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RE: Summer Heat
i dont know what you're all complaining about, its great flying weather over here on the other side of the pond!. although i havent been flying much lately, been having too much fun out on the motorbike XD
Posted on: 7/2/2009 9:07 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8900376
RE: Top Flite Cessna 310
you could probably run a 12x7, buy a few 2 blade props and experiment to find the one you like best as a general rule, if you go from a 2 blade to a 3 blade you must drop an inch in diameter, so if a 12x8 2-blade prop works for you try a 11x8 3-blade and see how you get on ;)
Posted on: 6/30/2009 2:06 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Twin & Multi Engine RC Aircraft"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8894904
RE: Young Pilots Forum
im 16, from the other side of the pond, started out with nitro cars and monster trucks a few years ago and sold them on to get myself a .40 trainer two years ago, passed my "A" Licence a month after, now i fly a Ripmax Bossanova and have a few projects on the build ive been away from RCU for a while aswell [&:]
Posted on: 6/30/2009 1:56 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Crash & Rebuild"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8894876
RE: Any females fly?
Hmm, the force, strong within you it is... much to learn you have... [&:] (where the hecks the lightsaber smiley? :P)
Posted on: 8/11/2008 5:44 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7834354
RE: EPIC FAIL
takes a true aeromodeller to look back on the day and laugh instead of sulking about it, 'corse if it was a real model aeroplane the hawk wouldnt have been able to carry it... ive enver had hawks bother me, but ive made a sport of p***ing off the pidgeons, kites and numerous other birds that wander onto our flying site (Sparrows make for great agility testing! :P)
Posted on: 8/11/2008 1:54 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7833598
RE: Any females fly?
looks too nice to launch into a tree anyway [:)]
Posted on: 8/11/2008 7:20 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7832454
RE: Any females fly?
ah, its only a little'en then :P does look nice though, i can see you've got potential to be a great builder, keep the covering tight and keep the wrinkles out of it and hopefully it will turn out OK, i suck at covering and thats the only reason i haven't finished any of my projects (still working out the finer details and putting off the dreaded job of covering... you can tell im english, lol!) keep up the good work, if you can get used to working with stringers and formers (and not putting your thumb through them like i do :P) you should be just about set for a bigger kit good job, TF96 :)
Posted on: 8/10/2008 2:31 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7830066
RE: Cat versus Heli......... The untold saga....
i almost had a red Kite the other day with my Bossanova, then my dad says "better not, hes a big b*gger... would do more damage to the airplane than to the bird" so decided against it. almost had a pidgeon with my trainer though, i was cathing up on the downwind leg but as soon as he turned into the wind he had the advantage, by that time my MDS .40 was reaching its 3 minute flight-time limit, so i had to land it
Posted on: 8/8/2008 8:50 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7823121
RE: Youre addicted to RC, when..
trouble is, when you start looknig for stuff to sell thats when you realise... its all just... well, useless cr*p :)
Posted on: 8/8/2008 8:36 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7823069
RE: Youre addicted to RC, when..
when your schoolbooks are full of sketches and doodles of whacky R/C designs... (hehe, guilty...)
Posted on: 8/7/2008 5:31 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7818749
RE: Whats some good Four Star Mods?
dual servos are good, and also flaps (cut the aileron about 70\30 with the 30 part being flaps). one bay is all you need to clip off. you can also cut out some balsa wingtips to make it look a bit more appealing :)
Posted on: 8/7/2008 5:13 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7818733
RE: The WORST "FIRST" EVER !!!!!!!!!!
try epoxying a fibre-glass cloth around the centre of the wings and it should be pretty much solid, ;) and youd be surprised at how hard you can land some of these planes before they break, i managed to dead-stick my plane (came on approach too fast and overshot the strip) onto a rough, recently-ploughed field which just broke the wheels off, simple matter of epoxying them back on to the bottom of the fuselage. MonoKote is the brand name, the plastic sheet stuff is just known as "covering".
