole, just my opinion...i dont like them and they make my skin crawl. And what sort of name is Lima Hotel Foxtrot? A trolls name?

I doubt that. Once it has attained terminal velocity no more energy will be added to a falling body. 25m, 50m, 25 miles... Of course, i dont know how far a drone must fall to attain TV so by chance, you could be right. I hate drones. The nasty high pitched whining and the absolute UN aerodynamic shape and flight characteristics. I loath them. And the hundreds used at night to make pretty pictures make my skin crawl.

On the cover...reminds me of the Radio Primer or whatever it was called back in the 70s which had the same type on it's cover . My parents bought me a copy for christmas one year...i read it cover to cover countless times and still have it on my shelf.

Soarcerer by Dave Hughes. A truly beautiful model with elegant simplicity and a joy to build and fly. Ive made several over the years including one 120" version for a laugh

Basic advice...dont "save" channels. Primary steering controls on right stick...whether rudder or aileron. Having to "learn a new take off technique " is rot. Humans are clever animals.

We wont ask how you know...

I use rhe SLEC one. With care it works well (If that is the slec one apologies...hard to tell)

Interesting tales. Ref the open rocker motors being fascinating...oh yes. Ive never had one, wish i had one. I guess thats why radials are so attractive...more machinery to gawp at. Must get my Galahad finished (actually must get it started) but time is so packed. Im working hard, among other things, to get a 1946 Auster back in the air. The Cirrus Minor 2 (a big four-stroke so sort of on topic) is hard graft as it is so old now and manuals arent what they should be! Modelling sadly takes a back seat.

Have it your way.

Yes but point is that the MODEL is always flying forwards, even though you perceive it to be going the wrong way. Unless of course it simply wasnt flying at all, simply being blown around like so much rubbish in a storm. In that case, im not sure what backwards means but it sure aint flying ha ha. Sorry about your model anyway.

Only partly true. The model will NEVER be blown backwards. It might fail to penetrate, but it will always be flying forwards. Susceptibility to gusts is a wing loading result not section. The Jaguar was solid as a rock and its wing pretty flat. Any number of flat bottomed OR biconvex microlights are blown about by zephyrs. The language we use can lead us to dead ends quite quickly. Bottom line is, dont over think...just go and fly. You can always chop the throttle, save the model and go for a walk instead.

Every day of my working life as an airline pilot. I was always amazed that if the met office said 5kt or 50kt at some point, youd bet your wages it was. If they said id arrive in 3 hours 4 minutes...yep. The forecasts they SELL are excellent. But i do take your point. My phone has two weather apps, both usually utterly opposed.

Theres something very sweet about these old 4 strokes. I never had an Atilla but they are nice machines

Thanks Jon On further review of the site i rather like the Pup. As it happens ive got the Ju88 to get off the bench -very close now- and then a brand new Galahad to build, which i am really looking forward to. I think the Pup will be the one tho, in due course D

Tiger moth sounds fun

Hi Gunnar Thanks for the thought but thats one design that leaves me cold. Thats a pretty one though!

Woe. Excellent all round i think.

My son asked the same question. I hve no idea...anything to show off the engine! An SE5a would be nice...but thereare so many nice models. Any ideas?

Ive recently made a small collection of older 4 strokes i intend to pop into the airnin the coming months. This is sooo sweet and dropped through my door today.

Models never take note of wind...we do. Many many years ago at my club we had a spate of crashes in windy weather due to pilots stalling on the downwind etc. I wrote and published an article for RCME in an attempt to educate model pilots and thus reduce crashes through stalls; the readers letters and feedback suggested many many other pilots really hadnt grasped the concepts of airspeed and groundspeed. I told my sons as kids, and they constantly remind me of this, "in this country if you dont fly in the wind, you dont fly at all". Sadly it HAS got windier over the years so the advice stays good i feel. This winter has been more appalling than ever i have known it. I also work in full-size flying amd have lost more days november to may just gone than i can ever remember doing in 30 years. Needless to say my model flying has also been thinned. Wind i can hack, the cold i prefer to avoid these days.

There is a lot of stuff out of stock for sure. I suspect its going to get a whole lot worse as the world descends into darkness.