Steve Dunning Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Upload pictures to your own album then use the camera symbol to put them into your posting. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin McIntosh Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 The problem I have is with text. I believe that you need to press enter twice below the text then click on camera and insert a photo. Right clicking just below the bottom right of this and entering again should allow more text to be inserted, then repeat for each pic. I have done this hundreds of times in the past but everything now comes out in the wrong order for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Caton Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Thanks for the help - I've worked it out now. Here goes: Ken Binks' Pacemaker, picture taken 28/8/1980 at the Nationals. Redshift 60, Futaba radio and Rhom-Air retracts. Sorry about the picture quality - bear in mind it is a 33 year old photo captured with an iPhone camera. Edited By Kevin Caton on 26/01/2014 18:31:40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Caton Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Peter Watson's (of free flight fame) Arrow, picture taken 24/5/1981 at the GBRCAA Championships at Fulbeck. I can't remember what motor it had (Webra 60 maybe?), nor what radio Peter used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Dunning Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Memories eh Kevin? Martin, I write section of text, press enter then insert using the photo caption. Next, click next to the bottom RH corner of the inserted photo and you'll see the cursor flashing, click enter and add next piece of text. Hope that helps Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn K Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 That Pacemaker photo will make Steve a happy man... Keep them coming... BW Martyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Caton Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 My Pacemaker from 1983. Redshift 60 rear exhaust, Sanwa Black Custom radio and Rhom-Air Retracts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Caton Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 One of my Lightnings (I had a few). This one was built in 1981 and the photo was taken on the same day as the picture of Peter Watson's plane above (24/5/1981). Redshift 60 rear exhaust with ED carb and pipe, Sanwa black custom radio and Rhom-Air retracts. The prop was a 11x7.5 Zinger wood. Note the whip aerial - very trendy in those days! By the way that isn't my car in the background. I was a poor student in those days and couldn't afford anything that fancy. Edited By Kevin Caton on 28/01/2014 20:51:25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Scoles Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Hi Kev, I remember you giving a demonstration with your Pacemaker, after the first competition I ever went to at Church Fenton in 1983, amazing performance and flying to see for somebody just starting out. Best regards, Pete Edited By Peter Scoles on 29/01/2014 12:39:32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Dunning Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 One of your Lightning's had a rolled ply fuselage didn't it Kevin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Caton Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Almost Steve - the top deck was formed from rolled 1mm ply but the fuselage sides were standard 3/16" sheet with doublers etc. There was a design around in the late 70s called the Racketeer (a Mick Reeves development of the Gangster) that had a full rolled ply fuselage with a balsa bottom crutch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wragg Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 We had 2 Racketeers prior to Tornado. I remember they wasn't very durable, especially where we flew. When I visit my mums I will go through all the old flying photos and post them when I get time. Way back then I was a very young Owdlad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme jones Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Just pulled this out of storage with a view to finishing it. It's a Flair Super Lightning, started about 20 years ago but never finished because of a bent and twisted fuselage and doubts about the AUW. I have an MDS 61FR and tuned pipe for it in a cupboard somewhere. Only needs a new fuselage, a few holes cut out of the foam/veneer wing to reduce weight and a fin built from balsa rather than oak. If I have time I'll start a rebuild blog for it. graeme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin McIntosh Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 You will do yourself no favours by cutting holes in the wing and would scarcely be able to measure the weight of the removed material. You would also end up with a wierd looking surface once covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Jefferies Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 This is a great thread with, as others have noted, lots of memories! We moved house a while back and up to now I had not found any pictures of my old models but yesterday I found 'em so now I can bore you with a pictorial summary of my progress through Aerobatics in the late 70s and 80s..... Through the 70s I was mostly into slope soaring but in 1977 we moved to Sussex and I joined the Eastbourne and Hastings clubs where I met Ken Binks who proved to be really helpful and I inevitably bought an engine and started flying Aerobatics....... If I had built a Pacemaker or whatever Ken was flying at the time, I might have progressed rather faster but I had always enjoyed designing my own models and so "Shockwave" was born..... HP61 and an ED pipe. You can tell how long ago it was because now I am drawing my state pension! I think this would have been about 1978/9. This model was OK but a bit heavy and I had seen a couple of models with built in pipes so the next year I bought an OS61VF and..... "Shockwave 2" was born: I thought this was pretty close to what I wanted so for the next model I built a fibreglass fuselage...... 