Peter Miller
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After my one very basic design for a Correx model many, many years ago. Your model is totally amazing.
I would not have believed Correx could be used to produce such an accurate and realistic model.
WELL DONE
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Superb Graham!. Longing to see it in flight. Must charge the camera battery. Now, everyone get down on your knees an pray hard for some calm, sunny weather.
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39 minutes ago, EvilC57 said:
Health & Safety:
Ye GODS!! That lot give me the creeps just looking at them.
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27 minutes ago, leccyflyer said:
In Heaven there are great clubs with wide open grass field and the wind is never too strong and the temperature is perfect all year round and it only rains at night. No one has cause to complain or moan. Stop the world, I want to get off.
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2 hours ago, Peter Jenkins said:
I was at Odiham when a Wessex went into ground resonance while the rotor was being spun up but had yet to reach the required speed. For those who don't know about this feature, it is a function of a mass, spring, damper situation. If you reach the resonant frequency of the combination, the outcome is rarely pretty! If the rotor is up to speed, the solution is to lift off and that solves the problem immediately.
In this case, they couldn't lift off so the rotors ended up contacting the ground and the rear section skin was completely overstressed. The tail rotor and its structure fell to the left while the rest of the fuselage fell to the right and the rotors spread themselves to all over the place. There were two comments that made the rounds and had us in stitches.
The first one was from the ground starting crew. A new guy from a fixed wing background was being checked out by an old hand. The were rooted to the spot and, extraordinarily lucky not to suffer any injury. With the helicopter on its side, the new boy said "Does this happen often?"
The second one was from the pilot in charge. He was checking out a new pilot on his first familiarisation flight from Odiham. He had just struggled out of the wreckage when the line chief reached him and said in a perfectly calm voice "Can you get if fixed please Chiefy, I'll take it again after lunch."
LOVE IT. Typical of us in those days!!!
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I was told this story by someone who was there and I saw the pictures.
A helicopter was being run up at RAF Changi after servicing. One test was to hold a a strip of cloth on a frame to check for tracking of the blades.
One of the blades started going wild and everyone dived for the monsoon ditches. Then the bloke who had fitted the pin to the blade realised that he had not fitted it properly and he stopped and looked back.
Those in the ditches where OK. He didn't survive.
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22 minutes ago, Christopher Wolfe said:
This is actually quite sad as I met a bloke in Sydney (about 1993) and he was an ex Stuka tail gunner and all he told me that the pull out was quite terrible but somehow he survived for 5 years and then emigrated in 1949 and managed to raise a family in Australia.
* Chris *
I can imagine that.
I had a lift home in a Meteor T-7 and one of the vivid memories was as as we circled over an airfield to land. I felt I was being crushed down and the bone dome was pulling my head down. Then the pilot said "ARE YOU OK. I am taking it easy as you are not used to it."
I also will never for get the instructions before we took off and this is word for word. "If we get in to trouble I will slow the aircraft down to 100 knots and jettison the canopy. You climb over the side of the cockpit and slide off the wing. IF you miss the tailplane count to ten and pull the ripchord!!!
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4 hours ago, Peter Christy said:
As someone who worked in broadcast TV for over 40 years, I can reveal that 1) At the BBC, football has priority over everything, and 2) at ITV football has priority over everything but adverts!
Speaking personally, if it has the words "celebrity" or "reality" in the title or description, its a total non-starter.
Definition of a celebrity: Someone famous for being famous.
As for reality TV, I watch TV to escape from reality, not to be reminded of it!
No wonder viewing figures have slumped so much that even advertisers are fleeing to other markets....
<Gets off soap-box!>
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Pete
My video recorder packed up over Christmas. I don't tink that I am going to bother to get it fixed
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28 minutes ago, Paul De Tourtoulon said:
3,Turn the TV on, rubbish on all channels, guaranteed to send you to sleep.
THis has been the worst year ever for the garbage on TV. They even showed a lot of films from the 1930s
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I am being driven mad. Every page brings a notice
I DON'T NEED THIS EVERY PAGE> ONCE IS ENOUGH!!!!!! STOP IT!!!
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53 minutes ago, Brian Cooper said:
How true. Looks like my front garden which I have pumped out for the second time this week...and I live on top of a hill
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Do you know I couldn't find it, I didn't realise how long ago it was.
A little story about MIss Cassy to prove that someone up there looks after us;
Some years ago I was flying Miss Cassy and I went to change the elevator trim on my Spectrum Tx and hit the on-off switch instead. The model crashed some three hundred yards out in a bare field. We retrieved all the wreckage carefully and I took it home.
