Sorry I got a bit sidetracked, working out that I could use my 6CH to get the TYPHOON set up for now once I removed the Reflex Gyro channel to run it as a dumb plane for the time being.
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Wondering if I should get back into drones. Haha since I am unable to have any fun hobbies thanks NSW government.
Just donāt fly them over active fires like a idiot did yesterday and grounded all the aerial firefighting assets. 
I wonderā¦
If the Bondi nutters, used drones carrying explosivesā¦.
Would drones be banned, as well.??
They are already restricted and have to be in a club to fly them. I donāt know why some people do some really stupid shit these days.
thatās stupid that you have to be in a clubā¦ i guess no drone flying for me.
Sorry I was wrong, no you donāt, that was for something else. Just no higher than 120m and 30m away from people and populus areas, 5klm away from airports and away from disasters like fires floods etc. Drone has to be in visual line of sight. You can look it up online.
A little history as to why I love the Hawker Typhoon/Tempest out of ANY other aircraft built in WW2.
Whilst the Spitfire, Mustangs, F4U Corsair, Thunderbolts, Hellfireās etc got all the attention and historical glory, there was ONLY one single aircraft that changed the whole course of the War, and that was the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest, even though its always been overshadowed by the āpopularityā of the aforementioned aircraft. 
We had some Hawker Sea Fury squadrons, went Korean war on our aircraft carrier Hmas Sydney.
Hawker Sea Fury Mark 11 | Sea Power Centre
4x 20mm Hispanos will give you a bad day 
Forerunner to the Hurricane, yeah? 
I think the Hurricane was the predecessor and was badged with over half the luftwaffe kills in the Battle of Britain alongside the Spitfire.
Iād have to check but the Hurricane Iām sure was the first of that type in the 1930ās.
@Maiphut was spot on, and thanks for the link to that article mate!
The Hurricane was the prior Model that was instrumental in winning the Battle of Britain, but once again, the Spitfire got all the attention and fame even though it was the Hawker Hurricane that was the major player in the whole theatre of battle.
The Typhoon was then designed to beat the Spitfire in speed and weaponry ability, but had a few early teething issues, so was tweaked and replaced with the Tempest design for the rest of WW2, then redesigned again using a radial engine for the years following WW2 and called the Fury/Sea Fury.
The Typhoon and Tempest were THE fastest low level fighters of all aircraft ever built during WW2, being the only fighter able to chase down and destroy V2 rockets being launched into England and the first German Jet fighter Aircraft that were put into action towards the end of the war.
BTW: The new 10CH receiver turned up a few days ago, so I might bring the Typhoon back up bush here and get it all set up to give me something else to do whilst sitting around camp! 
The other cool thing was USA had 500 P51 Mustang plane kits to be assembled in country on the way to England, Japan was attacking us hundreds of times with pot shots off the top of Aus and we had nothing besides a SMLE. Poppa quickly dumped that and started running 40mm Bofors ammo. Got a few, but they were mostly on a one way mission as theyād run out of fuel. They recently found one of our Catalina patrol/rescue planes that the Japs shot down up top there somewhere. I read a year or two ago.
My Poppa ran out in his jocks and dumped a mag at them as they did another strafing run of the hundreds they did up North.
Invasion looked imminent so between the US and England had pretty much after the battle of Britain said divert those to Australia. Which they did, so we ended up with 500 P51 mustangs kits to assemble, train pilots and stood up 3 squadrons of those to start with(pretty cool seeing a P51 with an Australian Roundel on it at an air show which they have plenty of parts for here as we didnāt send back or build them all not enough pilots or support crew). All you had to do to be a pilot was get on the train in Adelaide and be in EDN. They assisted to start with in Bouganville then the war ended, dropped from three to 2 squadrons and then Korea kicked off and we sent a squadron of P51ās along with the HMAS Sydney Hawker Sea Fury to assist in Korea. Some brave men died in Korea flying those.
Always remember. Canāt see a green haired doesnāt know what it identifies as these days doing that besides rioting and causing disruption to the well being of Australia.
Saddens me to see what people do to this lovely place, the good people in it. I work hard to provide for the populace food and clothing. When I see the bs down south/ east coast. They are not Australian and should not be here imo. I acclimatized to Australia when I popped out the oven. Why canāt others?
Itās easy. Get a job, dunner nah duh na nah. There is huge employment opportunities. Always has been. Or maybe your shit country you left from you didnāt work and so it fails. Donāt like it here, go home, weāll even fly you home with our own planes.
Donāt wreck Australia and how far it has come. Rant off.
The Warbirds look great but the physics just doesnāt scale. Give me a wing or talon thanks.
