Eric Robson

Richard took the same electrical course in wiring as me. It was held in a spaghetti factory

I blame their trainer, their spoilt and lack discipline.

Some time back I had a gallon of methanol and some oil given, from a retired modeller. He used to do pylon racing and mixed his own fuel, he didn't have any nitro left, I mixed the fuel and oil as advised and tried it in an old engine it worked fine. I used the rest up mainly in my Acrowot. The point is that if fuel blending companies close down would there still be a source for methanol which could be bought in quantities for modellers to blend there own or maybe the club could buy it in bulk. To end all the doom and gloom I think IC will be with us for many years to come. I have all my options open as I fly electric, petrol and glow, but don't do the free wind power gliders. At 88 years or age I think IC engines will be still going when my spark has gone.

I don't know if you have seen this it may help, I googled BVM super bandit drawings and got this lead. Hope it helps.

Hi Paul, is the plane a model or an actual aeroplane? If it is a scale model then there is always plenty of information on the Internet. If it is a model then plans may be available from outerzone if you have the name of it. Like Graham I have scratch built many models mainly warbirds from 3 view drawings, most having a flat bottom/ Clark y type wing , some have been in depron and foamboard some balsa built . The main thing is only add weight and strength where it is needed and getting the c of g right. There is a great feeling when your scratch built plane flys for the first time.

Struggling to pay my tax online, I phoned them and after 20 minutes,"Can I help you ". me " I would like to pay my tax bill." You can do that on www etc he replied and put the phone down.

Inland revenue is the worst, it's music is designed to make you hang up or jump off a roof.

There has been a big upsurge in vintage diesel powered models in our club at least 7 members are active in that field with more showing interest. The fuel is expensive but most use about a teaspoon full. It doesn't appeal to me, done it in the past and it is not great for warbirds although the exhausts are small or non existent.

My Hurricane looks like that after belly landings on our strip. Wall to wall rain again today.

I did take a sample to be scanned Brian, the store has, I think 3 different pots bar coded for the type of paint requested. I wanted matt emulsion, they did not have that pot in stock.

Got addicted sniffing dope in the early modelling days 😆

You would be too old to enjoy it if you lived in England it would take years of planning permission and red tape before you could dig the foundations. Great work on the Magister and workshop Dirk

Forward view not good either with the pot stove chimney in front of the windscreen,

That actually happened at the local B and Q, I went in one day for a colour match and they only had pots for stone paint and would not use them even though the size and price was identical. I had to go back 3 days later when the correct pots came in.

The yellow one is a Tempest, the colours are that of a target tug, not a glorious finale for such a great aeroplane.

Sorry I'm nit picking, the top 3 pics are of a Typhoon.

So that's where the blue sky went too

An amazing day at the field, black and murky all around and yet fine and windless on top of the hill. 5 hours flying with 3 models and 18 batteries. Warbirds Replicas FW190 and Hurricane and a Brian Taylor Corsair. Now to charge all the batteries.

Whatever comes next

I belly land my Brian Taylor Corsair after a dolly take off, it is 61" span it has a 5s 5000 battery and by eliminating the retracts and careful balsa selection it is at least a pound lighter than the target weight on the plan. With only the wing bends to land on I sometimes think it needs an arrester hook. VID-20240216-WA0001.mp4

Stretching it a bit for Richard's preferred 4s Graham, it would have to be very light, although my Warbirds Hurricane is 60" span and has the same set up as the FW190 the extra weight dulls the performance and duration.

Three consecutive days flying with my Warbirds Replicas models, early finish today as the wind became blustery. Screen shots from phone camera video.

Depending on patents someone could possibly make a clone if they thought it was a viable venture. I wouldn't think patents would worry the Chinese if they thought it would make money. The big problem now is the diminishing interest in power flying as seen by the number of engines going off the market and as seen in The big question thread everyone wants something different to the point where its not viable to produce small amounts.

I inadvertently modified the Hurricane due to a heavy landing wheels up first flight. It now fits on the dolly and looks OK in flight, I had 5 flights with it like this

Simon is right the main spar should go top to bottom, I have used foamboard for spars by putting two close together full depth root to tip and feeding servo wires and retract wires through. I tend to make a hard balsa spar for something I am going to throw around the sky. This picture is how I done the Westland Whirlwind wing no ribs just foam board spars, this is the outer panel 1/16" ply braces were used to join at the dihedral angle Good luck with the project, I will be following.