Doh, forgot to mention that it's gonna be side mounted.

Stratman I think the deal with the staple is that you write your name and address on a fiver and pop it in the post to him and he'll send you a staple back.

HAve you got his address? If not look on HIS website, it's there.

Thanks, Colin/Simon I'll have a look for his address.

Couldn't find it. Is it on his site or fly capiche?

its on HIS site, www.malcomcorbin.co.uk im guessing (did look on there once).

why not try the menz props? big planes use them so why not on this plane? and they go small enough and their wood

Edible!! As usual your spelling is off

malcolm not malcom


apc 17 x8 best prop

PM sent to Stratman

sorry, why do you think my parents gave me a short simple 3 letter name??? so can spell it!

Got the PM cheers Malcolm, will post tomorrow.

Edible, my spelling is also atrocious, Mr Gates did give us a spell checker for our hundred quid though, the trick is remembering to use it. Who sells the menz props then? are they good?

spell check! were! lol. I dont know were i saw the manz, but i broke one on a 1/4 scale piper cub the other day. im hnot sure how they would go on a high powered thingy like this but if the big 33-40%ers arnt using a mejlik prop ive only seen them with menz props. Theres the menz s (for standard) and the ultra. the ultra is a speed prop and the S is a normal with a wider blade

left: standard right: ultra



sizes and price:

Menz "Standard" 2-Blade Wood Props
Prop Size(s) Price
15 x 6, 8, 10, 12 $12.00
16 x 6, 8, 10, 12 $13.00
17 x 8, 10 $14.00
18 x 6, 8, 10, 12 $16.00
19 x 8, 10, 12 $17.00
20 x 7, 8, 10, 12 $19.00
21 x 8, 10, 12 $22.00
22 x 8, 10, 12 $25.00
24 x 8, 10, 12, 14 $32.00
26 x 8, 10, 12, 14 $40.00
27 x 10 $48.00
28 x 10, 12 $52.00
30 x 10, 12 $62.00
32 x 10, 12 $72.00

Menz "Ultra" 2-Blade Wood Props
Prop Size(s) Price
15 x 10, 12 $13.00
16 x 10, 12 $14.00
17 x 10, 12 $16.00
18 x 10, 12 $18.00
19 x 10, 12 $19.00
20 x 10, 12, 14 $22.00
21 x 10, 12 $25.00
22 x10, 12 $27.00
23 x 10, 12 $30.00
24 x 10, 12 $35.00
26 x 10, 12 $43.00




Ian

who let you fly a 1/4 scale, i dont think i could trust you with a toaster!

iim actually quite experienced using toasters carters. i use one at least once a day and have done for a fair few years. tho this cub is a lovly plane to fly (yes, its a cub, not an aerobatic machine, tho i do do loops and spins, stall turns and even once a flat spin).

whose is it?

flat spin? hmmmmmmmm

nobudy youd know. flat spins, yess, bit not often. quite hard to do them, just spinn at idle, flattn out with aileron and wack in full power to bring the nose it. falls like a rock but great fun

You see, your spelling is great when you're typing numbers.... Now all you need to do is apply the same accuracy to letters.

Hi every one been a while Since I last posted, But good news I'm back with lots of useful info


Mike F

I was reading about the ZN Line Majestic powered by a YS140, it seemed to be simular size to a Capiche 140. Apparantly it could do pattern excellently despite it being bale to do 3D excellently as well. But it was suggested that a true pattern plane might deal a bit better in crosswind. Still, this is interesting to hear about a 3D/Pattern plane.

How does the Capiche 140 fair in pattern?

Thanks.

Looked pretty good at the freestyle comp

Thanks to Billy bunter ,soon the quickest c140ex builder in the elbridge club will be able to have a very interesting comparison session bettween a 140ex, and his High Society and Funtana Pro.

Anyway, that High society is one sweet plane. I reckon it would carve through that RCME unlimited shedule like a CNC knife through butter. If the c140ex is only even half as good i will be happy.

