Tom Sharp

Very interesting.

Hi nemo, I too have been flying the Icon A5, grand water plane but not much fun aerobatic wise. My Beaver; I have mixed in down elevator to operate when the flaps are deployed, the more flap the more down elevator. Therefore, motor speed can be adjusted to wind speed without worry about the plane ballooning with too much flap. The flap elevator/mix can be switched in or out as desired. With this set up, full down flap, you can push in down elevator and dive in near vertical from three trees high at the end of the runway. Release the elevator at head level and the plane will flare out and trundle to a halt at your feet. I do not use the mix on take off.

It's perfect for a 'Black Magic', it's in the Aeromodeller plans range.

Of course to make any sense of this discussion you need to start with an OS engine.

Has anyone flown the ST Models DH Beaver. I have one and I think that it is a grand model. She takes off in a yard with a little flap and landing speed with full flap is less than walking pace. Flyng performance is akin to the Multiplex Fun Cub with vertical climb from take off and other crazy antics. A novelty is a full set of navigation lights already fitted and ready to go. Looks great on a dull day. I realy bought this model for water flying during the recent monsoons, but the floats, despite being advertised, are not yet available.

My mate has one, fantastic. He is on Futaba, he didnt need the stableisation system so theres a fancy rx going begging.

Quite a few people fitted one big brushless motor in the centre pushing with a fold back prop. Very fast system.

Martin The gyro weighed a ton and was made by Sanwa with Fleet plugs. It needed it's own battery pack to drive the large flywheels in the gyro and it vibrated thoughout the heli frame, but it worked, what a difference. It still works to this day as a static exibit, people just have to see it to believe it. I never used the invert switch on a heli but I found it very helpful for showing off, flying fixed wing inverted very near to the ground.

I have many handy tools as above but they disappear just before I need them.

I too have the first Fleet Heli set with typed instuctions and I also have the Gyro set. I also have the Pro 7 set. This had plug in modules for various mixes and you can swap over from mode one to mode two by simply swapping over plugs on the stick pots. I had no trouble with several Fleet sets over the years. The only one that was a problem was one of the very last Heli sets which self ignited one day at the field, while still switched off. I heard later that this was not an isolated incident.

Definately a help for us shakey elderly pilots.

I had never noticed the ads flashing until I read this thread, now I can't take my eyes off them

Sorry but I don't think I'll be buying, my thirty year old combat jacket still fits where it touches so why buy new.

I don't know about Hitec but with Futaba you have to reverse the throttle setting for electric powered applications.           Edited By Tom Sharp on 23/02/2013 22:19:03

I use white glue. Works for me.

For anyone who pines for the old times, think Austin Rover.

As a regular visitor to Leper/Ypres, I say welcome to the forum. Your project sounds of great interest, I look forward to more information.

If you want to learn to fly you would be best to start with an ARTF. Once you have experience of flying you will understand the basics of building a plane that is capable of flying. Many builders come to the field with models that they have built which are often overweight, badly balanced and full of warps. Plus engine and radio set ups which are usually in urgent need of major surgery. Get the flying right, then you can build too your hearts content.

Posted by Bob Cotsford on 16/02/2013 19:25:11: Yes but the Time Team would uncover two nails and a screw, draw a picture of a Spitfire and call it a wrap

I have flown mine from grass both with fixed gear and retracts. I scrapped the retracts and went back to fixed UC because the nose wheel on the retract version occasionally twisted round on landing. Not a major problem, just annoying. I would have said that this is an exceptional aircraft, will fly off grass without problem, the fixed wheels are bareley noticable and don't appear to slow the plane down at all. But seeing that it has been reduced in price by almost half, I am to say the least annoyed and I will not be buying E-flight again.

I'ts all progress for the sake of progress and the sake of continual sales. The lastest cars are no longer fitted with CD players, just dock your latest multi function phone. So what do I do with all my CD collection?

Only if the plane is high wing. ie wing on top of the fuselarge.           Edited By Tom Sharp on 11/02/2013 21:48:02

Posted by Spice Cat on 10/02/2013 00:26:56: Any chance we can rein this in a bit? I'd put a fiver each way on chances of that.

But have they got any Horse meat?

.And now they have knocked £100 off the price, am I fuming? You can bet I am.