Ditto to all of the above.

Thanks guy's for the suggestions. I was going to try and find a color chart to see what i could get close to what i have already done. I'l try both rustolum and krylon. Will come up with something
frank trainermaster 80

Not anymore. At one point there was a company that even made receiver crystals! I miss that guy I need some channel 42 crystals badly.

Hey MIke there is guy on EBAY I think his store name is RC BOYZ he had posted several sets of crystals for sale. This is the link for the site:RCBoyz | eBay Stores give it a try!
Michael Johnston

mike try chrystal exchange IF YOU dONT FIND THEM on the net give me a holler @[email protected] & i will search my many files for you TRAINERMASTER80 get on the net send an older xtal you dont need that is good & they will send you the xtal you want. about $5 or $6 bucks maybe some postage.

Thank you I haven't had much luck on the exchange. I'm looking for channel 42 receiver Crystals (Futaba compatible) I have bunch the wrong channel.

Big Weekend Coming Up At Our Club.

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On Saturday we will be holding a day especially for vintage and Great War models. On the Sunday it's a Fly-In. The club is expected to live up to its normal high standard of catering!

One of our members has built a replica of the Farman 11 in which his grandfather was killed returning from a bombing mission in 1915. I will be giving my BE2 an airing.

On the Sunday we will be holding a fly-in. I anticipate the same high standard of catering!

nice

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Some pictures from our First World War / General Fly-In Weekend. I have some more but I will have to re-size them, suffice it to say that the catering was up to the usual high standards!

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The weekend went off generally very well. I made a slight horlicks of landing the BE2 so now have a few cables to re-solder. The Senior Telemaster performed faultlessly.

In France gliders are very popular and we have two tugs which are the club's property which are flown by the best pilot in the club Roger, or his brother Serge, each of whom has finished in the top ten of the French National Glider Championship. Our biggest tug, a Bidule, is powered by a 60cc petrol engine, the smaller one by a 25cc Super Tigre glow. Roger was using the Bidule to pull a guest's very large scale glider. I was talking to a spectator and remarked how even this engine was struggling to tow the glider when suddenly something went wrong and the tug turned over on its port wing and started to dive towards the ground. It appeared to be going towards spectators' area but it hit the ground in the spectators' car park fortunately without hitting anybody or anybody's car. The glider pilot managed to decouple his model and made a safe landing on the strip. Under those circumstances you forget your French and I found myself pointing at the model and shouting, "Watch out!" I expect that others were shouting, "Attention!" Precisely what went wrong remains a mystery. Perhaps there was a failure of the electronics, perhaps the model simply stalled in a climbing turn. A broken cable was found amongst the wreckage but that could have happened in the crash. An electronics engineer amongst the guest-pilots has volunteered to test the equipment and though the fuselage is wrecked beyond economical repair, the wings and tail surfaces had survived the accident more or less intact. With some plywood, glue and fibre glass resin, doubtless a new fuselage can be built. This is the second time that Roger has crashed a glider tug this season. On the first occasion the tug's owner hadn't tightened the propeller to the crankshaft adequately and the propeller flew off in flight. A very expensive carbon fibre Wilga was wrecked. I have managed to reproduce a picture of the Bidule, it is a very popular tug in France.

Talking of propellers becoming detached, this happend to one of my clubmates. A blade flew off, hit him in chest and arm and there was blood everywhere. Fortunately and coincidentally, Roger is a retired nurse-manager and his brother still works in the medical profession, so between the two of them they patched him up and someone phoned the fire brigade. In France there is not really a dedicated amulance service, "les pompiers," the fire brigade, are trained both as para-medics and fire-fighters. In the countryside most of the pompiers are volunteers and they are held in high esteem. They took him away to the nearest large hospital which is about thirty miles (50kms) from here but he was soon released with some medication after examination.

Another clubmate, having examined the propeller announced that it was an electric propeller. It had been fitted to a 46 two-stroke!

You have been warned!

Finally, the Club Secretary kept himself busy handing out publicity material to spectators. He found four Anglophones, two South Africans and two Englishmen and he introduced me to them. Fortunately only one of them wanted me to teach him how to fly r/c. I'll bet he has ten thumbs!

Sometimes I think you just show up for the catering! From your description its worth it! Sounds like it was a great flying day!

Telemaster
The planes in the pics look real nice! That broken propeller incident is something constantly on my mind I think electric propellers should be prominently marked with a conspicuous "E" to prevent just that type of occurrence Imagine being struck in the head. I keep all my propellers separated by type because many are not labeled.

