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Funny you should mention escaping bulbs, that is exactly what happened a few years ago when I purchased my second hand Ragazza from Adelaide. Luckily the bulb escaped in the truck delivering locally in Hobart & after a couple of days the courier found it and delivered it unscathed.
Moose’s Razor looked a treat in it’s new red & white livery;
but unfortunately it still didn’t take long for him to lose it. The first time it came back by itself but the next flight it disappeared into the Never Never when the ZOHD RTH failed to operate (more on that matter later).
Moose & Stephen went looking but had no luck. After lunch I put my Ham Radio Foxhunting skills (from many many moons ago) to use and using the RSSI signal on Moose’s Taranis Radio I (ably assisted by Hoppy & Ricky) tracked the plane through the bush for probably over 1 Klm to where it had come down way over in the next valley. Apart from a small ding in one wing the Razor was undamaged.
As for the problem with the ZOHD RTH it turned out that Moose was flying on his old Bixler programming which was set up for a FY-41AP autopilot that uses 2 switches to control it. The ZOHD only uses 1 switch and that one was disabled.
The radio had initially been set up correctly by Uncle G but there were two Razor profiles in the radio (one by Moose & one by Uncle G) and as is often the case the wrong profile got deleted in a recent clean-up. A bit of reprogramming before the next flight & all should once again be working as per normal.
Well, no excuses now, we will expect to see many quality productions from Kamp Kermit in the future, flying & boating.
Hoppy was going to put up a calendar entry for Friday so lets hope this weather has all blown over by then.
All you need is your super new video camera (with NO soft focus) and you WILL be up to scratch with the rest of us in no time flat.
I may have another video or two to add later once I sort through them.
This is from the first flight this morning with my MDM-1 Fox self-powered glider.
I just don’t know, let you blokes out just once without adult supervision and it’s anarchy all round.
Nice looking engine you have got yourself there Tug. Nice little plaything for when the weather turns cold & wet again.
Now that you have your RunCam 2 finally unboxed & working you can strap it on to the train & give us a drivers eye view of your layout (or is that still in the planning stages like my Digital Slot car layout that I started acquiring bits for many many years ago & its all still in boxes)
The V tail is not loose, it’s just that the V tail is so large & the rear end of the fuse so small the V tail loading twists the fuselage slightly in hard turns. The way its fibre-glassed on it is unlikely to ever come loose.
The eagle was very close at times but never showed any aggression, just liked tagging along I think. Mostly he was just gliding along just above & behind the V tail.
