Peter Miller

Have fun

I once had a lift home from Cornwall to Waterbeach in an Avro Anson, On landing the pilot touched down on the grass short of the tarmac and gave huge bounce onto the runway. As we climbed out the Navigator said to the pilot "Which landing shall I log sir?"

About everybody else!?

I believe that all the Irish jokes are told by the Irish about the people from County Kerry

The trouble seems to be that NOTHING is wrong or unacceptable if even one person does it. The ONLY thing that is "wrong" is to disapprove of it or to make a joke about it.

Like wise in the RAF (and other services).

Maybe we should only refer to them as "A human being......" No, that would upset any aliens reading the thread!!!! Anyway, I am not sure that some people would qualify as human these days.

Hard Balsa

Some us are thinking of tomorrow morning about 11 am

I am glad that you liked it. I recently bought(!!!!???) the Sarik kit and converted it to electric. Hopefully that will be in RCM&E. The weather is diabolical. I have a glider kit(!!!) ready to test fly. If only the rain would lay off for a few days they could harvest the field right in front of my house and I could step out side in the early morning and test fly it. Picture shot from my bedroom window at about 10pm. last year

Thank you all for you wishes, much appreciated. I am OK if I take it easy....it is mostly old age galloping upon me.

Hi KC I am grateful that you have offered to do that I had thought of copying my article but I am not too good at the moment. A lot of stress and extremely tired and just not up to it. I just could not face it.

I saw that Video.I still quote the verdict after the flight...and it was a howling gale. The smoke in the back ground was blowing horizontally straight from the chimney

Well The next is NOT exciting, It is an electric conversion of the Dick Schumaker Little Ship. These days I just can't raise the energy, strength or interest to start drawing and creating a new design. So don't hold your breath 'cos I don't have a a lot of breath left

I recently watched US carrier fighters taking off from Carriers. They used vast amounts of right rudder as they started their take off runs.

KC is another follower of my great belief in the KISS principle!

One point to notice. My wings are set at zero degrees incidence so in fact it does not give lift unless it is fractionally nose high. I keep telling people to read Kermode's "Flight Without Formulae"

A Form 500 entry on a Shackleton: "Mouse in aircraft." Cleared with entry "Trap set. Aircraft serviceable to fly"

These flew perfectly with no side or down thrust and very little trim adjustment.

Thinking about the above. So you add side thrust and down thrust to make the model fly straight and level. Now suppose that you find that it doesn't fly straight and level when you take it to the field. What do you do? Take the engine out and add more side or down thrust!? If you have used side or down thrust to get the model to fly straight the logical thing to do would be to alter the side and down thrust to correct any deviation from straight and level. Or do you apply some trim. And you apply trim to correct the deviation to correct any deviation due to incorrect side and down thrust why not apply it in the first place?

All the Peggy Sues fly straight and level well. You might get a swing on take off but you can get that even if you have side thrust. That is what the rudder is for. If it doesn't fly straight and level in normal flight you then use the trim switches to trim out any miss alignment due to construction errors

I never use side or down thrust. The original smaller Peggy Sue that has been built in the club doesn't have any.The big one that was built in the club doesn't have any. The one flown in a howling gale on the Peggy Sue thread thread and which was described as "Out Wot Fouring a Wot Four and Out Acro Wotting an Acro Wot. Didn't have any....But of course with your vast experience you may know better!!!!!

That is impressive!!!

I love that picture.Glad you are so happy with the Ohmen.

I can remember back in 1954 going to Ripmax, a little shop in Camden Town. Bought my ECC Telecommander radio there. Never did get a flight out of that. Also bought a Mills .75 and later a Mills 1.3 and even later an Allbon Jevelin. I had a small inheritance from my Grandfather