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If it's like any other canopy glue the usual advice is to leave it at least overnight, until fully cured.

Moderate rain this morning, but for once the wind had dropped and it was very calm, The old farmers say "Rain before seven, fine by eleven" and that's how it looked, the rain stopped about 9am and the Met Office rain radar predicted it would bypass us for a few hours, coming back after noon. Got to the field very wet underfoot, overcast, but flat calm and just a few of us there, we got a flight in each, before the drizzle started spitting. Retired to the hut, but unfortunately it just got heavier and wasn't flyable. I never fly in the rain, as it's a problem if you wear glasses and I'm not confident that 2.4ghz performs to it's usual standards in the rain. It showed no sign of clearing, but I guess it might have done in an hour, but we decided to just cut our losses, So, effectively rain stopped play.

https://www.stefanv.com/rcstuff/qf200209.html Assuming a brushless set up with an ESC equipped with a Battery Elimination Circuit (BEC), which will supply a 5v supply to the receiver, the above basic set up will work. If the motor runs in reverse, just swap any two wires with each other to get the correct rotation. The servo plugs fit into the receiver into the individual receiver channel sockets. The order of those sockets vary between manufacturers. Forget about fuses, switches and separate receiver batteries if you have a BEC equipped ESC, you switch on by just connecting the battery.

Ah, it's an Su31 1.4m span! Inexplicably I somehow read that as Stuka and was instantly interested. 😄

That's a massive Stuka Geoff - 311.4m wingspan 😮 That's what I mean about gathering as much information on CoG as possible, the manual is incorrect quite often. If you are lucky there will be an erratum included with the kit, but not always. Reviews and online posts about a particular model are a very valuable source of real world experiences.

That's pretty much what I do, apart from CofG, where I gather as much information as possible and if not available go for 28% as a starting point, I read in the mag the other day about balancing the model, where the author described how he balances the model saying that he balances the model with a nose down attitude, which was claimed as the correct method. Personally I balance it so that the model is level -ie balanced, but recognise that slightly nose down would be slightly nose heavy and okay for a maiden flight.

Video not found. We've had a succession of private jets in the past couple of days, all going from Farnborough to land at Dundee. It's very unusual to hear the sound of a jet descending here, but on hearing a couple yesterday, looked on ADS-B and that's what they were, Not sure what that is about -it's the Game Fair starting today, but would posh shooters really travel up by biz-jet from the south of England?

I do know of folks who have reschemed their previously Russian models as Ukrainian . Not something that I'd do, but also worth bearing in mind that Yak is a Soviet aeroplane, rather than anything to do with the current regime, so it's a tenuous link for folks to make such changes. I only have a couple of Russian aeroplanes, both Sukhoi pusher "jets" and they still retain their red stars. For WWII USSR aeroplanes it's a no brainer, they were our staunch allies at the time, plus you've got her posed next to an FW190 with a naughty cross on the fin 😉 They both look very nice and should stay as they are.

I'm not at all surprised that the vast majority of modellers don't check their creations or purchases with an incidence gauge. If they are following any decent set of instructions then they would have checked the alignment of the tailplane laterally, checked that the tailplane and fin are square and proceeded on that basis. The vast majority of modellers almost certainly do not own, or have never used an incidence mater. FWIW I've got a Robart Incidence meter, as I thought it was a good idea. It's in a draw and it hasn't been used in donkey's years. If one is purchasing an ARTF or building from a kit then it's a pretty fair assumption to make that the incidences ought to have been sorted out by the manufacturer. If one is building from a plan or from scratch, and especially with a complex model, then the case for using the meter is stronger, but I expect that would represent a small minority of modellers - for most of us TLAR is good enough.

Doesn't read like an AI Bot to me and, as has been pointed out previously, shouldn't a sufficiently credible bot able to ask a question ought to be able to answer one as well? Kind of like it shouldn't take too long to figure out how to program a bot to tick a box saying I Am Not A Robot.😉

That fella really shouldn't be sitting at the end of the runway like that TBH. We used to sometimes watch from the end of the runway at various shows and active airfields, but having watched a DH Venom run into the perimeter fence after failing to get away cleanly at a show, we stopped doing that pronto..

Sorry - just re-read the OP and see that you are looking for a prop and spinner as well.

Anyone else seeing the obvious disconnect between the two bolded sections in that post. This thread and the comments therein are providing feedback on the magazine, in the section devoted to feedback on the magazine. It isn't whinging or complaining, it is considered feedback. As for spreading the plan build articles across several issues, I certainly was not talking about complex, multi sheet plan issues and the extended build treads associated with those, I was talking about relatively simple models, which always used to be covered in a single issue - sometimes even two, alternative but related plans in a single issue.

We've covered this many times in this forum and in other fora as well. The position of the vast majority of clubs actively works against them being readily accessible to potential flyers unless they can drive and have transport. This isn't the 1960's and, even assuming that you could encourage youngsters away from their devices and social media, parents are very unlikely to be happy with their children cycling three miles to visit a club on a regular basis. Notwithstanding the difficulties in transporting models and gear on a bike - yes, it can be done and some of my flying pals do it to this day - that would demand direct parental involvement, for hours at a time. The song got it wrong, the children are not our immediate future. As it has been stated and restated, the potential growth demographic to replace the natural wastage amongst model flyers in in the over 40's. Those are the folks with transport, potential disposable income, possibly a past acquaintance with the hobby in their youth and, as they get older, potentially more time to indulge. AS for those other modelling related activities - model railways, Airfix kits etc - those have definitely seen an increase in interest and activity since the airing of TV programmes promoting those interests. Social media certainly indicates that to be the case, with significant numbers of new posters on many of the static model builder pages for Airfix etc starting their posts with the information that the kit that they have just built has been their first build in 40 years. Youngsters watch very little TV these days, for them the media of preference is shorts and reels - video and mixed media clips no longer than a couple of minutes. The under 30's are not the main target audience to preserve this hobby.

The content is another area, not necessarily linked to the diminished quality of the reproduction of photographs. I've noted a somewhat disturbing trend in the past few years where some articles - including plan build articles and even simple reviews of ARTF models - are spun out over two, three or even four issues. I'm sorry, but if a free plan is provided for a model, the construction article really should be contained entirely within that issue not "we built the wing this month, tune in next month for the fuselage build and the following month for the flight report". That seems to be increasingly happening with the magazine,