'Same engine and pipe and with a slightly swept wing...... Guess who my employer was........ and yes, I did know Clive Weller . It seemed a bit of a shame to go through all the hassle of making a gf mould for just one model so "Shockwave 4" used the same fuselage and engine but had a straight wing........ This was a nice model and I think this was the model that got me into "Masters". However change was afoot and the introduction of Turnaround schedules required a bit of a rethink....... My next two models were quite large and loosely based on the Chipmunk. Unfortunately I can't find any pictures of them but the second one used the original OS120 4 stroke. Suffice it to say that though I quite enjoyed flying these models, I realised that I was not going in the right direction and a complete redesign was needed. This resulted in "Symphony" for which I invested in a rear exhaust OPS 60 which was the vogue engine of the day and was highly recommended by John Palmer (What has become of John?) The OPS was a fabulous engine and still is! In fact I still have two of my own and one which used to be Ken's. Anyway, this was Symphony....... I was very pleased with this model but a new season meant a new model so "Sympony No.2" was born........ I have a feeling Smphony 2 must have met an early demise because I simply don't remember flying it at all and I know that one year I flew a model which I acquired from Clive Weller........... I don't have a picture of the one I got from Clive but the following year, 1987, I flew Symphony No.3......... This was a lovely model to fly, it's only vice being that it was difficult to slow it up for landing so you may just be able to see some little "airbrakes" which I fitted to the retract legs. I flew it in the Nats in '87 and I think I came about 9th or 10th. After that, family and then boating meant that I just didn't have the time to practice so I more or less stopped flying. However, "Once a modeller, always a modeller" and now I am getting back into it. I still have Symphony 3 and am in the throes of refurbishing it. Hopefully I will fly it at one of the UKCAA meetings later this year. As a first effort at getting back to the building board I have recently finished "Symphony No.4" which is a "40 sized" ELECTRIC cross between Symphonies 1 & 3........ 'Quite please with it but it's not yet fully sorted...... and electric takes some getting used to too doesn't it! Sorry this has turned out a bit long...... I bet you're glad I left out all the "other" models! Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 not too long at all Paul enjoyed reading it, great looking models Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn K Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 Hi Paul I suspect you may have been at BA about the same time that I was.. Nice retrospect - thanks Martyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Foley Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Great photos Paul. What are the specs on the "Shockwave 2" ? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Carey Maddog Designs UK Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Hi guys, just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration, I was looking through the photos on here the other night and came up with this for my next project, now I know its not a classic or particularly aerobatic looking but I thinks I have managed to get some good lines. So thanks again for the inspiration. Richie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry westrop Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Very nice Richie. Good to see pilots designing 'proper' models with decent looks. Something absent from UK modern day aeros. Get it done...but, as you say, not classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Jefferies Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 David, thanks for your interest but it was a long time ago and I can't remember too many of the numbers. The span was probably around 64" and if my other models are anything to go by, it won't have been a lightweight! It was powered by an OS 61VF with an ED pipe, it had a fairly thick wing and a fixed undercarriage....... The first Shockwave had retracts operated by a powerful retract servo but they were more trouble than they were worth so S 2 had a fixed undercarriage and I put a small fairing on the back of the u/c legs in an effort to reduce the drag....... a complete waste of time I think! The top deck fairing/pipe cover was made from epoxy/glass by carving/sanding it initially out of blue foam and then skinning it with glass/epoxy...... epoxy because it doesn't melt the foam. Then when it is properly cured, pouring acetone into it to get rid of the foam. I have put a few more pictures of it in my album (Symphony). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Carey Maddog Designs UK Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Thanks Terry, I finished the design last night and I was going to cut the parts out by hand today but though better of it because it will take to long so hopefully I should be able to sneak the parts in to the next batch of laser cutting I have scheduled for the end of the month. Riche Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Green Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A couple of my current fleet. Curare - OS 80 FS powered. Chevron - OS 55AX powered Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Dunning Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Not exactly what we are used to here but it was designed in 1982 by Hanno Prettner so I guess that qualifies it. This one is going to be electric powered and ready for installation weighs 750gm. Instead of bare foam, film covered, I laminated the foam in the usual way with 1/16th balsa. I'll let you all know when test flights are done. Makes a change and a bit of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wragg Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Nice model Steve and brings back memories. Built 2 of these a number of years ago and had terrific fun with them both. Number 1 was fitted with a Thunder Tiger 40. When i'd killed the model Number 2 was fitted with a piped Super Tigre 60 Bluehead. Word of advice Stratos wont fly on 1 fin!! Oh.... extract as much control movement as possible.. Owdlad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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