Martin Roberts

I once had an airfix model of this beast, and used to run around the house pretending it was real....then my brother smashed it.....hey Mike T....u been watching too much Thunderbirds

better late than never......please

Hi David, if you are in a hurry to start, you might want to try a plan print shop, here is  post of mine from prior regarding this problem, even after I recieved the proper set the scale is still a little out, if you ask the print to enlarge the original plans as set out below, the new prints should be bang on and probably only cost $5 of so. I did it myself no problems at all, and you can start immediately Regards Marty,  Hi all, I got to read the plans today when I got back to work, the scaling factor is 113.04%, so if you round it off as 113%, the di-hedral will come to approx. 64.795mm (say 65mm). As for myself, I think I will model the plastics at the present scale, and then Vac Form as a trial.......

Well hopefully this is a totally random draw, I haven't won anything in a draw like this apart from an empty beer can for over thirty years, any way hopefully this baby will be getting a serious bit of buzz (as opposed to bang) and perform similar to my foam 182, which has a Walkera chopper motor @ 3300Kv which will muddle all day on a 9x6, or will run go vert of the runway did i say straight up 300+ metres and pull loops 100+ in diameter on a 6x4 with a 2200mah 11.1 12c..........who needs fuel....... let me see whats in my goodies box......13X8 yep, 100amp brushless speedie yep, 2 x 6cell 2200 35c max, and a nice little 1240kv to suit.....Hey Santa please come early

Hi Guys, I have been using AutoCad since 1995, but tinkered with it in the late 80s, the first thing you need to do is forget about drawing to scale.  When you are in "Model Space" you draw at 1:1 so scale is irrelevant. Yes you can import the scan, set it on a layer, lets say '3-view scan', then change to a layer named outline plan, and draw over the plan view, change to layer named outline side and trace over the side elevation etc.....note than to set the layers all in a 3d scenario should be set higher than the scan image so that you see the lines above the scan, otherwise you don't see what you draw... are you confused yet. When you swap to paper space, you can set the viewport scale to say 1:10, 1:20 etc...now if you draw your dimensions in paper space with dimensions in mm you will get the exact measurement as scaled show up in the paper layer referencing the item drawn in the model layer......or you can copy the drawing in the model space and paste it away from the original drawing, then scale the pasted drawing components to what you want, that way you can dimension inside the model space 1:1, the dimensions stay attributed to what you draw, at the scale you draw.....Got a few months and a good computer and a high speed connection you can study online (LMAO)........maybe we should start an Acad Forum.  By the way I used to tutor working drawings at the local Tertiary, whilst studying, most of my students modelled in 3d (wrap a skin around the carcass etc) in about 4-6 months class of 28 four lecturers and about 16 hrs a week including practice time.....ok whose next 

Barry, Go Brushless, swap any pair of motor wires (2 of 3) and it will rotate opposite hand (go Backwards) biggest issue as always is props, but torque roll etc.... isn't a problem with ducted fans so you don't need to reverse them....something else with electrics theCG doesn't move as you use fuel and aerobatics etc.....that is unless you're into quantum physics......

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would some one with more time than me like to do a table of votes/planes, and I might also ask where is your national pride, do you all forget your heritage, stop asking for Tony to waste his time on that which you can buy as an ARTF, we do want something that we want to build from scratch, forget the Mes and Fws etc........if you don't want a genuine original one off.......buy a kit, there are way too many cheap kits out there.... next will be a call for F-86/Mig-15/AeroMacchis or how about Hornets, /14/15/16s /22s /35 /Foxbats/Floggers/.......Hell, why not DaVinci's helicopter......and don't get caught upon what motor size Tony should design for......you can scale up or down to suit if you are a modeller or can get to a print shop - that part is easy pick your motor or required fan size, do a bit of maths, have the plans scaled both in X and Y directions........

Hi Richard, methinks you might be right, all I know is it did look like a heavy B when I saw it last, its a very big plane for a fighter, but a nice low wing loading, Marty

This year we have had a beautifully designed piston engined Typhoon (plan), which in my recollection of reading RC magazines from all over the world, over a 30+ years span is a very rare event. However,I have recently been reading the the Fly Past Vulcan special edition, what lucky people you are up there, being able to see the real plane in her glory, the last time I saw fly was as I recall Farnborough 1964/5 there abouts. I do believe that we must recognise beautiful creatures from all eras, but this competition should be balance for far and recent history, and Tony, as a master of design, would be able to do justice to our recent history, and there are many recent plans and fits available for WW1 and WW11 craft, as well as civilians. All things being fair and equal, and in the firm belief that we all suffer from to much USA abusay, I must humly ask for Tony et al, to strongly consider a screaming jet, which is of British Design (or possibly Canadian), Australia is out of the running unfortunately, other than by name. Said design challenge should be for either a V-Bomber, of two or four EDFs, giving the first three real options as follows:- 1, The Victor,          2, The Valiant,         3, The Vulcan (my father used to hand carve them for mum)         4, not a V-Bomber but an Aussie Icon and my absolute favourite the CANBERRA. Also rans (fighters) 5, Vampire,    6, Venom    7, Vixen please note that all seven would also make ideal slopers, as would the Canadian heavy jet bomber which I can not remember the name of butr which had a very short life, due to the bastardising of the projects by certain clandestine groups.

Hi all, my plans arrived today thank you very much, I have the power the speed and the motor and a lot of ply and balsa, no time at the moment.  plans took about a week, yehhhhhh 

Hi all, I got to read the plans today when I got back to work, the scaling factor is 113.04%, so if you round it off as 113%, the di-hedral will come to approx. 64.795mm (say 65mm). As for myself, I think I will model the plastics at the present scale, and then Vac Form as a trial.......

Hi all from the Gold Coast, Australia Dave Bran and I must have a lot in common (I am an ex- boilermaker), estimator and a draftsman amongst many other things, and have for the last thirty years believed in Murphys Law - if it can go wrong, it will...so I excercise the carpenters motto measure twice cut once (that means check and recheck). To be honest I have not even looked at the plans yet, left them at work over Christmas by accident, so I don't know if a scale was put on the page any where, how ever, being a draftsman myself, I always have a scale for each page I draw, even if it is numerical e.g. 100mm @ A3 etc.. as opposed to a ruler on the page. I have found plans for a foam Venom and scale up to 2.0 metres, can't remember if they are a Tony plan, but I always find something on the plan to use as a scale reference and enlarge/reduce plans to that reference, you can't go wrong. For all those modellers out there that want the true scale plans, I suggest getting a print shop to scale them to the correct size, pretty cheap even though annoying, at least you don't buy an extra mag. Another option would be for Tony to model the out of scale cowl and canopy to match the plans, the same motor may well fit (Tony can sort that), leaving the Mini-Phoon lighter and a better available power/weight ratio, although loading would be up, but a smaller Lipo could also be an answer, what the hell I might even model the cowl and canopy myself, and try vac forming as my next modelling effort.......