Bill Brownlie
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How do you hold those Tx sticks?
Bill Brownlie replied to David Ashby - Moderator's topic in Model Flying Polls
May the 4th be with you all, I started off with thumbs on fixed wing and found it OK but totally useless when I moved on to try helis a couple of years later. Had to re-learn with my fingers. Using fingers also means using a neck strap for me. -
Not done much for a couple of weeks, been away working. But just before I did I had a few flights with the HR and spoke to one of the club gurus about the loops. I was trying to fly them too slow. A bit more speed on the way up and it was rock steady, throttle off at the top and she floats round into big circles. Really beginning to enjoy flying her.
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Its always blowing like the clapper where I fly. Its on a moor at the edge of a range of hills and the wind is always up even when its a summer breeze every where else. I damage the U/C plate and the very thin(1mm) ply bulk head just behind it where the front of the wing slots in on a dead stick landing just after take off on the second flight. I've rebuilt it 3 times now. First two times I tried to keep it as light as the original set up,just stuck some fillets behind the plate, but the U/C just came off on landing. I've fixed it again and it won't come off this time. I reduced the U/C width and fitted a 3mm overlay onto the former. If I crash it again the U/C and the bulk head will be the last men standing. Still to touch up the covering and its ready to go. No problems with flying it it handles realy well and floats in. If anything its getting it down is the problem especially with the wind recently, almost lands vertically like the Wot 4s up here.
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I've been flying the HR quite a lot recently as I'm still having problems with the renegade, another story. I'm realy comfortable with the HR now. Took some weight off the tail and kept the negative aileron setting. Still bring it in quicker than the floaters (Wot4, etc) but had no problems with it, it flys fast and sounds great with the OS. I'm practicing for my Silver Certificate (Scottish equivelent of the "B" but much harder) and I find the HR not so good at precision Loops. Need to fly it too fast to get a decent Loop without it wandering. At least I need to fly it fast!!!!
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RCM&E 2010 Hobby Awards
Bill Brownlie replied to David Ashby - Moderator's topic in All Things Model Flying
1 BRC Hobbies 2 Inwoods 3 Seagull Edge 540(Any of them) 4 Ripmax Bill -
mmm??? I've just read a couple of other threads which say the same as you. I've just finished a blackhorse renegade that I bought recently while waiting for the glue to dry on the HR repairs. After building it up I checked the CofG and was laying strip after strip of Lead on the nose to get back to the recommended position. I was at the bottom end of the engine size(46) and expected to add some weight to the nose but not this much. So I went back to a calculator I have and did the sums which came out at 25mm further back than the recommended position in the manual. This took the majority of the weight off and I've only had to add about 75gms. Been thinking about the HR I have an OS55 up front and have added some weight to the tail to counter-balance. I think I'll re-calculate the CofG tonight. Could be I'm flying her tail heavy
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Got one of these for Christmas. Flew it 3 times now, crashed it twice. It drops a wing like nothing else I've flown. Had to bring it in very fast then remembered the old article about turning the ailerons up a notch. As I had them on separate channels this ment setting some negative flap in to the normal position to raise th ailerons up about 1.5mm. This has the effect similar to wash out and was very effective. After my initial distrust and growing dislike I'm now warming to it again although I don't find it the easiest aerobatic plane to fly. It is very fast and has a tendancy to need a lot of rudder control (short fuselage), nice to look at though.
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The 2010 Photographic Competition
Bill Brownlie replied to David Ashby - Moderator's topic in All Things Model Flying
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