Antony Wright

SLEC do indeed make a fusalage jig - I got one from them recently. I think it cost me about £15. What you get is a printed sticky back sheet and the formers and nuts and bolts. You need to purchace a board about 2' x 4' to stick the sheet to. You can then drill the pre-marked holes for the nuts and bolts. Works ok for me. Give them a call on the following number:- 01953 885279 Antony

sounds to me like they need to get a new supplier - chances are they never considered how many folk would want to actually get one.

Invite a celeb flyer to put on a demonstration?

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I tired to email the addy that is for the subscrition dept to get my number - but it was returned undelivered - address unknown. So can that be checked please?

Hi John - the OS40 will fit just fine - Im fitting a 46 when I eventualloy get around to buying it so no probs for you there.

Hi Danny - Just a couple of questions for you to think about - you mention that it occurs in the same area of the field each time? could it be radio interference? Have you checked with other club members if they have experienced anything simular in the same area? Are there any mobile phone masts near by that might cause it? or ither source of interference? Is it worth having your tx and rx checked over?

I would vote but as yet my BMFA membership has not come through so I didnt know if I was eligable

No idea Peter - Id be interested to know too. Antony

Try giving them a call see if they still stock them - Im not sure of their number but it should be in the RCM&E magazine.

Hi Trevor - the plans service is now available online. There is now an advertisment for it on this site - I beleive its www.myhobbystore.com hope that helps

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Hi Andrew, You will find there are quite a few of us that are building the Cub so welcome aboard. For me Ive just soldered my first undercarriage - its not perfect but it looks as if it will do the job. Ive also added a tail wheel instead of the skid. I did say at the beginning when I started it that it would be a slow build for me as I have other priorities (my son has just moved home and gets married in about a month's time). However taking it slowly has enabled me to understand more about its structure than if I had just plowed ahead and built it fairly quickly. With regard to the covering go to the soalrfilm website - on there is a tutorial video showing how to do things. Ive already learned that using certain colours just dont work. Ive covered the underside of the main wing in the antique solarfilm. (The colours were choosen by my daughter). Unfortuantely the antique colour - which is more suited to WW1 planes - shows up all the woodgrain. Still no big loss - if you dont experiement you dont find answers. Antony

Angus have you thought about taqking out a glider on those windy days your having?

Well plane repaired and taken out for a flight today. Weather great - nice and calm and very sunny. Despite having checked the plane over after repairs this week I still seem to have missed a few things. We were doing some taxi runs up and down the runway today and the plane suddenly vered of to the one side. When we got to it the front wheel had come off. Doh!! Oh well wheel replaced - collet found and tightened up. Next - again while doing taxi runs it suddenly stopped dead at full throttle - engine still running. We discovered that the propeller had worked lose - cor could it get any worse? Actually no that was about it. I never got as far as successfully taking off today but at least I now know how difficult it is to keep the plane tracking straight at full throttle on the ground. We did practice low fly overs along the runway. On at least one occasion I could happily of landed with the instructors approval but I decided to keep practicing the approach instead. Oh I must mention that we were on our club's second site today - they alternate between sites on odd and even days - but this site was closed to us during the winter. It was this fact that it was a new site to me that I decided not to actually land but just keep practicing the approach. What else? We also practiced flying in circles as opposed to circuits. It may sound daft but it was not as easy as it sounds for the first time. Anyway that was my fun day - how did everyone else get on?

I guess another obvious seaplane would be the Wulrus or gruman goose

lol - Thanks Alistar. I can see there are quite a few varieties of style and Im sure that on this forum alone there has to be someone who could give very detailed explanations for each one. As to your questions well I will have to give some thought to the answers (if there is indeed an answer). Having said that Im sure someone will come along now and provide them - and each person that answers will have a different answer :) Well thats the first part of my query - now I wonder if anyone can help me out by puting a name or 2 to some of these types? - I guess the scale one can be excluded as it stands to reason that that can and should include every model of a plane that is made to scale :)

Your quite right Danny - I did have some very badly warped items in my kit - but I have to say that Flair where excellent and replaced them with no hassle. Id still recomend buying a Flair model and constantly look to see what they have to offer.

Yes Congrats to them both Andrew. We may yet have some future champions - and dont forget I said it first :)

Ok we all have a fairly good idea of what a trainer airplane is - and from the mags we get a fairly good idea of what 3D models are (as they seem to be in vogue in most mags) or even warbirds - but what about the other categories? Can anyone suggest models that fall into say the sort of thing you would use to follow up a trainer? or can anyone tell us what other categories there are andd what planes we might expect to fall into those categories?

Sound advice Pete - I never buy a new copy of windows until its been out at least a year.

Good for you Angus - keep it up

well I havent had any mishaps yet - and I wont embarass any of my fellow club members by telling of some of the stories they have told me - but Angus you are definately not alone.

Hi Ads. your right in your assumtion about one going to the carb - one to the exhaust and the third as a fuel filler. The one with the clunk on it inside the tank goes to the carb. Of the other twoI guess it dont really matter which one is which so long as the tubes on the inside of the tank are orientated correctly. The fuel filler one just needs to be long enough to connect it to your fuel pump, but I have found that with these smaller engines some modellers dont use it to fill at all - using instead the one that attaches to the carb. Just remember to put a stopper into the fuel filler tube so that it doesnt drain your tank when inverted :) On larger models the filler tube often has a permanent fixing on the fusalage side for filling. Hope that helps a little. Antony

I thought Id just add my pennys worth. As an ex-teacher this area of law is more hype than fact. Unfortunately its the hype that is drawing the attention. Control of kids at school is becoming increasingly more difficlut as children seem to be being given far more powers than the adults in charge of them. I know from experience that even a hint of correcting a child has become a touchy subject. however most kids are not that way orientated thank goodness. However I also know that we are not the first group of folk in the modeling world to discuss this matter. On another forum last year it raged backwards and forwards for sometime until a couple of resepected memebers on the forum decided to read the law through properly. They came to the conclusion that there would be no problem in having junior members of the clubs. All we need to do is find a way of promoting the hobby. Maybe if some of the well known people in our hobby visited some schools with the intent of putting on some displays and discussed the hobby from a science point of view it might encourage some youngster to investigate it more seriously. It would need to be done right across the country though to have any real impact but I know from experiences in school that kids would be willing to move away from computers etc if there was something different to offer. I recall in a magazine sometime in the last 6 months or so that this was done in Australia using EPS models to great success as the kids were allowed to fly them under instruction (not all - if any - of them were on a buddy system either).