How ironic that this thread was made.
For the past few weeks, I have been wondering what would happen without oil. As pointed out in the first post, oil is connected to many things we use daily. Why do Americans have to use so much of it…

They’re Americans…that’s what they do for a living. I bet they would use there cars to drive to their next door neighbours house for a bit on the side 😀 🙂 I bet that the back seat of one of their huge cars would add to the sensation 😀 🙂 😀 ( 😮 )I think that I’ll buy one 😀 😀

THIS POST WAS NOT AND IS NOT MEANT TO CAUSE OFFENCE TO THE AMERICANS!!!

We would have sent a search team out eventually.. 😀 Anna

Eventually :confused: 😀 🙂

I was begining to think that you had all left me to my fate. Anyway, what’s wrong with falling in love (even if the spitfire is a load of heavy metal – get the guitars out…he he – never mind!!!) 😉 :rolleyes:

Oops, sorry, I meant as in the pilot being radio controlled.
Do you have a CAA licence then? I merely ask out of ignorance of the complex rules governing piloting heavier than air machines.

Nope sorry, you were actually 😀

Unlike with being a commercial, military or private pilot, a RC model pilot is only “advised” to take flying lessons with a club although it is possible (and legal) to learn to fly by “trial and error” by flying alone (ie. the very expensive option – crash, crash and more crash) although the rules are slightly different for larger models. No licence (to the best of my knowledge) is needed for smaller models.

Model aircraft flights are governed more by geographical location (eg. are you flying in an area where regular RAF low flying exercises take place or within a flight zone regulated by Air Traffic Control?) It is necessary to find this out before flying.

Technically speaking, anyone who controls a flying machine is classed as a pilot. This also counts for model aircraft which are classed as “small aircraft” by the Civil Aviation Authority in their booklet “CAP 658 Model Aircraft – A Guide to Safe Flying”. This means that aeromodellers are ‘pilots’.

I’m Back Now…Internet went down (took all weekend to recover the wreckage) and my spitfire went down with it. Managed to bail out though and I thought that I had better show my face before you all report me AWOL instead of MIA. mind you anything beats POW…lol 😀

Last models I built were both Spitfires, and both MkIXs. The good ol’ Airfix MkIX, of which I did a review for the Modelling Madness site, and also the “Starfix” Spitfire. Starfix are just about the most inaccurate “scale” models around – the Spitfire looks pretty rotten unless you give it a half-decent paintjob. Well, at least mine does!

When did you build them?

It’s nice to see that there are other people who like aviation and modelling as much as I do.

Do you do much modelling?

What do you mean you can’t afford it? Trust me when I first started using that method I was earning £13.50 a week doing a paper round and I still managed it. When you next get paid, go out to a shop and buy a model kit and start with the first few steps and build a bit more when you have a spare moment and so on. It would sometimes take me a couple of months to build a larger kit and it is well worth the wait (I am no more patient than you are) and you will achieve a far better result than if you rush it. You can pick up easy kits for £5. HAVE A GO!!! 🙂