Welcome to The Vintage and Old-Timer Designs forum

[leccyflyer]

The poll for the establishment of the Vintage and Old-Timer Designs Forum has been passed, by a majority of 82.19% to 17.81%. Therefore this forum has been created in the Trial Forums section where it will remain for at least 30 days to determine if the new forum is viable.

The subject matter for discussion will be aircraft model topics that relate to the era say, from about the mid '60s and earlier.

Example topics would be:

early airframe designs (could be modern re-creations, fuel or electric powered)
Vintage engines (early glow, and diesel)
Antique (spark ignition) engines
early construction techniques
very early radio systems
early modelling days (events, personalities, history, etc).
Vintage and antique control-line and freeflight

Assuming that the forum proves successful at the end of the trial period it will be relocated to the Aircraft-General section, where it will be viewable from both the fuel-powered and electric-powered sections of the site.

I'd like to welcome your moderators for the new forum who are Gerald, the proposer of the forum and Tim Hooper. They are both excellent modellers that I hold in high esteem and they will be happy to help out with any queries regarding the new forum.

So here's wishing you all good luck and success to the new forum.

Brian

[vintage1]

Woohay! Two of my favorite moderators too!

I hope to be knocking together a Flair Black Magic kit soon...and I think I can remember how to use silk and dope as well...want to use it as relaxation and to loft my digi camera up.

Will be a geared sp600 on 3s LIPO in due course.

If there is interest I'll post a build thread. In a month or two after I finish a couple of others...

[Joe41]

Hi all, hope this forum is a success.
Joe

[tim hooper]

This is a bit like coming home, isn't it? :)

tim

[Ian Easton]

Woo Hoo!

Vintage,

I have the original 1946 Aeromodeller article on the Black Magic if your interested.

I've built 2. One half size FF for 020 (flew it a half dozen times today in fact) and a fulll size one that I converted to RC electric (you've already seen the photos). Most important thing about that model is make sure there is no more than 3° MAX decalage.
(trust me!)
Ian

[tad]

Here's a pic of my next project, a Black Magic. The plane was built in the early 70's by a fellow club member, and has been flown with a variety of 2 & 4 strokes, as well as electric(not so successfully).
I plan to use a 19 turn buggy motor, 3:1 box, and 8 cells. It will still be well under 4lbs, so it should be a nice relaxing plane to fly.

Larren

[Gerald]

I guess this means I ought to get back to completion of my Air Trails Sportster (fuselage is framed), or build that '39 Scientific Mercury that I got plans for, or start on my Ben Buckle 0-57 Taylorcraft kit, or maybe that nice-old Jetco Rearwin Speadster kit, or... :D

[vintage1]

hey tad, I am going to use a 3:1 or 3.6:1 geared speed 600 on 3s LIPO. Should be more than enough.

Your buggy motor sounds very similar.

[tad]

I just realised that this was the sticky, and probably shouldn't be posting here, but...........

Ian Easton, excuse my ignorance :confused: , but is decalage the difference in angle between the wing and horizontal stab?

Thanks

Larren

[vintage1]

yes.

[radioflier]

So what do we have to do the make sure this forum lasts past its trial period?

ron

[leccyflyer]

Ron

You really just have to use the forum, post threads, discuss and ask and answer questions to give sufficient traffic to show that the forum can stand on it's own feet out in the big wide world.

Brian

[Ian Easton]

Tad,

Vintage is correct, Yes.

Put a level bubble on the tailplane, raise it up till its level then measure the angle of the wing with an incidence meter. +2° is perfect, +3° max. In fact I set most of my planes to this setting.

[tim hooper]

Ron

You really just have to use the forum, post threads, discuss and ask and answer questions to give sufficient traffic to show that the forum can stand on it's own feet out in the big wide world.

Brian

This seems like a good place to lock this thread. :)

Please feel free to start new threads to discuss any aspect of vintage modelling.

tim hooper

[leccyflyer]

Congratulations.

The Vintage forum has successfully circumnavigated the 30 day trial period and is now installed in it's ultimate location, under the Aircraft-General banner.

cheers

Brian