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I have done the second part of the foam hacking, moving the leads in the wings to line up with the larger holes I made in the top of the fuz which I showed previously. See photo here of the wing mods. This is so that I can use extension leads from the fuz, connect them outside it and push them inside before fixing the wings in position, as suggested by Ron Gray. I should be able to try it at the field later this week if the fine, calm weather promised for the West Midlands does come. Have not worked out a way to use multi-plugs. It would be good but I think might need too much foam cutting. Aidan, what was required on the "giant carbon Z t28 Trojan"?

Interesting. Used to use Inwood but they had not been coming up on my Google searches for a while for some reason.

Thanks for that info about the Tasman. I can cope with redoing the undercarriage but may wait until the serious discounters have it in stock again, hopefully soon. I have started modifying the Husky as shown below. The original fuselage holes for the leads are lined with plastic so I have hacked a hole further back. The leads in the wings need moving to match but that is doable since they are in channels on the bottom of the wings covered with tape. I am finishing building a Seagull Pilatus Porter in the second photo. Its wing servo leads are similar (the hole in the fuselage still has covering to be removed in the photo) but there are no flaps or lights and the front end is bigger that on the Husky.

Ron, glad to know that works on the Tasman because I was proposing buying one. As I said, I haven't managed to get it to work on the Husky because the holes for the leads in the top of the fuz are too small and will need enlarging. The Husky has three plugs with the lights connection in its own plug. Perhaps the Tasman has larger holes also. I'll reconsider the Tasman now because the alternative Eflite Turbo Timber is quite a lot more expensive.

Fitting leads from the receiver long enough to come out of the top of the fuz doesn't work at the moment because the plugs jam in the rather small opening. As you suggest, taking a knife to the foam to considerably enlarge the opening is probably the answer.

I have an Arrows Husky largish foam cabin model which I like a lot. At 6ft span it won't fit in my car with the wings on. The attaching of the wings at the field with 3 screws each side would be straightforward if it was not for the problem of connecting the 3 servo leads each side into the fuselage (one each side is for the wing lights). They have to be passed through small holes in the wing fixing area at the top of the fuz and then connected to the leads from the receiver. This requires hands going into the fuz passed the battery. Removing the battery for this helps but not a lot. I have noticed in videos that the EFlite Turbo Timber has the wing servo leads connected to one multi-plug each side and those are pushed into multi-sockets in the fuz. That plane has the advantage that the wings are joined together before the whole wing is attached to the top of the fuz. However, if I can find such multi-plugs and sockets, I will try to find a way to fit the multi-sockets into the wing-fixing areas on my Husky. Does anyone know where suitable multi-plugs and sockets can be purchased? I also notice that the XFly Tasmin has the same kind of wing fixing. I think that the makers should themselves fit multi-plug wing servo connectors for these planes, like those in the EFlite Turbo Timber.

Have been flying electric for a long time but never had a lipo. Having heard the stories about lipo fires, I started with those round life cells and have continued to use only life power batteries. The performance is not as good as lipos of course, but is good enough for my sport flying needs. My club mates take the mickey but I am less worried about forgetting to watch over the charging process. However, perhaps we should be as careful with life batteries as lipos. Would be interesting for me to know what life battery fires and accidents there have been in modelling or otherwise.

The VQ AT-6 Texan wood kit in black and yellow was mentioned back in 2014 by Tony F after he obtained it but he gave no details of the building and flying. I would like to get a Harvard/Texan and this one seems to be still available. Does anyone have experience of it? The description says it has "foil covered rib wings" which does not sound great for the type of covering.