Geoff S
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21 minutes ago, Dickw said:
I just tried the classifieds and no queries about cookies. Is this the link you used?
https://classifieds.bmfa.org/search-listings
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I used this link without any real problems except I had to log in. I had a strange message about site maintenance when I tried to go to page 2 of the Airframes and Kits section but it worked OK at the second attempt.
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There's no mains hook-up at Buckminster but there is a toilet/shower block and water and waste disposal is easily accessed. It's very level and we've never had a problem with either our campervan or our current small caravan. Can't remember the charges but not particularly out of kilter from 'normal' campsites.
I'm hoping to attend the world champs too as a spectator. I'm sure it will be excellent.
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2 hours ago, kevin b said:
This is absolutely on the nail. I had my first curry in 1957 when I was 17 and invited to dinner by a colleague. He was ex-navy and had been in India. Camp coffee was awful; we had Nescafe at home. I was probably at grammar school before I had a banana. I was 26 before I had yoghurt; it was part of breakfast table at the Norwegian hotel where my girlfriend (now wife) stayed in Bergen. It was in a big jug and I thought it was milk until tried to pour it onto my cereal. I still prefer plain crisps - unsalted - but I remember the blue screwed up packets of salt.
It's only when I see something like this that I appreciate how much things have changed. I used to run the errands for my step-mother with a ration book.
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I crashed my ARTF Wot4 on take off (totally my fault). I thought it was a write off but all that was seriously damaged beyond repair was the fuselage. The tail was OK, just the wing tips were damaged and the cowl, motor etc were OK except for the prop, of course.
I didn't photograph the damage but here's the fuselage parts stuck together with masking tape to get patterns for the new one.
Then I made new sides
... and a new set of parts but used some undamaged old ones
... and made the replacement.
Then it was 'just' a matter of assembly and recovering after repairing the wing tips. And back as good as new - better in some ways as battery (4S 4 AH) access is a bit easier as opened up the hole in the former a bit more. I had few problems with the wing/tailplane incidence (I wasn't sure of its value) but it flies OK and I'm being a bit more gentle on take off. It weighs almost exactly the same as the original.
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I suppose you push the ribs in sideways then gently rotate them into position making sure the slots line up where they're supposed to go. Tricky but possible and you may need to ease the slots slightly. That's my take, anyway.
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3 hours ago, J D 8 - Moderator said:
Dellow cars were mostly Ford parts based and a body of light alloy. The shortage of steel at the time led to the chassis frame being made from surplus WW2 RP3 rocket tubes of the type launched by Typhoons, Beaufighters and more.
Although not made in large numbers most of those that were built still survive today. An owner I talked to at a show last year commented he was amazed that the chassis rocket tubes were of high quality steel, odd he thought for a use once item.
Weren't they mostly trials cars? I think my Dad borrowed one for a short time and complained about the high fuel consumption - probably because of the low gearing. I think some competed in the long distance trials run by the MCC (the Motor Cycling Club - oldest motor sporting club in the world) but I never actually saw them as I was competing with a motorcycle ahead of the cars.
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There was a scale hot air balloon at the Nationals some years ago (probably 10/15?). At the time I was helping to run the RC indoor flying in the hangar in the evenings (35MHz days so I had a a peg board). They tried to get permission to fly it in the hangar one evening but it was (sensibly, in my view) refused. I seem to recall it as being being perhaps 2metres in diameter x 3metres tall plus the basket.
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10 hours ago, Brian Cooper said:
I remember being taken to Cub camp in the back of an open lorry with us all sitting on unsecured wooden forms. The side of the lorry coming up to our knees. If the driver had cornered too fast we'd have been thrown out onto the road. It was about 1950 but it scares me just thinking about it.
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Does the lack of satellite acquisition also mean it won't reconnect after the initial bind ? I know my Cycle Garmin won't find satellites if I try to set it up indoors so presumably any set up needed for your Cub will have to be outside if that's the case. Not very convenient.
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1 hour ago, Brian Cooper said:
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I'd have been tempted myself when we had the AH Sprite. We did manage to drive under a car park barrier a couple of times to avoid paying 🙂
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Still looking good. I'm impressed by your accurate fretsaw cutting -something I'd find impossible to emulate!
