Vic Smeed oldies

[PaulJ]

Lovely, it really looks the part....... and will look even better when you put the diesel in it!

Paul

[tiptipflyer]

The Tomboy testflights are finished, so it was time to change the electric motor to a diesel.
This morning was a perfect day, dead calm and just me at the field. I had ten flights with the diesel, which was running just great. A wonderful sight seeing the Tomboy puttering around with grace. Of course it was guided by the button only.
After that I had another five flights with the Amateur and the Consul. I didn´t have so much fun for a long time.

What a great day.
Frank

P.S. I hope you guys don´t think, that I am lazy now. My Pulstar is also almost finished, hope to testfly it this week.

[PaulJ]

Going back through this thread, you may see that my experience of the Chatterbox was not entirely positive (to say the least), indeed I ended up burning it!
Last year a friend built a Chatterbox and the damn thing flies well! This was a challenge I could not let pass, so now I have built another......

I think the first one was a bit heavy and the original Mills .75 was a bit marginal on power. So I have tried hard to make this one lighter, the wing has an extra bay each side, and it has an Irvine Mills which has a bit more "oomph" than the original.....

So all I need now is some decent weather.....

Paul

[Shaun]

Never give in, Never surrender.
It will fly Paul.

Which of your dozens of converted tx's will be paired with this one?

Cheers,

Shaun.

[PaulJ]

Which of your dozens of converted tx's will be paired with this one?

Shaun.

This model has an elevator so initially I will use "ol' reliable", the Skyleader clubman which was the first propo tranny I converted and which also has a s/c button. A recent discovery (for me) is that if you use a s/c or 1 propo channel Tx with a multi channel model, the elevator is held firmly in the neutral position so after the model is "sorted" I could fly it with a Digimac1+1 or any one of about a dozen s/c transmitters.

Paul

[Edward Po]

Just completed my Vic Smeed designed Tom Boy Senior. Depending on the weather, maiden flight should be this weekend.
Initially, it will be guided using Futaba radio and thereafter will be converted to single channel using Phil G encoder.