Geoff S Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I'm reminded of my quick and dirty Covid build Liddle Stik. Nothing wrong with a bit of light-hearted building in these trying times. I don't think I'd buy an ARTF that looked like any of them though Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Richardson Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Not being confrontational but they all look stik-ish a proven design easy to fly and durable, have a lot of fun with my electro stik no dihedral so ya gotta fly it but stable at all flight speeds and a lot of fun, it is my chuck it in the car and go for a quick fix model.. They all look good guys and i'm sure they will all perform very well.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Richardson Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Just googled the HK crusader, yep electro stik knock off apart from a shorter span and colour scheme it's the same.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Richardson Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Just googled the HK crusader, yep electro stik knock off apart from a shorter span and colour scheme it's the same.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Bradly Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Recently acquired an unstarted Airsail Chipmunk kit from the local auction website. A fun build, if a little old school and over engineered in places. I understand the rights to these went to the UK, i do hope they go back into production. Converted to electric, (made the whole canopy removable for a battery hatch), and raked the u/c forward a bit. Fuse is glassed, wing covered in ceconite. Used the included placcy cowl as a plug and made a fibreglass copy. Otherwise as per plan, except for a heap of small bits and pieces of wood left over as the instructions were a bit unclear in detail. Is in a "based on" scheme, but isn't a copy of anything specific. Will be a while before it flies as i'm a bit out of practice with scale stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 David Davis has relatively recently built an Uproar. A bit bigger than my model which is only 52" span, The section on my wing is what it is, I guess flat bottomed to semi symmetrical type. The CO model is a symmetrical section it would appear. In CO case designed to do a specific job, that is aerobatics. Being a philistine, my creation is sized to a 2200 Lipo, in cross section and an electric motor that was spare (that I thought would do). I have a pile of old Glider Veneered foam blanks, in the garage, now what can I do with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Acland Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 My lockdown special completed at last. A stop starlet built from The Nexus plan. SC 70 FS power. Heavily modified and strengthened. Still looking for a suitable pilot, and hoping the wind drops sometime soon for a maiden flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Very nice Richard 👍🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Warbirds replica Spitfire started in June build delayed by good flying weather, just a few details to add Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 That's a very nice Stolp Starllet, Richard. Much better than the 1/3 scale one I bought on eBay for not much money and got flying with a Zenoah 26. Sadly it met its end at one of the Castle Howard fly-ins when, for some reason it became very hard to control. No great loss as it as it had only cost me time (mostly) and the engine went in something else. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Richardson Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Now thats a pretty aiirplane Richard, what are the specs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Acland Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Posted by Tony Richardson on 27/08/2020 02:13:38: Now thats a pretty aiirplane Richard, what are the specs? Hi Tony, the wingspan is 73 inches and overall length is 50 inches. I am not sure what the weight should be as there was no indication on the plan, however having built a lot of models and building quite light it feels about right. I will weigh it at some point. The Cof G came out about 3/4 of an inch forward from as stated on the plan which should be OK. I realise I spelt it incorrectly as a Stop Starlet and not a Stolp Starlet as should be Edited By Richard Acland on 27/08/2020 17:21:55 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Kece 1 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Graupner AMIGO III - Finally ready to fly.. Awaiting a suitable weather window in Aberdeen....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Double size Tomboy posing with another British classic! I hope to maiden it over the next few days. There's a bit of history associated with this model which I've summarised below for those who are interested. My Uncle Geoff who married one of my mother's four sisters taught me how to build model aeroplanes in 1959 when I was eleven years old. He was to die of cancer within two or three years. He was thiry-six IIRC. Before he died he gave me all of his models. These included a Tomboy, a 36" wingspan free flight model intended for beginners, and a the fuselage of a double sized Tomboy. He was a draftsman and had drawn up the plan himself. Spool on several decades past my sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll years and I built the rest of the model and installed a radio, picture below. I finished it in the same colours as his original little Tomboy. The fuselage soon started to disintegrate so I built a second using cyano for all of the joints. I was a very inexperienced pilot in those days and somehow got the model into a spiral dive. When it hit the ground I was left with a big yellow bag of balsa sticks! I built a third fuselage, landed the model in a tree and broke its back. I have kept the wing and tail for over twenty years in a long cardboard box which I brought over from England together with other "refurb projects!" We'll see if I have any more luck with the fourth fuselage! This is the model in its first incarnation alongside my much younger self! Edited By David Davis on 28/08/2020 10:54:31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tosh McCaber Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Graupner AMIGO III - Finally ready to fly.. Awaiting a suitable weather window in Aberdeen....... Glad to say that Murat's Amigo has now flown successfully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh McCaber Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Graupner AMIGO III - Finally ready to fly.. Awaiting a suitable weather window in Aberdeen....... Glad to say that Murat's Amigo has now flown successfully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor wood 2 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Remember April 1980? The Iranian Embassy siege was reaching a conclusion, thanks to the intervention of the SAS, and I was starting to cut the first wing ribs of a 104" Slingsby T31. More than forty years later (don't ask), I have finally manage to complete a successful maiden at the Cat & Fiddle site next to the Buxton to Macclesfield road. This is a great site that works well with winds from SW to NW and has a massive, flat landing area with soft grass and no rocks. The model flew very much like the full size; stable but responsive to elevator and very sluggish to aileron even with coupled rudder. Spoilers weren't needed for landing, but I checked them out during the flight and they seem produce a gentle nose down pitch and height loss without the speed increasing. Very pleased with the end result, and I can't understand why I didn't fly it sooner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Is it really that long ago? We went to the boat show presumably in early 1981 and walked past the Iranian embassy building which still bore the scars. Nice model btw. I've both cycled and driven over the Cat & Fiddle and noticed people flying gliders but it was long before I had any interest. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan M Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 I remember soloing in 1980 in a full size T31 as an air cadet at West Malling... but it was the summer! Lovely model - was it a kit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Ah Trevor really enjoyed the story to the build. The Cat and Fiddle, how I remember the ride back down into Mac, I was always Lampe Rouge, tail end Charlie on the club run, as we hurtled (on push bikes) to certain doom, at +100 mph, or that how it seemed. The memory of coming across a motor bike, buried in a stone wall, with I/we understood the rider being dead. I have heard of others flying from the area, from the heather, with just gently sloping hillsides, I guess it is the shear height and the general continuous persistence of wind at that altitude? I believe there was at least one motor glider based on the type T29 or was it a T31 which numerically seems a better Bet? I have a plan for a small T31, which I have considered converting to a small electric motor glider, it is models such as yours, the lights the embers of passing thoughts. Edited By Erfolg on 04/09/2020 11:03:48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor wood 2 Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Jonathan, I also soloed with the ATC at Sealand in the late sixties. The model is a plan build from a 1974 Aeromodeller? article. I've decorated mine as XA284 which I did most of my flying on. It still exist in civilian ownership , but has been converted to a single seat T31M, the motorised variant mentioned by Erf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marsh Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 two models i got for free today, were from a project, had escs, etc in them. the Penguin (big bixler type model) is ugly.. suppose function before form... Edited By Paul Marsh on 06/09/2020 18:49:50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Cunnington Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Old Cambrian models/John Venti 48 inch span Bumble Bee as good as finished now, 3 channel and OS 15 powered Many thanks to Murat for the Bee logo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Kece 1 Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I am pleased that you used it. Looks good. A print on transparent vynil should give a better result! Or you can print it on a waterslide sheet and cover it with Clear Cote. Let ti dry and then transfer it like any decal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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