Jesus Cardin

Better not succeeding binding the receiver than not succeeding flying the Spit like a trainer.....

Thanks a lot of, Graff. Of course, I already knew of that video! I had a friend competing at that event with a Decathlon, as part of the Spanish team. Thanks again for the video.

Congrats on the model! I am a lover of the Bucker planes in general and of the Jungmann and Bestmann models in particular. I own a Modellstudio 1/4 scale kit which I will love building and painting as a semi scale version of the old Krick kit...... love the colours but not the registration code! (Translation note: in Spanish "ECES" reads as "heces", which is "sh"t!) Will thank a lot if you produce a video of the Bucker in flight, Best Regards and Merry Christmas from Spain.

I am rather sure your problem is the plugs. Such small spark plugs and so high fuel oil content tend to oil contaminate the plugs and spark intensity gets lower or even you completely loose some firings. As you have already checked everything else, remove all three sparks and leave for one hour or so submerged in clean gas or even Contact Cleaner or WD-40 and then clean the electrode with an old hard-medium toothbrush. Install and try again and if some cylinder still misfires or stay cool, it is better to replace all three plugs for new ones.

Hey Martin, I still have of those kits untouched! Sorry for your loss due to the ESC error.

Cliff, you DO NOT have too many airframes...... It is you HAVE TOO many wives.... even when you only have one! 😉

I also join following the build thread! I see the Southerner as one of the cuttiest vintage models available.

Similar in quality and flying characteristics to other Vietnamese firms like Black Horse and Seagull Models. At least Seagull Models use genuine Oracover for covering their models! Anyway Phoenix Models have some quite bautiful planes in their catalogue.

I own the Carl Goldberg Ultimate 10-300 RTF version since many years ago. It has been powered by an OS 1.20 Four Stroke, a SAITO 125 and now..... by and OS 1.20AX! Sure the 65 will be marginal and I would suggest going to a .90-1.08 2 stroke or a 1.20 4 stroke for "happy" performance. A plane which deserves restoring and keeping flying as it is a superb model, both aerobatic and very true and safe.

No, it is not too low for Rx plus 4 standar servos. Probably the opposite: in a trainer or sport model current consuption might be arround 300-350mA.

Yes, Adrian, you may move easily your models from your "old" T14SG to a new T16SZ/T16SZi/T18SZ. They all include a transfer automatic program to import T14SG model files into their own modern software. Only care is to have adequate software versions: better here is having both the T14SG and the T18SZ updated to latest software versions. I leave a link to a video showing how easy it is.... Hope it is of help to you.

You may also use acetone. I always use this for all the dried paints in jars and airbrushes.

First of all, Happy New Year 2024 to all you, UK modellers. Then I would like to ask a question: why neither the Focke Wulf nor the Tempest show on Warbirds Replicas website as available now or in the future? Best Regards.

A pair of suggestions regarding all the SAITO gas engines: 1.- For a clean running, without hesitations, you need -contrary to glow engines- to close the high needle as much as you can. If you open even just a few "clicks", be sure the engine will run rich. So very important to keep with the 5% high quality oil in your fuel mixture. At much, just open one single "click" when you get max revolution, but NOT two!. 2.- SAITO says small spark plug must be considered as dependable, and actually they are but I recommend after a day flights to take the plug out and clean it with clean gas or some contacts cleaner spray. Due to the relatively high oil content and the very small plug size, it easily and quickly becomes oiled and the engine will miss explosions when it becomes dirt. I have original SAITO spark plugs with a lot of years and flight still going strong as far as I keep them clean.

This Saturday I maidened with a total of 3 flights my new Freewing 70mm F-16. I am flying this model as preparation for my turbine powered Avonds F-104, which I plan finishing and flying before end of this year........

I also had a busy first Autumn weekend! After several weeks of bad weather here in Madrid with wind and rain, this last was a perfect one with just a light breeze and clear skies. Saturday was an "electric" day flying my late uncle´s Custom Privateer and EC-52 as well as I maidened my Freewing 70mm F-16, totalling 3 successful flight with each one....... Sunday was "Glow" day and I flew both my Seagull Models Gipsy Moth plus my now quite old Carl Goldberg Ultimate, making again 3 flights with each model. Unfortunatelly no photos of these.....

Sorry, Paul but you are wrong: Marutaka was same kits as Royal, in USA, not Pica. Pica was a totally North American different brand, their models being designed and developed by no other one than Mr. Dave Platt himself. By the way, Jon, I also own an untouched 1/5 Spitifre Kit from some years ago, a kit I purchased in Ebay from Switzerland and it is an original Dave Platt Models Mk-XXII Spitifire. Actually a nice and impressive model! Best luck with yours, which we know you have several Spitifres on the bench....

