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December 13, 2011 at 12:36 pm in reply to: Static F-100 Super Sabres in Europe #1061619

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Earlier this year:

June 24, 2009 at 2:01 pm in reply to: What book/s started you off as a kid? #1202120

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What sparked my interest in flying was slightly more ‘leftfield’:

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

I’m not ashamed either😀

March 16, 2009 at 10:25 am in reply to: HS-748 – Any Preserved ? #1162702

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Was at Blackpool the other week. There was a 748 parked right outside the office window. I remarked to a colleague “that one’s not going anywhere soon – its got no engines or props”.
Open the blinds 20 minutes later and it was gone.

However, there was one having the engines run up and taxying. Rumour of a possible export.

March 16, 2009 at 10:18 am in reply to: Flying Models #224608

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There’s just the covering to complete since that photo was taken, so weight will be close to 4100gm. Wing loading around 82 gm/dm2.

In any case, the detail doesnt come close to those biplanes above so I wont be doing close-ups;)

March 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Flying Models #224690

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whats the story!?

Its 1/12 scale with a few adjustments as my idea was fly first, scale second.
Loosely derived from some plans that were intended for a 15cc ducted fan. I redesigned it for twin 3 phase motor ducted fans and with a built up, planked construction instead of foam.

Construction is currently stalled as I am waiting for a friend to CNC some new cams for the main undercarriage retract mechanism. (work start in late 2006).
The commercial retract mechanism disintegrated (twice) during fast taxi tests at the end of last year.

March 12, 2009 at 11:13 am in reply to: Flying Models #224694

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I dont think mine are quite up to the same standard:

December 2, 2008 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Heinkel Crash in Kent ,Stenning ? #1205371

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When I lived in the UK in Canterbury, used to go riding near Stelling.
Maybe thats where he means?

December 2, 2008 at 1:02 pm in reply to: TR1936 radio information/Pictures? #1205521

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Found out that when my father died his collection of vintage radio transceivers was donated to the RN Radio Museum. They would probably be worth contacting?

December 1, 2008 at 3:09 pm in reply to: TR1936 radio information/Pictures? #1206628

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Info:
TR1936 was a 10 channel xtal controlled transceiver with 180kHz channels. Also went under the ARI reference of 5489.
Several enhanced versions were TR1936B and TR16440.

If I can find any pictures I’ll post them.

April 30, 2008 at 8:16 am in reply to: BAC TSR2 #225773

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So much for the frequent updates!

Sorry for the delay. Everything has conspired against model building for the last six months. Finally getting started again:

Now rather busy internally:

The U/C doors are eventually completed, once I realised that the plans I had were wrong and most of the centre section had to be re-done 😡

So today she is looking like this. Tempted to chuck in the batteries and try some taxi tests and see if the U/C is robust enough and nothing comes loose:

June 25, 2007 at 8:11 am in reply to: BAC TSR2 #227707

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Thanks for the comments one and all.

This will be electric. Two 90mm fans, brushless motors on 8S LiPo packs. Around 2,8 kw total for 42N thrust.

Will probably be XR228 in antiflash, not fully decided, or really thought that far ahead…..

The pictures seem to be deceptive. Some friends have seen the pics and then when they see the actual model the result is usually “holy s**t I had no idea it was that big”……:D

June 22, 2007 at 8:19 am in reply to: God Speed Robin Olds ! #1266313

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“Reaching for the skies” TV documentary – Fighters:

“Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness, it is aggressiveness, it is a streak of rebelliousness. A fighter pilot is a man in love with flying. A fighter pilot is a man who wants to be second best to no one. I think it is love of that vault of blue, that becomes your playground — if, and only if, you’re a fighter pilot. You don’t understand it if you just fly from A to B, straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You’re moving through the basement of that vault of blue. A fighter pilot sees not a cloud, but beauty. He sees not the ground, but something remote from him, something he doesn’t belong to as long as he’s airborne.”

That was exactly how he came across.

RIP

June 22, 2007 at 7:45 am in reply to: BAC TSR2 #227811

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No problem for the updates.
Have spent most of the build time in the last four weeks working on the main U/C retraction mechanics and geometry 😮 so there is little visible change.

June 21, 2007 at 9:30 am in reply to: TSR.2 Memories project #1267518

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I seem to remember that the Fairey Swordfish (or a development prototype) was the TSR1.
As in topedo spotter and reconnaissance 1

June 21, 2007 at 9:09 am in reply to: BAC TSR2 #227813

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Just a little bigger

Here’s what happens when you get to 1/12 scale.

Absolute scale buffs will probably take offence at some of the minor liberties taken but the primary excercise here is to produce a flying model first and a scale model second.

I expect that I will be popping into the historical forum now and again with questions about this aircraft.
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