Posted on: 8/6/2008 4:12 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7816341
RE: Muffler bearings problem, please help!!!
reminds me of my old IT lessons when we used to make cracks about the 3 1/2" Floppy Disk drive. only we would "mis-spell" the Disk... by accident of corse :P
Posted on: 8/5/2008 1:58 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7811709
RE: Muffler bearings problem, please help!!!
[quote]ORIGINAL: Lomcevak Duck I wonder how many people have actually done it with a PC. [/quote] oooh... to read that quote with the mind of a teenager [8|]
Posted on: 8/4/2008 2:57 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7807637
RE: Any females fly?
i suppose its because the majority of this sport is engineering oriented (tuning engines, rebuilding engines, setting up radio gear e.t.c) and the most females i know dont tend to find that interesting (with a few exceptions). TakingFlight96, Never had any experiance with the Spacewalker so i cant really comment on that, but the Guillows warhawk sounds nice (only Guillows kit i ever built was the Cessna 0-1E Bird dog which i found a bit too easy.) got any pictures to show us how its going? better get used to stringers and formers if you intend to build, take a look at the Mam'selle(s) in my profile (i actually cut the 3/16 Sq Stringers from a sheet of 3/16 x 4" balsa, more cost effective :P) after i'd finished the fuselage on the second one i was sick of the sight of former templates :P. but after a few weeks i had to scratch that annoying itch and start building a third
Posted on: 8/4/2008 2:15 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7807512
RE: Any females fly?
i see what you mean about finance, im only 15 myself so sometimes raising the funds for a project is very hard. that being said, it costs me about £30-£40 to fully build an airframe from plans including balsa, covering e.t.c (not sure how many $ that is, around $50-$60?). i prefer bigger kits for one main reason, tis ahrder to put your thumb through the pieces when you are getting them out! [&:] another thing i like with kitbuilding is the timescale, some days i will be in the workshop all day, sometimes i do an hour or two after school, sometimes i will leave it for a week and then get back to it. ive still got 2 Mam'selles and a trainer i need to finish :P
Posted on: 8/3/2008 4:06 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7803885
RE: Any females fly?
why wait?, now is the time to get building ;) Ive seen four stars used as cropduster, banner/glider tugs, aerial photography platforms, they really are great utility planes capable of doing pretty much anything you want them to (knife-edges can be a bit hairy though...) plus they arent as daunting to build as you would think if your into kit building (or want to be) i would suggest getting a real kit and not a Guillows, they just dont feel the same as a proper kit.
Posted on: 8/3/2008 6:15 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7802576
RE: Had to laugh at myself!
did you not do a pre-flight on the 4*? :O... i would have thought youd be able to get it back around using the dihedral and rudder...
Posted on: 8/2/2008 1:25 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7800209
RE: Had to laugh at myself!
i did that a few times when i first started with my trainer, 'corse i was using a chicken stick :P Havent done it so much with my bossanova though...
Posted on: 8/2/2008 9:37 AM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7799639
RE: Airplane songs
"Leaving on a jet plane", cant remember who did the original but Aerosmith did a cover of it "Come fly with me" - Michael Buble er... thats all i can think of, but tbh both of those are before my generation so im proud i even thought of those two :P
Posted on: 8/1/2008 6:15 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Off Topic Forum - Planes/Helis"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797628
RE: How to build a remote
best bet would be second-hand off ebay or maybe sweet-talk your local LHS (get coverage in the local newspaper or on the 'net?) are you planning to build your own reciever?
Posted on: 8/1/2008 6:01 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Off Topic Forum - Planes/Helis"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797588
RE: What does your LHS charge to sell one of your planes?
my LHS is a two-story converted car garage, very small shop owned by a local guy called Nev, the bottom of the shop is full of planes of varying shapes and sizes, all of which are customer models being advertised, if a person sees something the like and buy it, the store owner takes the money and passes it on to the model seller. he doesnt charge anything, but i always go in there for a prop and a bottle of CA and end up leaving with a forest of balsa and various tidbits which i dont really need. (plus he gives a 10% discount on the label price of everything), when buying a model i always give him a bit for his troubles. i remember the time i bought my Ripmax bossanova, (Airframe, futaba reciever, servos, irvine 53, all rtf for £160), but when i gave him £170 and told him to keep £10 for his troubles he wouldnt accept it, saying i'd bought enough already, in the end i bought him a bacon sandwich from the catering van around the corner and everyone was happy :P
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:56 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797575
RE: K&B .40
so have you fixed it now? hows it running?
