jeff2wings

Well done Leccy, making good progress with your spitfire pair,always a bit of an adventure delving under the surface of a 'pre-loved' airframe 😅 ! And that brings me onto my projects, I was already building a couple of new models when having been frustrated with not being able to find something/everything getting in my way, I spent 5 days cleaning/reorganising the workshop during which I found a pair of wings, ah! I thought, I use these too fix my bi-fly 48 that I pranged after the engine faded on takeoff (first flight after extensive rebuild 😒) ............. bi-fly before the unpleasantness this is the upper wing ,wing tips removed lower wing, water damage to aileron all four will be replaced the white came off without a great deal of work but the blue, the blue......😭 luckily this was only surface damage managed to sand it down

So what have people got on the workbench for this winter's fix-up??

Now that's old school ! I think if I was building this I would have modified it by glueing a set of u/c mounting blocks, the same as you would use for a foam wing to the dihedral brace but well done for sticking with the plan👍

Only on the N 11 however be aware that the construction of tail surfaces needs to be altered for weight reduction, most find the need for some nose weight with the Puppeteer so some care needed if you go this route.If you're looking too improve its 'scale ' like appearance ,altering the u/c and adding flying wires along with an authentic colour scheme can make a big difference

yes,that's correct I think by 30 mm ? the N 11 conversion a bit more !

If he had the foam wings it would be ready for covering by now🤣🤣!

As intrigued as I am I think it's better to let sleeping dogs lie,I would be more interested to here of you experiences of flying from that decade 👍

Keith Maundrell, still beat Terry Cooper and Mike Bone 😏 can't remember hearing much of him after that?anyway your right that I have taken styling features from that era although I think it could have done with 1 1/2-2" more in the fuselage, we will see when it's flown 🤞

Is this the one you're thinking of Martin?

And I quite understand your enthusiasm for the Avanti having watched this and other builds by Mark Robinson, his enthusiasm is very infectious!😄👍

Careful Sam,you could be about to disappear down the rabbit hole with that topic,I would steer clear if I were you lol!. Now if I may offer up another suggestion, a Mick Reeves Gangster 63,not the lite one but the original with foam wings ,I got an original kit from eBay but I think if you give him a call it might be available to special order?Worth a thought maybe?

You can download the plans and print at home from outerzone.com and yes,it does sound expensive but the cost of balsa has risen dramatically in the last few years, most artf models have doubled the past 5 years, I have just paid the same for a TN spitfire cnc pack/plan and I think sarik are quite expensive by comparison,

Like I said, Belair have what yare looking for i.e. lazer cut pack and plans

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Belairdigital.com have what you are looking for

KK Spectre by D Platt ,enlarged for r/c and electric? I built one age 12 had a Enya 19 IV that ended up powering my Kamco Kadet that I taught myself to fly with age 15,definitely think yours should be a free plan inthe mag !👍

Except it doesn't apply here you are getting confused with lasers' lol !

PDP Perry directional porting so the carb should be a Perry, the carb you have is a Kavan a common replacement back in the day,if you (or anyone else) is after a merco I have a number of fully rebuilt ones available ,will be watching this thread with interest!

A number of test reports are on septreflight.com the carb is the dreaded plastic 'microflow' that was ok when new but would ware quickly and leak giving inconsistent running, nice original condition from the mid '70's

Ha! Thought as much,this may well have been from when Merco supplied engines for the army's small airal target program (no silencer required!) If you don't fancy drilling then the p&r will fit and work fine,do you have one?

Yes later MkIV probably just before or after Premier took over production, is the exhaust stack drilled &tapped?

ED is quite correct about case size ,presumably you have the later 'heavy ' case version, when the Mk III came out Merco introduced the peak power silencer and later forest engineering the strapon torpedo type Mk I/II Type and Mk III on peak power R to L later forest engineering type, standard P&R and Irvine 46/53 silencer that will fit if you drill out holes

Download plans from outerzone.com

Almost right enlarged KK Bandit