I too like the spoon intakes, nice idea and nicely executed. Hope you have a hole further aft for all the hot air to escape from. Cheers Rob B

Gday Steve Interesting idea, shame it did not work out to your satisfaction, the extra weight would have certainly added to the wing loading, also the propwash would have been taking a most unusual a...

Whahahahahahahaha. Good one Steve. Wait till' Kev gets the PC9 up in the air, you're gonna get chewed up bigtime. Or, may I suggest a Stryker vs Funjet combat sortie? I'd sell tickets to watch th...

Gday Steve That pogo will absolutely hammer, why am I not surprised you have the poor thing now sucking 82 amps after only one flight. :thumbup: Quick question, with the A10 did you Y-Lead the ...

Gday Steve At risk of sounding like a sexual deviate..:sick: :D Your new glider looks dead bloody sexy. :thumbup: What is it? Cheers Rob B

Gday Stephen " 72 volts at 68km/h till motor smoked" This explains many things Stephen, actually, it explains everything. :D Quick question, have you ever got your hands on something electrica...

G'day Stephen Nice Stryker mods, 10*10 prop must be a tight fit. Seeing as the weather is so crap I was considering ruddering up my Stryker as today's project. Any hints for me there? Cheers R...

Gday Steve You are a menace to motors. :D I think its time you investigated micro turbines. :thumbup: Cheers Rob B

Gday All This thread seems appropriate to notify of a project I have been working on. Reason being that the thread focus seems to be on frying things and/ or "irresponsible" amount of power. I ...

Gday Steve 1100KV motor. Bummer re the power lines mate, did you manage to land her ok or did she get trashed? Cheers Rob B

Gday All Hoping I can get some tips here. I have de-covered the TwinStar as phase one of her makeover. As expected there are bits and pieces left behind all over the airframe, the outer clear cov...

Ok Gazz thanks for that, will give her a nuking with my iron. Cheers Rob b

Gday Gazz/ KV As expected my iron needs a major cleaning however got most of the residual film off. From the pace I set yesterday I will be sanding most of today. :paranoid: I am aiming for a ni...

G'day Steve I too thank you for the esc review/ advice. I have been considering esc's for the viper and sabre so your post is very timely. The k forces must be bloody good to survive the samste e...

G'day Paul Too funny mate. May I suggest a restructure of your domestic business model? Reassign your financial advisor to assistant financial controller, the controller bit seems to effectively ...

G'day Steve Wow, that's a big difference. With the change in blade count vs same motor/ esc/ fan housing etc etc does the set up change in efficiency? Ie does current draw, thrust, watts output and...

Thanks for resurrecting this thread Stephen and sharing your speed freak skills. Good to see you are still the king of magic smoke esc’s ? and high speed mayhem. Love seeing how you build and detail ...

Gday All I wonder how long the rotors took to get back to terra firma? In the famous words of Andrew R "Holy snappin dooley That could have taken an eye". I really enjoyed watching that cos' it...

Gday Steve That was awesome mate. WTF was all the red "confetti" just after you smacked the lines? Cheers Rob B

Gday Dave Did you note the obvious editing parts where Andrew has removed the loops, inverted hovering, tick tocks and funnel moves? There is also a suspicious "mown" section of grass that seems...

Gday Andrew That post was well written, I was almost going to launch into a Gaz like string of expletives. :lol: Glad things are resolving themselves and you have had another good flight. From my ...

G'day Andrew Another point to add to your useless list, airwolfs left main gear. RB

G'day Andrew Yep that all makes sense. And modifies my plans significantly. Cheers Rob B

This gentleman has attained copper wings status. Probably contributed to a worldwide shortage of Corsairs at the time too. Bit sad though because he makes just about every mistake that you can avoid...

G'day All That control line racing was one of the strangest things I have ever seen. I don't know if I just lost, gained or plain pissed away 6 odd minutes of my life? Cheers Rob B

G'day All To be fair to the control line guys I see merit in the style of flying. For example, if your "opponent" was a naked supermodel I'd be signing up on race day! Or, being able to sledge t...

