Ron Gray Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 I’m holding off cutting our grass for the next few weeks, but based on yesterday’s flying it was still ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 It's horrible taking home a treasured plane in pieces .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Walby Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 4 minutes ago, Ron Gray said: I’m holding off cutting our grass for the next few weeks, but based on yesterday’s flying it was still ok. Don't have the benefit of tarmac so the small edf's just do great impressions of manic ground squirrels Perhaps there is better elsewhere 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Walby Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 1 minute ago, GrumpyGnome said: It's horrible taking home a treasured plane in pieces .... Try the 3 1/2 hours of reporting a lost model on a Sunday, CAA, BMFA, DoT and to cap it pilot error plus not yet found the model (good thing really as clearly it met the ground without incident!). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 7 minutes ago, Chris Walby said: Perhaps there is better elsewhere 😉 Oh yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Fairgrieve Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 A small but spirited group took to the sky's on Saturday. Not nearly as cold as the Sunday before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Sorry to see that Brian, looks like it was sudden, so it didn’t suffer at all 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Thanks David - I think the PZ Spitfire will ultimately be repairable, but just in case she's not I've already ordered a replacement in the form of the Flightline 1200mm Spitfire IX. I really should have got that one when I bought the big sister 1600mm version a couple of years ago, which is just a bit too large for my local club field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh McCaber Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 That's a real nasty one Leccy. I know that you like building as well as flying, so good luck with repairs!! Ready for summer (when it eventually comes!) Which field were you flying from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Same field that she crashed in Tosh 😉 Hope that the Spittie will be repaired well before the summer, though "That should damned well never have happened" with foamies "they can do wonders nowadays". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 First flight with the Acromaster since October , on new NX8. No problem. Perfect flying conditions. Frosty grass. Full sun . No wind. Good to get out as only managed 3 times since early October cos of weather. Others out suffered somewhat including a nib Wildcat which crashed on take off. Sure the problem was elevator horn fracturing (old thin plastic) . Motor burnt out too !👿👿👿😱😱😱😱😥😥😥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Flew dad's old Electric Kitten yesterday. He flew it a lot and I was surprised how much fun it was on a still, crispy day. More agile than you'd expect for rudder/elevator and it's uber light, so catching a bit of warm rising air shouldn't be out of the question in due course too. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 A much nicer day than forecast! Only 4 at the patch! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Flippin' freezing here. I was going to take advantage of the blue sky and gentle breeze but chickened out! Am doing jobs in the warm. For those braving the cold - safe landings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Chaddock Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Flew the flapped FX707 again yesterday. Cold but sunny and a surprisingly gusty breeze from the north. A bad direction for my field as it down wind of a big stand of full height trees. Edited to cut out the bits where my hat cam was not pointing at the plane! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovveh20TZw Had to keep to a small but slightly higher part of the field as the rest is still very muddy under the frost crust. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolly Roger Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 -3 degrees here in Thirsk, but worth it for the beautiful backdrop of the snow-dusted North Yorkshire Moors. My old Multiplex Gemini performed all manner of gyrations, occasionally under my control 😶 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolly Roger Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 And would you believe I stumbled into a thermal with my sailplane? Enough to gain a 100m of height. And I thought “winter thermals” were just sensible undergarments made by Damart. Budumm tssss. 🤣 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 3 hours ago, Peter Jenkins said: A much nicer day than forecast! Only 4 at the patch! I was just about to say that I’ve got a Hellcat just like that one then realised it was mine! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 6 hours ago, Jolly Roger said: And would you believe I stumbled into a thermal with my sailplane? Enough to gain a 100m of height. And I thought “winter thermals” were just sensible undergarments made by Damart. Budumm tssss. 🤣 Reminds me how I was once admonished by an ex-RAF chap in our club when my glider wasn't doing much one winter day. He flew Meteors in the 1950s and told me in no uncertain terms that "there are thermals every day of the year!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDB Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 On 14/01/2024 at 14:28, PDB said: Slightly frustrating start to yesterdays session, my OS46 equipped ever reliable Boomerang dead sticked on its first flight and after landing I noticed fluid dripping out of the fuselage. Found the fuel tank bung had worked loose and emptied the tank into the fuselage. Got to the bottom of why this happened and what I had done wrong. I put together the bung assembly wrong, on further inspection I've found a recess on one side of the rear cap for the nut to locate in, I had this cap in the wrong way round. Duh! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Experience is a wonderful teacher! We have all had that experience in some area or other! Thanks for sharing as it might help someone else to avoid this particular trap. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Just a comment on the clevis-horn that failed. Polymers tend to fail at low or warm temperatures. Compared with metallic items their range of temperature viability is quite narrow. Also as mentioned the structural viability also tends to change with age, due to many things, from leaching of plasticers, photon damage (not normally a problem with models, although plastic gutter/drainpipes etc). Never mind "environmental stress cracking" that can happen with some of the solvents we like to use. On the face of it, there is not a lot going for plastics, in reality they are great for much of we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Griff Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Photon damage....even sun shining on a cardboard box containing a plastic hull, plastic hull was discoloured on the side facing the sun..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Gaskin 1 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Wind-chill down to minus five didn't deter the SRFC Hanky-Panky formation dancing team this morning. Lovely and sunny but oh-so cold!! Tom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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