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Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Looks to me you are up to date with your gardening (very nice it is too), but don't give up on the flying yet!! ✈️😀 -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
A lovely selection of of my favourite planes, Philip. Looks great!😀 -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
The S6 is a thing of beauty, Chris. Lovely snaps too 👍 -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Lovely setting, Aidan. Makes you realise this is one of the reasons we do this hobby. 😀 -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
This is what sometimes happen to me!!!! -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
She is a looker, Martin. Nice one. -
Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited
Adrian Smith 1 replied to Adrian Smith 1's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
I tried the more powerful servos today and was pleasantly pleased by the improved liveliness. I still have 2 oz of weight in the nose but I really don't think it needs to be there in future. That's the next job coupled with increasing the aileron EPAs slightly. -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Lovely flying day today if you don't mind the cold and a 10mph+ NNW crosswind blowing across the strip. Just look at those clouds! Today was the day I found out how good my use of the rudder is. Landings were quite tricky bearing in mind the pitch\diameter of the prop are no help in slowing her down (23x12). Adding to the landing speed was the only help the wind was in the cross leg and not on finals, hence she came in like a racing car. It doesn't help that the throttle needs to be kept on a bit otherwise one can see the stalling wing waggle beginning to develop. That said I managed to get it right by the third landing . Lovely day never the less. -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Yup, I am ready to go for tomorrow. A bit nippy but gotta get out there! -
scary, leery. Glad you got down safe!😣
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Weston UK Capiche 50cc Revisited
Adrian Smith 1 replied to Adrian Smith 1's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
As I had a few days to my kick heels in the work shop due to bad weather I decided to do a job on the Capiche I have been promising myself for a while. Partly due to my wanting to save costs I put a set of HV Macgregor digital servos with a stalling reading of 21kg/cms at 8.4v in the Capiche. In my defence I was guided by the manual which was written for another time which featured a similar recommendation for most of the servos around this sort of level. Well after a few flights I thought a move to more powerful HV 31kg/cms at 8.4v servos was more appropriate as per the rest of my 50-60cc squadron. Well in my musings in the W/S I notice my SkyWing 71' Edge 540 sporting an equivalent 35cc Dualsky motor on the front has these more powerful servos installed. A bit of an overkill possibly. Anyway the current servos in the Capiche would be just fine in the SkyWing Edge. Therefore for I set about swapping them out both planes this morning. It was a fiddly job mainly because of the elevators wires going through the fuselage, but in the event it didn't take too long to do the job. I am looking forward to the next outing for both and I will report back here. -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Nice day for flying and although the wind was flyable it would mean having to wrestle with my planes too much. I do actually want to enjoy flying, therefore took the opportunity to cut the grass strip and fiddle around in the work shop. -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Just gagging to fly today given the recent poor weather conditions. I was greeted at the strip by sparking sunshine and a nice steady 7-8mph SSW breeze. You can't wish for anything better so on with my varifocal over shades and off we go. When I was clearing up one of the full size flying boys came across for a chat. This time of year it's the RV8 MOT and service. Apparently, apart from the weather, they are grounded because of the delay in spares being delivered. Something that has never happened before. Their bad luck is my gain in the short term I guess. 😀 -
Spring is here again - who's been flying?
Adrian Smith 1 replied to GrumpyGnome's topic in Flying Field Reports and Chat
Nice one plane there, GG. I am going to test out your flying weather theory tomorrow! 🤞