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« Reply #1350 on: November 01, 2019, 12:02:24 PM » |
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Oh dear oh dear! Another clue... (and no Pete, it's not a Lanzo Puss Moth)
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« Reply #1351 on: November 01, 2019, 12:05:08 PM » |
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"...18 pages of CL..."
Finding enough material is a perennial problem of niche interest publications, expecially for those tied to a regular publication date, so I suspect the Editor fell on 18 pages of copy like a starving man being presented with a banquet.
Stop teasing Bill, what is it?
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« Reply #1352 on: November 01, 2019, 12:12:00 PM » |
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Don't you dare tell before we guess. I'm enjoying this!
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« Reply #1353 on: November 01, 2019, 12:14:59 PM » |
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Nieuport Nighthawk?
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« Reply #1354 on: November 01, 2019, 12:27:20 PM » |
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October and November as well! Similar numbers of pages of CL topics, never mind perhaps December's will be a little different.
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« Reply #1355 on: November 01, 2019, 12:41:56 PM » |
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October and November as well! Similar numbers of pages of CL topics, never mind perhaps December's will be a little different. It'll be too late for the December issue, but Andrew Boddington has just asked me to write this year's Nijmegen report, so I can guarantee that my piece, when it appears, will not feature any CL at all. What's more, if people are nice to me I shall try to focus on the models and keep the full page photos of Tim and me eating pizza on the boat to an absolute minimum. (As I say, if people are nice to me!) |
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« Reply #1356 on: November 01, 2019, 01:03:08 PM » |
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This should do it. I would have got it at the plunger! I'm surprised our Antipodean friends haven't twigged but I guess they're all in bed.
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« Reply #1357 on: November 01, 2019, 01:18:46 PM » |
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Hawker Woodcock!
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« Reply #1358 on: November 01, 2019, 01:30:53 PM » |
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I'd never had got that! Quite a porky looking thing...!
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« Reply #1359 on: November 01, 2019, 01:33:45 PM » |
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Hawker Woodcock!
No, but getting warm |
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« Reply #1360 on: November 01, 2019, 01:37:03 PM » |
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Gloster Gamecock?
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« Reply #1361 on: November 01, 2019, 01:46:28 PM » |
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Gloster Gamecock?
That's what I meant! Is it based on the Towner plan? |
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« Reply #1362 on: November 01, 2019, 01:47:52 PM » |
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Gloster Gamecock?
That's what I meant! Is it based on the Towner plan? I hope that Bill will tell us! |
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« Reply #1363 on: November 01, 2019, 02:11:01 PM » |
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I think Russ has it  Looks like a Gamecock to me to now |
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« Reply #1364 on: November 01, 2019, 02:19:48 PM » |
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Yes it's the PE Norman Gamecock, famously arranged for aerobatics via pendulum control and weighing in at 36oz. I won't be anywhere near that weight, although I've built the wings and you could stick a handle on and play tennis with them. I'm confident a lighter version will fly well in a more staid fashion - I believe Alan Jupp sadly lost the original in a flyaway at Old Warden
The plunger? Used as a crashproof basis for the dummy engine - genius!
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« Reply #1365 on: December 21, 2019, 05:16:15 PM » |
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This is a Riding Chrislea Super Ace, 95% built by the late Jack Foster and passed on to me by Ray Hall. Wings and tail are done and mylared, ready for modelspan tissue. So far it's 12oz and I'm hoping for 17 and that a Mills 75 will fly it. This will be one nose heavy model.
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« Reply #1366 on: December 22, 2019, 02:54:29 AM » |
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So far it's 12oz ...
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« Reply #1367 on: December 22, 2019, 04:05:43 AM » |
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12oz. sounds so much better than 340gms though, doesn’t it?
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« Reply #1368 on: December 22, 2019, 04:34:51 AM » |
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Even better is 'well under a pound'
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« Reply #1369 on: December 22, 2019, 05:47:13 AM » |
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I hope that under the new regulations, you will be operating this in an area of no known life?!
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« Reply #1370 on: December 22, 2019, 06:30:24 AM » |
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you will be operating this in an area of no known life?! arh yes North Luffenham ? Nice build Bill , Just pondering my next one. So 17 ozs is good for a Mills .75 |
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« Reply #1371 on: December 22, 2019, 06:50:50 AM » |
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Chris, as you know, Mills are very variable and the best I have can lift a 20oz 43" biplane ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uc07G95iKc ). The Chrislea is 54" span and the original had an AMCO 87. I am always interested how these very early models were sized and I wouldn't have chosen a .87, but then again the Blackburn Monoplane has plenty of power at 56". At the other end of the scale, a Mills 75 in a 32" John Lamble Dart Kitten?? Mine did 20 consecutive loops on a Peewee 020 when I was 15. To repeat, this is Jack's build. |
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« Reply #1372 on: December 22, 2019, 08:04:39 AM » |
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Thanks Bill.
I have a new Redfin 049 which is possibly as good or maybe even slightly better than a good Mills .75 so I think I'll go for a 41" span biplane and a target weight of <20 oz. Original idea was for 1/12 scale and 34" but that'll be way too small for a .8cc engine
I thought I remembered you doing a rough model size to engine guide in one of your articles but I can't seem to find it now, must have dreamt that bit
Rumpler looks superb cruising over Port Meadow
Look forward to seeing Jack's Chrislea in the air
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« Reply #1373 on: December 22, 2019, 09:31:20 AM » |
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you will be operating this in an area of no known life?! arh yes North Luffenham ? I do like Luffenham .... I shouldn't be so cynical! ... only 28 miles for me too. |
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« Reply #1374 on: December 22, 2019, 09:35:47 AM » |
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I like N Luffenham too. It’s a shame it’s doomed.
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