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  1. Thank you all. This has been an interesting read for me, as I think about building again. I have some West Wings/Guillows kits to practice my skills before looking at doing a more usable size RC, but there are some great tips in this thread.
  2. Hey, Gordon & Steve, I enjoyed your reminiscing too! Great to meet up with old friends.
  3. I do fly RC, though I am still somewhat of a novice. And gliders are my passion. I have several old books on RC gliding, and Stringwell rang a bell. I have his 'A Complete Guide To Radio Control Gliders' (1997), but that's one I haven't read yet (amazing how little time one has for books when one has a hyperactive five year old :D ). I assume this volume has a reiteration of the info in the soaring book you cite. I will get stuck in shortly. Thanks for the tip.
  4. FT foamboard (the brown stuff) is water resistant, which helps.
  5. Bird of Time is a plane I want to build one day, but I don't think I'll go for it as a starter. Fling looks like a contender. Easyglider looks good, but it looks like it may have been discontinued, and recent ones are pricy, so I can wait for a bargain on eBay or selling sites, I guess.
  6. I'm a big fan of FT. Their reviews are really accessible, but the DIY kits are really cool, and their STEM programme is getting kids into the hobby. I admit, I want to visit the US to go see the Edgewater Park development they are working on.
  7. OK, so I am Hi-curious, and bought a stake, surgical rubber, and the whole bit. There's lots of contradictory information on the net about proportions, so I wondered what the collective intelligence here suggested? Secondly, I was wondering what might be a good (cheap/resilient) model to practice with. I don't want to spend many hours lovingly preparing a beautiful glider only for it to smash to bits before my eyes due to my inexperience. Is there a suitable high-start foamie? My gliding fleet encompasses a Radian, a Conscendo, a Whipit, a Flyfly Fournier and (hopefully delivered today) a Superfly MiniDart DLG. What the hell have I got myself into??!!
  8. The Whipit doesn't have a finger tab, either. This is a nice plane. Good job!
  9. I have a lovely little FlyFly Fournier RF-4D. It was originally an RTF, but I got it 2nd hand in a PNP format. Looking inside the hatch, there's very little room, even without the 2s battery. Does anyone know what receiver was originally specced, and the dimensions? I run Spektrum, and I'm guessing even an AR400 would be tight. Advice welcome.
  10. This is the website I find most accurate for the UK, even though it is based in Norway. My audaxing friends swear by it. https://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Worthing/hour_by_hour.html
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