TN Hurricane

[David Ashby - Moderator]

Beautiful model, beautifully flown too, well done Bryan

[Bryan Witon]

Thanks alot  for that Timbo .

 

I must say i had another great fly on Sunday and have just fallen in love with this plane.

It flys so nice i just can't  get enough of it.

I gave it a good  work out to on Sunday, and will hope to have some more vid of  that soon,

 

So i hope everyone is busy busy on there builds now.

 

I can't wait to see how evryone's builds turn out .

 

 

                                                                  Thanks Bryan

[Tim Mackey]

Err.... he aint Timbo...I am

PS nice one though Bryan, all the same

[Chris Turner]

Hi Bryan

  I know you sent me a message and I recived it ok,but did not write down your email addy,been back to get but the message has disappeard into the cosmos somewhere,could you send it again please Bryan.

  Hope the hurri is still going good,and I still have not got out to fly mine yet,but got about two thirds through Tony's Spitfire

 

Cheers Chris

[Bryan Witon]

Oh my Gosh,   so many apologies to you Timbo and David.

That will teach me for not looking properly.

 

 

                                                    Sorry sorry .Bryan.

[Tim Mackey]

Thats OK Bryan....see the winkies and the smilies in my post?

We dont fuss over little things like that here mate - its just swearing and rudeness we are strict on and you are innocent on all counts

[Bryan Witon]

Thanks Timbo,

 

I think it must have been the glasses  but i can see clearly now

 

                                                  Cheers Bryan

[Sandy Taylor]

Well, finally got my computer up and running, so here is the footage of the maiden.  As I've only been flying for 8 months I'm still learning a lot (thus the landing)  Any comments and hints would be greatly appreciated!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lEvpsLkZ4

 

Hope to have a fly tomorrow, so i'll try to get some better footage

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Edited By Sandy Taylor on 31/07/2009 12:09:10

[Myron Beaumont]

Sandy

I just love the last comment on the video  from presumeably 'er indoors --

" It comes in too fast ! "

Great flight any way -Loved it ! Thanks --I think you need a longer /steeper approach actually 

G-umpy

[batcho99]

Nice one Sandy. Nice job. I really need to build one, amongst other projects!!  What an awesome flying field too.

 

Well done, Iain.

[Bryan Witon]

Well done Sandy,

Nice to see another Hurricane make into the skys,

She looks awesome up there,  and don't they fly so nice a?.

Looks like you had quite a crowd for the maiden flight to.

Real happy for you that it went well.

 

Don't worry about the landing it will get easier as you go.

Only advice i can give on it is,  try and fly a more rectangle

approach,  rather than the  rounded approach at the end there.

that way you will fly down wind parallel to you then turn so you are parallel to end of strip

then make your last turn  to line up with the strip for landing ,

As you fly each leg you will decrease speed and the height as you go.

this will give you a longer approch to the strip to manage height and speed..

this way stops you making that round turn and being so steep and still having so much speed on landing.

 If you look at my video of landing you will see what i mean by longer approch.

i still came in abit hot myself  but you will see what i mean.

 

Man sounds like a lecture.lol Hope it helps.

 

                                                                 Thanks Bryan

[Bryan Witon]

Hi guys ,

 

Here is a little more vid of my Hurricane, This is the next days flying after the test flight.

Even i  nose over on the landing .

Hope you like. Had to put music on this there was to much chatting .

 

                                                              Thanks Bryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvVMlAHbmpo

[Bill Frost]

Hi All,

 

A question about the Retract servo setup, if I may. I understand that its not to be a Retract Servo (and understand why)

But, having had a quick offering-up of a standard servo into the proposed arrangement, which is pointing down through a mounting plate on the top surface of the wing, it looks to me as though the back of the servo will be poking up so high that it will foul all of the bottom member of F3 (there's already a cut-out in it, but it doesn't look nearly big enough.

Am I missing something here??

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Bill

[Bryan Witon]

Hi Bill,

 

I used a normal retract servo  without any trouble in mine.

I think he used normal one so he could use the endpoint adjustment

on transmiter to set up travel.

I to cut out abit more on the former so  the servo would sit with clearence.

