Lew Weaver
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Visitors are always welcome (especially leccy flyers )
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Central Scotland - near Stirling
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My laddie is now flying his Strutter again after a 20 year gap. I converted it to leccy power using 4 A123 cells - flies great - short shaky video here (spot the bomb drop?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6J03Jefaik
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Electric powered model Chippie based on BCSL
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He is sitting in the front seat in this one then
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I don't know what their definition of a "Park" is in parkflyer - Central Park maybe or a National Park? I have flown the DX6 as far asaway I could see the model and certainhly as far as I would normally have flown on 35MHz.
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BECS and regulator info ( beginners )
Lew Weaver replied to Tim Mackey's topic in General Electric Flight Chat
Just to add my personal experience of switching regulators - I found that all of them gave reduced range when using 35mHZ - something it might be advisable to check if fitting one. Problem disappears when using 2.4 GHz -
I built one of these in 2001 and it flies very well. It weighs about 3.5lbs and power is an old Aveox 1010/3Y brushless
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http://www.rcworld.co.uk/polyc.htm
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Tissue and Poly-C
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Power has been upgraded on the Scottish Lanc - short video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BP0_JWw_NA
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Looking for a bit of help with the Avro Anson plan by Duncan Hutson - anyone here built it? Converting it to Electric power
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Doug There are computer programs available that will print out templates of your ribs. I have used "Profili2" which works well - http://www.profili2.com/ Lew
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Here is what I am using Motors - BM2409-12 brushless outrunner ESCs Fly Series 25/30A Airpower 2S 4100mAH APCe 8x4 Props Servos are SD200 Lew
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Our Lancaster has been painted and flown again - a short video can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhKxZe1OZFQ These links don't seem to be "clickable" the link needs to be copied and pasted to your browser?
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The two Flair Bristol Fighters that I have been near have not been good flyers. The one in our club was built from the kit and turned out to have wrong incidence angles on the wings (negative). It was (and still is) a pig to turn. Sorry to be so negative, but if you decide to go ahead be sure to check all the angles.
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Malcolm I ran the motors on 3S with 8x4, 8x6 and 10x5 props and found the current drain to be a bit high (20 to 23A) and the watts were more than really needed (~200W each). The current drain on 2S with an 8x4 was 12A (120W) which was more than enough. This gave a total of 480W and as the model weighed under 6lbs that was 80W per lb. With the LiPo and gear as far foward as possible the model required 4.5 oz lead in the nose. The Lanc has now been painted, so it'll need a recheck. Lew
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The 2S 4100 Lipo runs all 4 motors Lew (NOT Tony !)
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Malcolm This is what I used on our Lanc. It has ample power and has 3 flights so far (it's now in the paint shop) Motors - BM2409-12 brushless outrunner ESCs Fly Series 25/30A Airpower 2S 4100mAH APCe 8x4 Props The motors and ESCs were bought from RCMDirect (www.RCMDirect.co.uk). Hope this helps Lew
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Not a dumb moment Tony, just a dumb abbreviation
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I have finished the new Lanc and flew it yesterday. It flies well, so now it'll be painted and more scale-like wheels fitted. It has a fixed U/C at the moment because of our rough strip. There is a short (512K) video of the flight (I am hoping the link below works)! It was taken with a cheap digital camera with no zoom, so please excuse the quality. http://www.weaver19.eclipse.co.uk/Lanc%20Fly%20by.wmv I'll try this to link a picture as well. http://www.weaver19.eclipse.co.uk/Lanc%20on%20Strip%20Feb%2027-07.jpg
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Hello Matthew As far as I am aware, the plan issue has not yet been resolved, so I would wait to see if another set is printed to the correct size. However there is no problem with the CNC pack with everything fitting together well - it having been cut to correct scale.
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Oops got them the wrong way round - I should have numbered them - I'll go and do that now
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If you build from the first wing plan you will end up with a 33.25" wing panel and if you build from the second plan set you will have a 35" wing panel
