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Hi Peter,   I'll follow that advice and keep you posted.   Given the potential light mass of the model could you design it with plug on wings to keep the "transportability" factor.   Regards     John @import url(http://www.modelflying.co.uk/CuteEditor_Files/Style/SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

Hi Peter,   Many thanks for that, I'll have a further session tonight on the radio and with the ruler.     In my eyes the Druine Turbulent is the most perfectly proportioned and "right looking" scale model ever, I've hankered after a Turby for years now and got this beauty, I'd love to know it's history and who built it. So if anybody built one with the following features I'd love to talk to them.   Finished in yellow Solartex, emery cloth wing steps, pitot tubes, battery compartment under the fuel tank, filler nozzle in front of cockpit, fantastic detailed hand made instrument panel and two sets of wheels one with matching scale yellow hub covers.   Please convince the kit manufacturer to make a bigger one, I'm sure if the Precedent kit or a ARTF was on the market it would be a success. If it was bigger than your original I would be in the queue.   I've since had another flight having tamed the elevator and it's looking good.   Peter, do you think I should keep adding nose weight bit by bit until no down elevator trim is required in normal mid throttle level flight.   Many Thanks   Johnj         @import url(http://www.modelflying.co.uk/CuteEditor_Files/Style/SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

Hi All   I gained a superbly built and finished Turbulent built from Pete's plan from that famous auction site, It is yellow with a an OS40 FS and a lovely dummy opposing cylinder head.   Peter might remember it from said site as he posted a little reply to the then sender at the time it was up for auction earlier on this year.   Today was test fly day and boy did I have a fright, It was very exciting and I was lucky to get it down, it was a bit hairy an I believe the main reason it did not drop a wing badly were those wonderful leading edge slats.   But in truth the cause was me, I also gained the original mag with the plan feature and scaled up the CG position from a picture of the plan, but, I guessed the control throws and got them wildy wrong, far far far too much movement on that massive elevator, I estimate I flew the whole scary circuit on not much more4 or 5mm of stick movement when I realised what was wrong, what a plonker...   Question, can anybody from experience tell me the true CG and control throws they use for this georgeous plane.   Anybody got a Precedent kit lying around in the loft as I'd love it to have a bigger brother to play with.   Many thanks   John           @import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

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