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I keep my kids on the books purely for the insurance. A foamy chuck glider through a neighbours green house (or another club members car window/expensive model at the field) is as covered for them, as any damage us "real" flyers might cause.

6s does sound a bit........ excessive. What are sport scale twin warbirds like for prophanging?

I've been doing this myself for the last few years, most recently on the back end of my Galaxy Hurricane. I like the mix of "old timey craft" application, reliable heat shrinking and it's CHEAP!

Did the Luftwaffe do a "fuzzy edge" on their camo, was it all hard edge demarcation, or mottling? If you're after a fuzzy edge between the camo blocks, foam seal strips from Amazon are brilliant.

As a generalisation the American people are absolutely terrified of everything. There isn't a situation they can't invent in their own minds, for which they need to be hysterical about.

Of course, you can always save all this confusion with actual engines. 😉

If I were running electric (I'm not), I'd be very much in favour of KISS: A battery and esc in each nacelle, directly supplying their own motor. Probably an UBEC and 2s battery in the nose as a separate supply for the Rx.

I used it as a revision aid for my B test a few years ago. Do it enough times and you'll pass it by luck.

No tarmac here unfortunately. I think I'll castor it and link the throttles on a switch. For IC "vectored thrust" what's the best balance for that? Restrict one engine to idle and give full throttle control on the other, or try for a full throttle range balance on both engines?

Just leave it castoring? I've done that on my Hurricane and it does ground steer.

What's the space like for a stearable tail wheel? Looking at Declans photos, it looks a bit tight. Mine should be coming out of the loft tomorrow, as the Christmas gubbins disappear back up there. Still not sure when I'll be starting it, I've still got the big Acrowot to finish, and I'm trying to encourage some father/son bonding with the eldest over plastic Warhammer kits.

Probably because the engine bearers are already well built in to the business end of the fuselage, and it's not worth cutting up a perfectly good airframe when they fly perfectly well with a bit of a ballast in the nose.

Yeah that's about right. I had to add 125g of weight to the nose to make it happen. Sounds about right. What does the plan say? The only time that might be a problem is once you're used to flying 4ch and using the rudder on the ground, but it works fine. I will eventually get round to putting a mix on the left stick rudder control so it doesn't catch me out, but these things are so slow it's not much to realise what you're doing and correct it.

I'm not entirely sure what this is, but can we add it to the WR wishlist?

Looking at the plan view of the Mozzy, the thought of making the outer panels removable, instead of splitting the whole wing (or detaching a one piece job), has crossed my mind. Would certainly make putting it together at the field a bit easier.