The C140 will never compete with the Alliances and Synergys of the world, it is not designed for pattern. Will probably be close enough though that you or I would not notice the difference.

Exactly right Sprink. I never meant the model to fly pure pattern [:@] If you want to get it in the 2meter box to try pattern you could fit a stubby spinner and cut 1.5" off the rudder cos its way to powerful for pattern

That sounds like steve underwoods comments when he compared the Majestic to his old Alliance in the RCM&E review?

Luke,

Thanks for the continued enthusiastic comments regarding the High Society.

Having got quite a lot of stick time on this model, the Funtana Pro and watched the two Capiches at the RCM&E freestyle last year. Based on this, in my own mind, I have ‘positioned’ the Capiche 140ex between them.

The High Society is basically a pattern plane at heart modified to do what I call artistic aerobatics, rather than 3D. Whilst it can be flown at a walking pace, the model loves speed and with the merest hit of power it is rapidly eating up sky – not the best for 3D. Precision aerobatics are lurvely….

I think the Funtana Pro is really a 3D machine. The only aspect of it that lets it down in my opinion is the knife-edge flight envelope[]. The knife-edge of the new Pro version is a big improvement over the older ‘S’ design but KE loops for example are a bit large. I am going to try sealing the rudder hinge gap and shifting the CofG a bit to look for KE flight improvements but I think they will be limited.

Even taking the KE of the Funtana into account I think it is amongst the three, the out-and-out 3D machine. It flys about sooo slowly with that big wing and has bags of 3D performance. Precision is OK but certainly no-where near F3A standards.

In contrast to the above two models my memories of the Capiche 140ex are as follows:

It seems quite precise
It will artistic-aero/3D rather well
It looks like it flys very light
It looks like is has an almost stopped, to medium speed flight envelope
It appears to be a well-sorted design in terms of the aerodynamics
It can be fitted out with a number of set-ups, making it accessible to a smaller wallet
It looks nice…

In particular I can remember being very impressed with the KE performance of the Capiches that Ali and The Boy were flying at the RCM&E event. Certainly it appeared to be substantially better than the Funtana, though I will wait until I fly a C140 before I make a final judgement on that.

Basically, from what I have seen, I think that the Capiche 140ex is positioned in the area between the pattern (High Society type) and out-and-out 3D (Funtana type) models. I think the gap in the positioning between the Funtana and the C140 is smaller than the gap between the C140 and the High Society, mainly due to the Funtana’s ‘slack’ KE.

From what I have seen the C140 does everything well enough that you could take it to a mixture of different competition events (other than perhaps pure pattern) and stand a very good chance of finishing right up there. I think it looks like a particularly good artistic aerobatics model.

On that basis I think it probably represents perhaps one of the best purchases out there for anyone who is only able to fund one 2m model, or who wants an aeroplane that they can perform a good ‘mix’ of flying styles with. As an all round proposition it looks quite hard to beat, unless you start shelling out some serious cash.

I have purchased a kit for the C140. Hopefully I am not going to have to wait too long for a YS160DZ to power it.

Regards,

Bill.

Yep, hopefully cheaper then getting a Majestic....

I like the fact the fuz is not like those superslim patterns you see, I never did like those, to me there was no point in making them that slim, you might as well have a profile...

So its nice to see the 140 has a nice kinda 'meaty' fuz as my dad once said about another model.

and the canopy is in a nice place. dont get me wrong that some planes look nice with the canopy over the the engine but to me the canopylooks better if its like the C140 or Maj with it over the wing.

Yep I never did like that over engine canopy stuff, with the Majestic and C140, they could be full size as the full size aerobatic pilots like to be over the wing. Wonder how a full size C140 would torque roll?

The pilot probably would lose control, I'd be hell confused if I was inside a plane in a torque roll....

Maybe, MAYBE, one day I will have a C140, but that when I gets a job...

Or some other darstadly plan....