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Alan Gorham_

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  1. Looks to have been built from the Gary Sunderland plan. It's even painted in the same scheme as his prototype, so there's at least two of them out there.
  2. I'd hope that you might be able to save the BMFA some money and time in sending you a printed copy of the handbook, when you can instantly obtain it online, from their website for free.
  3. Is this thread really about a man being shocked that a long-established retailer advertised an item for sale and the person was then able to buy it? That seems to be the gist of the OP, once I waded through some arcane pidgin English, repetition and stream of consciousness that can only mean anything to the OP.
  4. Actually the Enya SS series were first released in the very late 1980s! Granted the version you link to has a funky new cylinder head. The original range had an SS25 and SS30 aero, while the 35 was reserved for helis where it was up against the OS 32.
  5. You can still purchase Enya engines and spare parts direct from Japan. Ken Enya speaks good English and responds to emails promptly. But production of new engines is strictly limited and sporadic.
  6. It seems that because of the high price of unstarted Flair kits that the range of CNC parts and the plans (plus spun metals cowls and wheels) have appeared. It then becomes more cost effective to build a Flair Scout if you are established modeller with stocks of strip and sheet wood, plus control fittings and other hardware, added to the ready cut parts.
  7. Derrick Scott or flyer21uk on ebay sells several of the Flair scout plans, as well as other out of print plans for a wide range of models.
  8. 5 units in stock at Leeds Model Shop. What a way to run a railway!
  9. That's funny because I've had two emails from Andy Symonds BMFA explaining exactly this. I guess many people haven't signed up to BMFA email notifications via the JustGo platform.
  10. Nobody is stocking them. the .15 isn't part of the range. Perkins show that the two smallest engines are the AP09 and the 32.
  11. It's not difficult to enlarge if you download the full-size pdf of the plan which is located a long way down the page under the download files bar: My guess is that you have been trying to enlarge the low-resolution thumbnail at the top of the page.
  12. Reto Senn was F4H champion, not F4C. Andreas Luthi was second in F4C behind David Law of Australia.
  13. Quite a lot of fuels are currently sold out it seems. Hopefully there is a plan to re-stock in time for the rest of summer.
  14. Actually, perhaps I'm remembering his slightly later Extra 300 design. A build was started on this forum a few years ago. You can see the minimal structure I was talking about.
  15. I haven't built it, but I do clearly remember the build article in RCME at the time. The designer replicated the tubular metal structure of the fullsize fuselage by using dowel IIRC. So that has to be lighter than slabs of solid balsa.
  16. Isn't there buried Asbestos around the site at Woodvale? Hence the RAF don't want civilians wandering about.
  17. All adhesive backed heatshrink fabrics work better with the application of an extra adhesive on harder non-absorbent surfaces such as ply or Ali or GRP. Solartex used balsaloc, Coverite used Black Baron and Sig fabric used Stix it. This is not priming! The video on the Sarik page does use Diacov and it does have subtitles which quote temperatures. I have used Diatex and I can assure you that it needs the entire airframe to be covered with fabric cement prior to the application of the fabric and then the fabric surface sealing with dope after shrinking. Very different to Diacov. So, to me, the video is entirely correct and you have implied the need for priming etc. I have bought a small amount of Diacov from Sarik to trial and I found it stuck to balsa surfaces easily without any additional adhesive as you'd expect, plus the iron temperature was non-critical. I would ignore any verbal info you've been given by Sarik as it seems that they have added unnecessary confusion.
  18. Is it possible that you are mistaken? The video on the Diacov page on Sariks own website does show Diacov being applied. The difference between Diacov and Diatex is that Diatex has no adhesive layer and the video shows a covering that does have an adhesive layer (plus indicative temperatures). So, I'm not sure what the issue is! https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/diacov-1000-adhesive-film-for-model-aircraft/
  19. Didn't Ian say he had an operable sliding canopy on his model? If that's radio operable I'd say that is weight you can well do without for a maiden flight.
  20. I suppose I can finish this thread off now with a successful conclusion. After finishing the model in primer, it was successfully test flown in October 2022. I then left it alone until this spring when I painted it and it was flown again at the first PSSA event of the year at the Great Orme.
  21. Have you balanced the aircraft laterally? There's a honking great silencer hanging off the right side which may well account for the screwing out of erect loops to the right and inverted loops to the left.
  22. The photo of the flat twin was easier to identify. It's a Matador 60 twin designed by Derek Giles. It was a homebuilt engine and the plans are still available from Sarik: https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/matador-60-60-twin-plan-rc1539/ Still no idea on the single cylinder engine.
  23. Genuinely interested as to why the OP hasn't seen a thread on this subject on the forum.... IE why don't all the other BMFA members on this forum not need to directly contact a member of the BMFA staff here to check for updates to the handbook. Is it because we all check for updates on the BMFA website? Or that we take advantage of the email updates that the BMFA offer on such things as changes to regulations, or even, dare I say it, updates to the BMFA handbook.... It is perfectly possible to help one's self.
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