Tom T

Hi CS, Thank you! Ah you are lucky, I know a lot of flyers that all have Dad's in the hobby, you are fortunate! I agree, likewise, all my school friends are sitting in front of the xbox. Shame really, they are missing out on great fun! I do play the Xbox (brothers... shhh aha) and I post frequently on Facebook and twitter (less twitter) but if i had to give up one, I wouldn't have to hesitate to give up the technology for the Modelling. Thank you, I know exactly what i'll use it for... think it'll go nicely in a DofE project! Tom

Evening all, Yes it was I that sent it in :D aha. Interesting to hear all of your views on the article. A part that stood out was about the age range of 20 year olds. Although I partially agree with this a side of me disagrees, firstly because by then all the potential competition flyers are all untouchable. Also I notice there are few of that age range because they are all off studying, getting a job or starting a family so they have no spare time or money for that matter for flying modelling. I agree with alot of your view points. Erfolg, £100 to me is alot of saving! Before I started this hobby I had another hobby, drumming. I wasn't getting anywhere with it and it was really annoying the parents so I had no choice but to move on. From the money I saved from that I managed to buy the spitfire (as in the article) crashing that was awful! I felt awful for days after (don't fly what you can't afford, oops, learnt that lesson the hard way)!. Now I save for everything I buy in the hobby. I saved for my transmitter (£130) my trainer (£82) and then alot of accessories which totalled by the end of year 1 over £500 (oh I did buy a chipmunk aswell but that was because I was growing out of my trainer, £90) That was me totally empty starting year one with (running it as a business) an inflow of around 50p( inflow, is that right)? I started saving my pocket money again from the money I got from my amazing Parents and Grandparents. Now at the end of year 2 nearly year 3 I am still with the same models wanting to yet again advance. I wonder, 3 years, 3 models... about £700 later who on earth in their right mind of my age would stick to it without grandparents or parents involved....hmm.... its an expensive hobby and it is a healthy (it is? aha) addiction that needs feeding. Atleast it teaches you the meaning of finance and balancing but it completely destroys anyones chance of becoming good at my age without a money tree.   Tom Edited By Tom T on 12/11/2012 20:35:51

Nothing special..... just a fujifilm 10.2mp digital :D think you can get one for £50

There are some great pictures on here so far! these are the ones have taken, these were taken at Waddington airshow 2012. As you can clearly see i am not a photographer! :D there are more (red arrows) kicking about somewhere.. i will have to go find them

Back again... its been a while :D Anyway.. heres the progress on the trainer, I have just recovered.... I am very busy flying the Chipmunk now so finding time to do other planes and still do school work is sort of difficult... Heres the photos and this one..... Cheers! Tom

Hi, These are a couple of photos I took at Wadding Airshow this year...... I'm not very good at photography but here are 2 that I think I got lucky with :D and....... Cheers

I have mine in my fuselage but I may well move it forward... go any pics of your plane?

Posted by Tony Bennett on 18/07/2012 09:28:39: coming along well then sir. have to have a Kamco flying day somewhen. Indeed! I will have to build myself one for the DofE project and then bring it along for an event!

The subtitle is the exact reason why I hate the name that is put on the generation that I am in caused be certain youngsters that think fooling around and causing mischief is a good idea. We are not all like it and its awful that it seems that way...... Concorde and me mean no harm, never have and never will and its a shame that it looks that way.... I think those people need to find a hobby! Hope its not this one because they will try to ruin it! Tom

Its a shame really, If these were young fools that decided to do this then they should be fully ashamed of themselves. As Concorde says, i've never even thought of doing anything like that and the people that do are the people that put a bad name on our generation. We are not all like it but theres some that just are........

Yes although not completely free, have a few things to do over the holiday but there will certainly be a few days there for flying and building Agreed, nothing like a film on a small budget suppose it gets to the point though and explains what its need to

Steve: All done now and broken up for 6 weeks, I get my results in August :D Robert: I got that DVD a few months ago (saw an ad in one of the magazines) its a great dvd a little dated but still go.... I will watch it again before attempting to do it for real. Cheers Tom

Hi CS, I agree there aren't to many of us... its growing though. I'm doing it up now and sorting it to sell it I think. I'm looking into building soon but at the moment I'm just trying to get my Chipmunk flying :D I will take a look at your thread! Cheers Tom

Hi, Its been a while :D I still need to cover the model, been to busy with exams and been fixing/flying other models. I now have a few days free next week so I will be covering the trainer. I will post some pics.... Tom

aha true Codename-John but i didn't know that at the time of purchase although I haven't had to many problems with Spektrum.... they seem to be ok

Thanks Flyeruk and Brian,   So I just send it to their main address and they will forward it to the right department?   Cheers Tom Edited By Tom T on 29/06/2012 19:32:16 Edited By Tom T on 29/06/2012 19:32:29

Hi Chris. I have received emails back from them and they told me to send it to them but I don't have an address for them and rather emailing them again I was just wondering if anyone had an address. Sorry, I didn't explain very well. Cheers :D Tom

Hi, (its been a long time) :D Does anyone know where I can find the repair address to send off my transmitter? I sent them an email a little while ago after my dx5e broke and they said to send it to them but i don't know of an address to send it to. Please could someone tell me what the address is.... Cheers! Tom

The 4 of us are going and will be there at around 11am on the saturday and sleeping over night..... (still gotta confirm that :D) this is the weather forecast from XC, doesn't look to bad :D **LINK**