We are going through a heat stroke here! yesterday was 105 degrees and it just seems to sap all the strength from you, and swet evaporates quite fast, until you get in the shade then you are drenched. I have been doing exterior plumbing for my daughters home but the heat beats me back. so I have been spending more time in my shop.

I don't mind the heat, its the humidity that I hate with a passion. I sweat in cold weather, so you can imagine what even 80 is like for me, DRENCHED, just standing. We went to the County Fair last Thursday, and the temp was mow 80's, but 70% humidity. I was soaked, my arms were glistening and so was my face. Hated it. Spent a week in Utah, high 80's, low 90's and dry as a desert. I LOVED it! Sure it was hot, but I was comfortable, and drank lots of water too. I have not been flying since early June, mainly due to the weather. It is no fun for me if I am standing there sweating, and hard to fly when sweat gets in the eyes.

I'm headed to the Kansas State fair next month I may have a grandson participating in the pedal pull (Tractor pull using pedal cars that look like tractors).

You may be right!

Note the highly fashionable pale blue Berry Marche Modelisme polo shirts.

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Actually one of the South Africans turned up yesterday afternoon and I took him up on a Radian electric powered three-channel glider. He seemed a bit nervous at first but he managed circuits to the left and right and horizontal eights perfectly well without me having to take control at all. I got talking to his wife later and apparently his son is very dismissive of his flying skills! He had a Fun Cub in his car but he didn't fly it. He is going home to South Africa next week for their Spring and Summer but will return to France in March and join the club.

Until yesterday afternoon the Radian belonged to Gerard, the Club Secretary, however, he gave it to me in exchange for my completing his Baron so that he can compete in La Coupe Des Barons next year. Picture of the 2018 event below. The fuselage is complete if a bit bananard and the top longeron is not horizontal as it should be but I can sort something out. I was intending to finish the model for him anyway as a reward for the excellent job he does as secretary.

The Radian is a good basic trainer for nervous elderly debutants whom I seem to attract!

Incidentally, the mayor of a neighbouring commune turned up yesterday with his grand daughter who looked about twelve years old but was actually eighteen. She had quite a large and elaborate drone with her fitted out with two cameras but was experiencing some sort of problem. One of our newer members, Brice, seems to have some expertise in electronics and sorted it out for her. It was flown from a Smartphone! Whatever next!

Afterwards we gave her and her grandfather a go on one of the club's trainers. They made the usual beginers mistakes but she was very enthusiastic about the experience.
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Well it seems I don't have enough projects sitting on the shelf. Bob over at Laser Design Services mentioned he could cut one of these. As you all know I can resist anything but temptation so here is my new toy to build! As designed the Wingspan was 86" and length 72" This one is downsized to 75 % so span is 64.5" and length is 54". (Sigh) I wish I could retire! BAHAHAHAHA!

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So thats what you meant about 75%! I didn't think you were ambitious enough to build a 3/4 scale plane. Unless you were planning to move overseas! :)

With my budget I'm lucky I can aford this size. I estimate .90 engine should be about right. I'm planning on Robart 605HD retracts with struts.

My general rule of radio control aircraft is if can't fit in the back end of my Ford escape with the back seats folded down I cant own one. Recently someone gave me a huge a 33% Edge 540 aircraft.it had push pull elevator ,dual aileron servos and it would have required at least a 90 or bigger glow engine I let it set in my office for about 4 months when I decided to give it to a fellow modeler who has the means to handle one of these aircraft. so I keep it simple my biggest airplane to date is an ultra sport 60 that got a few months back. I not even going to put it together in the next year. I've got 6 other aircraft to build and rebuild ha
Michael Johnston

My threshold is no single piece wings over 84". I'll do bigger than a 84" span if the wings are two piece and the fuselage will fit in my old MDX. .

It turns out that the young lady referred to in Post 6190 was not the mayor's grand daughter after all but the daughter of a friend of his. Her father is no less a personage than the Chief Executive of Sony Europe! They live in Paris and in the chateau at Nouzerolles! I think I can see where she gets her intelligent enthusiasm from!

At least her father can keep her in airplanes and her instructor in wine! ;)

I solved my plane size issue by getting a trailer. When I run out of room to store them, thats when I need to think up some other hobby.

Or go 3D flying and make some space!

Made space this year, crashed the Rascal 168 and Something Xtra. Haven't flown since.