Martyn K

My first kit was a KK Soarer Baby - 1970. Not very successful as I painted it in coloured dope rather than shrinking dope... However, what got me interested was a home design 'hang glider' which used a polystyrene apple tray for a wing and fishing lead tied to 4 corners but slightly forward of centre. Slope soared it off the edge of a cliff and amazingly it flew - quite well..

Deffo a flair meteor or possibly a meteorite. There were 2 versions of the Meteor, 40 sized and a 60 sized. The Meteorite was IIRC for 20 sized motors. Those wheels look big for a Meteor

I'll remember that, thanks Matt

You are a star 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 . Many thanks, i would never have guessed small can be beautiful.. 😂 Martyn

Hi all Many moons ago, BEB (RIP) had a thread running about scratch building a drone.. Using a Wii clone controller iirc. I am blowed if I can find it. Anyone here have it bookmarked? Thanks Martyn

That's what I use but give it a coat of emulsion first to seal the dust...

Seychelle plan is here. https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=11120 I agree, one of the loveliest designs. I built the same kit (in 1981) that Andy Green has. The wing section on the plan has a vicious stall, the model needs to be flown fast. I keep threatening on building another but I'll probably use a wing section that is a bit more 'me' friendly.

It really is about time that I updated this. I had a lousy winter building season, the fracture in my back 'moved' in November and bending over a bench was a very short lived affair. It didn't help that my SD card in my phone died and I have lost a number of photos (about 3000). <sigh> However, the Robin has progressed slowly. The wings finished, covered and painted and markings applied (sorry lost photo). Then started work on the interior. Instrument panel was 3D printed than the dials were from the freebie that came with RCM&E a few years ago. (Hint - it would be nice if that could be done again, I cant print as fine as your printers). The seats were a bit of a challenge. They were cut from 9mm foam (B&Q) but sorting out that distinctive pattern was a challenge. The best I could do was copy a part of the pattern from least distorted seat base, stretch it in GIMP then join the stretched parts in a chain. Printed using a cheapo inkjet printer. The velour is felt from Hobbycraft. So, two singles and a bench seat, fabricated and fitted. I am really quite pleased with this. The cockpit rear wall is 1.5mm balsa with vinyl film, still attached to its backing, glued in place using 3M spray adhesive. This will hopefully stop it from going wrinkly. The floor and walls are covered in thin foam sheet (£1 A4 sheet) also from Hobbycraft. Another shot. The gap between the front and back seats is too large.. I used the windows as reference but of course the window positions aren't quite to scale. The pilot was 3D printed from a commercial file. Its not the best print I have ever done, its actually a glider pilot but I dont care about that too much He looks a bit moth eaten but only because I overdid keeping the wall thickness as thin as possible to try and save weight. The seat belt clamps are a bit big - so probably are the seat belts as well. A couple of dry assembly shots while waiting to fit the canopy.. and Getting it balanced was a bit of a worry. I needed to keep the weight under 5kg to qualify for BMFA light scale comps and it was already very close to that at this stage. I fitted an onboard glow and fitted the C cell and the Rx battery in front of the crankcase. I still needed about 40g of weight to get the CG in the place marked on the plan. A strip of lead was screwed above the crankcase but the model would still tip backward on its wheels. I couldn't do anything with the the undercarriage as the spats would prevent that from happening. I was also a bit nervous about the amount of travel needed for the all flying tailplane. I definitely didn't want a twitchy model. Another 40g of lead was added... 😞 The canopy was completed with litho strips with obligatory pva rivet spots (got to keep Danny happy) and a final assemble photo. and The wing walkways have been subsequently added. The spinner needs to be red with a white spiral but that can wait. Time for the grand weigh-in.. Suspended from a tree in the garden, it weighed this much.. Drat and double drat Mutley, foiled again. So its now a candidate for BMFA Flying only.. Two failed attempts at a Maiden. The first, the engine started and ran beautifully but the nose leg linkage was flexing too much (offset noseleg) so back to get that fixed. I tried again on Sunday at the NW Area Scale Fly-in but a leaking fuel tank put paid to that effort. Now waiting for a replacement tank. One of the joys of using NIB 25 year old hardware.

Reminder that this event is on for next Sunday, the 21st May. Admission is £10 for pilots. Spectators and helpers are free. Hope to see you there.

The BMFA North West Area in conjunction with the Shropshire Model Flying Club will be holding the 2nd Annual Scale Fly-in on Sunday the 21st May 2023. This is a fun event catering for all types of scale models. Prizes awarded for the best turned out model, the best pilot and the best 'small' model (approx. .30 ic or equivalent electric). BBQ will be laid on. Numbers are limited so please pre-register by email: [email protected] Location: 52.74291922604198, -2.8517608708386883 SMFC entrance gate – What3words location : ///cackling.distilled.fears Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/52°44'34.5"N+2°51'06.3"W/@52.7432283,-2.8539447,1325m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d52.7429192!4d-2.8517609

UK Classic Aerobatic Association The UKCAA will be holding 5 events in 2023. Details will be published in the UKCAA events forum. For 2023, there will be no membership fee. We are having a free year. 🙂 If you would like to join, please download and return our membership application form from: http://www.ukcaa.org.uk/Club/Joining.aspx Note that we have now moved our members database to the BMFA Members and Club portal. The required email address on the form must match the email address on the portal. BMFA membership is mandatory. While you are at the UKCAA website, have a look at the plans and articles that we have provided. http://www.ukcaa.org.uk/Club/Plans.aspx and http://www.ukcaa.org.uk/Club/Articles.aspx All under 'Association Information' dropdown..

Thanks all. That appears to have worked. I proved it by binding in the order selected. One thing that i had to do was to connect them separately. I initially tried to bind with the satellite connected to the s-port on the rx8r. That didnt work. Next, I bound them as suggested, individually. To prove they had worked, i then powered up the receivers individually and they both appear to still be bound, i still had telemetry on the rx8r amd when i connected the satellite, the lights indicated that it was bound. I originally was expecting to see two receiver options in the setup, perhaps rather naively. Great result, many, many thanks

Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. To answer Phils question. Only one receiver shows up (the RX8R pro) when I bind with telemetry on channels 1 to 8 as normal. I cant see or undetstand how to bind a second receiver. It may be that the 2nd receiver binds automatically as it is plugged into the first but if so, there is no way that you can then set the telemetry or failsafe for that receiver. Perhaps if i try binding the slave first then something may happen. I dont want to put the rx8r at the rear of the fus as that would mean long extension cables for power and the servos plus the real problem of accessing and managing that receiver. I am starting to think that perhaps opentx doesnt support this scenario, its only supported in the frsky proprietary software.

Hi all Horus 10S Express Transmitter with OpenTx Rx8R pro Receiver 1 R-XSR Receiver 2 I need to fit a satellite receiver (R-XSR) to my existing Rx8R Pro as the main receiver is shielded by all the metal panels. I understand from T9 that this is possible. The R-XSR is connected to the Rx8R Pro using the SBUS channel. I can bind the Rx8R without any problems but I haven't got a clue how to bind the second receiver and (apparently importantly), disable the telemetry from the R-XSR. Any suggestions please? I have googled and failed. Thanks Martyn

I am off to Malta for the first time in early May. 4 days in Malta, the rest on a short Med cruise for my wife's 70th birthday pressie. Quite looking forward to the Malta bit. I would pass on the cruise if I could although most days we are on dry land so that is some form of redemption.