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I've got one of those Mr RC Sound systems, intended for the 1600mm Flightline Spitfire, but haven't fitted it yet. I'm puzzled why the Eflite Mustang feller put the music on the video, supposedly wanting to show off the sound system - completely spoils it. My system has the transducers, rather than speakers, and the recommendation is to fit them permanently to the fuselage sides.
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3 hours ago, GrumpyGnome said:
Yes it is. Flies really nicely.
Previous owner said he flew on 3S - must have been a little uninspiring....
Have only flown mine a few times, but she does fly lovely on 4s1p 3300mah battery - he must have had some massive 3s packs to get the Sea Fury to balance.
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The default theme doesn't have the issue, but unfortunately the default theme comes with default teeny tiny text which is far from ideal even on a 16" screen.
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Is that the Freewing/Flightline Sea Fury GG?
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Problem only seems to appear on the darker theme, no there on the default theme, which is a better workaround. I wasn't aware that I had changed themes and certainly had not done so consciously.
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Oh dear the rogue adverts hijacking the navigation of multipage threads has raised it's head again this morning. Clicking on the page number to advance to the next page results in an advert occupying the top of the page, rather than the next page of the thread. Yes, there's a workaround if you put your cursor on the URL bar and hit enter again, but it is doing this on every page and makes navigation a real pain.
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If you want the epoxy to be a bit more runny and less viscous the best way to achieve that is to warm it, with a hot air gun - that will accelerate the setting time, but it will flow like runny honey, rather than treacle and you aren't potentially compromising the strength.
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17 minutes ago, toto said:
Checked the repair .... drying nicely. Still a little tacky but expected due to the fact the epoxy was diluted with IPA.
Should reach its full strength by late tomorrow or certainly by the time that I have returned from Sellafield on Tuesday evening. Hopefully a nice strong repair. Fingers crossed.
Toto
Why did you dilute the epoxy Toto?
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Agree that it sounds like the MFA Yamamoto. Several pictures, plus alternatives in this recent thread.
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Got a few hours in this morning, but with a moderate north wind directly across the strip it was freezing, a coat and two fleeces, wool hat and fingerless gloves. A rare outing for my Hobbyking Su35 prop jet which isn't really my sort of thing at all and sounds horrible. Best fun was the wee FW190 and Spitfire, plus my Fatty Me109, plus another flight on my original Parkzone Spitfire. No piccies due to not being the nicest, rather overcast sky.
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I think it quite likely that inexperienced beginners literally do not have the first clue of what constitutes a windy day. At my old club you would often find several beginners waiting to fly, on completely unsuitable days when they would have been better off staying in the shed, where the more experienced flyers were on such a morning, As they grew more experienced, they were able to more accurately gauge the weather, to learn which were the wind speeds and directions which would give less enjoyable flying. They might also progress from battered trainers to better models, where the consequences of heavy arrivals, compounded by unfavourable wind conditions, turbulence and crosswinds were more extreme than breaking a few wing bands as their Hi Boy cartwheeled down the strip.
There are models which are my go-to models for windy days and they include foamies as well as certain balsa builds -such as the Wot-4 , but also my Mini Flying Machine- and the key to having the more enjoyable flights in the wind is power to weight, to be able to punch through the wind, rather than having an overly heavy models that is supposed to not get buffeted by the wind. As mentioned above, the technology onboard the wee 400mm Volantex models is such that a stable flight is pretty much guaranteed in a moderate windspeed - say 10-15mph without any concern about crosswind landing, since you can drop them at your feet under power. Until you've flown, or seen, these remarkable wee models operating in windy conditions you possibly wouldn't believe how well they do.
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If you have your heart set on dipping your toe in the water with one of the wee Volantex gyro stabilised offerings you might be better to start with the Sport Cub, rather than the warbirds. My pal Bob has one of these and reckons it's the best flyer and easiest to fly of all of them, it can also be got a wee bit cheaper than the warbirds. Make sure that it's the four channel, rather than the two channel one.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005012060190.html
You also need to check very carefully that what you are ordering includes the radio, charger, battery and spare props - click through the pictures at the link above to see the options.
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I'd say too many trees too close to where you are flying to be comfortable with even a small fixed wing parkflyer, especially in windy conditions when they will create lots of turbulence and make for an uncomfortable experience.
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Perfect morning here in Central Scotland, so hopefully Toto has the same conditions. Other commitments for me today, so fingers crossed that it's similar tomorrow. I look forward to reading the flight reports later today.👍
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FWIW out of all the wee Volantex models I fly, I've found that the most recent - that F4U1 Corsair pictured above - definitely has the hippy hippy shakes, with the stabilisation working overtime, in strong wind and at speed. The Spitfire, Me109, Fw190, P-51s and Zero do not exhibit that characteristic at all, they are rock steady. With the switch in Beginner mode they all fly and look like the usual manoeuvres of the real life warbirds as exhibited in modern airshows , which are typically broad sweeping turns which display the aeroplane perfectly and tighter turns when combatting. If you want more realistic loops you need to go to Middle mode and personally I find Expert mode virtually uncontrollable. For flying in formation Beginner mode is where it's at for us,
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Couple of things. Firstly the wee Volantex 400mm that GreyAce describes are some of the best models that I have ever had for windy conditions. We regularly have a gaggle of them up at the club in 10mph+ windspeeds and they are superbly stable with the switch in Beginner mode, under conditions that would keep many other models grounded. It is vital not to let them get downwind though, because they don't have the power to penetrate a very strong headwind - great fun though, provided that you keep them in the right bit of the sky. Since you are at full throttle the whole time the flight time drops from ca 12 minutes dawn to about 8 minutes when it's windy.
