RE: value of 1975 airplane
Hey Skylark I was given one of those! Cambrian models were produced in Llanidloes, Meirionydd, Wales, during the Seventies, just over the border from where I write; Cambria being the old Roman name for Wales. When a neighbour's father died I was given his old Instructor which was a decidely well-flown model with a white fuselage and tail and the port wing covered in red film while the starboard wing was covered in blue. The builder must have been into politics! I gave it away to an unemployed chap. It flew well enough but was not as good-looking as General Lee, we did get that programme by the way. I've got a build article for it in an old magazine somewhere. I went looking for it this evening and found that Monaxus' Dragonfly is advertised in the July 1976 edition of Radio Control and Electronics (RCM&E) for £22.95. (Americans please mulitiply by 1.6) There was also a spoof veteran model, the Pioneer, which looked a bit like a Bleriot; 58" wingspan, yours for £14.95, and that iconic British trainer, the Keil Kraft Super 60 for £17.44. Happy Days
Posted on: 10/11/2009 5:12 PM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: value of 1975 airplane
Just a word of unsolicited advice to add to Aerowoof's comments, it sounds like you're a beginner, please join your local model flying club for help with building and flying the model. Neither is as easy as it looks. Enya parts are available from Steve Webb Models of Frodsham, Cheshire.
Posted on: 10/6/2009 1:38 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: build from plans
Hi Steve Do you know any experienced modellers? If so they could help you to build a Telemaster 40 or Senior Telemaster will suit your engine and you can get the plans from RCM or from Hobby-Lobby. Ok I know I'm biased. A Sig Kadett Senior would also be a good choice. Happy Landings. DD
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RE: Memories of Dad...
In my case it wasn't my dad but my uncle Geoff, my mother's sister's husband, who taught me how to build. My first two models, a Keil Kraft Ajax rubber powered job and another KK glider were not well built and didn't fly too well. Had I stopped building then, I wouldn't be posting this now. The third model was a 36" (0.9mtr) Veron Cardinal powered by a Mills 75 which I'd bought from the procedes of my paper round by mail order from Henry J. Nicholls of 308 Holloway Road, London. (Bet that bit provokes a few memories!) It didn't look too bad. Being a very trendy twelve year-old I wanted the flying surfaces finished in yellow tissue and the fuselage in purple, but you couldn't buy purple dope so I mixed red and blue and it came out brown! So I took my brown and yellow model around to Geoff to show him and he was very complimentary about my improved workmanship. Then three of us, my father, his brother, who had been an aeromodeller in the early Fifties, and I, went out to a disused WW2 training aerodrome near to where I live one windless summer's day. After a few trimming flights we found that you could fill that thimble of a tank on the Mills and the model would climb in left-hand circles until it was a tiny cross in the sky, stall as the power ran out and descend in left-hand circles to land a few metres away from us. We had flight after flight that afternoon. I can still see the sun shining through the yellow tissue.... Unfortunately, Geoff couldn't be with us as he was in the last stages of cancer which took him from us the following winter. He was only 35. Then for me the sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock'n'roll years intervened and I really was a semi professional rock singer for over thirty years, but one day in my forties I saw a man flying a model aircraft in a field. I stopped to watch, asked him a lot of questions and..... well you know the rest! So rest easy you fathers of teenage boys, who knows, may be in thirty years... Happy Landings!
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RE: Super 60
Daniel, You may use any form of sheet material providing it is strong enough to withstand the torque of starting your engine. In the past I've used paxoline, aluminium and 1/4" plywood to mount engines on. I dare say you could use carbon fibre or glass fibre sheet of a suitable thickness if you can find any. The only advatage of using paxoline is that the material will break in the event of a crash, reducing damage to your engine and airframe. Psuguru, I'd rather have a chuffing steam engine than a flying chainsaw!
Posted on: 9/26/2009 4:04 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: Super 60
MJD, The earlier Super 60 featured a symmetrical section tail surface made up from ribs and spars. The Ben Buckle kit has a flat plate tailplane made up from 1/4" strip a la Junior 60. I don't suppose it makes a lot of differnce. Happy Landings DD
Posted on: 9/24/2009 8:38 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: RCU Roll call time..Where are you from?
