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  1. Mr S, I promise I wasn't referring to you. Aside from anything else, I didn't see you demanding someone be fired :-) I helped with my schools first computer in 1974 ( it was bui;t by one of the teachers in a massive plywood box with an 8 light readout ) Poor choice of words, I should have said a "Type" rather than a generation. And also that the sort of person I am talking about was generally nowhere near the blitz chronologically.
  2. Exactly, particularly when the shrieking is largely from a generation given to waxing lyrical about "geTTing oN with it liKe WE did iN the bLitz" but demanding the firing of someone for ...THIS. Seriously some of you need a word with yourselves.
  3. Extended nacelles just mean it's a late model with the two stage Merlins. 🙂 that thing is great! Has it flown yet? Edit: I see it has! Very well too! Great work.
  4. Yup, back in the old days you had to think. So what's stopping anyone having to think NOW? You just said you find it a "mystery" You have to think of different things is all. I am not denying free flight is an art, but this "Oh it was better in the old days when nothing worked, cost an absolute fortune but weren't we all clever?" Is a bit disingenuous if we refuse to engage our much vaunted brains with a computer radio and a manual. Different skills, yes, but not necessarily better ones - evolution in action.
  5. This is great Steve - I just went to my first indoor session last week and seem to have caught the bug a bit so I'll be putting one of these together - thanks!
  6. Hi Mike, will Sarik be doing a set of formers as well as ribs? ( I am really looking forward to building a new one to go with my 3 year old :-) )
  7. Yep, I have had three of these now related to my ad for a Cambria Eagle.
  8. Hi folks, I have had this sitting in it's bubble wrap for a couple of years and decided it's time it got built. I started building on Monday evening and I am at the covering stage having installed the servos beforehand and will put the motor in after covering. I really, REALLY hate installing radio: I inevitably end up with a hostile octopus made of ariel wires, servo cables and thick, unwieldy power cables. Anyway, Here it is so far, I will even slap a proper undercart on it. As far as power goes I am thinking 2s, a 2822 and an 8 x4, largely because I have them in stock and the last time I put anything bigger in a model this small ( A cardinal) the thing torque rolled into the ground. Any criticism, howls of derision or straight up advice would be welcomed. I am considering re joining my club which I let lapse at the beginning of the year because I am not one of natures social animals but it's the only way I get to fly so I am just going to have to deal with it if I want to get anything in the air again. So, to this end - will I get it finished and set up before Sunday? Who can tell?
  9. Hi folks, bumping this a bit in case anyone just happens to have found one down the back of their couch.
  10. Thanks! it did, though it's had so many pilot induced issues it's now retired, waiting for a replacement to take over :-)
  11. I loved my CB and will be building another - it's just had too many repairs now ( my flying, nothing wrong with the aeroplane. ) but it flies beautifully and is all electric. ( I fitted a fuselage mounted undercart which was later replaced by a carbon one. The last pic shows it after a couple of repairs and after I cowled the motor, while it was waiting for a spinner. The wing is built up and I used the sandwich method to make the ribs - not something I fancy doing again, I have to admit. She will fly happily on 3s but goes "properly" on 4.
  12. Hi folks, I am looking for a Cambria Eagle - either completed or boxed kit or anything in between as long as it's all there and no one's made a dog's breakfast of it. Based in Manchester, but I might be happy to drive a bit... Cheers All.
  13. Nice work, looks fantastic in the air. I can't get used to foam board, having tried a Flite Test design, but it's clear that I need to persevere ?
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