Steve , my experience is that you learn to cope with each site , at my original club , we had the end of a full size airstrip and soon accepted the limited length . I flew third scale models there , weighing up to 30 lbs . To keep things safe we had a telephone in our club house ( an old caravan ! )...

Elliot , maybe you could consider to beg , borrow or buy a hydraulic pipe bender which could be relatively easily modified to bend undercarriages ? Has been done .
Best regards Ian Turney-White

Kevin , possibly you could contact Phil Clark at Fighter Aces , they sell the excellent Klascote paint which I believe includes PC10 colour , the gloss/satin/matt effect is adjustable via the type and proportions of the resin that you can mix , but I think its available in gloss and satin ? Best reg...

Alan , I had one of these engines in the 1970,s but a glow version , If I remember correctly spun a decent size prop and was reliable , sold it to a club mate , later wished I had kept it ! Possibly you could fit a RcXel ignition unit which work really well ,and not difficult to fit , maybe first ch...

Paul , Phil Clark at Fighter Aces sells the superb Petrausch Strongal range of wing tubes and sleeves in metric sizes ie 25 mm etc
Best regards Ian Turney-White

Sorry to hear about the passing of Jeremy Shaw , one of the founders of the LMA , condolences to his wife Mrs Lesley Shaw and family .
Ian Turney-White

IMG_20231117_102353593-straight-800.jpg Really sorry to hear about Len . he , along with Jeremy Shaw and Brian Shaw made Doreen and I most welcome when we joined the LMA IN 1988 We had the pleasure of Len and Richard's company at several trips to the meetings at LA Ferte Alais , enclosed photo take...

A caravan dealer may have the jockey wheels , typically about £15 each or you could try Ross Handling or similar outlets ?
Ian Turney-White

I bought a 9" pneumatic skate board wheel/tyre which is very strong and a reasonable weight , about 36oz in weight ,think about 2.75 " wide ( from Trampa Boards ) Plus have some caravan jockey wheels which are just over 9" diameter and wider , maybe 3.25" wide tyre , with nylon/p...

Wanted Weslake 342cc cylinder and matching piston and ring in good condition plus head gaskets also JPX 425cc engine
Thanks Ian Turney-White

Nick , I know of many modellers who used the NACA 2412 and 2415 sections with very nice flying characteristics . Mr Cessna also used same sections on most of his aircraft , again with good results . Their are more modern sections often with a smaller nose radius that on paper should be better or rat...

John , Just spotted your helpful reply , many thanks , best wishes to you and Addie , Ian Turney-White

Stu , how true ! , best wishes for Xmas and the New Year , Ian Turney-White

Rob , Many thanks for your explanation , makes sense , (but this feature not on DSMX ), on my two flown models ( DSM2 RX,s) remote receivers not visible until you start removing covers, pilot etc and as such not noticed , but there all the time . Did find a reference to it on page 20 of the manual ,...

I have used above receivers very successfully on my two thirds scale Hanriot HD1 Biplane and my Ponnier 1913 Racer , controlled by a JR 9 channel 2.4 ghz Transmitter But I am struggling with a new model that has two of the above receivers , successfully bound AR9100,s and remote RX,s to the transmit...

Sean , I had a look at the online manual for your rx , which seems a bit limited in detail , the real question is , are there any common components , that if they failed would prevent the rx working ?? and you loosing control of the model . Still favour two totally separate receivers which have no c...

I don,t really know the details of your receiver but doubt that it would be suitable on its own for an over 20kg model . The idea behind two separate receivers is that if one fails there is enough control on the remaining receiver and its servos to direct the model away from the public and throttle ...

I would agree that a smaller engine would be inadequate , always better to have a reserve of power than not enough. It will sound better , fly better and the odd bit of engine /silencer sticking will not be noticeable in flight, but what will be apparent will be the more realistic flight that the la...

Jon , If I remember correctly , Gordon scaled up David Boddingtons 1/4 scale plan, possibly available from RCM&E or Sarik
Regards Ian Turney-White

Brian , pleased you have found out what the problem is and that you are going to get the model flying again . I use a servo operated choke on some of my models , but configure it to work of one of the transmitter switches with a short lever which may make it less likely to be accidentally operated (...