Hi All. I'm Tony and I've been into building and flying model planes for a very

A very warm welcome from me too, enjoy your stay, following your build thread, boz.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.

Tracey

And a very warm welcome from me to the new guys.

Hi Guys!
My name is Rodrigo, i´m 39 years old, and i´m from Mexico City. i been building planes for 5 years, mostly FF rubber and motor and some RC old timers. really don´t like modern and fast planes.

here some of my planes....

Welcome to the forum Rodrigo.
nice to have another FF flyer here, the free flight section is growing well.
you have some lovely looking models there sir.

Tony B

Hi Tony!

well, i started as rc, with a reduced tomboy 30" as my learning plane (learn to fly alone) but, 4 years ago i went to a pacific ace rubber contest and get hocked about!!!! saw a winner flying for 12 minutes even with DT activated... and that was first love saw.

Welcome from me too, remember these guys fly at Sea level, as I recall Mexico city is about 9,000ft which makes everything much harder!

Welcome again Rodrigo. Some nice models you have there, I particularly like your Diamond Demon it looks great with the wooden wheels.

Hope you enjoy your time on the forum, there's a few here with an interest in free flight

Welcome Rodrigo, a nice set of models there, sir!

Welcome from me too Rodrigo.I'm an all rounder too but love FF scale. Currently just a chairborne warrior though

Warm welcome from me, hope you enjoy the ff sections, boz.

Good morning, Rodrigo, and welcome to the site.

I've only just passed my first year of modelling, though did some when I was a tiny kid. So, you're well ahead of me, but like you I am hooked on FF rubber. There's just something weird and wonderful about it.

Crashrr.

I don't know if they would still be available but in the 50s and 60s there were some very good articles in Aeromodeller and Model Aircraft about making and pretensioning rubber motors and recipes for lubricating them too. I wonder if Andy Sephton has access to them and could make them uploadable. Andy can you ?

one tenor wrote: I don't know if they would still be available but in the 50s and 60s there were some very good articles in Aeromodeller and Model Aircraft about making and pretensioning rubber motors and recipes for lubricating them too. I wonder if Andy Sephton has access to them and could make them uploadable. Andy can you ?

I'm not sure why you've posted this question John, I can't see that anyone has asked for the advice. Notwithstanding, most of the old knowledge has now been overtaken by modern methods and materials. Current information is available on the net at a site whose URL I've posted a number of times - The National Free Flight Society Library. The index of which is here:

freeflight.org/library/technical-library/

There are numerous articles on rubber lube and braiding (american for pre-tensioning) as well as a whole host of other useful free flight papers. Be warned, though, as soon as you start looking at the site, you'll spend a lot longer there than you first envisaged.....

Thanks for that Andy very useful and yes captivating too . My reason for posting was a number of references have been made to "A rubber band " and such. Wether in ironical jest or not I wasn't sure so made the suggestion just in case it may help. I realised it could be outdated but it may have helped. However your advice is as usual very welcome,useful, and entertaining and what's more up to date. :woohoo: