What did you do aeroplane wise today?

[OZPAF]

Beautiful. Good luck with your trimming session.

John

[THB]

It was perfect flying weather when I set out on a long bike ride this morning... and stopping for lunch and coffee I noticed it was still dead calm... finally got home and the air was still still... jumped in the car with two models and got to the park just as the breeze came up    Did get a couple of flights in and have some info now to make some small changes before next time...

[OZPAF]

It's a great way to finish the day Tim. The last couple of Sundays here have seen the wind drop around 4 and I race off to a local park to fly a RC DLG and some CLG's. It's a very relaxing way to finish the day.

John

[ramses]

It's official I have a migraine. Ramses you have me talking in my sleep and driving off the roads. I was once gonna attempt the Dornier 335 but the launch put me off. That thing is for nuttier professors than me!

Hahaha 
I do have the Do-335 kit... but haven`t dare to build it yet.



Hope the Fokker is easier to launch and trim, fingers crossed!

Cheers, Ramses

[Lastwoodsman]

What did you do airplane wise today?

Friday May 15 2026  Morning  30 inch Beaver flights.

     I lucked out.   I got up early before sunrise and got packed up and out to the Cricket Field.   To my surprise,  there were no Cricket players on the field,  first thing in the morning,  on a long weekend.

     There was a lot of humidity to work with,  and a lot of cut wet grass to remove from the model and wheels,  after landing,  and a lot of wiping and drying (also a fan) with paper towels.    It was dead calm first thing in the morning.

      I got in  14  stretch wound flights  for  Flight Report #17.    I made up and bench tested two new motors,   9"  and 12",  of  total cross section of  0.813",   the strongest motor yet.    I got up to  27 cranks,  (405 turns),  on the  15:1  winder,  where it was then too physically hard to wind in any more turns...   On good launches I got  7 8 9 and  two 10 second flights.   And I got the first four in-flight pics,  the first ones for the Beaver.

Pic #1     2923     Sunrise on Flight Report #17
Pic #2     2936     In the Stooge ready to wind.
Pic #3     2941     First in-flight pic with the Beaver.
Pic #4     2945     Flight #10   long flight 9 sec

Full Flight Report to follow in my Beaver Thread.

Lastwoodsman
Richard

[Jmk89]

I bought a dozen small rotary dampers from RS components.  They seem to be a bit weaker than the ones that the guys who talk about the ones sold in the US by specialist FF suppliers.  When I use a spring made by winding 19" of a guitar E string around a 1/16th mandrel, as advised by US flyers, these dampers turn too quickly to get a decent delay to use for D/T timer purposes.

So I've been working on some other spring parameters for these dampers.  600 mm of E string around a 5/64th mandrel seems like it might be pretty good.  With luck, I might install it on Scram tomorrow.

[PeeTee]

I'd use a Tomy timer with a Scram, they are available from FFs (Free Flight Supplies) in the UK if you can get them! I used to buy the rotary dampers from Ace Controls, the FRT G2 101 if I recall but only ever used them in HLGs and catapult launch gliders.

Peter

[Jmk89]

Thanks Peter.  I still have some Tomy timers (including some John Fletcher "Arrow" timers), but I thought I would branch out.

[ramses]

What did you do aeroplane wise today?

To be impatient, and despite the wind gusts being far too much for the Fokker D.XXIII, to give her her maiden flight anyway:

But i now know the concept works, the Fokker shows potential.
Real trim flights as soon as a dead calm day/evening arrives.

Cheers, Ramses

[gravitywell]

Beautiful plane that is not often modelled.  Looks like its going to be a flier too.

[billdennis747]

I seem to have spent a couple of days building a canoe. Any guesses?

[TheLurker]

I seem to have spent a couple of days building a canoe. Any guesses?

Umm, not a clue, but it's a very nice looking canoe and it should be fairly resistant to sinking with all those watertight bulkheads.

[Anyun]

Unless I'm totally fooled by the perspective the sides look very low. Not really like an aircraft fuselage, but more like a ... canoe? Well, as you can see, I haven't a clue either 

Yesterday, I took the opportunity to make some pre-covering photos of a vintage wake I'm building. The design is named Laban, the second of three different models named Laban from Swedish company Truedsson. This kit had a short life, the year after it was released the fuselage area rule for wakefields was removed and designs like this went the way of the dinosaurs.

The plan can be found on the website of Swedish oldtimer association: https://smos.se/modellregister/en/modell/800/.

/Andrea

[Jmk89]

I seem to have spent a   couple of days building a canoe. Any guesses?

A canoe with undercarriage - it must be an amphibious

[billdennis747]

Well unlike Titanic, the bulkheads go all the way to the top. I'll do a bit more and post another picture