Interesting Mick Your technique is different to mine. I completely wet the silk with distilled water, apply a very thin coat of dope/thinner to the surface to be covered then lay down and tack. I t...

Top idea. Because I fly like crap compared to Gazz I am a bit more of an "expert". And have done quite a bit of building.... and... rebuilding. Cheers Rob B

G'day Andrew You pose an interesting question. As Drew stated pretty much all club members are 2.4 gig Spektrum or JR user. I suspect that we got that way as we had heaps of advice and support to g...

G'day All The sbus system looks like a twist on what I have been using on my model railways for years. It's called DCC or Digital Command Control and could easily translate across to model aircraft...

Gday Peter There is a "right" way and a "close enough" way to approach this issue. The method also changes if you are are calculating for a straight wing aircraft as opposed to a swept wing. I fin...

Gday Danial Nooooooo. Adding weight in my eyes should be avoided if possible. Are you able to hack some weight out of the nose area or shift, change your battery? Cheers Rob B

This is an intersting topic considering that LiPo's are not cheap, I note that the serious RC'ers will generally heat their batteries up to about 55degreesC for optimum performance. Also, on the Extre...

Gday Jason 2m M Grade EPS for me please. Cheers Rob B

G'day Jason I am looking forward to getting my hands on these cores. My plan is for a twin 70mm edf setup. Can anyone suggest a good HK fan that is ready to go? I don't want to have to assemble e...

G'day Paul My setup is very different. I have inboard flaperons actuated via internal rods, 1 servo per side. Then to the flaps that extend via screwjacks and drop via mechanical linkage. The screw...

Gday Paul Easy inspiration is too look at how the real thing does the job, then duplicate in minature. My project is a 767-300, 4m span. Fuse is built out of geodesic carbon rod and fibre, wings...

G'day Jason Good stuff, I am really looking forward to getting my hands on the core. Thanks again for organizing this. Cheers Rob B

Gday Jason The cores are awesome, thanks heaps. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Will see you next weekend at the field to $ you up. Gonna be a hoot getting a 64mm mercury EDF installed, and hacking...

Gday Mr Barnesy Yep I will be there on the 16th, I have been looking forward to this since about 10 secs after I switched the mike off last year. Your ph # for me is correct, just got your msg. Just...

Gday Jason I am going to use square carbon rod for the main spar and then grp rods for secondary transverse spars and then smaller sections back to the trailing edges. I have based this on the meth...

Gday Jason I have quite literally just finished reading right through that thread, I guess our major point of difference is that I am using an edf rather then a prop. Cheers Rob B

Mate, you can borrow mine if you want. I am busily recovering my glider at the moment, even if you want to drop by my place for a few hours, have a few beers and do it there is all cool with me. If yo...

Gday Kev That's pretty funny mate, however.... I'll let you in on a tip, it is really hard to stick down when you put it on backwards, ie with the protective film upwards. How do I know this...........

Gday Kev Yep, fully understand the "Cover of Dark" modelling caper, my 16 month old daughter dictates this. Will drop the iron to you an Saturday. One thing you may wish to think about is to get so...

Gday Kev Sorry to have missed you on the weekend, I am currently trying to find out when my shrink will arrive so I can get my covering done pronto and get the iron to you. Cheers Rob B

Gday Kev All good mate, I was worried that we were both held up re progress. Good to see you are powering along. Cheers Rob B

Gday Mr T If you can let me know what other spares you have and chuck in some training gear consider me very interested. I have heard nothing but good things about this machine. In a related request d...

Gday All I find soldering Deans plugs a pain in the arse. Kieran mentioned to me the other day that the HobbyKing Deans "style" plugs are much easier to solder as they have a solder reservoir so to s...

G'day Frank Seeing as PRCAC is an all electric club you are in the right spot to get some excellent advice. May I suggest you post up some specific questions so we can get started? In the interim pay...

