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Good Friday? https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays The next bank holiday in England and Wales is 14 April Good Friday

A lot of work! Good Stuff!! For info, Rich, your wording seemed to suggest that the old password would not work on Login, however using Firefox mine did. In Members Only, there used to be a section to discuss generally anything needed to be mentioned away from public gaze. It seems to have gone, with only "Flying Diary", "Newsletters" and "Slope Soaring" Would you confirm please which bits are accessible to Committee approved Members Only and which are public access? Could you also have a look sometime at the order that Forum sections appear as some little used sections

Pre-ordered and received mine and flown in the back garden OK. but on the first forward flight circuits at an Indoor it tried to attack the person standing to my left so I grabbed it out of the air, suffering several cuts, but at least the person didn't get it in his face. It had glitched the tail motor very briefly twice in as many seconds and I was trying to get it down in one piece when it spooled up and came at us. I had no control nor time for Hold to spool it down even if it had worked (Fail safe had been set on all zeros).. Post Mortem, firstly, the

If there is a lot of space for a Rx battery (you have not said what type but assume NIMH) I use Velcro on battery and location, and ALSO a well glued in velcro strap. I have seen people use double sided foam tape with just its own adhesive and that makes me cringe as batteries can get warm enough to weaken that adhesive. Are you using a switch? Why fill an area with foam? not needed.

Trying to think of the name of the tubing I use for glow fuel clunks, but failing! It's sold for that purpose (ignoring petrol of course which is different). I never ever use the supplied tube!!

To crimp brass tube onto wire is never easy, and CA isn't great on brass tube where you cannot clean it well or on spring wire. I usually use a specially blunt pair of side cutters if I'm going to crimp but these days usually wick flood lead based solder inside the tube with a very hot iron. I only go back the once, no more.

Ah, don't let it get you. USB sticks are so cheap now I copy anything I don't want to do again to HDD AND also copy to USB stick or SD card in a USB reader as backup (also enables easy transfer to another computer). Look back at your post two above, and you will see that the formatting for bold is not working, and its wrong because the first "b" has the closing bracket (which should be next to it) way down at the end near the closing correctly bracketed "/b". This looks like you are selecting bold, then trying to write between it? Try as I advised in my other post, write wh

There are significant problems with the (now quite ancient) CAMFC site for Phoenix Simulator, its not a matter of the T.W.A. unsightly and illegal crap not being there in view! Sadly, it's not a question of putting a camera on a tripod and clicking away, if anyone thinks they are up for it. Its a task needing the right conditions and patient accurate set up and operation. On the current set:- 1. The occasion when the photos were taken to compose and stitch together the visual landscape was unfortunately a time of day with extremely flat du

Well, I very briefly got interested, then saw the pics, firstly those surface areas are still WAY too small to gain my interest, secondly (and actually more worryingly), the engine does not look like my existing 39. I agree the "old" 39 is a superb engine, has a reliable idle that's super slow, yet decent power (on 20%) and a wonderfully progressive throttle. Bottom line is that I have to bite the bullet of replacing my Cougar airframe before it gets too soggy and all the film falls off, and that's not long off. Don't suggest an Evolution, as I have no interest or time to build one.

Hi ChasePlane, A brief explanation as to the "C" Rating(s) of a LiPo Battery. The "S" rating of a LiPo is a hard thing to disguise or mistake, as the number of cells can in most cases simply be seen and counted! The two "C" ratings are a VERY different matter. Poetic license abounds, not to mention downright lying!! "C" Rating applied to CHARGE or current IN. (Usually in the range 1-5) This is a multiplier applied to the capacity and determines the manufacturers statement as to maximum charge rate. Saying a battery is 5C charge Max is saying for example a 2200mAh batte

And I'll watch the gate for the ambulance.

3.3x20 is 66 Amps. The high sounding Amperage for the motor size is due to the 4S supply voltage "forcing" more current. It all sounds OK to me.

On the three times I tried it from 45 side bank it placed the Heli level and in very slow forward flight. There are videos of it on Youtube, company and private ones.

I would expect so, yes. I remember reading that in WW2 the Lancs got into difficulties if the flame shields fell off or were lost through flak, either from becoming more visible or seriously restricting the pilots night sight ability if inward facing.

