GrumpyGnome

I usually have three flight modes - take off, normal, landing I'll have some mixes in the flight mode - bit of up for landing and reduced tickover, more up ele than down available for landing, possibly a tad more/less expo on some controls for takeoff and/or landing I have mixing for undercarriage and flaps, separately, in case I want to use them in isolation, e.g. dirty pass, undercarriage check

Eze Dope will fill the weave, and stick the nylon to the wood

RF board faIled on my old dx6 many years ago - spotted on a range check. @flying daddybest check your failsafe - failed rf board typically results in loss of signal............

The magazine publishes plans sent in by readers - if people don't send stuff in, there's nothing to publish. If you want bigger stuff with lights, retracts etc. have a look at MotionRC....... need a decent runway of course

Jealous. Wet and windy here for a while. Today looks nice but I have an eye screening appointment which will make me look like a Bushbaby, and be a tad sensitive to light for a few hours..... 5000 mph winds and baking (literally) temperatures tomorrow I believe 🙂

The statement about chinese foamies was that they resulted in the killing off of the 'cottage industry' british kit manufacturers..... not magazines per se. I would imagine it's the cost chain of a printed publication, compared to, say the internet, that causes a magazine's demise. Along with a declining readership of modellers who grew up with paper..... and found their next dream purchase or project in the magazine. I'm with leccyflyer - I'll continue to buy it until it stops, irrespective of the content. Would I miss it? Yes. But I think I'd miss this forum, and friendly helpful forumites, more.

Sort of. We saw to it by buying all the Chinese foamies......... nobody forced us

Brand new SCs available now from JPerkins. With support...... few bob more expensive than AliExpress of course, but not hideously so

An Apache heli just flew over, heading towards Hull. Impressive machine. Wasn't as close as @Peter Miller sees them of course 🙂

OS 52 0.9 bhp each; Stinger 10 1.9 bhp; latest version NGH 9cc 1.2 bhp..... Unless you put fuel proofer on with a trowel, I suspect the final weight with 2 OS 52s (as used by the designer and manufacturer of the model) will be less than the Stingers. It'd only have a claimed 1.8 bhp on tap, rather than a claimed 3.8 bhp of course 🙂 Any advice/options provided are given to help you have a model that looks good, flies nicely, performs in a scale-like manner, and can be flown regularly, without having to wear bicycle clips, or travel to a flying site with longer runways, and unrestricted approaches........

I haven't weighed them, and I don't know if you'll need the weight to compensate for the lack of LiPos in the fuselage/nose?, but I suspect 2 Stinger 10s weight a LOT more than 2 OS 52s.......... an overweight first twin warbird is possibly not going to be very relaxing. Flippin' noisy too given that the 'muffler' on the Stingers is really just a way of diverting exhaust gases....

Isn't the question "which will fit my WR P51?"

4" ! Wow..... not exactly keyhole surgery........

EVERYTHING is about 30% too expensive.........😏

Simon There is a quite active community of RCGroups, with literally hundreds of unofficial models, ranging from quite good, to useless. This community may create models for you as there is no official support for Phoenix. They can also help with any issues. I'm sure other forums/sources of models are available......

Good grief - that's massive! Not sure what I was expecting, but not that... Fingers crossed you're able to get your skull upgraded on 12th.

Brill. I have an SC 91FS still going strong after decades..... been in quite a few models, all original, except the carb, which broke when I tried to see if a kit built W4 would fly through a copse. Being a heathen in my younger days, I just bunged fuel in it, flew, put things away, repeat several hundred times.... And in every club I have belonged to, at least one person has told me "SC are rubbish".

Oh, I had an RMX .40 - that was rubbish as well...

Looks like it will..... get that, then set about downloading Phoenix

I'm in a vicious circle with practically all my models with retracts..... because I think I'm going to break them, I get nervous, so my landings are worse, which makes it more likely I'm going to break them.... 😞 The exception is the little FMS Typhoon. Never could land it properly, and it was benched. A few months ago, I spotted it and thought I'd use some more leccy planes instead of my noisy ones. Perfect greasers every time - no nerves because I'd already lost any emotional attachment I guess. It's now benched again.... not enough noise.

At the field now. I left the house at 8:45.... 20 minutes later stiff breeze. Never mind - the purpise of the visit was to examine our new starting table, and test it for fit on a few kodels. Needs a few tweaks.... Whilst I'm here, may as well have a cheeky fly. Double Trouble flew beautifully in the bumpy wind, and has oodles of power with its OS55. And the smoke trails in the clear blue sky look fab! Wot4 did what Wot4s do. This has an Evo 10cc petrol, with the early non-pumped carb. It went well, and mostly reliably on its Master Airscrew. But was always a bit burbly. Anyway, I chipped the prop so changed it for an APC. What a revelation. Quieter, faster, better pickup from idle, lovely at all throttle settings. I'd never bought into the whole debate about prop brands, but I am convinced now..... Thermometer saya 14°. Feels much cooler. Winter's coming.

I got one when it was a 22 in 1. Had no viruses or nasties. I used Phoenix (downloaded all the updates); RealFlight (again, with some online updates), and Reflex. Phoenix and Realflight worked perfectly, Reflex was more problematic. When I moved PC, I just reinstalled Phoenix from RC-Thoughts, plus some user models and sites. The dongle gave up the ghost so I got a new one off Fleabay for about £10. I've used with a few different transmitters, some of which work better than others regarding auxiliary channels. Some user-created models are very poor.... Certainly good enough to use imo. Even though it is now quite old.

A) buy a set from Richard that are going to fit and work B) belly land it and say bye-bye to some scale detail, get a dirty bottom etc. C) search the world for some that may fit, with some metal and wood work. Think that's it....... 🙂

I think 'without pressure' is key..... nice one!

So, if Port 3 worked on cars?/drones but not on an aeroplane setup, there must be something set incorrectly in the transmitter, Unless the rx worked well "a while ago" or it was in a crash....... I don't have a DX8 but I'm sure someone on here will have one. In the meantime, if you can get what you want by using an rx port other than 3, I'd do that................ following some extended range testing of course