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Gday Todd
Don't let the helis intimidate you. They just take a ton of practice and patience.
I learnt on my twister 3D storm and it was many many hours before I even lifted her off the ground.
The ...
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Gday Alex
Just a couple of things to check here before we seal the deal, is this the same Spitty that Andrew has? And, is it $160 you want for her?
Very interested, if it is the same as Andrews ...
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Gday Alex
Sold for $150. I will not be down at the field this saturday however will be down on Sunday. Let me know when you want to hook up.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Alex
I can drop by on Saturday however it will be around 1300hrs, is that too late? Failing that 0900 on Sunday is fine.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Paul
In all fairness to Kev if all the fasteners etc on your T28 were adequately loctited you would never have had that flyaway.
Cheers
Rob B
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SOLD
I will give you a yell to seal the deal.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday George
No worries, we should consult the resident jet jockeys re good fans etc for this baby.
There is plenty of 90mm jet action occurring at the moment within the club so I expect we will ha...
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G'day George
Just sms's you, where are you going to be today? A51 or mc coy.
Looking at the size of the box there is no way that is going to fit in my car!?
Cheers
Rob b
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G'day All
It may not be applicable to assign a straight db maximum?
Different aircraft make different frequencies of sound, the psychoacoustal brigade will argue that a large 3d aircraft gnashing it...
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Not Good BB, glad you are ok, I can think of a multitude of things I would rather be focussing on at 2miles then some dimwit on the ground with the IQ of an oyster blasting me with a laser.
However, i...
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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...
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G'day Chris
I have a 13*6.5 apc you are quite welcome to.
Cheers
Rob b
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G'day Chris
No worries will do the above shortly
Cheers
Rob b
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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
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G'day Chris
Build up your adapters using 4mn bullet plugs.
I have a bag full of hxt's hope to see you tomorrow at the field so I can give you them.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Graham
If it is any consolation, from memory Ingo and I had to cool our heels for a few months back when we joined the club.
It's just one of those things.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Rob
Thought you had completely disappeared, still have to swap some cash for some batteries with you mate.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Dave
So you grabbed a T28 eh?
If you shove a torque tube through the fuse centreline just below the elevators you should have enough extension to attach the tail rotor quite easily. Gyro sh...
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G'day Mr JellyV
Nice buy mate, you have hours of white knuckled fun ahead of you.
The set up can be a bit daunting at first however makes sense after a while. It's great Dave can help you, will save ...
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Heya robbo,
Bob needs male to male mate. (What a sentence that is ?)
I have the bits and pieces to make bespoke cabling, I'll see if I can find them and make one up for you Bob.
Stay tuned
Rob B
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It's all good Bob, I have all the bits required in front of me now and the job is 1/2 complete.
Rob B
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Gday Bob
Cable is good to go.
How do you want me to get that to you?
Rob B
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No worries Bob
I'll wander down to the field on Saturday morning.
What time do you expect to be there?
Rob B
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Gday Bob
I have some urgent work to get through this morning so unable to get to the field.
However the cable is sitting in my letterbox.
Give me a yell on my mobile or email me and I'll let you kn...
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Awesome stuff, where did you find that gem?
Cheers
Rob b
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Too cool
I thought the car wash was pretty average however I was SOLD when I found out it even had a sign. That stuff gave me a good laugh, all well and good except I am currently on a peak hour train...
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Gday KV
I too saw the HK hotliner and my thoughts were the same, however, a quick lesson from Paul J on the art of fibreglassing could do the trick.
In regards to the bungee launch queries Dave...
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Gday Gazz
Every other aircraft you have is going to be boring after you get this one in the air. Looks magic!
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Aaron
You may wish to try and add some "performance" before putting your wife up for sale.
May I suggest a bigger LiPo? (Much bigger)
or
Prop up.
or
Will her firewall take a Scorpion mo...
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G'day Dave
A very valid point there mate. You have to shop around a bit to get great deals.
Gazz practically gave airwolf away and Darrens last sale was so freaking cheap it was almost irresponsib...
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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...
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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...
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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...........
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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...
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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
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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
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Gday Paul
Thanks for dropping her off, it is going to be an interesting journey with this one.
FYI I have been busily drilling and have already knocked off almost a kilo from the fuselage all aft of ...
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Welcome to weight reduction 101. We indeed have Swiss Cheese. As Kev built her like a brick outhouse there has been no reduction in strength or rigidity with all the removed material. Goes to show a g...
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Gday Kev
She looks like a highly aerobatic machine, good stuff. I got massively bogged last night working out the wing positions for the ES40 biplane conversion. I had forgotten just how "dry" the fi...
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Gday All
Wing angles and offsets all calculated, cabane almost 100% installed, dry fit up shown below.
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Gday All
Thanks to Kev he has kindly donated the Easy Sport 40 (hereon ES40) to myself as an experimental test bed in regards to build and design techniques.
There are a few things we know about the ...
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Gday All
Here's a quick fleet update:
1.64m EP Glider (now 50% Zap-A-Gap) -- Rippin along happily with an improved motor that came out of Kieran's old MX. Top fun to fly! :D
GWS P40 Warhawk -- It...
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G'day Gazz
Another gazzmatazzed built to within in inch of its life machine coming out of the workshop. Suspect nothing but grins from you now mate.
I am wondering what you have done to address...
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Gday Gazz
Yep, when CF fails it does not stuff around, one technique I have come across to beef up cf tube is to epoxy dope soaked wood dowel tightly inside the tube, the CF will still eventually f...
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I for one will need to read a bus load of reviews before I take the chance with these.
Cheers
Rob B
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Gday Kieran
I hope they are good stuff, the price can't be argued with.
I am just a little wary as Spektrum stopped them from selling the receivers and then a few months later they have a clone re...
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Gday Kieran
Thanks for the additional info re how this all came about.
I await with great anticipation Bruce's review.
It appears that the Horizon's/ Oreilly's style of business (Dictatorial Mono...
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Gday All
I have 2 TX's for sale, details as follows.
1 * JR2610 36mhz TX with 36.010 and 36.490 crystals
1 * R700 Full range receiver (36.490)
1 * RS77S Scanning full range receiver
+ When th...
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