Once you know the distance from the firewall to the propeller it's very simple elementary trigonometry to work out the offset needed on the firewall to bring the prop to the centre of the cowl. (Offset = tan side-thrust-angle x distance from fire wall to prop)
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3 hours ago, Chris Freeman 3 said:
Reminds me of my uncle's house. My dad was a hoarder but his oldest brother, my uncle Willie, was world class in that field. He built a new house with a huge barn attached to store his junk - much of which was piles of old cinema seats! He then built another identical house in the opposite corner of his field with an an even bigger barn! It was where I learnt to ride a motor bike on an old KSS Velocette which had bits of an old cinema seat for a saddle!
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I'm not a 'baby boomer' - I'm even older - the boomers were on my tail at school! Despite my technical/electronic/computer/sw background I like paper newspapers and magazines and still love paper maps (1:50,000 OS maps are works of art whose details are lost through digitisation). I'm not a technophobe but I choose what suits my purposes.
I think you may be right.
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Hardly surprising. I'm a great supporter of the BMFA but the website must be the most confusing and disorganised one I ever visit, though the BT one is a close contender.
PS I've just tried and access to the classified is on the bottom RH corner of this page. Unfortunately there isn't direct access for the necessary log-in page - you have to go through the membership portal and log-in there, then to the Classified log-in page! Why it's so complicated I've no idea.
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Looks an attractive smallish model from a designer who, in my ignorance, I thought was an exclusively electric-power fan. I looked at the plan and article from Outerzone (which downloaded very, very quickly) and noted that Dereck advises aileron differential - the subject of a recent thread here.
You're making a very tidy start and I look forward to following the progress. I assume the maiden flight will be in just over a fortnight to keep to the designer's time table 🙂
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It must have been a pain to paint the full-size versions back during WW1.
I took the easy way out for my as yet unflown Fokker DVIII
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Seems to be OK for me, too. So far!
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57 minutes ago, GrumpyGnome said:
Holy zombie thread Batman!
I always thought the purpose was to decrease the amount of adverse yaw created by the downgoing aileron.
Far from being an academic exercise, it can make certain models much more pleasant to fly.
It certainly helps to make biplanes more pleasant to fly and needing less rudder in turns because, as you say, it reduces adverse yaw induced by the down-going aileron. I usually set mine up to be with the 'down' at half the 'up'. It's certainly not merely an academic issue; it has real effects on the 'feel' of a model.
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So slow it's virtually unusable. My ISP is BT but I have no problems with any other site.
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4 hours ago, Jon H said:
That ruins the fun!
The unpleasant 'fun' is how chilly your throttle-hand gets on a cold day in the full air blast from the prop 🙂
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We've had BT internet for many years but use Vodafone for our phones (£10/month) because EE doesn't work in the house. It's OK outside.
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I bought a Brother P Touch H101C label printer which has proved to be very useful in other domestic applications. I t makes neat stick on labels. probably ovrt the top but, as I said, it's been useful in other ways. I had a very old Dymotape machine we used to use at the shop but that was long past its best and has been scrapped - it was probably the best part of 50 years old so no great loss.
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One of my treasured possessions is my Dad's penknife - a Wostenholm Farmer's knife. He kept it razor sharp and the blades are very much reduced in size from when they were new. He died in 1991 when he was younger than I am now and I use it rarely because he's still the last to sharpen it. Daft really, I suppose. He always said you always cut yourself with a blunt knife. Not sure I agree with that - I still have a scar on my left forefinger I cut as a child when the knife I was using to cut a notch in an arrow for my home made bow slipped a bit further than I thought and cut to the bone! I was about 10!
Most (all?) of my models have been christened with a drop of blood. IIRC Peter Miller thought it was required to guarantee a safe maiden 🙂
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2 hours ago, Chris Walby said:
A friend of mine does a similar thing using a longbow. They use simple old-fashioned ones rather than the complicated type used in the Olympics. He makes his own. I hadn't realised there was an air-rifle sport that is similar.
We used to sell air rifles (dad was interested in them and they were alongside all the radio,TVs etc ... and cameras!) I got a BSA Cadet for passing the 11+ which was gradually changed up to a 0.22 Webley Mk 3. Dad collected air weapons and also had a few gas-powered ones. I'm ashamed to admit I used to shoot at (and kill) birds in the back yard until a starling fell into the entry still alive but obviously suffering - I gave it up after that and stuck to inanimate targets.
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Sign of the times - funnies * Remember this is a family friendly forum and inappropriate postings will be removed without warning.
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90% of my fishing was in the local cut and washing hands in the water was the last thing you did unless you wanted to dirty them. Our fishing rods were home-made from garden cane with a few cheap bought parts (like float and hook).