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Three for 09.....   Westland Whirlwind(electric)   Ercoupe 415(glow or electric)   Pitcairn autogiro(glow or electric)   Harold    

A merry, happy Christmas and great new year to all. Winter is upon us here in Nebraska so it's now official building season. I'm sure we'll have some threads to share in future. Harold

Hullo Jack, Four EDF in a Vulcan would be quite the set-up and in fact is one I've been thinking of for a while. The snow in Toronto must be part of that big cold air mass that is bringing rain here in Nebraska. Midwest products has a foam material that compares to depron in a 15" x 48" size which might be available in Toronto. Of course, Depron is a good material and with an order in hand........build,build,build Harold

Glenn, The vid you put up is very good, showing well the flight quality. Not whippet fast but actually very scale appearing, lights and all. Using Loreena McKennitt (Night Ride Across the Caucasu, I think) as a musical background makes a nice touch. Harold

Trevor, By all means give the 15" Vulcan a go. It's a bit of old time modeling as the kit is of a B1 version rather than the later B2. A build thread would be fun. Harold

Quite the model of the Vulcan, Glen. The 15" jetex model by Easy Built is a B1 with the straight wing but is neat for inspiring a bigger build. XM573 is at the SAC museum near ( about 70 miles) where I live in Nebraska. That makes for a great scale reference when I get to building a Vulcan. Harold

Hullo Stuart, According to the data file in the article Tony used a 4 Max PPO 5055 580 with a 70A brushless esc and UBEC with a 5s 5000 mAh LiPo. The prop used is an APC 14x7 e prop. That would equate to around 1000 watts assuming reasonable battery performance and running the esc to maybe 80% of amp limit. In terms of h.p. that would be around 1.35 which is certainly in the .61 IC range. Harold

What a glorious plan and model Tony has created. It certainly ought to be one that gets built this winter on the farm here in se Nebraska. I received the special issue on Wednesday (8/10) and quickly opened the plan and article just to get an idea of what I'd be getting up to. About the only question is IC or electric! We'll see which wins out. Harold 

The Sep issue arrived yesterday. Nigel's Fling Wing is too good to pass up. The basic fuselage is done and ready, weighing at .75 oz. and all constructed from odd bits of wood I had. The only new material needed willl be some light 1/4" balsa for the wings. Also this one will be done as a bungee launch glider with elevons. Harold in the states

Tony, When I build mine in 2038 it will be silver as was K5038. Simple schemes like that really appeal to me. Also here in se Nebraska camoflauge schemes might work too well since my neighbors are farmers. You've created a real winner with the Hurri. Harold

peevie, Remember too we can create ethanol fuel here, especially in 2038 Harold

Dateline 2038.....somewhere in se Nebraska, USA I'll be 90 this year and still enjoy flying the way it used to be. My friend Mark (almost 92) and I bought a large supply of parts and pieces back in 08-09 for retirement fun. We're strictly old school with no VR items except in winter when it's too cold to fly outside. We even built a couple of high-revving glow engines in Mark's machine shop over the winter. We build from scratch or the occasional kit ( we squirreled a bunch away years ago). In fact we might just finish up a couple of Hurricanes from the "old" Tony Nijhuis plan. Somehow civilization seems to have bypassed us here. We do wonder how much things will change in another thirty years though..........we keep hearing about plans to pave the rock roads in this still rural area. Occasionally someone will ask what we're doing with those little airplanes- we tell them we're living our youth and why don't they join us? meanwhile, back in 2008.......Harold 

Years back I saw one forlorn Lightning airframe in a salvage/wrecking yard on a run from Harrogate toward London......Tony's miniature would be cool, yes. Harold

Shades of actual flight time in a Cessna...looks to be a good kit. Harold

The Whirlwind, Chipmunk and Catalina are my three choices. Harold