Ray Dunn

It feels like Multiplex manuals haven't moved on from say the 1970's. I spent ages figuring out the meaning of their wing pylons for strengthening the huge ailerons. Probably not the only 3D plane to use this technique, but Google didn't prove my friend for once. Six carbon rods come in from different angles and should meet at a point. The manual just has an implied "cut rods and glue it"! I'm vaguely wondering if some carbon cloth (finest DLG grade) over the join might give the join the strength it needs. There is no way I can achieve angles on all the cuts for a solid butt join. This is my first build with predominently cyano, but I can't see how even gap filling cyano would be trustworthy here. I link a shot of the rods loosely in position, with the four from the corners of the aileron not cut to length, so extending on upwards. Link to imgur I'm sure someone on here has been through something like this before me...

Whilst not the best we could wish for, I'm impressed with what the BMFA (and others) have managed to achieve. Real progress at last, with someone prepared to listen! Hopefully these gains in central and reduced fee and three year competency test will hold.

Posted by Raymond Scrivens on 07/05/2019 10:15:59: Am I right in saying that if Amazon decided to operate a fleet of drones, they would only have to pay £16.50 for the whole fleet? I suspect that is what all of us who read the details are thinking I did include an Amazon reference in my emails...

Posted by PETER BRUCE - Eastchurch Gap on 06/05/2019 13:07:42: Hi Ray. Thanks for that - try as I might I could not crack it so had to post the video.... Regards Peter Sorry. That method doesn't work for me now. I originally got in from a Google search on “Model aircraft enthusiasts prove unlikely foe for Amazon” Ray

Accessing The Financial Times Article To bypass the need to sign up, click on the top of page search option symbol, then paste “Model aircraft enthusiasts prove unlikely foe for Amazon” www.ft.com (For tablets you will need to tick the “Desktop Site”option in the browser, as the search is omitted from the mobile version of the webpage)   I've just sent my three emails and filled in the response form a few days back. Edited By Ray Dunn on 06/05/2019 12:56:44

Here is another person who loves to waste the scammers time (email this time):   TED Talks 2015 TED Talks 2016   And he has a few other videos on YouTube Edited By Ray Dunn on 06/02/2019 15:06:06

Posted by PatMc on 02/02/2019 22:05:33: Sorry Ray, I don't understand your last post. This is the regulating authourity for premium rate phone services Thanks. Yes you are right, they are managing to do something about some cases like this one: **LINK** To my mind directory enquiries like 118118 would qualify as a scam, based on their change rates No wonder they can afford those adverts. Some comments on this item make interesting reading (where it all went horribly wrong...) **LINK**

Posted by PatMc on 02/02/2019 18:03:44 What ridiculous call rates are you refering to anyway ? Hmm. An online search would suggest the premium rate lines involved are more £1.50 a minute than what I had in mind. Not sure where I picked that up.

I'm currently plagued with automated calls says BT will cut off my Internet today. The voice was initially of the computer generate sort, but the last was an elderly British accented man. Where applicable, isn't BT the base cause of this, allowing ridiculous phone call rates? What sort of legit. business needs this?

Signed. It sounds like this money is also used for the terrestrial transmitter network, as watching any live channel requires a licence, not just the BBC ones. (from the quoted wording above).

Well Sonny, you have really hit the nail on the head, when it comes to getting us oldies reminiscing and this hobby has an abundance of them I've been in the hobby for 60+ years, in part as a result of receiving Xmas presents like the Keil Kraft (KK) Hurricane and Lysander (father wanted to be a spitfire pilot). I've always been working very much to a budget (maybe my subsistence farm upbringing, or I suspect a balsa basher trait). This led me to build my own radio gear in the single channel days and eventually the RCM&E receiver and soldering up servo kits. (It was nice to get back to this recently with an OpenXsensor receiver plugin. Cheaper, lighter and generally more effective that the commercial parts it replaced! Great to see the current generation being inventive and exploring repurposing standard industrial products) My early rubber powered Hurricane did fly after a fashion. It took off from the front porch. It had flying speed by the time it shot off the front step and banked left 90° under power (slight warp) then glided fairly straight down the garden. Well on the best flights... I think I'd built a few balsa kits by then. For me that model was the first to really looked the part. Having a wife and eventually ~20 horses to support, has kept my spending in check for many a year…. I do seem to be drifting into more expensive servos and kits now, ending up with a carbon fibre discus launched glider (DLG). Wonderfully addictive to fly, with flight heights and duration readouts from the transmitter (amazing these latest 2.4 radio sets.) These days, I do come home with the plane in one piece most days. Though overconfidence recent resulted in my DLG’s receiver battery ejecting during launch! The glider continued to full launch height, straight up and straight down… and amazingly it was repairable. Always learning, as Benny Hill used to say (rambling) Ray

My wife bought me a pair of Wolf Wear riding gloves for Xmas a few years back. My current favourite. They are thin enough to retain stick feel, so are a compromise. Finely sized for a good fit. I've adjusted to DLG launching with them this winter. (A slightly warmer form of flying than most... for a low launcher like me) **LINK** They produce about a dozen types. Pretty sure this is the one. Ray

Another completion. I really appreciated the "crib sheet" for some thoughts on the subject and answered most similarly. I can't help wondering if the primary aim of the questionnaire length was to minimise replies! Ray