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There is no doubt the mobile phone has made search and rescue more effective. In my last couple of years Coastguard service I had a new area manager, a young chap who every now and then would say " Why cant you answer your mobile?" I live in a mobile black spot with no signal, you can ring my land line or page me says I. Somehow it just did not twig with him so mobile orientated he was. However my not so smart old mobile, one of them super tough jobs that has survived falling down on rocks, been dropped in the sea is coming to an end. No need for anything like that now but what to get? Do not want all singing and dancing but would like it to have tidy camera and be straight forward to link with other devices. Not something I want to spend a fortune on like my kids, Reserve that sort of spend for a new Tranni😀

I think it is fair to say that just about all aircraft of the early era require rudder for a tidy turn.

I remember us Coastguards being trained in winching operations with RAF Seaking's. Afterwards we were taken for as spin. Instructions were given by the winchman which ended---- and if we have to make a forced landing for whatever reason "no one will move from their seats until I say so as likely lots of bits out side will still be flying about. On arrival over the airfield pilots did a simulated total power loss" Initially it dropped like a stone, hart's were in mouth's until the rotors picked up speed in autorotation, power was only reapplied near the ground for a normal landing. Some said they would not go again but I Ioved it.

When it comes to bands or bolts which is best for rough ground landing sites [ stuff like tussock grass, heather and other scrub] bands are best I recon. Cardinal on its way to whoopsy after bad launch. Busted bands no damage.

Living out in the sticks in the days before model shops had postal service and later on line, improvisation was necessary. Large wing bands were slices of Land Rover inner tube. 😀

Bit like that old gag " Want an F104 Starfighter" Buy a field in Germany and wait. oo err

Over the last couple of months I keep getting emails from my former club chairman. I do not open them. Sadly Reg died nigh two years ago! Scum of the earth they are.

Does not matter about the structure being the same, just the aerodynamic's, dihedral, wing section and may help if aircraft weight is close. Yes darker on the bottom is best, all colours just become blackish at distance at a distance so helps to start darker. Good thing with the Barron is it has a distinctive profile that helps show which way up it is.

When it comes to aerodynamic considerations for a rudder elevator type like the Baron it is more critical to have the right amount of dihedral than wing tip shape, to little and model becomes rather touchy on the rudder and more difficult to fly straight. [ think you have found this] To much and strange things happen. If you watch pigeons on the glide for some reason they hold in a high amount of dihedral and it looks like hard work. I would say keep your Barons [ aerodynamic ] as alike as possible so they perform the same when you swop over, even make a basic no frills one to practice with. Good luck. John.

Sorted I hope.😀

Trying to renew my registration but getting nowhere with CAA site, just does not recognize me.

Just done it.

Just came on line and popup only err, popped up on the first page. Hooray. Good job whoever sorted it.👍

My wife does just what you suggest and while banks, credit card and sales companies [ amazon ect] are pretty good, electric/energy and telephone companies have to be watched. Can not say about water as on own supply.

Agree with Chris, there can come a point where just that bit more weight/distortion from repairs turns what was a nice flyer into a flying pig. Always reluctant to give up on a model it has happened to me a few times.

Well annoying.😒

Used a pair of Zeee 3s 2200 50c batts the last two years, good value I recon still good despite being worked hard.

At the time many admired the way that Hitlers lot had got Germany back to work after the disaster of the great war and post war economic mess. later as more details came of his way of maintaining power and warmongering intent many did change their minds.

She had great foresight, one of the few in more ways than one.

I have been fortunate to have very good long range eyesight, handy for model flying and a few times have been able to guide others who have flown to far back to field. Also as a Coastguard a useful ability. However I was lucky to have a team member with exceptional eyesight. We were on a search for missing scuba divers who had been carried away from their dive site by strong currents. Got ourselves to a highpoint to scan the sea in what I knew the way they would have been taken. Several of us looked around with nothing seen but then a team member said he thought he spotted a possible target but did not want to take his eyes off the spot. Even with binoculars I was unable to pick anything up. I took a bearing on the direction Chris pointed and passed it to a rescue helicopter over head. In two mins the heli had them. Chris had spotted two heads bobbing in not calm water over a mile away. No doubt he saved them. They had drifted over three miles

At the town of Saundersfoot not far from me there is a claim that a chap called Bill Frost was the first to fly in 1895. There are many other claims for the first powered flight but it is another matter having the first powered and controlled flight that ends in a thing we all like, a landing and not a crash. A prime example of these claim's is that of Samuel Langley who's "aerodrome" aircraft took off from the roof of his houseboat in early December 1903 then folded in the air before falling into the Potomac river was the first. The famed Smithsonian institute maintained Langley's claim of first powered flight until the 1940's [ he had been a secretary of the Smithsonian] despite protests from Orville Wright [ Wilber had died in 1912] who dismayed, had the Wright flyer displayed at the Science museum London. It was not returned to America until after the end of the war.

Pictured here is my replica Cayley medal which were made by the Royal Mint with the approval of Angela Lady Frank Caley [ great great great grand daughter of Sir George] in celebration of 100 years of the Wrights first flight. The original medal now held by the Science Museum was discovered in 1926 at the family home along with many notes of Caley's aeronautical experiments.

Perhaps we should also celebrate the first model flight and the work of Sir George Caley a hundred years before the Wright's flew. The brothers acknowledged his work in leading to their success.

Hello Mike, From the west coast of Wales. My fifty one year old Mercury Matador was free flight but converted to radio assist some years ago. Cheers, John.

Thing is the Super 60 won't care and will still fly.😁