I’m not paying for it so I dont care about the cost, its 60 parts one a week that means it should be finished next year in time for the blokes 85th, he is still very fit and walks a good 5-10 miles a day never smoked and only rarely drinks booze.

The garden is bigger than a football pitch and out in the sticks so even if he dose fly or attempt to fly it and it ends up as match wood nobady is going to get hurt, not unless they are trespassing on the farm land that surrounds the hopuse and garden.

The land has been left fallow (is that the right word) so even the farmer dose not both to go on that part of land, so where is the problem.

No it was Ivor Noclue

The sad thing is looking at the plan both the Victor & Shacleton will both be throw out into the cold again adter thoer restorations are complete.

Might as well not bother and scrap them both now, as in 5-10 years time they will no better off as they are now.

Ex-crew member of XB261 told me, also read it somewhere but the ravages of time and beer have taken thier toll on the old erm…er… the thing in the head…the brain.

I’ll look through a few books to see if I can find anything.

Look at any photo of 261 and you can see the Canadian Maple Leaf on the nose so it must have been out there for some reason unless it was a secret covert ops mission!

Would that be the AE&EE or what ever it was.

If so would’nt the aircraft have been XB261 the Southend machine scrapped in 1989 cockpit to Duxford then on to Newark

The Kyosho specs are:

Wingspan: 56.7″ (1440mm)
Wing Area: 552 sq in (35.6 sq dm)
Fuselage Length: 46″ (1168mm)
Weight: 5.7-6.2 lb (2600-2800g)
Wing Loading: 18-19 oz/sq ft
Dihedral: approx. +5 degrees
Center of Gravity: 4″ (102mm) behind the leading edge of the wing next to the fuselage.
Center of Gravity Range: 3-13/16″ (97mm) to 4-3/16″ (107mm)
Note: Do Not, At Any Time, balance your aircraft outside this range.
Control Throws: High Rate Low Rate
Ailerons: Up & Down 5/8″ (16mm) 9/16″ (14mm)
Elevator: Up 1/2″ (13mm) 5/16″ (8mm)
Down 9/16″ (14mm) 3/8″ (9.5mm)
Rudder: Left & Right 1-1/8″ (28mm) 13/16″ (20mm)

It will probably come in arround the 100 issues mark most of these type are.

Free Radio gear and the engine is £25, I have e-mailed them…not to order but just to find out how many parts and how much each one is as there is nothing on the site about it.