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« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2011, 03:29:37 PM »
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Avijit. Kind words, indeed. Thank you. No I wont go! You may well have to prise me away  Smiley

Manish.  It's good to be here! Yes, the Fournier is a Mick Reeves kit. He still does them and has recently started to sell the retract unit to suit. I had, and am still having, problems with my home-built unit which collapses every now and again. It's powered by a very old OS FS60 foure-stroke engine which only just gets it off the ground. Here's a video of it's maiden flight. The CG is too far forward and made rolls a bit hairy. At least, I think that the forward CG was the problem  Head Scratching.

 

Shame about the camera failure!
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« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2011, 08:46:21 AM »
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Superb Don, yeah! I have been eyeing the kit from Mick for some time, but the prospect of shipping puts me off everytime. May be some day....
That old engine does pull your Fournier off the ground in a very scale manner. And loved the fly by.   
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« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2011, 02:46:09 PM »
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The Mick Reeves kit for the Fournier is quite a bargain at £75 (providing you can get it past the resident Chancellor  Giggle) which could be considered as off-setting the postage cost. A thought for the future, perhaps. Just don't tell her that I said so. Smiley

As I mistakenly posted pix of the DH82A's fuselage on the RCSB site I thought that I ought to let your fans see it on this iste. So here they are...

The fuselage nearest the camera is that of my own design DH60 Cirrus Moth which I'm build alongside the the Falcon Tiger Moth.
It'll be powered by an OS IL300 engine.

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« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2011, 08:53:03 AM »
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2x OS IL 300 Huh?  Drool
Don did you break a bank?? or let me know if there are any openings where you work Giggle
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« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2011, 11:12:31 AM »
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This is just not fair, to post such Drooling stuff on a public forum, I just changed my third Key board, and fourth one is already flooding.

These are real things sir. No body can deny that.

Out of Tiger moth, Se5a, and Bleriot, French made Bleriot XI (of course I am talking about the one made by Louis) is my favorite, First one to cross the English Channel.

Keep on coming, I do not mind changing keyboards.
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Nice to see another scratch/Kit builder around Don.
Kits are much rare in India than ARF/RTF. So I took up converting PDF/DXF plans for Laser cutting and already have AMP Master and Katana EP Plan cut. AMP Master fuse is half ready.
One small question. What you prefer to use for joining the spruce bracing/caging of the fuse ? CA or the white PVA adhesive for wood ? I am using silver pine wood for longeron and fuse caging and worried about the bonding of fuse structure as it would carry all the load while flying or on the ground (and landing stress).
 
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What you prefer to use for joining the spruce bracing/caging of the fuse ? CA or the white PVA adhesive for wood ? 

ujjwaana. I use PVA wood glue for spruce. When it comes to balsawood, wing ribs to spruce spars, balsa formers to spruce longerons, I prefer SuperPhatic.

I avoid those 5-minute epoxies for plywood engine and undercarriage mounts. They just don't penetrate the wood sufficiently. In my opinion. I hope that helps & thanks for your interest & posting.

Manish. I have only one OS IL300 but they are mounted simply with just 4 x 4mm bolts so are easy to transfer from one plane to another with a bit of for-planning the access.
Here's a close up of the engine on a test rig...


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« Reply #32 on: June 28, 2011, 03:30:35 PM »
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Wow! beautiful engine Drool Flyingboxcar should have this in his collection.
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« Reply #33 on: June 28, 2011, 03:42:15 PM »
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Learnt something today... the OS IL300 seems to be one of those Futaba 14MZs of the engine world !

Gorgeous !
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Anwar, the OS IL 300 is specially designed to look like a Gypsy Major of yore, if you would notice even the exhaust is towards the opposite side of normal minautre hobby engine. This puts the exhaust stacks on scale side.
The result is that when fitted to a period DH design they look like a minautre Gypsy Major in a minautre Moth.
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« Reply #35 on: July 06, 2011, 01:45:50 AM »
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I've just come across this picture of the AVRO 'D'. It was taken by the editor of the RC Model Flyer magazine at a contest I entered a couple of years ago.  I landed quite heavily and had to re-build  the undercarriage. It's now ready for flying again and will be entered into a competition in two weeks time.

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Don, that pic is so very atmospheric!
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Sad news about the AVRO "D", I'm afraid  Cry  I flew her at Old Warden Scale contest a couple of weeks ago and won the top award for "The Best RC Model" but soon after take of and going around the circuit for the third time, the wind took hold and I was unable to prevent an incipient stall.

She span in from fifty feet or so and ended up in a heap.

That's modelling for you. On with the next build  Grin 

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Don, you shouldn't have posted that last picture. It is heartbreaking. Were you able to revive her? Even at the cost of telling a lie, please say, "Yes".
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Regretably, no. It was damaged far too much to contemplate repair. I removed the engine, radio and servos, cut out all of the turnbuckles, took the wheels from their axles and dumped the remains into the dustbin. It now lives as part of the landfill of East Sussex, my county of residence. Boo Hoo!
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Shattered beyond words. I've nothing left to say.
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« Reply #41 on: August 27, 2011, 02:41:43 AM »
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sad to see this... one of the best models make i have seen in years... but again tomorrow is another day all the best Don... and if you have the plans for this pls share them would love to give it a shot here...
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Don,
i like the "on with the next build" part, i lost couple(More than a couple) of my colleagues in crashes, worse than the one above, earlier days, all of us used to get airborne, do some hard flying, and later in the day drink to his soul at the bar. usually ending up noisy and extremely tipsy. next day on, "on with the next build". i'll drink to that
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BER is the word Don
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« Reply #44 on: August 27, 2011, 09:58:24 PM »
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Gusty,

A small tribute to your fallen comrades.

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VC is right BER = Beyond Economical Repairs
Had one today with my Adrenaline. Took  the model to the field, brought it back in a small poly bag (all the usefull bits extracted out and the airframe dumped) after a nasty vertical impact on the concrete tarmac
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Why is this topic becoming dedicated to a graveyard for beautiful models? Breaks my heart. What a great loss Flyingboxcar.  Sad
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