Myron Beaumont

Stuey Maybe some expert at Futaba worked out the average or destructive resonant frequency of servos and decided on a certain length of eyelet for their grommets ? On second thoughts,I think not .When screwed down I must agree it's an almost rigid fixing .

He looks 'armless enough

Martyn I was just being silly .Of course I know what the individual parts of the expressions mean .Thanks for the response and explanation .Doesn't make sense does it?. Years ago,someone tried to catch me out with the expression .Nice one

I personally think that what really matters is how tight you make the assembly .I like to be able to "wobble" the servo in any direction a little by hand which might counteract vibration from an engine .But I don't really know ? When I see the rubber grommet start to "squidge out" I stop tightening .What do yopu all think ? Myron YO13 squidge dept

Due to the interest in how forces etc are symbolised mathematically maybe some one can explain what Ergs per cubic Henry means .I read it somewhere.

A few "one liners" from our Scarborough Literature society.Hope you like them.We call them "thoughts to ponder" How does Moses make his tea?Hebrews it Venison for dinner again ?Oh deer A cartoonist was found dead in his home .Details are sketchy. I used to be a banker ,then I lost interest. Haunted french pancakes give me the crepes. England has no kidney bank but it does have a Liverpool. I tried to catch some fog ,but I mist. They told me I had type -A blood ,but it was a type-O. Jokes about german sausages are the wurst. I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid ,but he says he can stop anytime. This girl said to me she recognised me from the vegetarian club,but I'd never met herbivore . I'm reading a book about anti-gravity .I just can't put it down. I stayed up all night to see where the sun went down.Then it dawned on me. Velcro--What a rip off ! Loads more but it takes me ages to type with one finger

Well done to you both !! Now you have an excuse to finish and live in and go into your shed whenever (which of course now MUST be centrally heated) when things get tough and introduce him to aeromodelling . Myron/Grand-daddy dept

Yesterday I asked 'er indoors to buy me a tin of Andrews liver salts .On returning she informed me that 150 gms of said product was priced at £7 .50 in a new slick plastic container! On reflection,I thought -"that figure reminds me of something". Then I remembered ,it was the cost of a months mortgage on my first house .That makes a Kilo of liver salts equal to about 6 months mortgage payments .Needless to say she bought a home brand tin (Sa------ys) for £2.99 which I still think was outrageous .Food for thought Eh?

Yes Good old Jetex ! I remember a Hawker Hunter fitted with a Jetex 100 and an augmenter tube (exhaust pipe) .Flew very well and sounded like nothing else around at the time.

I use number plate nuts and bolts from a motor accessory shop (nylon) dirt cheap & easily available in yellow /white/black .

Do you know ,I bet I'm the only aeromodeller of my age that has never ever seen any mark of Wot 4 "in the flesh" so to speak (or am I?) A while back I drew up the plans for one on brown paper compiled from info sent by some forumites & that's as far as I got. Myron YO13 isolation dept ?

I wonder who as well Now you've got me on another nostalgia trip .Please keep us updated .T'was a most memorable model .Yes--clean lines certainly helped IMHO. I have an ASP 91 sat in a box ,and some retracts and--------- The only other model that gave me as much fun was a Crescent Bullet with a Webra and quiet pipe up front . Edited By Myron Beaumont on 11/04/2013 22:28:30

MartynK All I can say is that mid 70s I aquired a Curare which I seem to remember was one of the first glass fibre/foam jobs .My only "big" engine at the time was a Merco 61 .Yes ,it flew brilliantly even with such a crap engine .I would just love another powered by a modern engine .

Dave Try it on your sim if you have one .Unfortunately my cheapo sim (Reality Craft) has no proportional rudder ,just full left or full right ,but can still be done with "blips"

Makes you wonder just why non-scale freeflight models many years ago had big wheels just abaft (nautical term?) the prop.CG was way back and they didn't normally tip over .Anyone else remember them ??

Dave Simples---Use ailerons as rudder and rudder as elevator and elevator as directional control ,What more is there to be said ?

re- " A flying start" by Martin Phillips. He mentions reinforcing badly joined surfaces originally using cyano at the factory .I don't think that alphatic glue is appropriate as recommended .Wood glues rely on penetration surely and the best resource would be either more superglue or epoxy since the original cyano although obviously insufficient, might have filled up the wood grain structure .IMHO

Is it I wonder a question of whether the wind is apparently "gustier" or less predictable when stronger & that a heavier model will not perhaps be tossed around so much ?.Depends on the flying site partially of course. The amount of drag on certain types comes into it as well .A sleek powerful design certainly will plough through gusts better than say an ultra lightweight glider . Weather is what we learn to fly in isn't it ---The most unpredictable variable parameter which is what it's all about .Of course ,if you're into sloap soaring then you add ballast around or below the C of G for penetration . Just my thoughts !

Nobody would be interested in my decimated pieces of brown wrapping paper having designed A/C and built them .I did two years in the drawing office at RR by the way .Just what is this CAD thing & how can it help me put on paper what is in my head & I can draw out for myself? To me ,it's part of the fun in aeromodelling , Myron YO13 olduns analogue dept Edited By Myron Beaumont on 04/04/2013 18:57:00

Peter Your method of construction is virtually the same throughout your range of designs .Keep using it but maybe embellish it on something else not done yet (don't know quite what -but maybe even a well tested and proven design-may I say an Edge or an Extra -or something with a thicker symetrical wing section even ).That way we will know it is another of YOUR designs & it will fly well .I sound like a salesman -but you do have your own well respected "brand" so to speak .In other words ,convert the ARTFers to building your style .Simple but effective Myron Edited By Myron Beaumont on 04/04/2013 18:44:36

How about me? A really blunt LE will withstand any stalling tendancy at your wing tips,it will simply not give you much lift .Is it that critical I wonder whan we all know what designs of wing work best for a particular purpose on models .Full size A/C don't do what we do (generally speaking that is ) I built a "Trixie " (plan from another place )with loads of washout incorporated into the wings .--Never had a proper flight with it yet --meant to be a sunday evening gentle relaxing flier

I suspect that the original shrinking was not the same all over which caused the problem bearing in mind that the woodwork was isolated from the environment by the covering .Hope you have rectified it by re glueing

Brian Try explaining that we're all around 18 yrs old inside and that just like an old model the covering is worn & sagging a bit !

Some really interesting articles .Couldn't put it down .I just loved the one by Brian Winch especially .Man after my own heart may I say .Very refreshing to learn new things from others experience .As for "masking tape" --What old modeller needs to read about it .Sorry Alex ,I realise you have your "niche" .

I have done that when building tapered ailerons to give a lower AofA at their tips .Worked well on my version of the Gangster Edited By Myron Beaumont on 02/04/2013 19:30:04