Pete Barnes

Hi guys, is anyone else still without the december issue? i am a subscriber and im still waiting......

Hi chris, my first hotliner was the siren, i first flew it with an e-flite power 25 outrunner and a cheap 60amp esc on 3s 3000mah lipo, the only thing i spent top money on was the servo's and reciever which is common sense with high energy projectiles! the whole lot cost  about 300 all in with hitec metal geared servo's and pcm synthed reciever, and for the performance it gives, i think it is very reasonable, plus the siren is very forgiving and ideal for a newcomer, others may reccomend the multiplex blizzard foam hotliner which would definately be a much cheaper and less committed route to follow, but foam is foam and and it wont last as long,  there are other options to the siren for very similar money and able to use the same simple low cost power system as mentioned above, the topmodel nike 2 is another of my favourite flyers, around 130 quid and faster and stronger than the siren but it lands a fair bit hotter and needs carefull thumbs! puffin models sell the riechard sprinter which is around the same money and great quality for the money, and a lot of fun too being probably the fastest of the three. Which ever route you go down, you will be most rewarded by using high quality accessories and some of the equipment supplied with models these days is not fit for high energy flying, to do it properly you need to be critical of anything that may look weak because if you lose the use of a control surface on something that is screaming past at ton plus figures, youve got a long walk and maybe some explaining to do! Get it right and you will be smiling for a long time, the sound of one screaming past out of a motor off dive is very addictive and when it only takes two to three seconds to climb back up to the top, you see the attraction. Stick with it and good luck Pete

 hi Kris I guess to someone with experience of 3kw the blizzard would dissapoint! glad to see your fond of fvk, im setting up a kamelot for 6s at the mo, although im starting to regret not opting for the flapped wing as its getting heavy!! I agree, you cant beat the sound of propchop, its a good audible reminder of the sort of energy stuffed up in the nose! Are you using switched throttle on your absolute or on the stick? Pete

Will there be a cnc pack for the sunderland? i would love to build one as a scale repro of the one my grandfather used to fly in 232sqdn, i just dont trust my cutting yet!

thanks for all of your ongoing help i had some different settings in the link options!!

Ok, there seems to be some differences, Rob, the last box on my version says img thumb unlike the img code in the pic above in this thread,  that was the last link i tried to copy, i will use the direct link as mentioned by Timbo and see if that works the motor carbon the bird ok the above are the direct links so fingers crossed.........

Im not sure where im going wrong with the photobucket, there are four codes under the image and i am pasting the img thumb code, I.T seems to have something against me!

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Thanks for the info Eric ill get on the case Pete

I have decided its going to go faster still, it is currently sitting on the worktop in a most undignified manner with a semi inflated, erm ... balloon in the forward fuse section which is sealing in a few more carbon strips for added rigidity, might be overkill but  a 2kw Neu f5b motor does have some kick to it! Im almost sure that the wing wont cope so i have "borrowed" a proven 10% rg15 1700mm foam core wing from another hotliner and already started cutting the channel for the roved carbon spar to sit in,  one day ill have the skills to mould up a wing from scratch but till then i shall make do with what i have (and what i can borrow!)  i will upload some pictures as soon as i can figure out how to resize the images for upload Pete

the siren(ish) thanks for your help guys im a newcomer!!! pete

Hi dave i just tried to paste in the url from you tube, any ideas? untill its sorted tho type the siren(ish) into youtubes search and there she'll be, i hope...

Hey fellow rcm&e-ers, the wind outside has been howling for days so im curing the boredom by showing off one of my hybrid hotliners, it started as a greatplanes siren but i lost the wing to flutter in a high speed dive and decided to knock up a shorter, faster stronger wing and smaller tail section, now its called the siren(ish). hotliners are starting to gain a cult status and im well chuffed when i see models like the blizzard appear on the market, i hope the popularity may long continue!! heres a quick vid i knocked up of the (ish) so please enjoy and lets talk about how great hotties are! Pete

another fine weekend this year, the hopfarm is the favourite show with our bunch for so many reasons, and well done to the croydon boys and girls for such good organisation, flight line was sooo much better this year with the trade in the next field as last year got very crowded! we'll see you next year