Sorry lads, that should have been www.smfc.biz/
Posted on: 8/24/2009 1:31 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: RCU Roll call time..Where are you from?
Shrewsbury,Shropshire, England, hard up against the Welsh border. Never heard of it? Shropshire is England's largest inland county and also it's least heavily populated county in terms of people per acre. You could say it's quiet! Shhhhh... that's just the way we like it! Member of the Shropshire Model Flying Club. Go to www.smfc/biz to visit us. Happy Landings DD
Posted on: 8/23/2009 1:57 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: PLANE advise.......please lol
I see you live in Ireland DC2man. Having once been married to one of Erin's daughters and having visited the country on several occasions, I'd say that you need a model which isn't going to be blown about by all of those Westerlies coming in from across the Atlantic. With that in mind, my recommendation is the Irvine Tutor, fitted with any reputable 40 sized engine. The Tutor has a semi-symmetrical wing and can penetrate a strong breeze without ballooning too much when turning into the wind. There is also a very good deal where you can buy a complete trainer, engine and 2.4 Ghz radio for £250. The model is finished in blue, white and orange but I'm blowed if I can remember the name of the model! A member of my local club has one, it flies very well. If you want a trainer that you can build from the plan upwards, there are only two or three available as far as I'm aware. Send me a PM if this is your interest. Finally, please join your local club. Flying an R/C model is not as easy as it looks and you'll get lots of help from local enthusiasts. Happy Landings DD British Model Flying Association Approved Club Level Instructor
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RE: Whats your dream?
2 Models. 1. The Maule Super Rocket with a large petrol or electric motor. This model looks like a conventional aircraft but is very aerobatic. 2. The 1917 BE2e. Call me narcissistic if you like, but a man with the same name as me was killed by Manfred von Richtofen while flying one of these. I've always planned to build one in his memory and for all of those who have died in a just cause. I have had a 1/6th scale plan for years but have never started in it because having to earn a living has always got in the way. I'd probably fit a four-stroke engine though electric flight is tempting.
Posted on: 7/15/2009 12:54 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Good engine for Senior telemaster?
I used to fly a Senior Telemaster with a Merco 61, a far less powerful engine than the OS, and it flew it well enough for me. I subsequently fitted a Thunder Tiger 91 driving a 15x7 prop. I preferred the fourstroke mainly because of the sound.
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RE: Sal Taibi 84
Hice Job KH116! I too am amazed by the power and flight-times of a modern Lipo and brushless motor combination. A far cry from the can-motors and NiCads of not so long ago which struggled to get off the ground and didn't stay long above it when they had done! I have a double sized Vic Smeed Tomboy in the loft, just waiting for some repairs. It was drawn-up by my uncle, who was a draghtsman and who helped me build my first model aircraft fifty years ago. Where did all that time go! Guess I'll have to electrify that now. Happy Landings
Posted on: 6/23/2009 2:02 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: PREMIER DH82A TIGER MOTH
The cargo hatch was a carry-over from many of the WW1 aircraft, check out the starboard elevations of the SE5 or the BE2 series for example. I've heard that these cubby holes were designed to accomodate a wireless receiver but these were certainly never fitted to the fighters. Instead the pilots used them to hold a pair of boots or shoes and their uniform cap incase they were shot down and taken prisoner. In those days no man would have been seen in public without wearing a hat, and no-one wanted to march into captivity wearing flying boots!
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RE: PREMIER DH82A TIGER MOTH
Fine job Brian! So Premier were a British firm. It's nice to know that we can do something properly if we put our minds to it!
Posted on: 5/31/2009 1:41 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: PREMIER DH82A TIGER MOTH
1. I believe that Premier also produced a 66" (1.68metre) version of the Telemaster about thirty or forty years ago. 2. Were they English kits? The superb quality of the wood and the general presentation suggests an American manufacturer to me!
