F4U-D Corsair on final

The Corsair had another good season of flying. Here seen on final just before touch down in Vernon BC at the BC Scale masters event. This winter I am planning to add the wing pylons with bomb drops for some fun. Also need to baffle the engine to get it to run cooler.

Here is one just after lift off with the gear starting to rotate and retract.

Avanti S test plane for Jeti Telemetry transmitter system

My next task is to get up to speed on a new transmitter system. New to me that is. I have chosen the Jeti system for its unbelievable versatility and its advanced telemetry. You might wonder why telemetry is needed for a model RC plane. First let me state that it isn't essential. Having said that you can pilot a full size aircraft without telemetry as well but would you want to?
These models are expensive and a great deal of work goes into building them, so why not have as much information available to you as possible.
Here is what I would like to have annunciated to me while I am flying either when I command the plane to perform a certain maneuver such as a landing or on  demand like when I am about to enter an aerobatic maneuver like a roll or loop etc. and would like to have my air speed above a certain level.
The system can give me this. What I am personally looking for is the following while the plane is in the air.
-airspeed every few seconds when my gear is down and my flaps are down for landing.
-confirmation that I have put my switch into the gear down position or up position.
-confirmation that I have put my flaps into either the take off position or landing position
-amount of fuel remaining in the system either in % or ml.
-exhaust gas temperature
-stall warning
-over speed warning

 Jeti DC-16 Transmitter.

 Avanti S test plane

A few more pictures before I move on to other projects

Some realizm shots for fun.

Had a chance to get the plane out on the tarmac at the airport in front of the Sea King hangar. Some talented photographers from a club here in Victoria did some interesting shots of the plane.
Here are some of their pictures

Had a chance to show 703 at the Victoria Museum open house and a professional photographer offer her service if she could photograph the plane. Here is what she did. Pretty cool work.

Summer Fun

Out of the Hangar Deck and into the sun. With just a couple of small details left to finish until I start stage 2 the rigging in the fall,  I decided to have a look at the Zipper in the light of day. It will be on display this summer at a few events here in Victoria. As you can see it is very hard to photograph because of the polished aluminum. If anyone out there is a professional photographer and would like to have a try at it let me know.  There are a couple of small errors that I will fix next winter but for now I need a break and it is time to start practicing for the scale competitions with my F4U Corsair.

                                           It is not a Starfighter but as far as WW-II fighters go it is pretty hard to beat. ;-)

Painting Completed

Progress has been slow but can now see some headway. Painting is now done as you can see by these three pictures. By far the hardest was the Canadian Ensign on the tail. Kind of wished I opted out for the new flag instead, much easier.

Some little details such as the mirrors I decided to make. They are made from thin plastic sheet stock. Also with the help of Jon Harwood we made the temperature probe. Two transducers to go and the little fragile bits are done.

I am busy trying to put on the nomenclature but having trouble getting a clear image of where they all go. I will not be putting all of them on as there are just too many and I do not want the plane to look like a wall of graffiti.

This is a bit of a grey area as some countries such as Germany and Denmark put markings on in places where the Americans and Canadians did not.

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to make them.