And they are worried about us................... http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-flyboard-air.htm

Well, TBH not wanting to risk the Heli, I have not tested recovery with the 230S beyond a 45 degree bank, but it did that perfectly. The biggest "fault" is that the panic button is the bind button on a DX9, and that is not easily reachable to a finger while thumbs on sticks, so I have meant to swap switch "A" and the button over, a round tuit job. For now I have bluetacked a 3mm nylock to the button top, a horrendous bodge that actually works pretty well!! I can flip the nano without crashing (much!!) so its not a priority.

Motor : Emax 2826-6 (your figure) ESC : 60A (your figure) LiPo : Number of Cells(S), Capacity(mAh), and "C" rating (max discharge rate as a multiplier of the capacity)??? Differing manufacturers use differing battery connectors, you may have to change to pair to the ESC, though its more usual for ESCs to come without connectors on the supply pair and you will have to add them/it. This will not normally come with the ESC or battery. Don't assume that battery manufacturers know what they are doing, for example a "big name" was recently selling 1500mAh 60C 4S race quad packs (

If not now totally confused, lets deal with the suffix number. Some list this as the number of Poles, but I can assure you (since I have rewound a couple!) that the Suppo 2212-6 has 12 Poles, so Pole Pairs is the nearest to accurate way to describe it. A DC 5 pole brushed motor has five Poles (not five pole pairs) on the Rotor and a permanent magnet with two Poles. One more pole to create rotation. The general purpose 2212-6T 2200kV pulsed DC brushless motor has 12 Poles on the wound Stator with pole pieces that are 22mm dia by 12mm long, a sandwich of thinner iron sections, and the

Hi ChasePlane, Nobody is going to shout at you, and you have every right to be confused! One MAJOR problem is that some manufacturers state dimensions by external size (as Martin intimates) and some by the STATOR dimensions (the internal rotor max dimensions). EMax is a case in point as they identify the motor as 2826 by title, but this is not its overall size without shaft, which is variously stated but is on their own site stated as 47.5x39, with a drawing published showing these overall dimensions! Generically the suffix number does relate to the number (and gauge wire) of th

With the seemingly all conquering multicopter and its ease of use, Heli's have gone on the back burner. The most recent "best attempt" has been the Blade 230S, which simplifies the mechanics down to a minimum while still providing a means to fly collective pitch including 3D, with a recovery mode for when it all goes wrong. Sneered at by many, its a much much better machine than they give credit for. Now Blade are announcing that the 130X is being superseded by the 130S, which follows the same path of brushless power with motor driven tail and robust simple

Re: "Uploading the photographs onto here will delay things a bit as I will have to reduce the size of the photo,s to post them on this website. Bit of a nuisance really, but unavoidable." Firstly, how do you reduce the photos? I use a program called Irfanview. http://www.irfanview.com/ This allows batch conversion to a pre-chosen size and format that will remain active for the next time, and is free. Secondly, Don't know if you have noticed, but I never upload pictures here anyway, I put them to a website that allows them to be accessed (IF you

Alton Towers http:// http://dronelife.com/2014/06/05/guilty- ... flight-uk/ And yet they allow video of him doing what was if anything a worse infringement of UK law to remain on public access to "promote others doing it" Blackpool

But then it wasn't intended to promote safety, it was to show the technology's front edge both in development and what is now commercially available. In reality they broke a number of current UK laws, and potentially gave credence to flying in areas that should not be. Wasn't long ago when the CAA managed a successful prosecution against a man who flew a multicopter into Alton Towers from the car park. Now the BBC show everone how easy and fun it is to do, effectively luring people towards doing it. No, they didn't SAY it was closed and not operational (you could see that if you wanted

P.S. - Why do Chargers have such ungainly awkward STUPID names?? P.P.S. - If you had a decent charger, why would you sell it?? Answer in most cases, because its NOT a good one!! From someone you know, maybe, otherwise, no way.

OK, Joke over..................... I have over 20 chargers (plus ten more that do NIMH only!), from £100 plus (AC/DC Graupner Ultramat 16) to less than £25 (12v X Charger B606). I'm often using five at once on LiPo. NONE are multi-chargers and frankly as an engineer I would never buy one, as a basic engineering premise is "never put all your eggs in one basket". While Lofty has advised AC/DC, a large slice of mine are small DC only ones. These are powered from small JPerkins PSUs which provide 12v @ 10A, so several chargers can hook onto one PSU (I have three of these PSUs, same