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Very sad news. Peter was an inspiration to many of us with his prolific plans, books and magazine articles output. My condolences to his family and friends.
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But don't forget that Chris lives in Johannesburg where the air density is significantly lower...
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Get a piece of scrap timber and accurately drill a vertical pilot hole at a distance equal to the height of your required hole above the floor. Set this against the wall and use it as a jig to drill the pilot hole square and at the correct height.
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Oops, it's the command button rather than ctrl on Macs but it does basically the same thing.
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Ctrl +/- also works on my Macbook. After you've finished playing with zoom, ctrl 0 resets the screen to 100%
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From memory, all the NX and Gen 2 DX series can act as master transmitters with the exception of the DXS, which requires an additional receiver installed to operate as the master in wireless mode. Any of the Spektrum transmitters including the DXS and Gen 1 DX (eg DX6i) can be used as the slave.
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If you use the "Pilot Link Instructor" setting on Spektrum transmitters then only the stick commands are passed through and trims, mixes, rates, throttle cut, etc remain under the control of the master transmitter. The slave transmitter should be set up with a clean, new model memory with no programming applied. Once your trainee has learnt the basics then you can change over to the "Standard Instructor" mode. This requires the slave transmitter to have the same programming as the master (but can still be a different mode) so that the pupil can then learn how to use the trims and have control of rates, etc.
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I've just looked again at the plan on Outerzone and realised that my previous comment applies to the front spar position only. For the rear spar, there is a note on the centre section stating that 1/4" balsa is used to infill between the spars to bond the dihedral brace to.
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Steve, there are vertical grain shear webs glued to the rear face of the spars. The dihedral braces are glued to the rear of these shear webs.
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Use the HS225BB servos.
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Yes, it's a fantastic venue, a great place to try out waterplanes. While waterplanes are a definite favourite (I run the British Waterplane Association meetings at Colwick Park in Nottingham), I fly a variety of models and try to fly at several events during the season. My logbook tells me that I have flown at 16 different locations this year, 6 of which have been lakes, and I also flew a waterplane from my regular club field when it was flooded during the winter. The flying doesn't stop now, just the weekends away!
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The flying events season started for me this year at the end of April with a trip up to Loch Earn, so it seemed appropriate to bring it to a close at the same venue some 6 months later. The forecast was poor for Friday, good for Saturday and dreadful for Sunday but I reasoned that driving up on Friday and staying overnight would give me a chance for a full day's flying on Saturday before driving back in the evening. This was the view from my car on Friday afternoon when I arrived at Loch Earn: Luckily, a brief weather window appeared about an hour later so I was able to get in one flight with the Skipper before the rain returned: Even better was Saturday morning. This was the view when I went down for breakfast at 8am: I was joined by 4 other Englishmen who had managed to evade the border patrols: @Merry Mark and his son Seb, "Geordie" John and "Northstar" Phil. Mark and I flew sorties with our matching Valiants while Seb went out in the rescue boat, John took the record for the most touch-and-goes and Phil had a ball with his Northstars. I also flew my DB Sea Stormer which was maidened here in April and has now racked up 36 flights at various waterplane events this year: It wasn't all a bed of roses though, as my Skipper was brutally attacked by Phil's Northstar when he joined Mark, John and me in a mini "Skipperfest": Luckily the all debris was collected from the lake so it should be an easy fix and back in the air again soon. We found a section of a prop blade embedded in the underside of the Northstar so Phil didn't get away with it completely! My thanks go to Caroline and the team at Loch Earn who always make us feel welcome and put on a great, laid-back event with plenty of amusing banter. I'm already looking forward to going back again next season!