Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / September 2003

The de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre at Salisbury Hall, London Colney
is having a 'Celebration' of the first flight of a Vampire jet on 20/21st
September.
On Saturday at 14.00hrs there will be a forum with Vampire Veterans and on

Anyone have any ideas why rcgroups.com has gone down this morning?
MJC

Well, I have to say I was a bit trepidatious  when I came home this
afternoon and pulled it up and it was the new version. During the
first attempted conversion I became a bit confused, and didn't really
like it. But now after a good hour on it this time, all I can say is

I have a sweet running Irvine 53 for sale.  It has about an hour run time on
it.  I was running an APC 12.25x3.75 prop and got 13,500 rpm's on the ground
with a Tower muffler.  I will sell the engine with the original muffler that
has never been mounted.  Still have the original box ...

Some facts about RCGroups.com:
1.  20,678 members
2.  1,254,762 posts
3.  2 webzines, soon to be 3

I just tried to check my ads on RCU. They're all gone! And now...they want
some sort of fee to post for sale items. Bull Hockey! They're making so much
money from the commercial advertisers it is an insult to charge the
modellers to list their items. THE ADS IS WHAT BROUGHT ...

I have recently purchased an HGK 45 engine of Ebay as 1) curiosity, I had never heard of it and it looked in good condition and 2) it was going cheap for a ball raced engine.  The only info on HGK engines that I have been able to find is that there is an "HGK Japanese racing ...

I am looking for a profile plane that will do 3d aerobatics.  I have
been told the Tower Fun Fly 51 is good as well as Ohio Model Planes
and Morris.  My question is which one?  Tower and OMP only had a
couple planes each, but Morris has a huge number of planes.  Morris

does this news group allow
file attachments and if so
is their a limit on their size

What is the best way to remove a rudder attached by ca hinges in order to
use the rudder on a different plane?
Jerry

Chec my web site for a special offer!

This receiver Futaba FP-129-DP appears more often on eBay than other Futaba PCM
models and maybe more than PPM models.
Since I have two of them and am getting ready to use them, are there any quirks
or problems I should know about before I use them in a plane?

Old RCU was designed the same as rcgroups and now we can go to rcgroups
instaed to post for free without all the auction garbage. Last night
rcgroups had more useres than rcu. They will take suggestions to make it
more like home for us too.

The following is from the rec.crafts.metalworking NG, anybody have more info
on this?
One of the neatest mufflers I ever saw was made out of wood.
This was for a model airplane engine, but there's no reason to think it

I just ordered one. Give it to me straight - good or baaad?