Test flight ended up being 200kph+ speed runs 
You are 100% right about the physics and scale, where the lightweight foam replicas are a bitch to achieve correct CG making them a handful to fly.
I have the Warbirds mainly as great replicas of my favourite WW2 Aircraft, not for use as daily flyers, thatās what all my other Float Planes are for.
Thatās some great in flight footage BTWš
My FMS Kingfisher comes with an FPV Camera hatch, but Iām yet to go down that pathā¦yet!
A nice old fella came up to me at the Weir yesterday as I was out flying a few of my Float Planes, and asked if Iād be interested in some RC Helicopters that heās had collecting dust in his shed, as he now has drones and no longer flies Helis.
I naturally accepted his kind offer and did a pick up on the way back from the grog shop!
Two 350mm Twin Rotors and two 700mm single Rotors running belt driven Tail Rotors.
Pretty old stuff, especially all of the electronics, with one FM Radio Transmitter still fitted with the old Frequency Crystal in it!
Iāve already started removing the old FM receivers/ESCās and Gyros to replace with modern electronics that can bind to the already extensive collection of spare Transmitters I have laying around, and get rid of that old ridiculously long yellow FM antenna wire. (YES, itās looped around the tail to the front of the Skid and back!)
Will leave the old Gyro on one of them to see how it performs, and has fine adjustment controls easily accessible.
This is the older White model with full plastic chassis and metal alloy in critical areas, whereas the other Red one is a bit more āmodernā with metal frame, plenty of alloy parts, slightly newer electronics and more complex Rotor Head controls.
Looks like thereās gonna be an influx of boxes from China again in the not too distant future.
Been a few days researching what the hell these Beetle Bopters are, and as far as I have found out, the white one is 20 years old and the Red one is a V2 version only 16 years old!
No wonder that they still ran old FM RX/TX electronics and wildly complicated Flybar Rotor Heads!
Surprisingly though, they were the very first introduction of Collective Pitch 3D Helicopters to be released onto the market, making them the OG models that spawned the insane 3D CP Helicopter Hobby that has taken off worldwide today.
Fortunately for me, because they are a good quality well known brand, parts are STILL readily available online for very cheap prices, including more modern updated Alloy and Stainless upgrades for these same old machines, including parts to adapt them into more modern Flybar Less Heads with Modern Gyros to match the modifications.
Iāve already ordered around 40-50 bits and pieces, mainly updated Electronics and parts that I have already found broken or damaged.
Still toying with the idea to restore the old White girl with ALL of its original components, just as a tribute to the days gone by.
Would be hilarious to be the only one on the field holding an old FM Radio Transmitter with its 3 ft telescopic arial extended with a white ribbon flapping in the breeze and battling with a Piezo Gyro and 4 ft antenna wire trailing behind the Heli!
Amazing how the little details first caught my attention, in the sense that the 2 Transmitters had every single Trim control tab maxed out left right, up down and beyond.
That told me straight away that the basic mechanical settings must have been all janked up, which on closer inspection, everything was 100% way out of whack.
Servo arm locations, ball link rod lengths, Swash plate angle, pitches between the Flybar paddles and main Rotor Head, Tail Rotor pitch settings etc etc etc are ALL OVER THE PLACE!
But thatās where you come to realise that all of these models, the same as my Rock Crawlers/Speedboats/Aircraft, all come in a Kit form and are only as good as the person who first assembles them.
Thereās a reason why I spend weeks on setting up my Models to the very last millimetre of mechanical settings, then many more days testing and adjusting the electronics before I even send them off on a maiden voyage.
Sure enough you can ātrimā certain things āon the goā with the TX to a small degree, but if the mechanical physics have been neglected, no amount of trimming is going to save you from crashing out within seconds!
So now as a part of this CP Helicopter ownership, many of the bits that Iāve ordered are mostly things like Pitch Gauges and everything else technically related to actually setting up the mechanical physics properly before I even get into the electronics side of things.
Iāve flown plenty of fixed head Helicopters back in the day, but nothing like these Collective Pitch 3D beastsā¦,ā¦ so itās definitely gonna be a learning curve, but thatās what hobbies are all about, learning something new and continuing to hone new skills to keep life interesting!
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Collective pitchā¦
I see what you mean about learning curves. that thing would be tits up in a pine tree in 2.3 nanoseconds if I was behind the controls. 
But if anyoneās going to grab it by the balls and master itās going to be you, Doc. With your level of dedication to task and sticktuitiveness youāll be flying that thing around like a bush pilot in no time.
Cheers mate!
Donāt worry, Iām a great Bush Pilotā¦ā¦ā¦.
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦all of my Aircraft end up in a Bush!