Jump to content
Please be aware of scammers when using the Sale/Wanted forum areas

James Hindle

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    331

  • Joined

  • Last visited

    Never

 Content Type 

Posts posted by James Hindle

    Vintage RC Talk at North Leeds 1st Februsry 20:00

    in Shows, Club Events and Competitions

    Posted

     

    The North Leeds Model Flying Club www.nlmfc.org has arranged for Derek Round to come to our next informal meeting to give a talk on the development of Radio control in the 50’s and 60’s, its great to be able to procure David for the meeting the club would like to invite anyone interested to come along for what should be a very entertaining evening.
     
    The event is free and will take place on the 1st February (19:30 for 20:00 start) at Horsforth Golf Club, Layton rise, Horsforth, lace w:st="on">Leeds , LS18 5EXlace>. The golf club operate a dress code of smart casual (no blue jeans or trainers) and mobile phones are requested to be turned off.
     

     A Talk on “The Development of Radio Control in the 50s and 60s”

    Being of a certain age where I developed an interest in Radio Control in the early 60s, and having a certain aptitude for electronics at that time, I made and flew my own r/c gear with considerable success.  During the last few years, in my current club, I became aware that most “modern” aeromodellers had absolutely no idea of the major effort that had to be put in at that early time to achieve success, and how very different that gear was to the modern stuff.  So in an attempt to educate my colleagues, I initially cast about for suitable vintage equipment to use at a talk at my own club, which took a bit of finding, and of course I’m still looking!  Because of my electronics background (Radio Amateur), it was a relatively straightforward task to get a considerable amount of the equipment to work as it was originally intended. The talk starts with working single channel gear from about 1950, and progresses through the development of single channel until its final production in the mid 60s.  Also, the development of simple pulse proportional is explained, including “galloping ghost”, and finishes with some working multi channel reed equipment, again from the late 60s.  If all these terms seem a little unfamiliar, then at the talks conclusion, you should have a much greater appreciation of technology of the time, and the now quite amazing performance of our current gear that we very much take for granted!>>

     
     

    Edited By James Hindle on 14/01/2010 18:54:19

    Mirage 2000

    in Electric Ducted Fan

    Posted

    Superb job Dusty, the ducting is something to be proud of, should scoot.
     
    The flyfly mirage has always had a good following and known for its 'lack' of vices but with Jepe's rework and your skill it should be quite a sight, its a pity you are so far away from me (up on North Yorkshire), I'd love to see it fly !

    more suggestions guys...

    in RCM&E Magazine

    Posted

    I'd like adding pictures to be more friendly, if the picture is not in your gallery it all gets very complicated to open a new window and add the picture etc etc, there should be an option to upload picture and then add it to your gallery.
     
    Hope I make sense

    Bendini Sound System

    in Gadgets and Electronics

    Posted

    After reading an old article in one of the mags left in our club hut I couldn't help thinking I'd like to try this sound thingy stuff in my recently acquired H&M FW190 (cheers Scott !)
     
    After looking about I opted for the Bendini mini system from http://www.benedini.de/ together with a USB programming dongle and amp. A few days later the goodies arrived in a very small box and I thought some chance of getting a large sound out of this thing but oh how wrong I was ....
     
    After doing more research on the wibbly wobbly I found a very knowledgeable chap called John Ransom who advised me to speak with impact audio for some speakers.
     
    The H&M FW190 suffers like most electric warbirds from stumpy nose syndrome and Scott had loaded the cowl with a lot of lead which gave me an idea to stick the speakers in the cowl rather that in the wings, doing some quick measurements I found that I could only fit 3" speakers in the cowl but Neil at impact audio found me just the ones to fit that were the correct spec for the amp.
     
    When the speakers arrived I couldn't help myself and had to do a dummy run, this was easier said than done as although I could fire them up no probs to get everything working how I wanted it took a little longer, the software is techie with lots of settings to play with, most of which meant nothing to me and if I'd just wanted an engine noise to play it would have been easy but easy generally doesn't figure in my nature so after a couple of ling nights the penny dropped and hey presto engine and guns !
     
    The typically poor english weather meant she has been sat for a month in the garage but this afternoon she took to the sky, unfortunately the wind drowned the sound but its still good enough for you to get a feel for what's possible for little cash.....
     
    The sound card (before eat shrink applied)
    The 3" speakers and amp (connected to the frame for cooling)
     
    The yellow mesh sits in front of the speakers
     
    In flight action ....

     
     
     

    Leeds Model Shop

    in R/C Retailers / Distributors / Manufacturers

    Posted

    It's my local model shop and I have been going there since I got into the hobby 20+ years ago.
     
    It's quite funny as they only seem to employ people called Andy so next time you phone have a bit of sport.
     
    They have never let me down, the service is great and since they recruited Andy Whitehead (F3P indoor masters founder) they have gone from strength to strength.
×
×
  • Create New...