Forum members' new models: Let's see them.

[Martian]

my recently completed Spitfire

[Max Z]

Radio-assist free flight model for an upcoming "Dutch Old Warden" event:

It is a 150% version of Walter Musciano's PeeWee Pal from the '60s, suitably adapted to RC and sporting some design alterations of my preference.

[martin collins 1]

Very nice, looks nicely finished and very unusual.............

[Chris Barlow]

Finally the successful maiden of my Vic Smeed Popsie bought at the Deanwater swapmeet.

Built as a 3 channel RC model the first attempt to fly was with the supplied geared, brushed motor on a 2S LiPo which was woefully under powered. 2nd attempt was with 3S which had more power but burnt the brushed motor out on the take off run!

Despite wanting to keep the old geared unit I succumbed and fitted a brushless motor, mounted to a 20mm motor box glued to the firewall. 3rd maiden attempt tonight was interesting. 9mph wing and quite tail heavy made for some erratic flying but ended with a safe landing.

A chunk of lead in the nose and attempt No 4 was much better although the wind was way too much for her and attempting to maintain control by increasing the throttle resulted in a hefty torque roll towards the ground. Landing on idle power and she was light as a feather touching down.

Another 2 more successful, although untidy flights in the wind and I decided to put her away and save her for some calm summer evening flying. Looking forward to flying her on the trims and just sitting back, watching her go.

[Old Geezer]

All my pictures are taken with an iPad or an iPhone, stored on them (both) and iCloud. How can I convert these to the jpg format that you require for downloading onto the site?

Thanks - Gurth.

[Ron Gray]

They will upload fine as they are. All of mine are taken using my iPhone.

[Old Geezer]

Thanks Ron - but I'm completely ignorant as to how I go about uploading - and any results from a Google search are pretty unhelpful as they all seem to assume a lot of basic knowledge. I really need a step1, step 2, step 3 / join part a to part b type instructions - don't need to know how it works - just how to do it! Any help of that sort will be muchly appreciated. Cheers Ron - Gurth.

[onetenor]

Re the St 3250 not running Check or replace the plug and clean out the carb jet holes etc. and make sure batteries are charged and connections are good.

[Ron Gray]

@ Old Geezer - have you looked at this thread **LINK**

[Ron Gray]

I posted these in the ‘Powered by Laser’ thread, should have put them here as well, a Great Planes U Can Do powered by a Laser 80:

[Martyn K]

Posted by Martian on 08/05/2018 20:18:22:

my recently completed Spitfire

That's nice Martian. How big and is it a kit, artf. plan and how big?

[Nigel R]

Martyn

Martian's Spit is (I would guess) a Warbird Replicas:

http://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=132160

[Old Geezer]

Precisely what I was after Ron - many thanks. Gurth.

[Manish Chandrayan]

Ron, is that a 40 or 60 U can do ?

[Ron Gray]

Hi Manish, here are the specs:

Wingspan

65 in (1650 mm)

Wing Area

1072 in² (69 dm²

Weight

7-7.3 lb (3.18-3.35 kg)

Wing Loading

15-15.9 oz/ft² (46-48 g/dm²

Length

69.5 in (1765 mm)

Engine Required

2-stroke .61-.91 cu in or 4-stroke .70-.91 cu in

Edited By Ron Gray on 18/05/2018 13:24:45

[Manish Chandrayan]

Thanks Ron
So that's a 60. How does it fly on the 80? I have one in box waiting to be assembled

[Ron Gray]

Sorry Manish, yes, it’s the 60.

I’ve only had 1 flight with it and that was made shorter due to a dead stick. The engine is not running right and will need more time to resolve the issues so I’ve swapped it out for a new 80 I had sitting around and will try it out next Tuesday. So, it’s a bit early to pass a verdict on the engine but I think that it will be good but my long term plan was always to run a 100 in it. Tuesday should tell me if I need to make the change!

[Manish Chandrayan]

Hmm, a 100 Four-stroke is what I had been contemplating, but since I do not have either a Laser 100 or a Saito 100 most probably I will install a 91 or 95 Four-stroke. Thanks for all the explanations

[Martian]

Posted by Martyn K on 18/05/2018 09:11:28:

Posted by Martian on 08/05/2018 20:18:22:

my recently completed Spitfire

That's nice Martian. How big and is it a kit, artf. plan and how big?

Martyn it is indeed a Warbirds Replica

[martin collins 1]

Here is my Jamara Gee Bee, ready to go and hopefully will be in the air by the end of this week, bought at a bring and buy with just the motor in it, i am sure it hasn`t been flown before..............Wish me luck!

[Peter Miller]

Finished my "The Ohmen" electric aerobatic design. Test flown yesterday

47" span, weight 2 lbs 10 oz. Doese everything in the book and will not bigte, just release the contgrols and it is back to straight flight

Aerobats happily on half throttle, only uses 2200 Mah 3 cell batteries

Stuart PIckett who flies my models for the camera was doing low level inverted within a few minutes of taking over.

He loves it.

[Tim Flyer]

Here is my Warbird Replicas LA7 I started last September!its powered by a laser 80

Edited By Timothy Harris 1 on 21/05/2018 19:50:58

[PeterF]

Here is something completely different from me after I finished my Tiger Moth. I have had this for about 15 motnhs, did some work in Autumn 2017 but then it sat idle until now.

It is the Blackhorse Mig 29 and is a larger sized ARTF EDF based around 2 x 90mm high output EDF fans. The model is 1.45m wingspan and 2.0m long and weighs about 8kg (17.5lbs) in flying condition.Mine runs off 4 packs of 4S 5,000mAh battery packs in an 8S, 10,000mAh configuration with just under 100Amps per fan giving just shy of 6kW in total. Not yet flown, but ground run, the fans are the newer higher blade count type and sound very good.

[Manish Chandrayan]

Fantastic looking MiG 29 Peter.

[Dave Cunnington]

Does a resurrection count as new ?

I salvaged a stripped damaged Flair Cub fuse/tail, have mated an old Thunder Tiger Trainer wing to it, and fitted an OS Max 40FP

PS I'm still looking for another Flair Cub wing for another project if anyone has one to dispose of ....