The next day I realise that the Rx satellite receiver was missing. On the Wednesday I went back and started looking for the crash site which we had cleaned up really well so it was almost impossible to say exactly where it was.
After spending nearly two hours wandering round in the approximate crash area I gave up and started back to the car.
Now when going over fields I always look at the ground for Roman remains etc. (I have a medieval token picked up from a field in front of my house among other things).
As I walked along I though "That looks like an interesting stone" and bent to pick it up.
RIGHT BESIDE IT WAS MY SATELLITE receiver.
No one can ever tell me that I was not guided to find it!!!
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Their Early plans are a lot cheaper but I could not Find Miss Cassy there. I am surprised how long ago it was listed.
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My Standard CG position is 25 percent of the chord back from the leading edge.
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I never mind people modifying my plans as it is the first stage of designing your own. Just don't lame the original design if the mods don't work.
Just don't add too much extra weight....Low wing loading makes them fly better.
I did a stretched version of the Cassut Called Miss Cassy but can't find the plan listed. If it was a full size plan I may have a copy.
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1 hour ago, Paul Marsh said:
I've got a small Cassut, OS 15fp engine in it. Want to build or get a larger one.
Miss Deeds is a very close to scale Cassut. It should be available from Sarik as it was a free plan in RCM&E August 2019
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10 hours ago, Geoff S said:
You really think there aren't men that are just as clueless? I once had a trainee on a yacht when I was 1st mate who didn't understand that pulling on one end of a rope had an effect at the other end - and he had a very good 1st class degree in maths - I was told. OTOH one of the best engineers working for me was a woman.
I worked as a technician in a Craft, design and technology department. Some of the girls did brilliant work while some were dim BUT the same could be said for the boys.
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2 hours ago, Martin Dance 1 said:
Agree, all licensed strips have an ATZ around them. However unlicensed strips, mostly 'farm strips' do not it is those which are going to be the biggest problem for UAS operations. There a lot of them around, probably outnumber model flying sites.
I know of three within 6 miles of me.
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Well the Apaches are around here all the time including taking off and landing up to 11 pm at night. See my other picture of one hovering over our flying field. We do get other low flying military aircraft occasionally. Hopefully that will make this area a "No Fly" zone for Amazon etc drones.
As for civil aircraft disobeying the rules...I have no sympathy.
One interesting incident from a few years ago. I was just unloading my weeks shopping when a Peitenpol Air Camper flew over. fairly low. As he came over our houses (3 in a country lane) he did a roll which ended up in a 45 degree dive. He then did a barrel roll as he flew on towards a couple more houses.
Peitenpol Air Campers are forbidden to do aerobatics.
I reported him to the Light Aircraft Association and was told that a letter warning owners of the ban on their doing aerobatics had been sent out.
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Following on from my last posting. In this area we have Wattisham where they have the Apaches. These fly round day and night (up to 11 pm) at low level. I would therefore imagine that this area would be a no-go area for drones.
The Apaches know where our model flying site is so we have no problems there.
Pictures taken from my house.
And one of the Ultralight that flies around the area
And one of the Pitts
Now fly drones through THAT area
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1 hour ago, Martin Dance 1 said:
Obviously we are concerned about the future of our hobby and our flying fields. Consider the larger picture. There are many unregistered airstrips in the UK 'farm strips'. They too will be adversely affected by any new restrictions imposed to help commercial drone operations. I can think of five such strips within 10 miles of my home. A simple solution would be for the CAA to identify all flying sites and to compile a map. Then anyone proposing to operate a drone service could be given a map, on payment of a suitable fee, and told you must avoid these areas. Result no affect on existing airspace users, some income for the CAA. Costs to be born by those businesses who seem to have limitless funds to develop these UAS system which we are led to believe will be soon darkening our skies😃
But while we would be flying from a local strip and our models would be staying close to that, aircraft from farm strips go everywhere.
We have one farm strip with several aircraft on it. One of these is an ultra light aircraft and the owner who has several aircraft has actually landed on our model flying field on more than one occasion when we were not there. He has been reported to the CAA for that. He also has an aerobatic aircraft which we see performing all over the area and another owner has a Pitts which he flies aerobatics here and there in the area.
So giving a drone operator a map would need to cover a large area of East Anglia just for that one strip.
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looking at charts like that could be the worst thing possible for your eyesight.