Peter 'Ivanna Crashalot' Savage

It is 60mm from the leading edge! found the plan the other day

It can be great fun reading Chinese -> English manuals, stuffed full of engrish! Thats what you use to entertain yourself, after you have built it from common sense and are waiting for the maiden!

With my 18th around the corner, I have my eye on the phoenix model Cessna 182! Just wondering whether I could scrounge an engine and servos as well! I would probably be getting a high spec laptop for Uni as well

Can't imagine how humbling this must feel to be able to finally maiden your dad's pride and joy and by the sounds of it, its a nice model to inherit! 

I'm sure there are quite a lot of people who could build a kit plane better than an ARTF, maybe not me just yet I'm sure the regular plan designers, like Peter Miller or Tony Nijhuis could blow any ARTF out of the water!   And while the 'older' generations will stay building, when these people move on and it is the current youth moves into their place and they are buying ARTFs, it could well die out, lets change this! Keep kit planes going! 

We will all be immediately transported back to neanderthals

I got an idea Lindsay, Zulu 3D!!! Haha then his power train will be great!

Someone in our club used an electric golf thingy, burnt down with his lipos though!

Still don't know what these laygos every american is talking about are! Lol   I too am a Dave Powers follower   This has opened my eyes a bit about bugging businesses, having said that, I think rob from giant cod investigates any problem no matter how big or small and you couldn't ask for a better source of bits! I will point out I still like gluing bits of balsa together!

Blimey! oldest thing I've got is a 5 channel AP-535 acoms tranny XD

You've beaten me to it, but my heli isn't that good! (that's my excuse)

Wish I did not have all this college work to do! Have to find the zulu plan!   *Bookmarked!* 

I am debating the idea of getting some drills or 12 volt motors and electronicorizing my flight box up or maybe even some of those dirt cheap chinese brushless motors! and when I'm finished with them, I can put them in a plane!   Just need a place to put the fold up gazebo, gas barbecue and a set of picnic chairs!!! 

Not that I have had one, but I am guessing it is not as bad as a two engine plane losing an engine, you still have at least one engine on each side.

Razor plane then flat wood with sand paper on, must be flat or it ends up being curved!

      Here!!! Thats a link to the album

Haha I made my own! big enough for 2 gallon fuel bottles side by side and all the other ancillaries, and you can tow a plane along behind it You can bungee the lipo box and tool box onto the top and you can also put the bungee through the skids of my heli, so all round a very versatile thing!

Haha I dodge it with my lightning reflexes! I charge from an old PC power supply (good for 8 amps on 12 volts) in an area where there is normally atleast one person and they will call for me if anything happens. The thought of pitching a chair up next to your lipos seems a bit daft, Just don't put a stanley knife propped on a table above the lipo and it'll be fine!   Not had one fire and the three lipos that were 'better to be safe than sorry' are rotting in a salt water bucket out in the garden!   These days, we handle the lipos just like we would with the nicads back in my day! cause it is the new norm, anyone turn up with nicads would probably be laughed at! 

As timbo shows in his other thread, you can bend lipos in hard crashes but as long as they are not gassing/bloating or punctured, they should be fine and very unlikely to explode, oh and don't charge them at too high current (more than 2.25 amps for a 2250mAh or 1 amp for a 1000mAh) or it is only a matter of time till they go up, not counting the special 5c (11.25 amps for a 2250 lipo? that doesn't sound right ) charge rating lipos, not sure what these have the others don't   Peter 

It actually looks like those back pack mounted UAVs the military use!

Keep it as a 'relaxing' model (reduce the Gs going through the tail!) :P instead of all that mind boggling 4 dimensional stuff!

Maybe your point is why hand held devices (phones & PSPs) only have 1 single lithium cell, so the chargers can be simpler

What about leaving the engine running? then if the stand fails, is goes into a prop hang!

Yup! on the other end of the scale, I nosedived my depron f117 into the ground with the 35mhz aerial down, It stuck in the ground like a spike!

Maybe you could bring out the opposite of not being able to buy alcohol till your 18, not being able to buy lipo's after the age of 70! (Or you have to participate in a safety course!)