[Servo]

Home made flight simulator - Here in Sydney.
http://www.popsci.com.au/2009/03/aussie ... simulator

[stillflyin]

Here is some eye candy. Just need some balsa, glue & .........

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/m.html?item=251269866448&pt=US_Radio_Control_Control_Line&hash=item3a80d9e3d0&_ssn=u.s.wing&rt=nc

[gbanger]

There are certainly some beautiful aircraft there John.... but I will have to wait until I retire before I get the time to SCRATCH BUILD anything. Its a dying art, and that is a shame... but who has the time theses days!

[stillflyin]

There are certainly some beautiful aircraft there John.... but I will have to wait until I retire before I get the time to SCRATCH BUILD anything. Its a dying art, and that is a shame... but who has the time theses days!

30 years ago it was the only way and I did seem to find a little time each night to do a bit more. Over three months it would come to life. Now I'm retired it does seem like a lot of effort considering ARF's but man don't they look good.

In the country clubs (even at PEMAC) there is still a fair bit of scratch building.

One benefit of building yourself is that in the event of a crash, you have the plans, balsa, covering and all the knowledge of how it was built to repair.

[secant0give]

That's quite true John, I quite like scratch building models. It's a lot of fun, very satisfying and it doesn't take that long, especially if you've built a few and learn't a few tricks allong the way.

I wouldn't call my self as a great builder or particularly fast. However there are some very good and fast scratch builders around. I was really impressed with SRL's two scratch built Q-500s I think he put them together, just from sheets of balsa in a little over a week.
I don't think he used a plan either, just coppied another broken model and designed his own built up and fully sheeted wing. (most of the ARF Q-500s have foam wings) The really impressive thing was he had to add some coins to bring them up to the minimum weight to make it legal for competition. A light ARF is usually about 4-5 oz over the min weight.

There are guys that can build a model from scratch in the time it takes a lot of people to assemble an ARF. Mind you they have built more than just a few and over some years as well

[Too Drunk to Fly]

Sale on at this place http://www.apachobby.com/
I just 'window' shop every now and then.

[chrism]

Hi Guys,
This is one for those interested in early powered flight and WWI aircraft.
TAVAS is the only Australian organisation looking at building replicas of these type of aircraft. Check out their video links.

http://www.tavas.com.au/