Andy Butler

The electric version was the Rhapsody, I still have mine. I recovered it a couple of years ago and fitted electric airbrakes as I've nearly lost it several times. It will climb very quickly on the merest sniff of lift and I've had it up to speck height from a hand launch on occasions too.

+1 Major Lamberts strong tea - lovely stuff.

Keil Kraft kits are still being manufactured here. They have most of those that I remember building. Never got one to fly successfully though - apart from the Caprice and the Minimoa which flew very well indeed. They have also supersized the Minimoa to 100 inch for R/C.

Hi Kevin, Are you the Kev Mander who used to fly with Brian Mason and me behind ICI Fibres in Brockworth back in the 70's? If so you're a long way from home.  Edited By Andy Butler on 25/11/2016 12:24:16 Edited By Andy Butler on 25/11/2016 12:24:42

That did make me laugh BEB. All too common I'm afraid. We went with my sister's kids to a well known pizza chain and while we were waiting to be seated, a girl came in and picked up a take away order. She paid up and the pizza person said do you want that cut into 8 or 12 pieces? Eight please she replied, I can't eat 12. I did get some odd looks as I struggled outside, I was laughing so much.

Thanks for the info gents, all very useful. Dai, that photo of Bwlch looks amazing. Reminds me a little bit of Selsey common, but that was only good for south or south west IIRC. I can feel some model research coming on - well you have to be prepared, don't you. Thinking about it I have an old Antares kit at home. It's full house and made from concrete judging by the weight of it. A little light weight substitution may be in order.

Thanks for the replies guys - good to know . That is a great looking site. I had a feeling there would be flyable slopes in that neck of the woods. I need to slim down my power models and see about a suitable slope model. A couple of us had plan built Suzy Q's and we used to launch inverted. Mind you that was a long time ago so I'll need something a bit more sedate to get back into it. Thanks again for the replies.

Mrs B and myself have decided that when I retire, we're going to move down to somewhere around the Monmouth area. Both our families are down that way so it makes sense to us. I used to live in Gloucester and we sloped from Haresfield and Selsey depending on wind direction and I loved it. There aren't many slopes in Suffolk so that was that. So my question is are there any suitable clubs / flyable slopes in the area? It would be great to get back to it again.

A tad over the top - but this one is outrageous; **LINK**

BEB's new build gets a pre flight cat scan.

posting from work so I always have to press the button twice to get it to do anything so double posts - apologies. Edited By Andy Butler on 04/08/2016 13:05:49 Edited By Andy Butler on 04/08/2016 13:06:05

Be very careful here guys - In all of the ESC's I've used the fly lead that has a switch attached isolates only the BEC output not the power to the motor. It allows you to switch off power to the receiver and servo's, hence why the switch is usually small as the currents are not very high. With the switch in the off position, power to the motor is not switched off and the motor could suddenly start for any number of reasons.

Ooops double posted - sorry. Edited By Andy Butler on 06/07/2016 12:28:56

Being a long time builder of models of all sorts, I've used most of the covering methods, from tissue and dope to all manner of heat shrink films. I have noticed though that there is little to choose between most of the films I've used. I have models covered in Profilm and the HK film although Profilm is a little more forgiving but not by much. Doing things like wingtips is just practice. make sure you have a decent amount of film overhanging so you got something to hang on to and turn your iron up to shrink temeperature and shrink at stick as you go - but take it slowly at first and you do have to pull it fairly hard. I find this works for me at least but do end up with an attack of the wrinklies on occasion. My favourite is Solartex as you can be fairly brutal with it, except the silver one which seems to bruise quite easily.

What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?