Dave T wrote:)
Many hours making a rc spitfire mk9 from rcme plans 66" wingspan, built one of the gliders from one of the plans on this site and lost it in a tree along with a boomerang that didn't come back.
Hi Dave, I built a couple of Boomerangs as a kid that also didn't come back. Then a grizzled old neighbor man [he was so old that when he was a kid there were only 2 sex"s] told me that to make a boomerang come back you have to cut it into a kind of a "Arc" or a Curve. Then Calibrate it and it will fly out and then come back. Otherwise its just another stick.
I sure wish I could see that Spitfire with the 66 in Span. Still my favourite airplane.
Coincidently, my best friend from Washington State USA was at Duxford WW2 Air Base a few weeks ago to fly the DH Tiger Moth, Harvard, and....................Spitfire. It was one of two-seat ones that had been converted right after the War. It had a full set of Cockpit controls in his rear cockpit so he was able to actually fly it and have some fun with it. He is a Lifetime Prefessional Pilot who flies just about anything including Helicopters etc etc. They didn't restrict him much so they did loops, rolls, and some tail-chases and formation work with another Spitfire over the Cliffs of Dover. He said it actually made him "misty-eyed" to finally fly the Spitfire. I was very glad and jealous too. By the way, it was horrifically expensive in US dollars and thats the only reason I didn't go with them.
They also invited him to fly in one of the C-47s that actually flew missions on D-Day. He said that one of the Captains had been KIA on one of the -Day missions.
In my next life I plan to be a lot wealthier and do more of this type of thing myself.