GrumpyGnome

He has good eyesight........

Just asking who? Or whom......

Tuesday - final indoor session of 2023. Reasonably warm, calm, dry. 6 of us had fun. Dumb-thumbed my Crack Yak into two walls, and the floor a few times doing stupid things. Por is great! Although it can't fix broken props. Also managed some faster left and right hand circuits with my baby heli - figures of 8 next...... this small, bouncy, cheap heli certainly makes learning less stressful than earlier attempts 🙂

Don't know how I'll approach it - it is literally decades since I 'built' a foam wing.......

Complaining whilst sitting behind a keyboard seems to be a very popular hobby nowadays.......

Same reason as people climb mountains, or swim the channel I guess....... because they can.

What in all if this is a 'con'? Finding spares for most makes of plane is always a challenge..... e.g. Ripmax (previously), Hangar 9, EFlite, Hookl (Durafly direct from AliExpress/Banggood).

WE did that - nobody was forced to use them.....

We get the message - you don't like Hobbyking........

Fingers crossed they'll build up some more stock over time... increases choice so can only be a good thing in my view.

That's why I try and take different types for a days flying - a bit of variety. Although my enormous 'to do' list is doing its best to make that...... challenging!

Indeed. Not bomber-y at all 🙂

True. The foam one in our club has servos all over it. Looks good and looks very easy to fly......

Personally, I prefer something less 'bomber-y' I'd get bored just flying circuits and low passes ....... but I appreciate there are other views 🙂

Bit frosty this morning, but felt warmer than yesterday due to lower winds. Nice flying until about 12:30, when the breeze picked up a little. Todays squadron....

Possibly not the CO controlling this, possibly Mr Putin.......

So no complete beginners? What do you do with those? (Many of my club, including some who gave flown for many years would be excluded....)

Managed a couple of hours flying this morning - felt much colder than it was. Put another 4 flights on my Double Trouble, before an innocuous nose over managed to partially detach the firewall. Consoled myself with multiple cups of coffee, and a nice cold Boost bar. Kevs morning was more eventful. He lost a wing strut bolt on his Decathlon, but found a closed loop connector fitted perfectly. He then spent the best part of an hour getting his 'new' engine set up. Then tried a few different props to try and extract some speed from the tubby, but cheerful looking airframe..... "wonder what it'll be like with this 15% Nitro fuel....." said he. Topped the half full tank up, making it about 12.5% Nitro. Total transformation as it batted about the sky (I didn't think it would make that much difference tbh). Big smile. Until closing the throttle had no effect. 20 minutes of flying around at full throttle later, the first dead-stick landing was attempted, and carried out with minimal fuss. Investigation showed that the piano wire throttle pushrod had actually fractured. New one on us! A quicklink broke while disassembling the plane, topping off the day. On the positive sides, after at least 4 months of solid rain, the stream at the bottom of the field is finally full of crystal clear water. We suspect that following last summers drought, a farmer upstream from us dammed/diverted the stream and it's either overcome his efforts naturally, or someone complained..... whilst it makes retrieving errant models harder, it brings a feeling of normality. Sorry, this carpy Amazon Kindle Fire is unfamiliar so I'm struggling to rotate the picture.....

I've never seen the beaches near me that deserted; whatever the weather, or time, there are loads of dog walkers.......

I'll be very (pleasantly) surprised if a 3d printed engine mount stands up to the vibration of an ic engine......

Single engine: Peashooter, Curtis P36, Fokker D.XXI, Breda BA21, Corsair Multi engine: Beaufighter, Mosquito, Havoc, Tigercat, P-38 Lightning, Whirlwind, Hornet (quite close to WW2.....)

Each to their own...... Anything expensive, I buy from a UK shop for that peace of mind. If it's cheap, and I can wait, I'll buy from anywhere..... e.g. I bought 5 indoor props, delivered in a week, for less than the cost of 1 from the only UK supplier I could find with any in stock. The last 2 new engines I bought, and all but 2 planes I have EVER bought came from UK model shops. I just don't see the point in slagging off suppliers or shops.

I worked in insurance for a while. Depending on economic pressures, anything to reduce a payout would be considered. Common sense doesn't really come into it......

I think the adage "you get what you pay for" is only partly true - in some areas, price seems totally unrelated to quality.....

Nice scheme!