Nice one KV Damn you instructors are good. I am particularly impressed with the pin point precision shown as you gracefully embed your aircraft in the largest area of standing water on the field. ...

Great video BB Those guys are awesome! So, we nick your big bird, config to say flaps 20 vref+40, install samste in seat 10a and see if the funjet keeps up. Let me know when your ready to go. I'll...

Yikes BB You'd be zipping along at well over 300kts then? That might be a stretch for samste? How about we take my bus and I'll throw some low level low speed alpha floor protection at the proble...

Yep, BB, that's what the diff is between bus drivers and aircraft B pilots. We don't distinguish trees/ forests etc like normal humans, with true Gallic flair one lands in the forest to view the tree...

G'day KV Yeh, knew you'd be onto it. Speaking of geek the earlier video with the old rc equipment was amazing. We are so spoilt nowdays, our kids are going to look at our stuff the same way too. ...

Gday All Ok, here's the link for the Habsheim stack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cv2ud1339E Dave- Aircraft was a first gen A320. BB indicated he would fly a licence revoking, aircraft damagi...

G'day KV I'd say your on the money re freight shift aft. I know transport aircraft usually haul arse out of these bases to get altitude and out of range from insurgent ground attack. Wonder if th...

Gday Kev I have aileron to rudder mix set up on all my aircraft, I use this to stop adverse yaw and keep the aircraft balanced in the initial part of a turn, I also use differential aileron, once aga...

Gday Kev As an addition to my earlier comment you would slightly increase the roll rate using rudder however this would be via the yaw component. Note that you can use your tx switches to turn ail/ r...

Gday Steve What specifically are you trying to find out about adverse yaw, I will be able to easily assist you with this. However, in a nutshell, it is caused by the fact that during a turn one ailer...

Gday Steve The trick here is not to overcomplicate the matter. Your aileron throws should be exactly the same length, dihedral is not an issue, that merely makes the aircraft more stable around the l...

Gday Steve What an odd setup, never seen anything like that before. I think you have a few options though. 1- Join the elevator halves and use a single attach point as per normal. 2 - Centre the serv...

Gday Paul/ Steve Not sure if the Ez Connector option will work with the servo mounted so far aft and offset from centreline, is that in the same location in the Tucano? Cheers Rob B

Having your elevators offset mixed for roll purposes is easily acheivable with our TX's using mixing to the aileron channels. HOWEVER. You would want to set that up as a flight mode selectable action,...

Nothing wrong with the stick and rudder approach Kev. After all it is the pilot via inputs to stick and rudder that ultimately enables a plane to fly!!! I just can't help myself in regards to hooverin...

Gday Kieran In regards to your earlier comment: "you'd get the most benefit from some dihedral in the main cross section (Like how my Stryker looks now!) This directs the air to spill up over the win...

Gday Steve Kieran is spot in regards to cutting up the wing more, you will just lose more rigidity. Another option could be using light fibreglass cloth or the polyurethane sealer to stiffen things u...

Gday All Discovered something interesting last night. I am revamping Ted Stryker and gave it the polyurethane coat treatment. (Thanks for all the info on this Paul and Steve) :thumbup:. What I disc...

Gday Paul I think there is a slight diff in regards to how I have done this, I put 2 light coats of the poly on 1st, then sanded, then painted, and another thicker coat of the poly over the top. Th...

Gday Paul Interesting, seems to be many variations on this technique that you have explored. Thanks for the info on what you used for the L39, that really does look nice. This technique that you a...

Gday KV You need to think about what you want to achieve. Paul and Gazza's methods will add strength to your airframe and provide a good glossy finish due to the addition of fibreglass. My method j...

Gday Steve I'd go the bullets for those puppies, I don't think XT's would safely carry the current you will be drawing. Knowing you it would be sufficient current to power a small town for a brief ...

Gday All There are now a few Durafly Spitfires floating around and I have to say she is a great looking aircraft. However as per the usual HK fare some mods are needed. I am hoping I can both share...

Gday Gazz I remember doing a prac in Engineering that dealt with this matter. Wish I could remember more than the fact that I remember doing it! However I have to date converted 3 aircraft from ...