Peter Miller
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I don't know what it is but the canopy and tailplane location are wrong for the Cranfield if my memories of building one from origianl drawings is correct.
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Peter Miller replied to Terence Lynock's topic in All Things Model Flying
Lima Hotel Foxtrot. Many of the bits were quite large, also they were on known crash sites. The chap who showed me the Liberator took me through the woods to show me a portion of "engine cowling". It wasn't, it was about 5 foot of mainspar that had been wrapped round a tree. The Lib crashed after take off one morning in the woods at the back oif Kentwell Hall in Long Melford. A local Police Sargeant won the Polcice VC for getting the crew out before the fire made the bombs explode. In 69 there was a lot of debris and inven the craters could still be seen. I also found small pieces of aircraft structure in local fields. These came from a mid air collision. How do I know that they were not beer cans? Well, aircraft structure is very distinctive. Twelve years as an airframe fitter doing everything from first line servicing (Refueling etc) through major repairs and overhauls up to digging a Canberra out of a German field (mixed up with with bits of navigator) has taught me to recognise what is and what isn't aircraft structure. -
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Peter Miller replied to Terence Lynock's topic in All Things Model Flying
A) The bits I got were lying on the surface. B) On the one or two where crew had been killed they had all be removed at the time. I think you will find that war graves have to be registered as such or the crew are known to be in the remains. I could be wrong on the last part. -
What I have said all along Gemma. If the average power model can't cope with half an ounce of pilot there is something wrong, Simply using slightly harder wood can make more than that diufference.
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Peter Miller replied to Terence Lynock's topic in All Things Model Flying
Back in the late 60s, early 70s I did some research around my area in south west suffolk. plotted 13 crash sites in my immediate area. Found several pieces of B-17 and B-24. An Me 110 was dug out of a field about a mile away. I still have an empty .50 cal case with bullet head from a P-51 wreck. It had been fired by the fire that destroyed the plane. -
Phil The best laugh was on a liner when I was coming back from South America. The ship was a steady as a rock but lots of people complained of seasickness. They would come to the dinner table and eat the seasick diet, Mashed pototo with olive oil. It must have worked because then they would go though the rest of the menu like food was going out of fashion.
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Here are a few really nice aerobatics to try, my favourites. The Avalanche. A loop with a flick (snap) roll at the top. It should be a negative flick really but the positive flick is easier. The clover leaf, Best done with a four stroke powered slow model. Do a loop and as it goes vertically downwards do a quarter roll followed by another loop, quarter roll, loop, quarter roll so you do four loops at 90 degrees to each other and touching, Very hard to get it right in any wind. You can do the quarter rolls on the upward veritcal which is better for faster models Then there is the square loop with half rolls on each leg, Great if you get it right. And the easy one but hard to get it perfect. The four point or hesitation roll, stopping at 90, 180 and 270 degrees. And on the subsiduary theme, Never been seasick and on the troop ship to Aden crossing the bay there were three of us out of over six hundred going to the mess. Also, not sick duing aerobatics in a Chipmunk as a passenger.
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Buy a small bottle of acetone from the chemist and you can just wipe the CA off your finger.
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My pet hate of all time. You order something and it doesn't arrive. You phone up and ask where it is and the pillock on the end of the phone says. "Haven't you got it yet?" My reply tends to be "Of course I've got it! I like wasting my time and money phoning cretins to ask where something is when it has already arrived" I don't know about sods law but. Miller's First Law states. Nothing "simple" ever is. Miller's Second Law states The light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming towards you.
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Well done Simon. Heinkle 64 it is!
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Definitely not Fairy Long range Monoplane, that was a high wing A/C
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And just to keep the ball rolling, if you can't get the other two, try this one. Now someone must get at least one of these three,
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It has letter box slots out at the tips and lots of flappery. I think you can see corrugations under the wing. Here is another one. I just want the name.
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Well, I will rule out Contrary Mary becasue the chequerboard lay out was different in that on that aircraft it extended back to just in front of the cockpit,
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Now a nice simple one. well simple in that I only want the name of the aircraft. I wonder if Gemma will get this one, if not I have found two more among my collection of rarities. I really like the oddball s and one-offs
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Well, One tiny part at a guess. 78th fighter group and based at Duxford when they flew Mustangs.
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Thrust line is always 0-0 unless otherwise stated. If, after you have flown the model you want to change that you can. I never need to.
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Back in about 1959 I was selected as part of the RAF St Mawgan team sent to the Air BRitain aircraft recognition competition in LOndon. Now this was because there was no team and someone decided to send one and they chose me because I was a member of the model club. The other two members were aircrew Sargeants who also knew the organiser. We all treated it as a free weekend in London. At the comeptition we all sat in a cinema and they flashed up pictures of aircraft on the screen for about half a second. I would get an impression of a twin jet aircraft and I would write down "Canberra". I noticed that the man next to me had written Canberra mark XXX, mod bb. and so it went on. After the event the other team members agreed that they had had similar experiences. Needless to say we came bottom. The whole point of this screed is this. I am pretty sure that Gemma would do really well in that competition. I think I would still come last.
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Hi Steve. The Roamer is very much a free flight model that is interferred with by the pilot. IT flies slowly on the power of the SC 30FS. It is definitely a calm weather model. I have to say that touch and goes were the best I have ever done on tarmac. Come i with a touch of power and she just rolls along for twenty yards and then a clean lift off. I have now added a couple of degrees of right side thrust which should tame the take offs a bit as it tended to screw left rather hard. I have never thought of doing a scaled up American Dragon but it is a thought. I have a couple of designs I want to do first but then I have another SC 30 FS which is looking for a home so I may look at that.
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Door is pretty easy. Cabin area is a bit more complicated than usual but not hard. Good luck with your driving.
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I can't name it but I am pretty certain that it was a Miles design. The name is on the tip of my tongue.
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My 1952 Roamer with a modern helicopter. If only they could have known what was to come
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