Greetings from Spain. I first write in this thread as since 4 or 5 years ago I am in search of a particular plan: Duncan Hutson Scale Plans' 2-1/2": 1´ scale, 57" span M.J.5. "SIROCCO" . This plan is lost since Traplet took over the Duncan Hutson plans distribution and even now Sarik has not this available nor for sale. Please do not mistake with the 1/4 scale 69" version which Mr. Hutson originally offered as a full kit and that now Sarik sells as a plan pack. This I was able of buying just prior to Sarik finding and including it in its range. As far as I have investigated, the 57" span design -for which Mr. Hutson offered a F/G cowl, a canopy and even a decals set- is the only one from Duncan Hutson collection that is missing today. All of the other designs and plans are available from Sarik. If we succeed finding this plan, not only will be of help for me but for completing a great design collection as it is the Duncan Hutson Scale Plans one. Thanks and Best Regards.

The End Point setting of the 16iZ is just like that of your old 10J, only that you have a larger and clearer touchscreen which is also more easy to program. So no difference as how you program ON and OFF for your gyro up to now. Only one doubt arises: as far as I know most of these gyros have 2 working modes aside OFF mode; I understand in your 10J you use a 2 position switch and only may have OFF and gyro ON on just your preferred mode. With the 16iZ you surely will have available 3 position switches so you may program and use your gyro with all its functions. This is the way I use my Futaba GYA460 on a Freewing F-15, but sure I prefer only using "Assisted" mode and not "Auto stabilized" as it makes harder flying fast models. Of course using Futaba original GYA460 allows you fine tuning and ON/OFF functions from the S.BUS output. Hope it is of some help.

And one or two years ago it was also TopModel.fr which closed, if I remember correctly. It is clear these are not good times for model building business!

If Spektrum is already offering an ID module and Futaba is also developing one (page 15 n below link: "RC user-specific remote ID").... I think it is for sure that it will mandatory to us all over the world! A free idea to developers and manufacturers: why not integrating the remote ID function within the receivers?...... business_reconstruction_plan_en_2024.pdf

After my first own model, the free flight glider Sirocco, I built and flew with great success a few more of the type like the Cierzo and the Mistral from the same Spanish manufacturer. The I tried rubber power with a semi scale FW-190 which I built together with my late father and which, unfortunately, we were unable to make an even short flight...... Then I switched to control line with a 2.5cc diesel powered sheet trainer named Yeyito -a LEGEND here in Spain!- and a lot more, all from Modelhob. Just a few: Semi scale sheet Mustang, semi scale Aeronca Champion, sheet stunt trainer Smousen (I built and flew 3 of them!), competition stunter Baron and Mig-3 scale model. Finally I advanced to R/C flight with a 2 channels thermal glider, the Nemesis, which I to the skies with a tow line. In the following photo, taken in the summer of 1981, the Nemesis shows all his "experience" and hard life with a lot of repair patches both on the wings and the elevators (more evident due to the patches being in white silkspan!).

Some of those protocols were brought for making the brand cheaper against competence brands, while other due to new -mainly European- regulation requirements. So, yes, they have an incredible array of protocols and receivers, but they were forced due to their initial marketing idea about 2.4GHz..... And 16iZ simply IS NOT more complex than any other top end Futaba radio, and that need to use "End Point" regulation for making Eagle 3 gyro work is not needed when using original Futaba gyros...... why?

That is totally true, but as it happens with all giant companies..... if the hobby section only have loses and no gains, it is just a matter of time Futaba owners and directors will shoot it close! And regarding the reconstruction plan, it already shows quite a critical situation: Electronic Systems sales in 2022 were just half that of planned figure... By the way, did anybody else noticed they intend developing an ID device for radio controlled flying models? Finally it seems it will be mandatory for most of us in the future, then! In any case, I do not see they clearly recognize their own faults on radio control systems development during last years and if you do not see your errors, I think it is just impossible to solve them.....

I think FUTABA must be having very hard times...... In a few years they have lost their most important distributors worlwide: First it was Robbe in Germany, then Hobbico in USA.... and now Ripmax in UK. Aside this, also other medium distributors fell like Modelimport in Spain, all of them leaving large debts to the company. If you add what "leccyflyer" explains to the picture (Radiomaster 16S is, by far, the most popular programmable radio here in Spain!), really I see a quite dark future for FUTABA not only in UK........