Piers advice to take to the slope in strong winds is sound, assuming that you have a suitable slope an EPP wing is an ideal model and, with a bit of tuition in slope flying, real or virtual, should be no problem to someone who is successfully flying a helicopter. The thing is that it opens up the number of days suitable for flying. However making the conversion to an electric powered model of that size and weight requires more careful selection of flying site and carries additional responsibility. It should be very robust though and forgiving of all but the worst arrivals.
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Yep, my method for attaching Velcro to airframes is that I put a squirt of UHU Por on the relevant bit of the aeroplane, smear it out into a thin layer using a lolly ice stick then go and do something else whilst that dries completely, before bringing the Velcro and dry UHU Por back together again and it's stuck tight. I still use Velcro, mostly as seat belts in those models where I'm not using wooden retainers, built from those same lolly ice stick, ply scraps and occasionally nylon wing bolts.
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7 hours ago, Nick Cripps said:
Arrived at Loch Earn this afternoon for a weekend's waterplane flying. Already experienced 3 of the 4 seasons today but managed to get a couple of early flights under my belt while conditions were favourable. Not expecting to see summer anytime soon though.
Looks like you've a braw day dawning this morning Nick, it's glorious just at the minute- hope you have a great weekend on the water.😎👍
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I use UHU Por as a contact adhesive probably 80% of the time that I use it at all, but you're right Ron, no wiggle room at all. It's also excellent on that mode for attaching self-adhesive Velcro to balsa, foam or ply, where the self-adhesive heeds a primed surface to work properly.
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Another sunny morning with light winds here, though a little chilly. Great conditions for flying and enjoyed some of that big sky with a couple of Spitfires, as well as my wee VMC Hurricane and Volantex Me109, the latter of which finally achieved Ace status with it's fifth "victory", a few minutes after being felled itself. No damage to either model.
Bob's Flite Test Spitfire was performing superbly, same as always and I took a few snaps , we were joined later on by John, with one of his own design depron models, a YF22 which flew brilliantly. The field is looking great and I'd brought the Cricket out again to take advantage of the newly shorn grass, but she failed her preflights, with a broken elevator horn that wasn't up to snuff and literally crumbled when I tried to adjust it. All replaced and working properly now, for next time.
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Dallachy Aeromodelllers is a super club, located on the peri track of ex RAF Dallachy, from which the Dallachy Strike Wing operated their Beaufighter against targets in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea. Years before I knew of any model club there I had a long term interest in the Strike Wings and always hoped to be able to fly a model there, preferably a Beaufighter. I've half realised that ambition, having flows a Spitfire there at a club fly-in some years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/p/Dallachy-Aeromodellers-100064653431283/
Transitioning to a low carbon life
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Revisiting this very interesting thread, but bypassing the EV discussion as I'm not in the place that I feel that could work for me and my car use.
However, since first posting on the opening page about the air source heat pump based workshop heating system, we've completed the work on the rest of the main outbuildings, installing a further four radiators on the system and the same hi efficiency insulation over most of the rest of the outbuildings. It's made for a very nice additional usable space, which will mostly form a sewing room and crafts studio. Early days yet on that new part, but the workshop and music room part has worked brilliantly since it's installation and we're expecting the same from the new bit. The radiators are barely cracked open to maintain a very comfortable temperature for the workshop. Truth be told I don't have a baseline for the cost of the electricity consumed by the system, but do expect that will go up, with the doubling of the size of the building covered, probably close to 2000 sq ft now.
That means we are about ready to move onto stage three of the project, which is design and fitting of a solar PV and battery system with the primary aim of future proofing against the rising cost of electricity going forward and maybe even eventually replacing our fairly new oil-fired heating for the main house. There is an inherent issue on that front as the underfloor heating system is designed for an oil-fired boiler and so the spacing of the pipes for the wet system is too widely spaced for the lower energy input of an ASHP based system. So that would be a stage four, if we ever get that far, and would demand some significant amount of building work, tearing up all of the floors and essentially putting in a completely new system.
So I'm re-reading this thread for real practical experiences of Solar PV-Battery systems and their workings. We had a visit yesterday from the first of what will be several companies to look at the job. I'm not going to say who, but the sales techniques were a little like the 1990's double glazing salesmen used, attempting to seal a deal there and then, after a visit which lasted nearly three hours.