 

Hope that helps Bill.

 

                                                          Thanks Bryan

 

[Sandy Taylor]

Hi Bill, I too used a retract servo as the mechanical retracts need 180 deg of servo rotation to go from full up to full down position.  I guess you could use a standard servo, but you would need a really big horn to get enough push/pull to work the retracts fully.  I ended up cutting all of the bottom of the former out with no apparent loss of strength.

[Bill Frost]

Hi Bryan and Sandy,

 

Thank you both for your quick replies - so I wasn't imagining a difficulty that wasn't there, that's extremely reassuring to know!

 

I'm going to try the setup using a normal servo first, to see if its possible, as not having built anything with retracts in it before, funnily enough I don't have a spare retract servo lying around!

 

Regards from Scotland.

 

Bill

[Hugh Coleman]

Hi Bryan,

 

I was going back through your build photos and I noticed the panel lines in the freshly painted shots.  How did you do them?

 

Cheers,

 

Hugh

[Bryan Witon]

Hi Hugh,

 

well my secret lies here,   was looking around the net for ideas and how two's

for doing the panel lines myself and paint detailing and weathering

found this awesome site. so shall share with you all.

 

Let me know what you think Hugh

 

 

                                                     Thanks Bryan

http://www.tompierce.net/190/index.htm

 

 

 

[Hugh Coleman]

Wow!  Are you saying that you glassed the wings Bryan?

 

I didn't twig to that.

 

Does that not add a lot of weight?

 

Cheers,

 

Hugh

[Bryan Witon]

Hi Hugh,

 

No did not glass fuse,

 just used a few of his ideas like the panel lines,

pretty impresive what he did in his build though,

and lots of ideas on things to try..

 

                                                                   Cheers Bryan

[Hugh Coleman]

Lots of ideas Bryan.  One to add to my favourites for future reference.

 

Did you let the thought of adding flaps contemplate crossing your mind?

 

Oh, and where did you source your retracts?  So far, I have only been able to find mechanical retracts with wire legs.

 

Cheers,

 

Hugh

 

 

[Bryan Witon]

Flaps yes im building another wing at the moment

and adding split flaps to that.

I think that will really set it off.

 

Retracts i used robart mechanical  with the wire

legs,  i fly off  a grass strip to and all good so far..

I really love flying  the Hurricane  just such a sweet flyer..

                     

 

                                                                       Thanks Bryan

[Bill Frost]

Hello All, I've another question please, to do with the outer wing sections. W8 is the last former before the inboard end of the aileron, but I seem to have two problems with my W8 (working from the CNC-cut parts):-

1) the precut slot into W8 for the top and bottom main middle spars is about 3mm out of alignment (not far back enough); and

2) there are no precut slots in W8 for the top and bottom rear spars (the 6mm x 3mm ones) - surely there needs to be, because these need to continue beyond W8 and are then locked into the trailing-edge of the aileron-recess (as shown in the small diagram inside the circle).

 

Or am I completely misunderstanding something here???

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bill

[Bryan Witon]

Hi Bill,

 

Had same question as you, and you need to cut it out so the spar can fit.

It looks like it just got missed out in things to do.

 

                                                                                         Cheers Bryan

[Hugh Coleman]

Hi Guys,

 

Is it just me? or is the Keel piece for the rear fuselage too short to set into the block that goes behind the trailing edge?

I am NOT using the laser cut kit.

I have not placed the block (12mm Balsa) yet, but have fabricated the rear fuse' keel and ridge pieces with the tail post. 

Dry fitting with the main fuselage body seems to indicate that the keel piece is about 10mm too short... Either that, or I am tilting the fabricated keel-ridge piece too high.

Running out of space on the kitchen bench... Especialy so as I am tracing out the whole length of the wing in one piece at the same time...

 

I have to say, I only started cutting out the ribs and formers a week and a half ago and I feel progress is quite rapid.

I must have been accurate with my cutting

 

Still hoping that the build will be light enough for a 60 four stroke.

 

Cheers,

 

Hugh

Edited By Hugh Coleman on 07/09/2009 23:43:08

Edited By Hugh Coleman on 07/09/2009 23:43:53