Shaun Walsh

Can anyone recommend a good 27th plane, asking for a friend (just in case the wife reads this!).

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Depends whether you prefer to fly left hand or right hand circuits!

Craft knife and a ruler, sorted!

At our age that should read "if it comes around ".🤣

Whilst driving past the end of the airport runway?

Sometimes we don't 🤣

The other interesting bit is a height restriction of 50 metres over the Channel Islands. Since when did the French government get to decide matters in a British Crown Dependency?

Mine is finished as follows. Carbon strip glued the trailing edge of fin and tailplane. Rudder chamfered on starboard side leading edge. Elevator chamfered towards lower surface.

50 year old Graupner Cumulus converted to electric power using original Graupner power pod components.

What capacity were the other cards? It may be that the Ender will not see sdxc cards or the formatting is different, is the new card formatted to fat32?

My wife's opinion is that P=N-1

For clarity, in this case hp means Hamster Power.

Many years ago I was on a flight from Liege to Heathrow via Calais. At Calais three people built like Cyril Smith got on and the only seats were at the tail of a 15 seater twin turboprop aircraft. Needless to say when the last one boarded the plane sat on its tail. The pilot and co-pilot laughed and the co-pilot shuffled down the narrow aisle and moved everyone around resulting in the aircraft resuming the correct attitude. As I was sitting directly behind the co-pilot I had a clear view of the instrument panel and watched as they waited for the engines to reach maximum rpm before releasing the brakes. I did that trip many times and had never before seen the end of the runway appear with all three wheels still on the tarmac. We cleared the perimeter treeline at a much lower altitude than normal and both the pilot and copilot looked very relieved as the wheels went up.

From personal experience with electrically powered models a 3 blade prop will give more thrust than a 2 blade prop of the same diameter and pitch but certainly not 50% more. The caveat being that the prop does not cause the motor to exceed its maximum current rating. I have only resorted to a 3 blade prop when it was impossible to increase the prop diameter to increase thrust and I did not want to install a higher KV motor or a higher cell count battery.

I have the earlier version of the 6 channel uncased receiver in a number of gliders, they seem to work well.

Is this it? https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/dawn-flyer-48-plan/

It's a 1400 kv 2212. Would probably need to drop the prop to an 8x6 to keep within motor and esc current limits. ESC looks like it should cope with 2-4 cells, should be a label on the ESC.

Not sure what it is but I think it eats nuts.

Anything here suitable? https://microaces.myshopify.com/collections/motors

18x10 would appear to be a good start Remarks: Battery Load: 11.54 C Voltage: 21.30 V Rated Voltage: 22.20 V Energy: 111 Wh Total Capacity: 5000 mAh Used Capacity: 4250 mAh min. Flight Time: 4.4 min Mixed Flight Time: 7.9 min Weight: 858 g 30.3 oz Motor @ Optimum Efficiency Current: 38.09 A Voltage: 21.47 V Revolutions*: 6298 rpm electric Power: 817.9 W mech. Power: 730.4 W Efficiency: 89.3 % Motor @ Maximum Current: 57.69 A Voltage: 21.10 V Revolutions*: 5993 rpm electric Power: 1217.1 W mech. Power: 1074.1 W Efficiency: 88.3 % est. Temperature: 70 °C 158 °F Wattmeter readings Current: 57.69 A Voltage: 21.3 V Power: 1228.8 W Propeller Static Thrust: 5911 g 208.5 oz Revolutions*: 5993 rpm Stall Thrust: - g - oz avail.Thrust @ 0 km/h: 5911 g avail.Thrust @ 0 mph: 208.5 oz Pitch Speed: 91 km/h 57 mph Tip Speed: 516 km/h 320 mph specific Thrust: 4.86 g/W 0.17 oz/W Total Drive Drive Weight: 1473 g 52 oz Power-Weight: 256 W/kg 116 W/lb Thrust-Weight: 1.18 : 1 Current @ max: 57.69 A P(in) @ max: 1280.6 W P(out) @ max: 1074.1 W Efficiency @ max: 83.9 % Torque: 1.71 Nm 1.26 lbf.ft Climb Capacity: 2177 m 7142 ft Airplane All-up Weight: 5000 g 176.4 oz Wing Load: 42.1 g/dm² 13.8 oz/ft² Cubic Wing Load: 3.9 est. Stall Speed: 30 km/h 19 mph est. Speed (level): 80 km/h 50 mph est. Speed (vertical): 17 km/h 11 mph est. rate of climb: 8.2 m/s ( ~60...65° ) 1616 ft/min

Sage advice!

It should be possible, as the receiver doesn't care about mode 1 or 2 but the transmitter has to be configured so that the throttle and elevator controls are assigned to the correct stick after that the signals that are transmitted should be identical and interpreted the same way by the receiver. Copied from flite test forum, standard channel assignments on AR620 are: First slot on the left is Battery port. On older receivers, before they added the bind button, it was the "bind" port, and would be used for people flying with a battery pack instead of using a BEC or battery elimination circuit. From there, going to the right, It's TAERGA - Throttle on port 1, Aileron on port 2, Elevator on port 3, Rudder on port 4, Gear on port 5, AUX1 on port 6. All can be reprogrammed via the computerized programming on almost all of the Spectrum radios, though, so it's possible to have the Rudder on port 2, ailerons on port 5, etc...It's kind of a pain to reprogram, though, so I generally leave it.

They're Bravermen than I am.

I'll download the bottom one before it gets removed.