Thanks Gents. It's sooo good to have friends! 😀
Shame we won't be able to see 90% of it though 🤔
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Martin and Colin are on the job Doug😁

JB

Maybe you should use ice cream tubs.
Cheers Colin.

Doug,
RE :- Anyone know where I can get a kit or plans for a suitable iceberg!?

I have a couple of Margarine tubs leftover i might be able to make you one LOL!!

Martin555.

"But at least they usually go down in one piece Doug,😁(except maybe the Titanic)"
Models very probably JB.
I have a 1:350 Titanic kit, maybe I can test your theory 😁
Anyone know where I can get a kit or plans for a suitable iceberg!?
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They'd still roll to the center of the tank and under anything else in there...

Perhaps my bench is over my test tank Doug😁😁😁😁???????? -could be an Idea, -it would be easy to find those small nuts and bolts we always drop😂

JB

" That's because they don't float in air Rick,- had it fallen into water from the bench,-a different story😁"
What kinda subsea workshop are you working in JB?
Hope you've gotta decent rebreather! 😁
Sorry if you've recently experienced extreme flooding 🤔
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JB Depending on the depth of water,
Rick

That's because they don't float in air Rick,- had it fallen into water from the bench,-a different story😁

JB

But at least they usually go down in one piece Doug,😁(except maybe the Titanic)

JB

Hi Rick,
When mass exceeds buoyancy on the wet stuff Rick dear old gravity takes over an' down she goes to say hello to Davy Jones 😭
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I'm not sure about gravity and a boat.Some time ago I watched one fall from a bench not the same amount of breakage but broken none the less.
Rick

This is what happens when you are adjusting the elevator clevis at the elevator, and don't realise that the cable is unwinding itself from the clevis on the servo (DUH). Before and after pics (Whenuapai RNZAF base Auckland) Immelmann turn at 200ft and straight into the concrete runway at 80mph. Cosmic Wind 'Minnow' pylon plane with OS .45 FSR. Piston was 30 ft away, full tank of fuel vaporised on impact. Looked almost identical to the Galloping Ghost crash at Reno, - except vertical.

Notice how cleanly I hit the runway, you can see the wings and ground zero between them😁. Lucky the concrete was there to stop it, or who knows where it could have come out😂.
Believe it or not, the ailerons, wheel spats, roll bar, dash and tail were all used again in the MK 3 electric version. I've found that gravity doesn't seem to effect boats as much😁

JB

Doug, my buddy did something similar. This was about 1986, my buddy Bill had a Gentle Lady 2 meter with an OS10, landing gear and 3 channels. One day he fired her up and launched without turning on the rx. She had a 4 ounce tank iirc, the chase team came back much later after losing sight of her about 25 miles out. She was high, circling and headed for somewhere between Oklahoma and Paris Texas😮

Martin,
Très drôle!😂
I know it flew well, too well🤔, and caught every slight thermal, but twenty years aloft would be going some 😮 Maybe it's still trundling round with the Jet Stream?
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Doug,
RE :- last seen heading for Denmark from the east coast of England)

Is that why you moved to Munich Germany incase the plane crossed the border LOL!!

Martin555.

Hi Cash,
Oooops 😮😭
Couldn't you have just slammed it into reverse? 😁😂
Wrong type ESC I guess 🤔
On the other hand -
I never knew that the USN flew Kamikaze missions in the Pacific!
So I guess that, like me, after three lost planes (one literally - last seen heading for Denmark from the east coast of England) you switched to boats!
I can swim but I can't fly 🙄
Cheers, Doug 😎

Not guilty Fleet.

Martin555.

Aha!
I know you worked in a shipyard Martin.
Just wondering - wasn't you who wired up the motas in the T45s was it!? 😮😁
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Hi Bill,

RE :- colour blind to red and black wires.

When i left school and became an electrician I was never once asked if i was colour blind.

Congratulations on becoming a Lieutenant Commander.

Martin555.

Thanks Lad's, its just that I know that the esc goes into channel 4 on my set but for some reason I kept putting it into channel 3.

Before you ask I used to fly drones that is why the esc is on channel 4 and not 3, and I am to lazy to do the swop over.

Fred

Hi RNinMunich

I only have black coffee and no sugar

Fred

Okay y’all, long story. I used to fly RC combat, got pretty decent at it, we originally started flying 12th scale fighters and dive bombers made up of blue foam, glasses wings, and stock .15 to .25 engines. My favorite was the SBD Dauntless. Being a dive bomber it had a lot of wing area and perfect moments and turned on a dime. I flew it mostly for fun, but she had her share of combat and had been “remitted” and rebuilt several times. I was putting the radio back well past midnight one night..I forgot to reinstall the snap keeper on the elevator pushrod. I discovered my error the next day at the top of a loop, as I had no elevator control..all I could do is throttle back, and salute (literally) as she came straight down in a 90 degree dive. My buddy pulled up and saw the whole thing. Yep, we all join that club at some time or another. Just don’t ask how I wrecked my 55 Chevy in front of our house when I was 17...😳

Hi Fred If there were a trophy for idiot of the month you would not hold on to it very long. I know for myself I would be in line to take it from you.
Rick

I believe that Coke does that as well Nerys.
A reaction with the C02 in it I guess.
Very 'icky 😝
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A similar thing. I was in a motorway service area, my friend had chosen a bottle of some non descript fruity looking stuff. She opened it and put in a portion of sugar. It erupted all over the table.

Nerys

Welcome to the 'Wally of the Week Club' Fred 👍
I joined a while back when I absent mindedly dropped my effervescent magnesium tablet into my freshly made cappuccino! 😝
Nothing happened for a few seconds -
then it went off like Vesuvius 😮
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everyone screws up sometime. Learn from your mistake

Hi Fred,
At last, it is nice to share the title LOL!!
I have had that title for many many months LOL!!

Martin555.

Hi Fred.
We must all be idiots then 🤪 as I certainly fit into the been there and done that category.
I learnt at a very early stage in my boat/aeroplane building days the value of fused circuits.
It’s not funny when you become colour blind to red and black wires and the first you know about it is that horrible burning smell as you watch the plastic drip off the wires and components go bang ☹️😜.
Regards Bill.

Hi Fred you are not on your own crashed several aeroplanes by not checking the receiver after assembling before a flight.