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    In for a penny......
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    Another day, another try
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    Better than my varifocals
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    High tech butty box
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    I've got a JR 652 TX and R700 RX that's installed in an electric powered Seagull Boomerang powered by 4S 3000 lipo and 3548 brushless/HK 60A ESC combo. Everything works exactly the same as it does when using modern 2.4GHz equipment.
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    Registering.
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    Third time lucky?
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    Posted by Nigel Dell on 25/11/2020 10:37:35: Rich Spent many an hour at Andrews field back in the day, was somewhat shocked to see all the industrial there a few years ago but it had to happen I guess. On the subject of Polish pilots Lanny Lanowski is not widely known, a Polish colleague who was very much into WW2 aviation and around the time the film 303 came out which he thought was pretty poor had not heard of him, I and many other visitors to the Fighter Meet shows at North Weald in the early 80’s were lucky enough to meet this guy who had an R/C model, built as static, of a P47 on top of his beige mini metro, he had various memorabilia on a table in front of him, initially you thought he was selling stuff off but no it was far better than that, he was telling of his flying exploits in Poland, UK and finally the US Airforce, this was my first of many encounters and most pleasurable audiences with Witold ‘Lanny’ Lanowski. His son Krys keeps a Facebook page to honour his Father and he does talks on the subject and what a subject! Lanny’s book ‘Out in Front’ is a must read for those that thrive on wartime pilot biographies like I do. Witold ‘Lanny’ Lanowski Edited By Nigel Dell on 25/11/2020 10:39:02 I realise it's not a Mustang, but a Jaguar pretending to be a Hurricane paying tribute to 303 Sqn. It's been wrapped to perfection, and the noise from the free flow exhaust makes the engine sound like a Merlin.
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    Still not working when using an iPad to try to access the subs portal. I get a screen with a red "Log in" bar and a white "Sign up " bar, neither of which do anything. Emailed BMFA admin so they can (hopefully) get their techies to sort it.
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    Fingers crossed.
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    Fashionably late, as ever.😴
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    I was recently gifted a BNIB, old stock model as payment for finishing the assembly of another model on the understanding that I would actually build it and not just use it as loft insulation. The recently completed kit is a Solent Sailplanes "Ridge Racer" (there's a clue in the first photograph!) dating I guess from the mid '70s. The fuselage is a polyester/glass fibre moulding and the wings are veneered foam core with a rarely seen 'reverse taper' ailerons operated via a single centrally located servo and a pre-installed Bowden cable. Just waiting for a 15 kt westerly at my local slope to get the maiden out of the way.
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    I have made some progress over the last few months. I've managed to retrofit flaps and inner gear doors, and finalise the battery installation (two 5s packs fitted through the radiator opening with an arming plug on the side of the fuselage). The airframe has had another rub down in preparation for glassing. I'll try to post some more detailed updates together with photos in the near future.
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    Tony, I thought I was a "total aviation person", to use a Roger Bacon's expression, but I have never heard of the FW42. I even did a Google search to check it wasn't a belated April Fool! An amazing design. If I ever do a twin it'll be on the short list together with the Libellula.
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    Chaps, thanks for all your positive comments. When I commenced the build I didn't know whether it would actually work, but perhaps I got lucky. The working drawings are a bit 'ad hoc' on pieces of decorators lining paper, but with time on my hands I'll have a look at trying to refine them and put them on Aerofred so that others can have a go at canarding! With two more or less successful designs under my belt, I'm thinking that their might be room for one more, true scale design to wrap up the series. Kyushu J7W1 Shinden perhaps? 🤔 Watch this space. Manish, I have a video of the Me901 on my iPad, but it's a case of "machine is smarter than operator" when it comes to posting it here. Any guidance appreciated. .
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    Back in January I maindened my own design "Me901" canard, which went surprisingly well and flew almost like a trainer. Spurred on by this success, I decided my lockdown project would be another canard. I kept the proportions similar to the "901" but with the added sophistication of retracts and moveable rudders. The final result was a 'fantasy scale' P-15B Gnatsum. It weighs a fraction over 4 1/2 lbs with a 2200 4S and a 3548 brushless producing 450 watts. The first couple of flight attempts were false starts during which the model refused to rotate and lift off. I reset the CG from 10% to 7% static margin, adjusted the thrust line to give a couple of degrees down thrust and mixed some aileron with elevator (aileron T/E up when stick pulled back). The net result of these changes was a model that actually flew this morning ( and more importantly) landed in one piece. The initial 30 seconds was a bucking bronco ride, which calmed down somewhat after I switched to low rates and managed to get some up trim on the elevator. At this point it was cruising around quite nicely on less than half throttle. Hopefully, flying shots will follow the next visit to the field.
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    Shaun, the new CG location will place it at the “standard” 25% position that’s always a good starting point for flat bottom, Clarke Y type of aerofoils. I’ve a warm feeling that your next flight will produce far less knee trembling. See you at BCC on Monday?
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    Jonathan, I also soloed with the ATC at Sealand in the late sixties. The model is a plan build from a 1974 Aeromodeller? article. I've decorated mine as XA284 which I did most of my flying on. It still exist in civilian ownership , but has been converted to a single seat T31M, the motorised variant mentioned by Erf.
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