Peter Miller
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Yes, It has one aileron servo like most of mine. I was getting mixed when I said two. I have a streaming cold and cough so the brain is not at its best. Will PM you in minute.
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I just realised. Feugray has ONE, (1) servo to drive the ailerons. I forgot that it was another design sent to another magazine that has two aileron servos. Also the one I am building has two. Don't ask how the feugray Data panel got the number 3 in it.
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"Three Servos" is part of the standard sub editing. You only need 2. I didn't even list the number of servos in the data box. The quick way to see the other side of the wing is to rub the plan with paraffin. It goes transparent. It will dry out after a day or so. You could trace it on to tracing paper. Several A4 sheets taped together. I can supply copies of the orginal two sheet drawing if anyone wants them at roughly cost. just PM me. You get both wings and also the fuz is in one piece. This is NOT to make a profit, just to help out modellers. Doug, You are already in credit because you sent too much for the MD drawing.
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I hold the canopy or windscreen down with very small screws and a canopy glue called MD Producs called Procan. The screws are optional. I bought my from Mick Reeves. Phone on 01 354 653063 His website is: http://www.mickreevesmodels.co.uk/ IT lists the screws. I fit after covering but you could glue it down before covering. If you make a small rebate you could hide the joint.
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Alex, I have an album in the gallery labelled Feugray so you canb have a quick preview there. Talking of bending, they say that the man without a vice is a rare thing! Yes, the memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember what was the first thing that went!
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Sorry. I got mixed up. no problem fitting the U/C. I was thinking on another type of mounting. The trouble is that two or three months after I have sent a plan off I can't remember much about it. Only the next one or two. No, you don't drill the 1/4 ply until now. Don't forget. The covering will move the CG back a bit as well. so don't add the weight until the model is complete.
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a pound coin weighs 8 grams. a two pound coin 12 grams. I have very sensitive scale for weighing post and balsawood. They are not really expensive. I got mine from ALDI for very little. I forget the exact price. I balance my models by putting lead on top of the taipplane until they balance in the right place. then I insert it under tha tailpane. You can buy stick on lead weights if you prefer. You are going to have some fun attaching the undercarriage now that the model has been built. I attach it to the former before even gluing the former to the side. I have a wire bender screwed to my work bench. That copes with up to 8 SWG wire. Glad you all like the look of my Feugray TR-260.
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Yes, the Denight Special is one of mine. Shaun does have a point. It would get you in the air much quicker. However building a model does mean that you will have a better idea of how to repair it. Can I suggest a book from Traplet Publications call "High Flying on a Low Budget". It gives a lot of useful stuff including how to repair models. (I don't get royalties so that is not why I mention it.) There is also a two part series of articles on how to repair ARTFs in file at RCM&E when they can find space to use it.
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No, Use Solarfilm Supershrink polyester for covering. You can buy a special covering iron and heat gun BUT you can do just as well with a cheap travelling iron. It takes a little practice but is not difficult. Film is not messy or smelly so you can do it in your front room. Engine. I would suggest an SC 40. they are cheap and very reliable. I use almost nothing but SC (Super Custom) engines. Radio: If you can afford it go for a Spektrum 7 channel 2.4 Ghz set. 2.4 is the up and coming (already arrived!) thing as you will not get shot down by another transmitter. On the other hand, the price of good 35 Mhz set is pretty low and second hand (not reccomnded for a novice) sets are really getting dirt cheap. Balsa is sold in Imperial sizes still. however as a rough guid. 1/16" is 1.5 mm. 3/32" about 2 mm. 1/8" is about 3 mm but a fraction thicker. 3/16" is 4mm, 1/4" is 6 mm, 3/8" is 10 mm. and 1/2" is 12 mm. There are books and articles on building from plans. Building from plans is no harder than building from a kit. You have to mark out all the parts and cut them out and then you have a kit.
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Great to hear of someone who wants to start off with a kit. May I suggest the Sig Kadet LT 40 available from Pegasus Models in Norwich. This is the page http://pegasusmodels.co.uk/manusub.asp?manu=Sig&offset=60 Sig kits are American and I have never known a bad one. The Kadet will be easy to build and nice and stable to learn to fly with. It is also availble as an ARTF so make sure you get the right one! I would also suggest checking the BMFA website for your nearest club. http://www.bmfa.org/
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The SLEC Site doesn't work yet. Phone them and ask for a catalogue. That was the real trouble, all the businesses were run by real modellers. When they were taken over by non modelling business men they went down hill. You should have heard Phil Smith's comments at the time just after Veron was taken over. Likewise, Ripmax started off as a small model shop in Camden Town. I used to visit it in 1954. I also remember Ron Irvine was a Junior Technician in the RAF in the late 50s or early 60s. I remember him at the RAF Championships. He left the RAF and was selling Veco engines from his spare bedroom. Look how that built up. I remember watching Ron fly combat with a Veco 19 powered model. He hit another model dead centre, went straight through it and the engine never even coughed.
