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Sorry chaps, it really is mine.  I left in the office that day I popped in.   Ha ha, just send it home!   David 

Late break...g4YVM here...   David, Salisbury  

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I have tried to down load something called a torrent, but my computer, a mac, rather than downloading the full 35meg as it might be expected to, actually downloaded just 13kb of unreadable stuff called .tbp.torrent.   How do i download torrents???  And while we are on the subject, whats an RSS ?   David Edited By David perry 1 on 24/01/2010 10:15:36

Im finally getting round to my Alfa F86 and need two servos for it.  Anyone know where the best deals for micro servos are these days?   David 

Good luck David,   I've always been humbled by your dedication and contributions to the field of aero modelling.  I know you must have taken a good deal from this wonderful sport, but unlike most of us you have put back far, far more.    Try to treat beating this illness as a particularly tricky scale job: it'll take time and blood, sweat and tears, and when its done it might not be exactly as you would wish, but it can be done I am sure.  And if it can, you're the man to do it.    Praying for you.   David     

Thanks Stephen. I rather assumed they must be Rx specific. Thanks though.   D

Okay, so I have received my new and first 2.4GHz tx, Spektrum dx5. I have bought it so I can buy a BNF parkzone Bf109.   The maanual says to bind the Rx to the Tx i must indert the bind plug, blah blah blah. Question (coz I havent yet received my plane) does the receiver comee with the plug, or do I have to buy one? Do ALL receivers come with their own plugs?   David

Its very odd. I have the wifi symbol but the phone says (when i click on safari) "cant connect to internet".   D

Thanks.   Can I ever see the blue dot and the wifi symbol at the same time?If I turn off the cell phone part I seem to get the wifi icon, but it wont connect to itunes store for some reason. However if i turn the phone back on then the wifi icon goes away and I get the blue dot.   How can I test the functionality oif the various systems?  Apart from buying an iBook and doing the job right of course!   david

I received an Iphone 3gs from Santa this year, and it's very good indeed. However, I have a couple of questions you might be able to answer if you dont mind. 1. What is EDGE? 2. It wont connect to my home wifi. It sees the system and tries to access it, then it asks for a password so I give it the one the other computers use but it comes back and says it cant connect. Any ideas? The wifi is a zoom adsl and the broadbean system is BT broadband. 3. Okay, so not a couple of questions, but three.Where I see the "E" EDGE icon (see q 1) I sometimes see a blue dot with a white centre. What is this? I cant find this on the Apple icons page. david

Posted by Phil Cooke on 08/01/2010 20:58:44: How about a section entitled "I learnt about model flying from that..."  where experiences of failure are described and the issues identified and correctly mitigated with the benefit of hindsight.   I seem to recall a similarly entitled article each month in a forces journal, regarding full-sized aircraft operation issues - can't remember which publication, but it was always a very good read, very informative.      Pilot Magazine   David

A manoeuvre a month is a good idea, but how about some way of bringing it into the 21st century and actually, having learnt it, gettingsay three of your clubmates to judge it according to a published set of criteria (published WITH the article in RCMand E).  Your scores could be collated (say, on here) and then published monthly in the magazine  - a sort of postal comp if you will.     Challenging scenarios are also good article fodder: I wrote one for the mag years ago on flying in strong winds and it was well received. I see the same article was done again a few years ago, so these things always need refreshing thats for sure.  Things like flying near roads, on farms, in parks these days too, all have special requirements and are all strange to newcomers.  That family that buys the parkzone thing in the shop on saturday morning and then goes off on sunday to fly it, they really have no idea. So articles of that ilk might go down well.  And I guess one could have been flying for a whole season in the park without actually "entering" this hobby at all.   Articles on covering are probably worth doing; if a lot of new guys get into the hobby via ARTFs then they simply wont know how to cover a model, or repair one come to that.   The idea of glues is good, modern ARTFS take specialist glues (no, not to US, but to newbies they are specialist....you know, UFO cyano, fast, med and slow epoxy, hot glue etc etc etc).   Articles on photographing our models are always worth a read, especially with cameras less than the C 30D etc.  You know, "how to get good images with your iphone", "how to shoot good video for youtube".   Just some thoughts.   David    

