Richard Cooper

Hi David Have I missed the 2013 index for RCM & E? Regards Richard

What a great help these posts have been: I have one fat Hyperion Lipo and one slightly swollen. Both are charged but not used for 4 months or so. They are working well with minimal heating on test runs to 60% discharge at 50% C. Bill_B Please explain the Salt bath for the disposal of a bad LIPO! Do you discharge it first? The Pyrex dish idea sounds excellent, well done.

Thank you very much David: sorry to be so unobservent: age is telling! RCME is still the best I think.! Richard

I have tried to find the index lists on this site to find the year and issue/ date of the atrticlee referred to above by the Editor. I have failed on every search, which brings me back only to the editorial above,. Please put easy instructions on the web site for me to find the index lists to download as done previously as Word files. I could then find the original article from my collection of thepronted magazines. Regards Richard Cooper Edited By David Ashby - RCME on 27/01/2013 06:01:33

Hopefully living in Tasmania won't disallow sending this aircraft if I win!  The review in this month's RCM&E is encouraging. Richard Cooper

Hopefully living in Tasmania won't disallow winning this prize!

Hopefully living in Australia won't count against winning this prize!

Hpefully as a subscriber to the RCME from Australia, doesn't preclude winning this one!!

This would be an ideal model I think.

I was talking to a fellow modeller yesterday about plans for a launcher: he suggested that a recent electric flight forum thread had covered this.  I am obviously looking in the wrong spot, or using the wrong search word.  Can anyone please help with locating the plan?  He,  Mike Adams of Phoenix Flyers, Launceston, Tasmania, has built a good example and finds it helpful for avoiding injuries.

Somewhere I saw an artic;e on a design for a catapult for launchong pusher propped f'planes. 1) I can't find the index for RCM& E articles on this site for some reason, in order to look for the article: help please! 2) If anyone has seen such a design if it wasn't published in RCM & E, could they please help.

Many thanks.  No wonder there isn't the information around that I was looking(hoping) for!  I gather therefore  that experimenting is the way to go.

The original Terry had superb flight characteristics from a good flat glide to aerobatics.  The only problem was the strength of the wing: mine finally met its demise in a sharp pull out from a power dive done to avoid our large flock of lapwings, or plovers; they always hated the model and took off as soon as I started flying with it in order to start a dog fight!  Other models are not as threatening for some reason.  They always chase wedge tail eagles and other  raptors.    The wing snapped in half, which is reparable, but the motor/fuselage did not survive the plunge into hard ground.  Has the new Terry a good spar in the wing? With regard to electric power trains, is there a simple table which will tell one what range of rpm to expect for each prop size?  Having read recently, (special issue RCME 2005 I think) that a given motor/bbattery set up will always attempt to mainain the revs for each prop size, I am once again in trouble trying to understand  how all the facts relating to component choice come together!

Many thanks for the dates of the Picccolo articles, Graham. Regards Richard

Hi Graham I was very impressed by your original articles, especially on the Piccolo. (I hope I am right in ascribing these to you!) I wondeer whether you could let me have the dates of the original series please? I have been trying to locate them in my collection of RCME, having subscribed for many years, to no avail. Perhaps tidying up the boxws would help! I look forward to another starting up series on this subject by yourself, having recently been given a Piccolo type chopper!