Peter Miller

Tlaking of bailing out. Did you ever hear the story of the USAF pilot who had been used to flying aircraft eith a 0-0 seat. i.e, can eject at 0 speed and 0 feet. He transfered to B-47s. One day things went drastically wrong on take off so he ejected. Unfortunately he forgot one vital thing. The B-47 had downward firing seats.

The Culver Dart is nice. Keep it light. What capacity is the Wankel? I doubt if the .30 size would fly it well.

True, But you can bail out of an aeroplane. I understand that getting out of a submarine at the bottom of the sea can be a bit dodgy.

Strange, Normally a wing drop is cured by rigging the ailerons slightly up to give a slight washout effect. Mine has no tendancy to drop a wing.

So it was a general fault.  One could chop the wing in half and build it up with reversed dihedral and the servos on top or... one could build a decent model!

The problem with the CAP 232 was when it was flying fast!

I will be interested to hear what you find. I think that quite a lot of the problem is caused by the sharp taper on the wing. Some washout would help but it is not possible to incorporate that without a major rebuild of the wing.

Jim, They look great. I will be interested to hear how the larger one flies, should be very nice. Mine is one of my special favourites.

You can use standard servo or mini servo. NOT micro servos. I use Supertec Mini Ls on most of my models. Smaller but slightly more powerful than standard servos and a bit lighter.

Oh I DO like that one!

I think I would want to go to a flying school where they teach you to miss the trees.

I think in fact that it is due to the frame rate not quite matching the rotation sped. Going back to wagon wheels, they will often suddenyl rotate in the right direction as speed builds up or slows down. Not that any of this matters in anyway.

Going back to the original question (and I know that this is considered a NO-NO by many on this forum) It is possible that the video you saw had the effect of making it look as if the engine was running backwards. Ever noticed on old films how wagon wheels and train wheels often seem to be rotating backwards.

Easter Eagle does need a bit of a heave. Don't know how it would work with a ramp but a catapult launch and start the motor after launch could work OK.

When I was at St Mawgan they were trying out an idea to prevent bird strikes. Loud speakers all over the airfield broadcasting the distress calls of seagulls. After a couple of weeks we could see the seagulls sitting on top of the loud speakers looking in as if to say."What are you doing in there you silly B*****s" Well, that was another waste of money!

Funnily enough I just designed a Pattern Ship called Renegade for .32 engines. It will be coming out in RCMW soon. A similar type of model for .25s was a few years ago in AMI, it was called Marauder but that was not designed so closely to pattern ship specs. Sorry about that but RCM&E can't keep up with my production. After all, I can't hog their pages.

Yes, Several cases. Most recent, my Easter Eagle electric glider with a big bird wing motif on top of the wing was attacked by Rooks.  In Aden the huge Kite Hawks (Polite version of the name) used to circle over the free flight area and follow models. One one occasion a glider had been up for 37 minutes, not gaining much height and not travelling any distance in the flat calm condiditons. Eventuall a shite hawk attacked it and just knocked it out of trim enough to make it come down. They also used to circle over the control line circle quite low. One was hit by a combat model. The bird shook itself and flew off. The engine had a broken crankshaft.

Glad that you liked the King Condor. It was a nice model. It was a scaled up Trivial Pursuit. Believe it or not I was told of a Trivial Pusuit that won a club scale contest twice! Admittedly it came with a 3-view and a mocked up photo of a squadron of them in flight but the  story that went with it was totally absurd. I just wish I could have met the builder and judges.  You see I have these gold bricks for sale, cheap! The Feugray has a longinsh nose. You may need some weight in the tail but in fact I feel that the model would be nicer with the CG a little further forward of the location shown on the plan. I must try that sometime.

Enya 41 FS should be nice. Yes, R-2a should be 1/4". It shows that on the plan and on my original it says 1/4" in the rib cutting list. I do not get the plans to proof check.

A very good idea, It can get confusing when you are not sure which way up it is. And this model rotates fast!

I see no reason why you shouldn't use G-BPVX. Consider it a tribute to the pilot.   I am never really happy to see scale models with non-scale colour schemes. True that Miss Demeanor is not perfect scale but it is pretty close if you don't measure things. http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Cassutt%20IIIM%20Racer&distinct_entry=true If you look on this website you will find dozens of pictutres of Cassutts.

Three pounds, well, still bearable I guess.

They don't give running in settings as such. The needle on the new ones seems to be about 4 turns open.I have just had one that gave trouble with insufficient taper on the needle but that is rare. Running in is simple, sort sharp runs at high speed, That is almost flat out but just a touch on the rich side. about a minute or a litle less, then slow and rich and then back up. Standard running in for an ABC engine. I find that a tank full or so is enough to get it ready for flying. If you have an ALDI store near you, on Thursday they will have electronic scale, weigh up to 5 KG in 1 gram steps (Plus Imperial) for £7.

Very Smart. I will lookforward to hearing how she goes.

Thanks for your kind remarks about my plans. I do try to produce plans that I am happy to build from. Well, I have to build from them. Wood selection is important. I use medium for the fuselage sides, hard for the spars and everything else is soft.