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1 hour ago, Daren Cogdon said:

I wish we had somewhere indoors to fly in, as I have a little Spit just begging to be buzzed around a suitable hall!

Suspect you would need a pretty large hall to fly the wee Spitfire in Daren. Twenty odd years ago we just about managed to fly RC converted CC Lee free flight fighters in a large ice-rink venue. Fine for a Pico Stik or GWS Tiger Moth but that would be just about the limit of our current basketball court sized venue. That also works out fairly expensive at £75 for two hours on a Sunday. With the number of flyers we get from three-four clubs it washes it's face at £5.00 a head.

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Ahh, not that Spitfire.  This Spitfire.  This is one that I probably have more flight time with than anything else!  I bought it back when I was getting back into the hobby, and while it's nowhere near as capable as the Volantex/Eachine jobs, it's perfect for a nice cruise in the right conditions.

 

 

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On 30/12/2024 at 17:35, Paul De Tourtoulon said:

Did my usual bit of flying with my Enya 120 4c Spitfire, but I spent most of my time getting this 'thing' running properly,,,😇

 It's for a club member who has only done electrics,,,🤢

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RCV of some description, Paul? 

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Byron and I managed to get some flying done on Sunday, it was a nice morning so we flew some of the airframes that needed some airtime. Big Sig Rascal with old Saito 120, great fun to fly. Seagull Fly Baby, electric set up and now flying well after more lead added to the nose. Seagull Monocoupe,  ST 2000, also had more lead added to the nose and now flying better. Looks great in the air. Stick flies like a Stick, great fun.

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Decided to open my 2025 account despite the temp of 3C.  Got in 3 flights before the cold got at me and the light faded.

 

This was my 2nd flying session since I moved radios from JR to Jeti.  I had fitted stronger stick springs but had turned the stick tension too high for the first session so turned the adjusters right down and that seems spot on now.  Still a bit more trimming needed for the rudder/aileron KE mix but I was too cold to think straight by then.

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First flights of the year. Frozen ground with a dusting of fine snow, very light cross wind, sheep have all been removed, just a little high cloud in a bright sunny sky. Took a couple of Volantex wee fellas, plus my EFlite Mustang IV Dooleybird, SEMFF Zero and the newish FMS PA-18 Super Cub. The flat tyres didn't hamper the Super Cub too much, but the suggested flap to elevator mix is way too fierce, giving a marked pitch down now, when applying full flap. Enjoyed the flights and will dial back the elevator mix before the next outing.

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Flew my tinyII (own design) this morning on the beach when tide was out. 

 

got some nice flights and a few touch and goes without too much dog involvement. 
 

Through vigorous testing I also discovered a weakness in the wing tip design that answered the question “does it need new bigger wings”

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Only managed to get out to my other club field.  When I arrived, the temp was 2C snd when I left 2 hrs later in the gloom at 4.15 it was 1C.  The good news was the wind was almost non existent which was ideal for checking the Anthem's trim with it's new (well second hand) Jeti DS24.  Like Kev's, our windsock was also broken.

 

The calm conditions allowed me to check the vertical downline mix and the 2 mixes for ensuring a knife edge and KE loop using rudder and motor only.  2 flights  each with 2 intermediate landings to tweak the mixes (I suppose that makes 6 flights!) left me with 2 packs to practise my current competition schedule with a fully trimmed F3A machine.  Bliss. 

 

The photo was taken 2 days ago but I forgot to post it!

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We had a great day in Aberdeenshire flying over the snow.

Temperatures changing from -8 to -4, but sunny and no wind at all. It felt reasonably balmy with the sun.

Here 4 of clubmates twiddling their thumbs.

 

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I had a few flights with my Albatross, Polaris and Al-Tazar.

 

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Looks great and sorry not to have been able to make it Murat. Three days in a row flyable here, but no more than a few mm of patchy snow on the iron hard ground. Great fun with my new Fun Cub on her replacement inflatable bush wheels, ideal for touch and goes on the rutted hard ground. I think I'd need a bit deeper snow to clear the water rudders on the floats to make that an option - forecast is for heavy snow for you overnight, but 16mph winds might be too much for me to make the trip up in the week- likely to be some hefty drifts.

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Only 13°c and overcast today, I flew my Saito .45s powered Bristol M 1 great fun as usual, and I also flew the Bücker Jungmann maiden and second flight,

the Maiden was pretty simple, I got the owner to limit the elevator, a mistake, as when I came in to land I had the stick fully back, and it just scraped over

the grass and landed perfectly on the runway, (luck ), the second flight lasted around 5 minutes, the time it took his badly fixed new battery to 'nudge' its

 Switch and turn the radio off, which got me running across the runway holding the radio up like the old days on 27mhz, needless to say the engine was flat out and the plane in a slight left turn, it reminded me of the V 1 stories of Spitfires tipping the wings of them in WW 2, it flew around 1 klm, and through 2 trees. 🤢

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