John Denning 1

Well I am surprised at the interest this build has generated already, as I only posted it last evening, as a point of interest for Nigel Grant1 'Darcey' is named after Darcey Bussell, a retired ballerina who is one of the judges on BBC's 'Stricktley Come Dancing program, it may not have reached NZ yet. I thought the mention of the automotive rocker switch might generate a bit of feed back, particularly after reading Martin Philips excellent article 'Plugging safety' in December's RCM&E. In my defence I have used these switches in about six electric models, since returning to the hobby about 5 year ago and have never knowingly had one fail, perhaps I have just been lucky. it would be a simple job to replace it with an arming plug system. so it will be on the list of mods before she takes to the sky. to all those who have asked for pictures, I have taken some I just have to sus out how to get them out of 'MY Pictures' and onto this forum.

I am well into my Ballerina build, having decided to go down the electric route, but opting to keep the F1 firewall in the same place and make up 'U' shaped alloy motor mount to bring the overlander 3548/5 to the correct position. The area between F1 and F3 is the battery bay that is plenty big enough to take a 4 cell 3300 pack. The 60 amp Esc is mounted under the floor of the battery bay with the live side its main lead routed via an automotive rocker switch mounted in the centre of the cockpit floor, there is room for a pilot figure behind this. The rolled turtle deck section, that include the top part of F2 has been reinforced and forms the top hatch, that is held in place by shaft of the pilots yoke drilled through the cockpit bulkhead. That's the fuzz more or less completed, the wings might prove a bit more challenging.