Paul De Tourtoulon

Martin, is aerokote polyurethane, if so why use cellulose thinners ? With 48ml of flatting agent, so is it also a liquid polyurethane, if so 75 + 48 = 123ml @ 10%= 12ml of hardener.

It doesn't need fixing, it does work on my boat, the DV111 that I maidened this morning and as a buddy box on the club's Calmato, I just would have liked it to do more planes. I have the same one that does planes and helis on 2.4 but 6 memories isn't enough, I also have a few more radios,, 😇

No bridges, plugs or other switches.

A petrol saito ( I have converted a few) are much quieter, and probably because they are 10% down in power.

Yes Brian, my T6exhp on 41mhz only heli, my T6ex on 2.4 has both planes and helicopters, I sent an Sms to the Futaba France electronics repair man ( I still have his portable number) so with any luck he will send me a positive reply, if not, well never mind.

I have in the past found radios with buttons inside to change them from 4 to even 8 channels and mixes, but nothing in the T6.

Yes 'but' just maybe there is a way to change it over, I am going to open the radio up.

Hi, I was given a Futaba T6 exhp, heli radio, I want to change the heli to plane, there are no free mixes and only two types of heli heads, making it impossible for a start to use two different channels for ailerons, its for a new kid in the club so that he can use it for his stuff, is it at all possible to change over ?. Thanks Paul

Saitos get really hot running on petrol, and your firewall is going to burn ! Don't ask me how I know,,,,

Locally we have this one, probably 80% of the planes get crashed, and one of the competitions is nose diving vertically into a dustbin. Really good fun, brake a prop and probably 5 people will give you one free, glue guns always hot for repairs and cyano with kicker all ready and willing. https://adal.club/les-electrolympiades-dete-24-aout-2024

The Basic 2000 a fantastic plane for a .40.

Back from the field 28° blazing sun at 10am, and a bit hazy, doing some flips with my Raptor and no way could I see which way up it was, totally disorientated, but I managed to get it back safely amongst the oohh, ahh and OMG from the 5 modellers on the field, so was I lucky today.😃

Only 3 of us today, 2 with Helicopters, and at 28°c at 10am French time, getting hot, Bastien running his new pylon racing engine in, this engine will peak at 26.000 rpm when run in.

That's because I have been there, French Gendarmes, French customs ( hgv international driving) and also Swiss police, the British never stopped me on French plates, neither did the Irish. Good luck, don't forget to post your 'podium' winners pictures.

If by bad luck you do have an accident, I just saw one in front of me today, idiots everywhere.

I forgot to mention David, hoping that you don't have an accident, as knowing insurance companies they will find 99.9% of reasons not to pay out !

I drove on my British driving licence till 1988 ( 13 years) till I got stopped on my Yamaha, you must have a French one if you are living permanently and working/ paying French taxes after 6 months, and your licence has to be translated my a 'legal' court translator ( get your cheque book ready) and get a duplicate from the UK first 'just in case', the French one doesn't have the 70-year-old limit. An upside is that my British licence had 250cc motorbikes on it and as French one's only covered 125cc bikes they gave me a full motorbike licence, whoopee,,

The 'variation law', is me at the checkout, 5 will go through one while the person in front of me will ask how many 'points' and credit they have, pay with luncheon vouchers, and finish off with the last of the small change in her bag, then she will start to put it in her shopping basket !.

Over rich also causes it, mine Never run lean and never a wooden prop, 'maybe' it's the 3% castor oil in the fuel 🤣

Probably running too rich, I have the same problem with a lot of my Saito's, but never an OS.

Never mind the weather, French time last night 20h45, still 33°c🤢so this morning 6 of us at around 8am, some good fun, it took me 2 tanks of fuel to get my repaired ( blades, blade cross shaft and landing gear) Raptor 50 tracking and the gas/pitch and gyro setting done as the blades are 1mm thicker than my 25-year-old Sab ones, 28°c at 10 am, so all off home,,,

Welcome to this exhilarating hobby and the helpful forum FS.

ALL out of date, the 20-year-old Rafale cost between 60.000.000€ and 80.000.000€ each that's an awful lot of drones, not forgetting the price it costs to train its pilot and ground crew, and not exactly 'green' 2.500 litres cruising an up to 9.000litres an hour with post combustion.