Blimey, poor old Ashby...there aint a single thing in that lot above that hasn't been done in what seems like recent years. But as an Old Git my memory might be playing tricks...recent years MIGHT be the last twenty!  Good luck David / Graham!!   Here's a thought, I have just taakeen the gubbins out of a crashed parkzone P51 and made a superb "Airboat" style snow sled that goes like stink.  Would you like THAT as an article??   David

I have plumbed for the rubber band method. A dowel fastened to each pair of cabane struts such that each dowel runs fore and aft. There is a bolt sticking up through the front cabane strut on each side to locate the wing. Unscale and simple, but better than bolts in long grass!   d

Danny, not really as it was a long time ago I was there . I haave no idea what became of the 190, but it was a hell of a beast when seen close up. One can truly imagine the pilots of the time who were to be trained on it being so incredibly excited by the prospect. A Krupps steel cowl over the oil cooler and bullet proof glass so that the pilots simply flew up the stream of allied bullets until they found the gun, then shot it.   D

Danny, thanks.  I guess they are then!   I was fortunate enough to go and see P V's spitfire under restoration (also hi FW190 and his Jurca Scirocco). Amazing to ssee the old technology up close and personal.   I used to own a Jurca Tempete (the one owned at one time by THE Peter Russell.         http://www.caa.co.uk/applicationmodules/ginfo/ginfo_photo.aspx?regmark=G-AYTV&imgname=G-AYTV001&imgtype=JPG ), hence I really went to see the Scrirocco...I was rather sirprised to see the warbirds too!   David

Shaun, thanks for that. I'm aware of that system (and it's failings) but can't see they'd paaint that on an aileron. I dont think they had the jack style of interphones either on spits, but might be wrong. Danny, the grounding thing is most lilkely Ithink, but its a heck of a stencil for "just" a bonding strap point.  Maybe though...   Merry Christmas,   D

I have looked at a few photos of Spits over the years and one thing puzzles me... whey is there a square box in white paint bearing the legend "w/t" on each aileron underside.   I hve always assumed this means "wireless telephony kit behind this panel", but on the ailerons???  Anyone know?   david

Thanks guys, yes I was getting Myhobbystores mixed up with Hobbystores.  And David, yes it was the editorial side I was concerned about.  I'd have hated to see such an esteemed magazine get "sold out" (souled out??)   Anyway, have a good Christmas one and all and I hope santa manages to pop some tasty bits in yer stocking!!!  A flyfly EDF F86 would do me!!   David

This might have been done elsewhere and I missed it.  Is RCME now owned by Myhobbystores?  Will it be independent in the future?   David

Shaun, ref the stall speed...recall that stall is a function of alpha (angle of attack), and not of speed!  You dropped big barn door flapperons!  But i agree, sometime these things do catch us out, even in full sized ones!    There's a well documented case of an A320 flying for excel germany where their alpha vane froze and they were totally caught out by it. Sadly it ended badly for them, but they were too low at the entry anyway, too low I mean for the maneouver at all, let alone with frozen alpha vanes - of which they were ignorant .   D

Shaun, glad the Wot4 went well...a lovely plane in all guises!   ref the wing drop with full flap...a basic stall with yaw I'm afraid! By dropping the flaps you exceeded the stalling alpha, and being a model you wouldn't know it but you had yaw on. the only thing the poor model can do then is tip stall!  If you want to continue playing with this (and you should!), take the model up high, put the nose down (throttle off) and deploy full flap again. Now see what it does and gently try raising the nose till you reach the stall.  Learn that angle and go no futher!  Good for getting in over trees! (and having a laugh generally).  You might find it never works properly and what you really have is brakes!   Enjoy.   David (with a vested interest as I have a Wot4 ARTF in a box under the bench for my new years build!)

Thanks guys.  I'll ponder this furtheer and let you know. I2fly, I agree...scale is great, but faffing is BAD!  And dont ya just know that those threads will go / those screws will be lost, right at the start of the best flying day for weeks???     My right top wing (still uncovered) just developed a warp! darn it!!  Probably get it out during covering but Ive strapped it and damped it down for now, we'll see what the night does for it.     David

Just trying to find a better way of fixing the upper wing to the cabane strutts than the four wood screws supplied. Yes, they work but they aren't exactly 21st century.  Ive considered through bolts, but thats too hefty for the bipe I think. I have considered building a simply ply cradle and using rubber bands.   Anyone else out there done this model and changed the screws for...?   I had one of these planes years ago, and didn't use screws, but I cannot for the life of me recall what I DID use!   David