EvilC57

Belt and braces.

I agree. Although on a larger control surface with 3 or maybe 4 CA hinges, I only tend to drill and put cocktail sticks in the outer two.

I was sitting in our works canteen by a window overlooking one of the on-site car parks one lunchtime a number of years ago. While I was eating my lunch, two chaps arrived outside with a trolley full of large rolls of cling film, the industrial type that’s sometimes used to wrap up goods on pallets. These two proceeded to wrap one of the cars up in this stuff. They were at it for around 20 minutes, first they wrapped it this way, and then that, and then the other way. Around and round they went in all three axes, this film must have been 1/2 an inch thick all over, with the car completely cocooned by the time they finished. I don’t know what someone had done to upset them, and I never saw the outcome of the prank, but I imagine who ever owned it was not best pleased when he arrived to drive home in it at the end of the day!

Don’t know about the cowling, but I remember my efforts as a nine year old always ended up with fingerprints embedded in the cockpit canopy (which obviously should have been clear) from polystyrene cement covered fingers!

While we’re reminiscing about the 60s, not about model aircraft, but does anyone else remember the foldout zoo animal heads that (I think) Kellogg’s used to print on the back of their cereal packets? It would have been around 1962/63 when I was 5 or 6. I think my father must have put them together for me, and I had a row of them pinned along the pelmet in my bedroom - I particularly remember the elephant with its trunk that stuck out. They were effectively 3D developments which you cut out, scored along the dotted lines and bent around to form said animal. I’ve mentioned them to friends of similar age to me and no one else seems to remember them. Maybe they were just a figment of my imagination!

Really? I’ll investigate that on mine.

Absolutely, it’s definitely not one for beginners or the faint hearted. Once in the air mine flies well, but I find I do have to keep the speed up, otherwise it always feels like it’s going to head for the ground, it’s obviously not at all floaty. Not having flaps, I find it comes in to land very fast and has to be ‘flown’ all the way in, although when I get it right, I’ve done some real greasers with it. I’ve managed to increase the rate of descent on landing approach by setting two levels of UP aileron on the Tx flap switch. It’s not one for a small field though.

You may be right Cuban8. Before the Sea Eagle I had one of Seagull’s Harmon Rockets, and I have to say I don’t remember it being as overweight as the Sea Eagle is.

Not sure I’d bother with anything else made by Seagull, bought legitimately or not. I have one of their Sea Eagle F3A type models. It looks nice, but it’s incredibly heavy as they’ve used a lot of birch type ply in the construction where I would have used light ply or even balsa. The instructions said the take off weight was supposed to be 5lb, it weighed over 5lb before I fitted the engine & tank. The overall weight is nearer 6.5 to 7lb which is a heck of a lot for a model of its size, so it flies like a brick - and that’s only after I uprated the engine to an OS 55AX, as the original 46 fitted would barely haul it off the ground. To add insult to injury I think the pilot supplied was made of concrete, or at least plaster of Paris! It was replaced by something more suitable. It’s specially reserved for windy days, so I can slow down it’s otherwise ballistic landing approach.

Reminds me of when I worked for a large company back in the early 1980s. Our boss put a request in to the site facilities department to come and put a shelf up for us to keep workshop manuals etc. on. A year went by without anything happening, so our boss sent a one year birthday card to the facilities department manager through the internal mail, with a suitably caustic reminder in it. Shortly afterwards he received an irate phone call from the manager, asking who the hell he thought he was, sending such messages. The shelf was up the next day!

And electric scooters 😐.

Hi Charles, as far as I remember I still have the original Logview Studio software installed on an old Windows 7 laptop that I’ve kept hold of, despite upgrading my other computers to W10/11. After over 3 years from my original post I must admit I can’t remember whether I ever tried the cellos.zip program, and what happened if I did. I haven’t used the CellLog for a long time, although I still have it somewhere.

Ha! Reminds me of the time I was trying to teach an absolute beginner to fly the drone he’d just bought. He lost control and smacked it into a wall the first time he tried to take off, breaking one of the propellers i the process. ‘No problem’ he said, ‘I’ll araldite the blade back on’. ‘You will not!’ I said, somewhat forcefully! I got hold of the blade and disposed of it out of his sight.

Me neither.

We have an unwritten rule in our club that when someone is starting an engine you don’t talk to them (not always observed I have to say). It’s often distraction from other people, or a change in your usual routine that leads to accidents.

I don't think that's the point. To quote the prosecution barrister, "It is the last Hurricane ever built and it is considered priceless.". And as she pointed out, there are only 12 airworthy Hurricanes left in the world. So to risk losing the aircraft or even just getting it damaged in an avoidable accident would seem unconscionable.

Just had an amusing scam caller, purportedly from 01182307819. Phone rang, I picked it up and a woman said that the insulation in my attic is of a type which is dangerous, hazardous to health and needed replacing. I asked her how she knew what I’ve got in my attic (bearing in mind I’ve lived here for 38 years, and no one’s been up there except me). ‘It’s on the database’, she said. Ha! I had to laugh. I said I don’t engage with scammers, wished her a good evening and put the phone down. Presumably they catch enough vulnerable people (1%?) to make it worth their while though.

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I see there’s a story in today’s papers about DJI being blacklisted in the USA due to security concerns over the images they can capture being sent back to China via DJI’s servers. First I’d heard of it…

Social distancing..?

When I posted a humorous video a few months ago which had been similarly ’bleeped’, the mods removed it. I hope double standards aren’t applied here.

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Recently finished 70mm FMS EDF powered Jetwing from Planeprint in Austria. The whole thing is 3D printed, including the wheels and tyres (although obviously not the fan, radio parts etc.!). Main fus and wings from light weight PLA, most fixtures from PLA+, and tyres and protective fan grills from black TPU. Not flown yet. I’ll probably keep it until our field is a bit drier in the spring, when it should ROG if the grass is short enough.

If you mean the back of the spinner and the front of the cowl, for most ‘medium’ sized models I leave about 1/8” or 3 to 4mm. Obviously as others have said, making sure no part of the intended prop goes back further.

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