Steve Dunning

Barry and Marion Meredith Adam Collins Jack Banner That's the possibility of 16 pilots so far. Hope the weather holds.

Hi Jack Don't worry about doing a maiden in front of the assembled fliers. We've all been there at sometime or other. On e thing you can be sure of is all the help an support you would ever need. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday, with the Bullet ready to fly. Steve

More: Stephen Lindley Paul Bardoe As Paul says, don't hold your breath, so it is tentative!!!!!

Pilots attending so far: Steve Dunning Christian Anderson Minty Morton Graham and Martin Fox Shelly Redworth Rob Goodwn Sam Wragg Tony Bloomfield Andy Green

UKCAA event at Retford Model Flying Club Sunday 24th July 2016 RMFC invite all UKCAA members to our event at Leverton. To help the UKCAA with planning of events all flyers are requested to sign in and show their BMFA insurance on arrival. A pit area will be designated for this event so equipment can be unloaded before parking. There will be free tea and coffee on tap all day with the club barbeque being lit about 1230 so bring your own food to cook. Peg board will be use for frequency control so bring your own peg Event organisers Chris Anderson John Morton Steve Dunning It would be helpful if you could register your interest in attending along with your surname and location i.e. Mc Donald - Inverness. Please use my email, [email protected] But if you do decide to come along on the day, everyone is welcome. There is no entry charge but to help UKCAA funds it would be appreciated that a £5 raffle ticket is purchased by all flying members taking part. 0930 Pit area open - sign in 1000 Coffee and pilots briefing 1030 Not confirmed - Novice schedule none competitive 1230 Barbeque available please bring your own food to cook coffee and tea will be available all day FOC 1700 Event closes Directions to our flying field can be found on the RMFC websitewww.rmfc.org.uk Hope to see you there Steve

Hi Martin I've drawn up the 'baby' to be 58" span, 45 size engine for that. Looks nice. Still do wing cores and sheeted versions. Let me have a look at the sections. Steve

Already got plans drawn up for the Dalotel and Baby Dalotel. Just not had chance to go any further for various reasons. They were excellent fliers during the day, Graham Briggs (co-designer) flew one in a World Championships. I'll look again at them later on this year. Steve PS so many designs I've drawn up to bring them up to date, don't know where to start first!!!!!!!

Just heard from Stephen Lindley yesterday, what he wrote made me proud. 'Test flown today and its brilliant, don't like to say it as everyone uses the phrase but flies like its on rails, no trim adjustment needed. Need to try a few different props as could just to with a little more grunt not short but sometimes need it all and I like to have a little in reserve, motor and ESC are working no where near there capabilities. Ether Hanno knew how to design a model or you know how to build one, but to be honest I think I will take the credit for putting it together. Seriously it brilliant you have done a great job, thanks again, and looks like I now know where to go to get models built.'

Hi Martyn Just a word on your cowl moulding. I am in the process of planning out another HP design and wondered about the mould for the cowl as well, moving towards a one piece mould. I was fortunate to borrow an original cowl for this design as per those that were sold in Japan (different to the UK supplied kit, they were made of ABS). This one is epoxy glass and was constructed from a two part mould. That answered my question and the mould I am taking from it will also be in two parts. Makes releasing the final artefact a lot easier, even with having to attend to the join line, it's worth it Hope that helps Steve

That does look really nice, a shame to cover it up really. Look forward to seeing it fly someday. Steve

Hi Paul If you take a look at the model I've just finished, this is completely finished in Oracover. The trick is to only use small overlaps on the different colours, This is done by producing a series of templates, either from card or heavyweight paper, enables the various colours being cut out and carefully applied with the overlap that has been allowed for. To apply trim over a fully covered wing will cause problems. The method I've outlined (forgive the pun) takes time but it is worth it. The customer was pleased with it anyway. Steve

Hi Tony Look forward to meeting you at one of the events. Being inspired to build is what we like to hear!!!! Steve

Having been asked about the conversion to electric on another forum, I thought I'd add it here. The top front deck is cut from foam and skinned with 1/16th balsa as per normal practice. Although the canopy end of the deck is hidden ( virtually blocked out canopy) I still cut it at 30 degrees anyway for appearances sake. At the end of the battery hatch, the deck is cut in half at just a 10 degree angle to facilitate it's removal. As the removable part has a 2mm lite ply base, this thickness has to be removed from the bottom of the deck. The easiest way to do this is to use a 4" wide piece of balsa, vertically against a band saw fence and slice of the 2mm from the bottom of the deck. When the lite ply base is added, the two halves will now be at the same height again. 2mm LP facings are added to both ends of the removable part and the front end of the fixed to prevent damage during removal. The cockpit end is faced with balsa. 3mm carbon tube is used for location both at the front and at the rear near the magnets for locating purposes. 2 pairs of 10 mm magnets fix the hatch in place. The two lugs at the rear of the hatch to help removal, is a cut down lolly stick, running across the hatch internally, Simple and effective. The motor mount is one that I produce from a combination of lite and birch ply, cnc cut. This allows the firewall to remain in it's original position and enables different makes of motor (of the same size) to be fitted. One end is fixed and the other (a 'tight' sliding fit) can be moved to accommodate different motor lengths. Once decided, the inner square tube is cut off. The pictures should answer any other questions. Enjoy, Steve

Just to show people the latest SF 45 out of the workshop for a customer. Completed to his colour scheme, the trim is all film apart from the cowl. Intended for electric power, the model as seen here is just 1.4kg. Enjoy Edited By Steve Dunning on 26/03/2016 17:11:26