Gday Gazz Yeh I like the samste calculation too. The KevJ calc is even easier, if the batt/esc/motor combo rips the firewall out all is good. Cheers Rob B

G'day All I won't comment as to whether this page is getting too technical, however, I will say it is getting pretty funny. Dave your description of initial motor prop etc selection brings back mem...

Gday Drew Nice one however you have only just begun, now you need to drill a zillion holes in what's left. Have a look at my photos on the easy sport rebuild thread to see what I mean. Cheers Rob B

Gday Paul Next time I see you we can have a chat about your options re duplicating parts. I uses to be a Dental Technician and can offer about 8 different methods to duplicate objects using various m...

kizza42 Wrote: (30-09-2010, 12:13 AM) -- No wing sweep as of yet, but all things considered this F-14 maiden is already more successful than the original Grumman F-14 maiden (Which crashed!) -- I'l...

Gday Paul I decided to do some further analysis of the F14 maiden video using software called "It's all in the Eyes". This magical program biomechanically studies the face and eyes and provides a r...

Looking good Paul, nice work! Cheers Rob B

Gday All There was s short but sharp storm yesterday afternoon that zapped through Toonie about 1530hrs. From the field condition it was a serious H2O dump. Looked awesome on the radar! Cheers...

Thanks for the field reports. I was not sure what to charge up batteries for, big stuff, little stuff, stuff with wheels, without wheels etc etc. Cheers Rob B

G'day all Toonie copped a massive amount of rain last night. I think we are now in the territory of needing one of gazz's jet boats Cheers Rob b

Gday All We had a pretty decent dump of rain early this morning at Toonie and it looks pretty shabby out there right now. Likely the field has reverted back to semi swamp status? Cheers Rob B

G'day All Walking home from toonie station today it looked like a lot of rain had fallen. I suspect the field may be back to swamp status? Cheers Rob B

Gday All I will try to bring some weather back from Perth with me when I return tomorrow. It's an absolute ripper of a day here. Cheers Rob B

G'day All Judging from the constant rain overnight here at toonie I would say mc coy is well and truly underwater. Cheers Rob b

G'day Dave Glad you are optimistic mate however my back lawn is still quite spongy. I do hope your right though and the field is in flyable shape. Cheers Rob B

Amen Gazz I agree with you 100%, if the facility you have paid for is not useable then payment should be deferred or refunded. Having said that what can the council really do and how much responsibil...

G'day All I would hazard a guess that McCoy is going to be stuffed for some time. The storm that zapped through late yesterday dumped what could best be described as a biblical amount of rain. ...

Gday All For those who missed it i'll try to put some perspective on the downpour. It was so heavy that it was raining "inside" the train I was on going home. The roof leaked it's nuts off in the...

G'day Gazz You have got to stop paddling in the harbour and get out and see the wide wonderful world mate. FYI I am on a train right now. If you are up to seeing some Mass Transit porn I will take...

My God All that work and the field still looks bloody awful. Ahh hang on that's just Gazz. Cheers Rob B

Gazz I am profoundly disappointed that my quip rated only the 2527th ranked swear word of your 9587 strong repertoire. Thought i'd make the top 200 for sure. Seriously the field is looking grea...

Gday Jonathan On a scale of 1 to 10 ( 1-Crap, 10-Excellent)the field drainage capability is rated at about minus 60. Forecast for later today is for potential rain of biblical proportions, highly ...

G'day Gazz I will be taking my daughter to her ballet lessons just near the field at 0845. Once she has been deposited I'll check the field condition and report. Cheers Rob B

G'day all Field in ok nick, bit slushy, needs a mow however flyable. Suggest walk in as very wet at the end of the driveway. Cheers Rob B

Gday Samste Apologies for the disappearance however great things are afoot. I will soon have access to state of the art weather forecasts, and... Watch out BB, you are soon to have company on Cla...

Gday Steve Yeh that downpour was very short however very very sharp. Will be no good for the field at all. Cheers Rob B