Posted on: 5/30/2009 12:53 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: Precedent Hi-Boy
UK Maxi, Best of luck with this model, let us know haow you get on with it. Please join your local model flying club. You should find that members will be only too keen to help you with setting it up and flying it, besides you'll benefit from the club's insurance should anything go wrong. Be sure to fuel-proof the engine and tank bay with several coats of varnish or a proprietory fuel
Posted on: 5/16/2009 1:33 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: How Long Did You Fly Your Trainer Before You Stepped Up to Your 2nd Plane?
Basically, if you can take off, fly left and right-hand circuits, fly a horizontal figure of eight and land again near to where you took off without taking the model home in a plastic bag, you're ready for your next model![:D]
Posted on: 4/28/2009 1:33 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Telemaster 40 covered - laser cut monokote logos!
What's the engine you're using Casca?
Posted on: 4/27/2009 1:31 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: Interesting Find - HAL 2100 Autopilot
Pal of mine had one of those some years ago. We could never get it to work so we disconnected everything and flew the model normally.
Posted on: 4/21/2009 1:27 PM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: How does your club train new members?
We pay £70 (about $105 US) per year but that includes a £40 affiliation fee to the British Model Flying Association which comes with third party insurance thrown in. We have about 60 members currently with space for 25 more. We fly off a WW2 training aerodrome in the West Midlands, go to www.smfc.biz/ if you're interested. We have about £7,500 ($11,250) in the bank and have applied for a Lottery Grant to have the runway resufaced.
Posted on: 4/21/2009 1:06 PM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: How does your club train new members?
Our club subcribes to the British Model Flying Association's "Achievement Scheme." The first level of the scheme is the A Certificate. To achieve this a beginner has to be able to carry out all pre-flight checks, take off, fly a circuit of the field at a more or less constant height, fly a figure of eight at a constant height, land, take off again and fly a circuit in the opposite direction at a constant height, fly a low pass and land. He then has to carry out post-flight checks and answer some questions from the BMFA handbook. These are usually concerned with safety. All of this has to be carried out under the supervision of a BMFA Approved Examiner. Once a beginner has his A Certificate he is judged to be a safe flyer and is allowed to fly unsupervised at any BMFA affiliated club. At our club, until a beginner has passed his A Certificate he has to fly with an experienced pilot, who has at least an A Certificate, standing beside him. There are more advanced B and C Certificates as well. For details please visit www.bmfa.org/index. Having pulled up the site, go to "Handbook" and then to "Achievement Schemes." Happy Landings Dave Davis BMFA Approved Club Level Instructor.
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RE: Show Yourselves!!
P.S. I wish I had his money and his success withthe ladies. Maybe the two are inter-related!
Posted on: 4/17/2009 2:21 PM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Show Yourselves!!
Yes and I ride a Triumph too!
Posted on: 4/17/2009 1:53 PM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Show Yourselves!!
Me and STM. Maiden Flight, Shropshire, England December 2008.
Posted on: 4/17/2009 7:18 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Neewbe question about old engine
You'll need to fit a silencer (muffler) of course. Try MECOA they may have something suitable. It would be nice in something like a Seniorita. DD
Posted on: 4/14/2009 8:05 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC"
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RE: Abufletcher's Nieuport 11
It looks great Fletch!
Posted on: 4/12/2009 2:45 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "RC Scale Aircraft"
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RE: 40 Size Telemaster
Sorry gentlemen, the website of the Shropshire Model Flying Club is www.smfc.biz/ and not as shown above.
Posted on: 4/6/2009 2:01 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: 40 Size Telemaster
; Telemaster 40's maiden flight. The model was built by Richard Golding who took off and flew... and white STM ARF. I now have a Mini Telemaster finished in the same colour scheme and an STM is soon
Posted on: 4/6/2009 1:58 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: 40 Size Telemaster
Have you flown the Telemaster yet Senrack?
Posted on: 4/5/2009 1:53 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "Kit Building"
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RE: Swordfish
Thanks for all of your help. I'll pluck up the courage to give it a try!
Posted on: 3/25/2009 2:35 AM by Author "Telemaster Sales UK" in the forum "RC Scale Aircraft"
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