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Well one thing we couldn’t do was put the smoke & fire back in your battery.
Bit like a Genie in a bottle, once you pop the cork it’s never going back in.
Electrical/electronic smoke is the same, once you let it out of any sort of electrical/electronic device you can never ever get it back in there again !!
Having not been able to find a replacement Dummy Motor for the Slow Poke (for the RHS that I lost when flying on Wednesday) there was nothing left to do but design & 3D print a replacement.
Here is my slightly modified design.
All good to go again.
Anyone would think that Kermit is a changed
manfrog, what with all these accolades he is espousing.Well, Kermit gave the seaplane flying his best shot & actually got airborne off the water & landed back on the water, unfortunately the flight between the two was around 10 second (last week, not this).
As for Swamp Dawgs, Bad Angel made all sorts of promised but unfortunately never showed up.
Still plenty of water about for this weekend.
Yes Hoppy, I will have to agree with your comment. If we were still awarding the GMA (which no longer exists) then this week Kermit would definitely be the winner. Most entertaining both on video & around the field.
With regard to > 20:42, I think they call them “Foo Fighters”.
Another quality video from Toad Hall Productions, thanks Mr Kermit.
With you spending that much time on your camera it’s a wonder you got any flying in at all, but then again with all the mishaps that befell you yesterday perhaps it was just as well your flying time was limited !!
Thanks Tug, hopefully when finally released & available in Au they will be a better price than that listed in USA.
With regard to your first video, a quality production Uncle G if ever I saw one.
I guess the Frog is rubbing off on you !!With regard to the second, All that smoke but NO FLAMES, very disappointing.
Hare is a bit of onboard video from “Abigail” today during our one and only race.
There was a lot of weed floating about & not much wind but we managed.
Had a good turn out even with the less than ideal conditions.
Finished off the day with the customary Lunch Time BBQ then headed home just as the rain decided to return.
Personally I reckon you should have won Kermit, just for capturing the jumping fish, perfect timinh!!
Maybe you should have highlighted it with a bit of your infamous “Slo Mo”. It may have been too quick for the Moose to spot?
Got around to repairing the RHS undercarriage on the Super Chipmunk today.
It turned out that the anchor block in the RHS wing has come unglued (I wondered what was rattling around inside the wing when I first got it from my friendly little frog Kermit!!).
Sounds like there may also something rattling around in the LHS wing as well.
Given the end of the wheel strut had no anchor block it only took a very light bump to fold the wheel back and cause the nose over on landing, & I thought I was going well on the landing approach & wondered why a relatively light landing caused the failure . Now I know.
Needed to cut a hole through the Balsa wing covering to access the inside and glue the anchor block back in place.
I’ve fitted a temporary patch to the wing until I see if it works OK, if not then I’ll remove the balsa cover sheet completely from around the undercarriage & rebuild the landing gear mounting inside both wings then recover it all.
Till then I think it should be OK to test fly again on Friday (or whenever we next go).
Other than the landing gear issue she flew very nicely (once I dialled the throws back a bit).
