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  • Birthday 29/11/1949

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  1. Hi Jon What a beautiful model! I noticed in the video that it seems to be dragging its tail a little in the turns. A little rudder mixed in with the ailerons may help. It could also be an indication of a slightly rearward CG - might be worth investigating. With the high thrust line it will be pitch up when the power comes off making it prone to tip stalls - as you discovered! A more forward CG may help.
  2. Thanks for the heads up. I was also trying to decide between the SZ and the IZ. I also have lots of FASST Rx's. It seems that the EU is still screwing us up even though we've supposedly left!
  3. Hi, I had this problem myself. Not on an ebey bargain but on a model of my own, a loft queen that I resurrected after the odd 40 years or so. I had been flying it for a couple of weekends when I found that the aileron response went very vague and weird. I landed immediately and checked. Sure enough one of the aileron horns had broken off completely. I gave the other one a gentle tweak and it sheared off like a carrot. I checked the rest of the linages and a couple of others were in the same state. Moral - don't trust old plastic linkages! The solution however, is simple - just give them a bend in your fingers and you'll soon see if they are in decent condition. And, of course, if in doubt replace them.
  4. Another site worth checking is T9HobbySport. Again, not especially cheap, but some nice models to drool over.
  5. I recently built a Tango from Hyperflight. Very impressive kit - goes together like a good jigsaw puzzle and flies beautifully. Very efficient flat, floaty glide.
  6. As I recall, the old Tufcote product was a Urea Formaldehide resin - Nasty stuff - I'm not surprised that they discontinued it!
  7. The leading edges of the flying flea were intended to be left sharp. It also used a somewhat weird aerofoil with lots of reflex. Of course Henri Mignet freely admitted that he was no aerodynamicist so, maybe the flea flew despite its wing section rather than because of it!
  8. You'll have fun with that colour scheme Pete!
  9. Here are a few pix taken at the Nuneaton Radio Modellers evening barbi and flying session a year or so ago (pre-covid) Just a flavour of the evening!¬
  10. Hi Al, I had this problem on a Fokker Eindekker I built some years ago. It was covered in Solartex and my solution was as follows. I cut a strip of Solartex about two inches wide and then folded the two sides in to the middle with the glue side of the covering on the inside. This gave two 1/2" flaps of material meeting in the middle. I then persuaded my wife to machine stitch down the middle of each flap. When opened up this gave a 1" strip of covering with two 1/4" flaps standing proud. I then ironed this onto the model where I wanted the stitching and, using a largish needle and black button thread, I stitched the two flaps together using a zig-zag stitch. It looked pretty good, but unfortunately I don't have the model any more so I can't give you any photographs! I may have to resurrect the technique eventually as I have a Flair Brisfit in the to-do list waiting to be built.
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