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Hi David Missed that first time round (was still in mourning for my Dornier) - but just heard about Steve making that long trek down to Kent - looks like you all had a great time. ADS are always looking for new ideas for glider competitions and the format has raised some interest in our WhatsApp group chat yesterday evening. It's a small (modelling) world 😎👍

Definitely a Red Kite. 👍

You did brilliantly Murat - very pleased for you to see the Islander take to the air and return to the ground safely and smoothly. Well done that man. 😎👍

You might be taking a risk simulating the FW190 that got lost and landed at RAF Penbury David - history has a tendency to repeat itself and you wouldn't want another one to turn up in South Wales again. 😉

I would not be at all surprised if it was not You Tube's algorithm that suddenly picked up on a swastika on a model in a video that you posted a while back Ron. I'd be wondering whether the video had been reported to YouTube by a flesh-and-blood human, possibly with an axe to grind.

Much improved sky conditions, sunny with blue sky and fluffy clouds replacing the murk of Sunday and a gentle wind forecast, so made the trip to my old club site. On arrival wind speed was as forecast ca 5mph, but through the morning it strenthened more that the forecast, eventually ending up as consistently 14-15mph by early afternoon. A reasonable turnout with half a dozen of us flying. After Saturday's disaster I was playing it safe will well used aeroplanes that I'd be able to relax with - Corsair, FW190, Hawk and Spitfire PR XIX. The highlights of the day, for me was Jim's lovely Veron Hawker Tomtit making a rare outing and surfing the wave lift off the back of the hill. Then there was a re-re-maiden of Derek's big depron overcast F104 Starfighter, finished in an Italian Air Force 50th anniversary demonstrator. A few hairy looking moments but she flew really well, likeking the bit of a breeze, A couple of flights with the tip tanks off showed that the remotoring had been successful and then Derek treated is to a flight with the tip tanks on, which shows what a bonny model the Starfighter is. Murat had a successful long awaited maiden flight with his refurbished Britten Norman Islander, which got off the ground beautifully and looked great in the air, being given a full and proper test flight culminating in s nice smooth landing and no major dramas. He coped really well with all the advice that we were hurling at hom throughout the flight and must be delighted with the results.

In answer to that question I've never seen a YS engine at the field but have seen lots of Cox engines and owned a few -in fact I think I still have at least one. FWIW I've never seen a Laser engine at the field either.

Not sure I understand the described issue regarding different laws or rules being applied to display of swastikas to children on You Tube videos. Every time you upload a video to You Tube it explicitly asks you whether the video is made for children, a question which must be answered before the video is able to be posted.

Not a bad service from RC Castle at all, Flightline Spitfire IX Spinner ordered on the 22nd April, to replace the spare one that I had used from stock. Arrived just now 6 days later. It's not in Flightline branded packaging, but looks like exactly the same item that I had from Motion RC Eu when I bought my Spitfire from them, plus a few critical spares. No 20 Euro fine for being able to see a mountain, but still with postage costs of double the cost of the item.

Yep - lots of frustration with the wee Cox Baby Bee back in the day on straight fuel. Fast forward 25 years and with 25% or even 10% nitro found them to start very easily and be perfect, if a bit noisy, power plants for small models. Wish I'd have know that back in the 70's.

Nice video Richard - good tracking and beautifully flown - really enjoyed that, thanks. 😎

Before and after. Still hurts two days later. 😢

Hi John - wish I had realised you were there as well, it would have been good to say hello. The control liners were an unexpected bonus and TBH Bob and myself were more excited by that KK Champ when we arrived than by any of the giant scale aerobats and turbines. 😃 I returned for the morning session today, as I needed to be back home by early afternoon, but I found the visibility a real challenge today and only had the one flight with my Aerowatt, after barely being able to see the model on my landing approach. It started to brighten up, just as I was leaving. Clubmates Bob and Chris had quite a few flights between them and my favourite turbine model from yesterday -the red and white one in your last picture - had a few good flights this morning. Definitely less busy than yesterday, but I think the Angus club members have had an excellent grand opening weekend and are to be compliments on producing their excellent new site in less than a year and providing such a warm welcome to visitors.

