Friday 13 May 2016

John's maiden with his Bob Hoey Seagull

Here is some video from John's (fantasticmrfox on the shoutbox) flights with his very impressive scale Seagull model up at Wolstonbury Hill yesterday. The model looks stunning John!!
John, if you want we can add you as an author to this blog then you can post video etc as and when you want. Drop me an email: paul.hampshire@shelf-space.co.uk

4 comments:

  1. Nice one John, a challenging project that looks very realistic, well filmed.

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  2. Hi John, Most impressive and very realistic model. Brilliant control for what looks like something that might be difficult to control ? It's a great piece of building too.

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  3. Extremely impressive! Do you know where I can get the plans? I can only find the raven and turkey vulture plans online.Thanks!

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  4. Yes! Very difficult to fly, especially the maiden. Incredibly pitch sensitive (mainly cured now with additional nose weight). Also had issue with a mix of adverse / proverse yaw on either wing. Solved with post flight contro surface adjustment and some additional TX programming allowing me to trim in flight. (can trim now from proverse to adverse yaw in flight to find the 'sweet spot'). I have a trace of the plans for anyone interested which I did on the PC. They are not engineering standard but they are what I built the model from and will gladly mail them to anyone interested. You will need to print out quite a few sheets of A4 and tape them together to produce the full scale plan. As you can see, it's good enough but building was made alot easier by first assembling a jig to build the inner wing halves on. Highly eecomended. I also have some photos I can share which will help.
    Thanks for the itnerest sorry for the late reply (3 years!)
    John

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