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I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 13:01
by John
It's not often that a man in a shop gives good advice and then sells you something lower down the price band, but that's what a bloke at the Sussex Model Centre did today. I went in for a ducted fan hawk and came out with a T28 Trojan. Odd? No not really, it's just with my limited experience with R/C it'll be a far safer bet!
So here's what I got...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-v1BUVc8Qw
My first flight is tomorrow
John
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 13:18
by petermcleland
Wow! ...That chap certainly flew well...I particularly liked his outside turn :flying:
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 14:40
by DaveG
Looks nice John
Good luck with the first flight tomorrow :flying:
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 14:43
by Chris Trott
Agreed, good luck with that first flight.
Don't forget to kitbash and add retracts.

Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 16:32
by John
Chris Trott wrote:Agreed, good luck with that first flight.
Don't forget to kitbash and add retracts.

ha ha! As I'll probably wipe out the undercarriage on the first 'landing' that's not a bad idea!
Thanks guys
John
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 16:32
by stafflad1976
Funny that, I've just spent the afternoon putting my Parkzone Spitfire together. It's the first time I've touched it since I got it as a christmas present last Dec (maybe something to do with a 4 month stint in Afghan). However, after watching a few vids of crashes on youtube, I'm a bit dubious about taking her up for her first flight. :flying:
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 19:24
by John R
Sussex Models have done you a big favour there!
Better learning the easy way than the hard. I fly R/C, and have been doing for longer than I'd like to think about :o , I see the latest trends arriving at the local R/C club field and they seem to be getting more 'scale'
http://alshobbies.com/shop/lookupstock. ... 7535&Desc=
However you need to have some experience to fly them, and if your thinking of scale, start with what you would think you could fly in full size, something like a Cub, then move on to the F-15
http://alshobbies.com/shop/lookupstock. ... 4922&Desc=
To find your local club, visit the British Model flying Association,
http://www.bmfa.org/
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 19:37
by DaveG
Ooh, nice P-38
Fancy one of these though:
http://alshobbies.com/shop/lookupstock. ... 4942&Desc= :flying:
Do you think that would be OK for a newbie

Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 20:17
by John
Thanks for the advice John R! that's very helpful. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Kind regards
John R (no really I am!)
PS now if I could get to this level...
http://www.padmac.info/Gallery/Thames%2 ... ding1.html
Re: I seem to have bought something!
Posted: 30 Aug 2008, 21:28
by John R
Hi John,
I can see you want a Hawk!
Ok to feed your enthusiaum
http://www.airworld.online.de/Englisch/Index.htm
A very good example, and well out of my price range! However, I've got this
http://www.belairdigital.co.uk/Productdetail.asp?Id=275 as my on going project.
Going back to the Hawk, I'm impressed with the atention to detail, for example, the undercarriage, which I know a bit about, is very close to the real,
Remember, the sky above you is useless, it's the sky below that matters!
john