Nice day at the Angus MFC fly-in, to mark the official opening of their new field. The club members have put a lot of effort into making an excellent club field, with super facilities, particularly the runways. The drizzly rain soon dissipated and flying started with a wide variety of models, including some very impressive large scale aerobats, turbines and high performance gliders. I flew my Arrows Hawk for a bottle building flight and my Messerschmitt Bf110, being particularly pleased with one of my better landings. Less successful was a flight with my Dornier Do17, which got off lovely from the grassy sward, climbed out and settled into flying her usual circuits, with a few low passes thrown in, appropriate for such a bomber. I was just about to deploy the landing gear and set up for landing when I suddenly lost all power, the model nosed down steeply, called deadstick, but despite my best efforts she just tightened up the dive and went in vertically from around a hundred feet or so, The debris field was fairly tightly constrained, but the destruction was total and, following recovery of the wreckage we made the walk of shame back to the pits. Examination of the bits revealed the cause, which was consistent with Bob's observations of the crash - what looked very much like a dry solder joint in the positive battery lead in the worst possible place, which had parted completely. Losing half the power to the motors might have been survivable if the break had been the other side of the parallel harness, but where it was would have cut all power to the ESCs, BEC and ultimately the receiver. So, no radio, no chance of recovery. Thankfully this happened a couple of hundred yards away on the far side of the circuit, so there was no risk to anyone on the field. The model is beyond repair and I was put in mind of the famous picture of the DO17 crashing vertically into London having lost its tail in combat. C'est la guerre. 😢

Be sure to keep it light for the slope. The Cambrian Bf109E was one of my first models on returning to the hobby, 30 odd years ago. Equipped with an Enya 25SS she was an excellent funfighter, before converting to electric, initially with my first AXI 2820/10 an 10 cell 1250 NiCd pack, which did not disappoint. Many years later the Emil made her slope debut, but being an ex IC model, built with the usualy heavy ply front end, she definitely needs a good blow to stay aloft and is not as good a sloper as my lighter Cambrian Spitfire. I haven't flown the Messerschmitt for a few years now -courtesy of a rebroken back gathered in a heaby landing on the slope. Really should give her another go.

Flew my WR FW190 today and very happy as always with the model With the untimely demise 😢of my Dornier 17 just a couple of flights later, the urgency to get the WR Junker 88 on the building board has increased, lest the Luftwaffe be without a bomber for this year's Battle of Britain day.

Not a scale ace by any stretch of the imagination, but for the smaller lettering I use laser printed clear waterslide decal paper, then cut the margin of the decal as small as possible. That does leave you with a visible silvered patch around the decal, but a coat of satin varnish over everything helps with that. As it's printed on clear decal paper it will only work with dark colours over light - Ideally black lettering. The advantage of the dry rub-on transfers that you asked about is that they do not have a visible margin around them and the dense colour of the ink will even work for coloured lettering, in some cases.

As Don says, you don't want the battery on the CG, you want it in front of the CG to compensate for the lighter weight of the electric motor compared to the IC engine. Putting the battery further forwards will reduce the need for carrying lead ballast in the nose.

I've just realised I'll be headed to a fly-in tomorrow with three models, all of which carry swastikas on their tails. I hope I don't get in any bother. I'd hoped to be giving a maiden to my Swiss Airforce Venom, but when I tried a trial fit of it in the car this morning it practically filled the available space, so it will have to wait for a day to fly the, plus maybe one other model, when I can comfortably fit three twins and a single engine WWII aeroplane in there with room for everything else.

It's a technique also used by plastic kit manufacturers, supplying the markings in separate parts that you then need to combine. It allows Durafly to provide a symbol of evil for these models. However it doesn't extend to other symbols of evil, in the form of Durafly servos, which they make no attempt to disguise and provide those offensive items already installed and just waiting to do their worst.

I don't believe that Callie Graphics produce dry rub down decals though, which is the subject of the thread. All of the graphics I have had from Callie have been self adhesive vinyl.

The French student was objecting to the Maltese Cross - the symbol used in WWI by the German Air Service and featured as the Iron Cross in the medals of the German military across both World Wars. That cross is used by the Luftwaffe today and has nothing to do with the Nazis, or Vichy France. You can see the Maltese Cross heavily featured in the various Musee De La Guerre in several French towns in and around the old Western Front. He was just singularly ill=informed to associate the device with the Nazis.

However it seems that it actually means Only Tread Here. Sorry hit Send when checking out Robert's post. If you find a set of plastic model kit aftermarket decals for the aeroplane you are building, you should be able to see all the markings, in the right place, with the correct fints. It will need some work to make a suitable file to print from - the dry transfer makers are unlikely to be willing to replicate a commercial decal set, which are usually marked copyright. Back in the Letraset days there was a method whereby you could make your own custom Letraset lettering and markings, using Letraset products with no additional equipment. Not sure that technology is even still available now.

You can buy Letraset style dry rub on transfers, but they are not cheap. Flightline Graphics are often featured in the magazine. https://drytransfers.co.uk/ http://www.flightlinegraphics.com/dryrub/dr.about.htm I thought that the markings on my FW190 included Do Not Walk Here , as it seemed a decent translation into Geordie Nicht Betreten Hier translating to Dinna Be Treadin' Here like!