fly-navy Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Lovely job sir Danny, Mr Camm would have been impressed with your Hurricane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Posted by fly-navy on 24/04/2014 22:25:54: Lovely job sir Danny, Mr Camm would have been impressed with your Hurricane. Danny, I doubt very much that you'd be that disappointed!! Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn K Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Here is another one... It may reassure you that they can fly unaided. Good luck Martyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Its been a bit quiet on here recently, its been a bit boring, stripping the fuselage of all its fitings ready for covering. The wings are all covered, stitched, taped and doped, one of shrinking dope then two non shrinking and they are now ready for the silver dope. The fuselage is covered and the edges taped, ready for the reassembly to begin and the radio installation. I'm hoping to paint all of the fittings before I refit them all. In readiness for the engine starting, I've made up the exhausts and also the intake manifold though I have to redo that as I copied the mountings on my Austin, then found the Carden Ford method The new intake manifold can wait if it has to though as it is not now essential to the exhaust mountings. As you can see, the exhaust pipes go through into the 'cylinder head', these I can tweak for quietness and back pressure if required. Also started the final clean up of my fabulous welding, about 40 Dremel discs later..... There's still a bit more welding sculpture to do on the block under the exhausts, just above the bottom sump mounting flange there is a bulge which needs building which gives space for the oil pump, just below where the carburettor is on the real one. The exhaust stack is much too long at this stage, but its obviously a best guess as to how long it should be so I'll leave it long for noo until its all back together to allow a best guess to get it somewhere near! Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hooper Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 That's an awesome piece of heavy metal fabrication! tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymaz Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Superb, flying it at Greenacres? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Bennett Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 i just dont know what to say. struck dumb with the beauty of it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 3, 2014 Author Share Posted May 3, 2014 Cheers folks, Greenacres is a definate for me, whether the Flea makes it that far time will tell! Painting the metalwork and re assembly begins. These pics are of the control stick. Mignet says just run the pivoting tube through the fuselage sides in a waxed wooden hole. That would mean a right job to get the stuff out again if it needed a looking at, so I oversized the holes and bushed the tube. This means that the tube can be firked in from underneath, then the bushes slid on from the outside, secured from spinning by a brass screw. Then the cranks slide on with a cross bolt to secure. The crank for the servo actuation is the bit with holes in, the big hole has a flared tube soldered in as the rudder cables pass through it between the pullies and joystick. Also finished the U/C set up, all now installed and bungeed up. Also, painted the engine block with high temperature paint and am well chuffed with the crude cast look it has. Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 absolutely brilliant Ian looking forward to seeing it at Greenacres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 Don't be too disappointed though Martian, they all look better in photo's!! Off out now to get some flying in, hopefully do a bit more later, fingers crossed! Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 What a grand day out playing toy aeroplanes!! Best news of all though is that the 'other' 1/2 scale Flea took its first flights today. As advised by Mignet in the book, straight fast taxi's first to get the front wing trimmed, then a hop and so on.. First proper hop turned into a circuit and landing, second flight was a bit eventful at first, but settled down to be not quite as scary as the first half. Tweaking in between, Anthony was 'persuaded' (is that how you spell press ganged these days?) as the weather was superb to go again and the final set of tweaks saw the Flea fly unbelievably well, like it had had a good few more flights than three!! A mate videoed the lot but hopefully he'll just show the third!! Down side for me was I folded the wings on my Fournier, got it down safely but new joiner tube required!! Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Jones Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Sounds great , Hopefully we will get to see the video soon , Steve , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 5, 2014 Author Share Posted May 5, 2014 Here you go a few pics of yesterday's event, video to follow. Get it started Nervous Me ! Off we go then No No the other way That's better up & away Steady now That's the way to do it In for a landing & relax This post is shamelessly stolen from Dave P, cheers Dave P!! Ian. Edited By reg shaw on 05/05/2014 07:59:40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leighfield Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Congratulations Reg, it's a masterpiece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymaz Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 La puce de vol c'est tres magnifique. I'm only trying this to copy the rudder theme "The lice of the sky" - according to google translation. -now where are my onions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Jones Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Nice , It looks like a run away full size one , can't wait for the video , Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 5, 2014 Author Share Posted May 5, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWYljprz2M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymaz Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 flies well, congratulations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Macleod Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Excellent. But where was the pilot? You must have someone to blame when it all goes wrong. My72" in storage till I move and find another house further south. Indoor version still flying. keep up the great build. bill Edited By William Macleod on 05/05/2014 17:56:08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Jones Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Looks great , Although i do agree it is missing the pilot and that motor looks a tad small , i was surprised just how much power it had . All in all very well done to all concerned Great job . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Brilliant stuff, and well done to Anthony. I bet you can't wait to get yours up there now Ian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 5, 2014 Author Share Posted May 5, 2014 Now I've shown you the good vid, here is the first fright! Anthony and Tony are well chuffed, and yes, I canny wait to get mine up there with it!! Ian. Edited By Chris Bott - Moderator on 05/05/2014 19:17:19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Fabulous stuff guys, nice bit of flying Anthony CheersDanny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg shaw Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 This weekends test flight doesn't look too promising as the weather is carp at best!! But, the Carden Ford seems to work a treat!! Nice dull note from the exhausts but I reckon I can close up the inner ends a fair bit as I had my fingers over three outlets, flute stylee and it still seemed to run freely enough. I still haven't done the throttle and choke linkages yet as its my least favourite job of all. The Carden was warm at the bottom manifold side but stayed lukewarm at the head end which is good for noise reduction too apparently, as the gasses too are colder upon exit. Happy bunny. Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Todd Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 That maiden looked interesting, seems well sorted now though. Looking forward to seeing both of these in the air together soon. Linds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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