fly boy3 Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Just completed this model. Can anyone please suggest modern light weight servos for it. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Peter Miller Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 The 4-Max servos will be fine. The loads on the controls are very light anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted March 2, 2023 Author Share Posted March 2, 2023 Thanks Peter for prompt reply. Will email 4 Max now. Cheers FB3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 By the way with those long leads to the servos I recommend using ferrite rings in the leads to guard against interference. You can buy split ones so you don't have to take plugs off. Mine now belongs to another club member who moved away. He uses it withe a small Canon camera and gets stunning pictures. He flies on a common where a local club fly gliders, They often turn up complain that there is no lift while his EE is soaring away as a dot in the sky. This is his shot of my house (arrowed) taken from over a miles away And this was taken from a flying site on a racecourse in a midland town. I use a Mobious video camera on my models . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted March 2, 2023 Author Share Posted March 2, 2023 Great pics Peter. I have also read that low aspect gliders like your EE do very well indeed in low lift conditions. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 I had that theory for a longtime and the EE proves it BUT the real proof came many years ago. I went to a huge full size vintage glider rally at Tibenham. There were gliders from all over the world including Japan. The weather was perfect and about midday a huge thermal drifted through and there was a mad rush to get into it. I never will forget seeing a mass of gliders circling up in the thermal, all the sleek high performance gliders like Rhonsperbers and Minimoas etc. And right at the top going up faster that all the rest was a Sedbergh. That is, right the two seat trainer known in the RAF gliding clubs as the "barge". Then I read that a Sedbergh had unofficially broken the altitude record for gliders. It would have been official but one Barograph had stopped working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted March 2, 2023 Author Share Posted March 2, 2023 Lovely story Peter. Some very nice videos of the full size flying on u tube too. I fly from an old Raf runway, and have noticed extra lift during hot weather. I put it down to the tarmac runway producing thermals. Cheers FB3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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