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:47 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797552
RE: Any females fly?
[quote]ORIGINAL: Cool1_UK [quote]ORIGINAL: TakingFlight96 Yeah, at my field, I'm the only girl out there. Sure people make comments, I push them off - I'm not about to let them get to me. I'm gonna focus on learning to fly, I'm very, very close to Soloing, So, I'm not gonna let anybody stop me. I've spent 9+ months on a sim at least an 1-2 hours a day, I've worked to hard to let one persons comment get me out of the hobby. I feel that women are slowly making their way to the top in aviation (RC and Full Scale). Someday I plan to do something in aviation, I'm young so I still got so many more career paths that I can choose, theirs literally 1,000+ jobs in the broad topic of aviation. I actually dont mind the smell of glow fuel, and that occasional fuel that sprays all over you, and all the grease and grass all over the plane - Thats what comes with the territory of RC, and IMO its all worth it in the end. TakingFlight96 [/quote] Woohoo! My kinda girl <3 [/quote] Behave, you! :P if only there were more young ladies like you, Takingflight96. keep that attitude and you will go far in life, i can see you have potential to be a gret pilot. best of luck for your solo as for building, why wait for your 3rd or 4th plane?, i bought my second one (ripmax bossanova, WOO!) but now ive build a vintage trainer (and started building two more of the same plane for leccy conversions), s Cassutt Racer, and a few more projects on the side, its not as hard as you think ;) next time your in the LHS, it may be worth picking up a Four star kit or something similar to build whilst your training (the 4*s' are easy to build, i have a modified 4* .60 with an OS .91FX upfront, dual aileron servos, wingtips and modified vertical stabiliser that was a pleasure to build and very stable to fly). whilst Guillows kits are fine for cutting and sticking practice they dont give you the full satisfaction that comes with building your own powered model (although i find i usually end up putting my finger through the balsa when cutting it out!) [;)]
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:46 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797500
RE: Do You Stand or Sit
i prefer to build either on a large flat floor, or on a coffee-table height desk. the cutting, sticking e.t.c i do standing up, also if ive been sitting down for a long time i find i get cramps and aches in my legs and lower back (im 15 and already i feel like an old man! :P)
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:39 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Kit Building"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797522
RE: Any females fly?
i havent seen any females flying at my field, but we have 26 memebers (about 6 we see regularly), 5 of which are over 50 :P, and then theres me. would be nice to find some people my age that are interested in flying... but thats why i have RC Universe XD
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:22 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797478
RE: K&B .40
yep, no doubt an air leak. reaplce the fuel lines if possible (or check the old ones for damage) as even a pin prick can let air into the system after that, return to base settings and try again
Posted on: 8/1/2008 5:08 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7797428
RE: Funny ATC Quotes and Squawk Reports
crikey, i posted this AGES ago :O, didnt realise it was still on here, lol glad you all had a laugh, i was in hysterics when i read some of these
Posted on: 7/25/2008 3:38 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "RC Humor"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7771584
RE: Tug conversion
i dont see any pics... methink something gone wrong? :P
Posted on: 7/14/2008 2:06 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7729797
RE: Fuel line problem
tke the remote needle valve off and put it in a bowl of water (keep fuel lines attached and blow through them), if there is a leak in the RNV it should bubble in the water, strip down the NVA (make note of the settings) and check all the seals and o-rings, you may want to try replacing the fuel tubes aswell, even a tiny pin prick can cause problems
Posted on: 7/14/2008 2:04 PM by Author "Wild Foamy"
in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7729788
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