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Slec do processing, They used to be part of Balsacraft which was bought by Ripmax. They owned the plantations in Papua New Guinea. They still do the processing, don't know about owning the plantations. Prices are extremly competitive. I have to say that they really do select exactly the grades of wood that you ask for. Their wood quality is the best I have ever seen. Inwood did not. I was not impressed with the quality either. Only ever had one order from them, never again! Solarbo was British. It was bought out by Amerang. As you may guess, I use a heck of a lot of balsawood.
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Like it! The Winter of 63 at Wattisham there was no flying for months. That snow blower system just melted the snow and ice which promptly refroze behind it. Night shift was great. For four night as a week we came in at 4.30, the day shift knocked off at 5 and the night shift knocked off at 5.05. Off for a longer than normal weekend. Another Javelin story. The Winco flying was going off in one when one leg collapsed on take of. The aircraft slewed to a stop on the side of the runway. The Winco and his navigator climbed out and casually walked away. Then one looked over their shoulder and saw that the fully armed aircraft was burning. They ran like hell. All the ground crew came out of the line hut and were yelling "Burn you B******!". All the was left was one wing and a cold air unit and a couple of engines. No flying for the rest of that day because of the exploding ammo that had littered the runway with debis.
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I would say that for most of the time you would not notice any difference but at any time the model was getting near the stall it would tip stall. This can happen at speed too if you pull a really tight turn, the tip stall can make it flick into a turn the opposite way. It really isn't very much of a problem to do so is worth while. Just remember to do it on both wings. I can't tell you what difference it might make if you left it out. I do know that model is very nice to fly as designed.
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No, this was back in 57
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Seen that lot before, Doug, talking of excercises. When I was on 220 squadron, Shackletons at St Mawgan, the Navy at Plymouth developed a bad habit of phoning up and asking for an excercise to find one of their destroyers. The problem was that they would do this on a Friday and so an aircraft would have to be laid with aircrew and ground crew over the weekend Needless to say this did not go down well. After the third such request the CO got a bit peeved. He had an aircraft airborne and when the Friday afternoon request came in the Shackelton flew over the destroyer as it left Plymouth. The pilot radioed the destroyer. "OK, We found you, excercise over." The destrioyer radioed back. "Can we start again." The answer was a very short and sharp. "No" The Navy got the message and we didn't have any more weekends messed up by them
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I can get a set of my orginal plans printed off if you want. Would cost about a fiver for a print including postage. She will be fast on the 18 but she is a bit smother to fly and doesn't seem to get so small so quickly. Not sure how much difference the washout makes but she doesn't tip stall at low speeds.
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Did you know that that film was so awful that the original crew of Memphis Belle refused to allow the film makers to use their real names? Also, the French crews never bothered to hand turn the engines to clear the lower cylinders of oil before starting. They blew several cylinders off over East Anglia during filming. My scource was Roger Freeman who was historical advisor on the film. He just about gave up in disgust when they kept ignoring his input.
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Miss demeanor is fast and gets small very quickly. It is also very responsive. I can't remember the set up for the servos now. I have removed everything for another model and passed MD on to a club mate. The next plan (Next Month) is the Fuegray TR-260 for .32 engines. Very Aerobat. a French Aerobatic model. The one I am working on at the moment is a scale air racer again, this time with three SC .15s. Now that should sound sensational! RCMW ran my Okie Swinger a couple of months ago as full size plan. Same size and Spec as MD but with tapered wings. I think it is a bit nicer to fly. You might like that one after MD.
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Very smart. Now all you have to do is order your Pampers ready for test frights!
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Similar story fro, '63 I was on 41 sqdn at Wattisham. We had Grovellins. The other squadrons had Lightnings. One afternoon there was this very distinctive sound of Merlins. All the hangars emptied as the sound brought eveyrone out to watch as one of the Mosquitos that had been filming 633 Squadron landed. Interestingly, two of the dummy machineguns on the nose had fallen off. They were just stuck on.
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Very nice. Much neater than mine. As for the snake bits, been there, done that!
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AH! I was using one of my old Goldberg spinners which come with bushes. I would suugest a very shiort section of snake. Alternativley you could wrap tape round the shaft to build it up. Of course the cowl was easy. I told you, I am dead lazy and over the years I have developed many ways to make life easy. If you read my column in another mag this month I describe a lot of the ways that I can build models so quickly. I would mention the name of the mag but David might make me wash my mouth out. The initials could stand for Aero Modelling Ideas.
