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Slope Soaring / Killakee Tomorrow Tue 17th evening

« on: August 16, 2021, 14:51:55 PM »

Hi All,
Anyone interested in heading up to Killakee Tuesday evening.
Westerlies forecast for this evening until Wednesday evening but turning very light on Wednesday.
I am planning on heading up tomorrow Tuesday evening if anyone is interested.

Joe

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PSS / Joe's F86 PSS build

« on: June 21, 2020, 15:09:04 PM »

Hi Bill,
How is the Sabre coming along.
I have been hammering away at one too. Found similar issues with the fit of parts.
Maybe you should have used a proper hammer !
Mine is almost finished it is ready for flight and just needing registration numbers and some more detailing.
I went for a four servo wing and installed a servo in the fin to operate the rudder. A lot of work and I am now thinking that I should have kept it simple  and installed full span flaperons and fixed rudder as the installation became quite fiddly.
However I am pleased with the result.

Joe

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Slope Soaring / Killakee today

« on: June 21, 2020, 11:44:03 AM »

Hi All
Anyone thinking of going to Killakee this afternoon forecast looking good between 3 and 6 PM.
I am thinking of going out badly need to blow off some dust.

Joe

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Slope Soaring / Lockdown Solution

« on: April 17, 2020, 16:30:28 PM »

Worth a look!
https://www.facebook.com/100002151243227/videos/3005258472889165/?t=3

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Scale / 1/4 scale Grunau baby

« on: February 06, 2018, 19:51:19 PM »

Hi All,
A new baby has arrived, a little premature but should be developed enough for March fly in. I have copied the finish of the previous one I owned but did not sheet the wing with ply and chose  to just stain the balsa. Fuss is covered with 1/64 and 1/32 ply which is also stained.
Thanks to Fred in Island Models for donating the partially built kit, following me having written off my previous one on my first attempt to fly it.
There was very light lift and with a rearward c/g and the model was struggling to stay up ( that's what I tell myself ) unfortunately it came back to earth out of sight into the side of the slope and was badly damaged.
Looking forward to getting back to flying and to see all the new toys that we have produced over the winter months.

Joe

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Scale / Annother Islandmodels 1/3 Scale Ka8b build log

« on: May 07, 2016, 12:13:52 PM »

Hi Guys
Yet another Ka8b on the way,
I started building this some months back from the excellent short kit supplied by Fred at Islandmodels. All ply parts nicely laser cut and slot together perfectly, 3 x sheets of drawings one with all the parts drawn up which will allow you to replace any parts that you may damage or loose during construction or hopefully not after a bad arrival.
To start I made a simple jig out of some pine strip wood and cut out MDF set squares which can be clamped in place to hold all straight and true during construction. This can obviously be reused for other models. I have attached some photos of the basic fuselage nearly complete before removal from jig. If this attempt at posting works for me I will post more soon showing progress to date.

Joe