Michael Dearden

All good ideas Paul but I am still in favour of the Easyglider or Star, particularly the glider as it flies really slow and glides one it's up there so you get far longer flying from your charge. I've had one battery keep the lads up there for half and hour or more! Whichever way, good luck!

Not far off Phil! A brief history copied from their website:-  In 1968 the Manufacture of SOLARFILM iron-on film started in Chorley, England with just six basic colours. 1973 Solarfilm manufacture moved to a larger factory in Blackpool, England. By then the colour range included transparent and metalic colours. 1979 Solarfilm moved back to Chorley into a larger purpose-built factory, doubling the floor area again. 1982 SOLARTEX, the iron-on fabric was developed and put into production

Wish I could say that Timbo having been around since '38 Quite an interesting project though and not too difficult to convert the tailplane into rudder and elevator, and yes, it also has solarfilm or similar covering so comparatively "young"

Ah - old age can help there Timbo. The very early elastic powered planes I built, circa 1940/50's didn't have any control surfaces. Just wind then up, point them into the wind and let go! Hopefully they flew reasonably straight and didn't come down too hard! One of the biggest danders was over winding the elastic! Then the tail tended to come up and meet the nose with a loud "snap" and the fusalage was reduced to a load of broken balsa and tissue paper!

With that long nose you're going to have to be careful with the C/G but an 11.1v lipo setup will surely do you just fine with the battery probably just forward of the wing or possibly half/half and the servo try under the wing. I presume it has a rudder and elevator???

Looking at it I would say almost certainly yes. There are motors/batteries out there that will lift just about anything but yes, it would be nice to know the weight, wing area etc. As it has wheels, presumably it used also to have an engine of some sort and, if it had a petrol or diesel engine, then there is certainly an electric set-up that will do the job.

Hi Paul. I have to agree with Ben on the Multiplex Easystar or even the Easyglider. Both fly very "quietly" but the advantage of the glider is that you can get longer flights from it as it does just that, glides! I have been using one for the past year teaching a group of children with special needs to fly and it took a lot of prangs but is easily fixed. Certainly starting on a sim is a very good idea, and then progress to a buddy link. Good luck.

BEC! That's the thing Timbo. One thing you'll find on this forum vinnie is that you can rely on Timbo to sort most things out for you! Mind you, I got this one right!

As far as I am aware there is a "built in" voltage regulator (can't think of the correct name for it right now) in the ESC to ensure the receiver gets its right voltage so no need to worry about that as long as the ESC is rated for your battery.

Firstly, if you joined two 14.8v packs together and still had 14,8v then you connected them in parrallel, thereby maintaining the voltage but effectively doubling the current handling capacity. I have been using Overlander batteries for some time now with no problems at all but then they were "new" and I have not been joining them together. I think it possible that there was one defective cell and by joining them together you overstretched it. I do know that these cells are far more sensitive to voltage than NmHi or Li so would be wary of joining them. I like Overlanader - they take paypal!

Thanks David. Haven't actually flown it yet but anything that looks that good should fly well!!!! The float thing is just an idea with a huge reservoir on my doorstep and only long grass in the area around it. During summer I'm OK as they cut the grass and roll the cricket pitch.

Thanks Always for the reassurance on the Moths performance, also the advice on a bit of rudder to aid the turns. I'll program the Spektrum for that. That is an interesting little gizmo Hatter. Where do they plug in? One of the spare servo ports? Doesn't really matter as I've already ordered one!

What a cute little thing. Love to have one!

I have just completed a JP Tiger Moth 30 (electric version). As I live right on top of a large expanse of usually still water, I was wondering if it would be feasible to convert this little plane to a sea plane? My only near flying site is a pleaying field and the grass is rather long which makes taking off a pain!  I presume the design of suitable floats is the only real issue here. Has anybody done this yet I wonder and how successful was it?

It would appear not but then I haven't pushed any buttons during charge in case I do some damage. Nothing in the manual about it that I've seen yet.