Update Trainer By Graham Holemby

This year is my 30th anniversary of flying RC models, not that I have been flying for all of that time, so in reality it been 20 or so years of flying, 10 years less mainly because of my apprentiship, collage / Uni ect, and my other passion restoring cars.. back in 1981 I purchased a Ripmax Trainer, this year I am making another exactly the same. its a very special machine to me as it was the first big machine I built, I was a junior member of the Maidstone MFC, who used to fly at Detling, the show ground, my Ripmax Trainer was tested by a instructor in the club, and I started to learn with him... doing well, untill I dicided to have a go on my own at Detling, this was my first solo which I never landed as I lost it in the woods in Detling, for 6 months, (which was winter time,1981. not unlike we had Christmas this year, snow, wind, frost ect...). I found it in the spring of 1982 in a tree, the fuz was stuck in a 'V' of branches, the wings and tail were on the ground, both the motor and radio gear were usable after a service, I rebuilt the model as it didn't suffer too bad ,I continued to fly the rebuilt machine, for some time, until a poor hand launch wrote it off..

the following pictures are of the original machine and work so far in the new build.... I will continue this thread with regular up dates as I am intending to have the new machine operational at the end of March this year as that is the anniversary..

Good luck with the build!!

Wasn't someone called ray that hand launched it by any chance

No it was some wally called Graham

Hi Steve, been practicing so any time you need a hand launch, I'm yer man!!!

Ray is our hand launch King

GBEE wrote:

Ray is our hand launch King

This was altered by Admin as it originally said " Ray is our hand job King."

ya beat me to it ya b*******

grounded wrote:

ya beat me to it ya b*******

Yeah it is good is it not.......

I'm impressed....bit more practise and your gonna be funny!

Rainman wrote:

I'm impressed....bit more practise and your gonna be funny!

Nah that will never happen mate, Me Funny your having a laugh

Update From Graham...Ripmax Trainer.

That looks to be progressing very nicely, hope you don't mind my asking, are they your nappies the fuse is on top of?

I think they are... (O DEAR thats going to cost me.........................))

And just to pre-empt the ultra picky members on here... You do know your wing is on upside down don't you ..

I've got one of them in my garage that I use regularly. I'm sure it's identical, if not, very similar........The radio that is!

Worzey wrote:

I've got one of them in my garage that I use regularly. I'm sure it's identical, if not, very similar........The radio that is!

I'm glad you clarified that, Not the Nappies then ?

Don't think they've made the nappy able to bring worzys emissions under control..

It's good to see another, great, aeromodelling nostalgia project here.

But do we, perchance, detect a little topic-creep again?

I didn't notice a creep, but I'll be led by you sir....

its been a fantastic build so far.... Dont know why it should be differant to building anything else... like a brand new machine in kit form! even playing the same tapes that I built the first one to.. hence the 'wireless' next to the building board.. even got a new OS 40 H MAX for it.. I think I have a few less degrees dihedrial in the wings.. as someone on another forum told me its 4.5 " at one end.. I have built it with 3".. Will it make the machine more Rudder sensitive?

Update on the Ripmax Trainer

Whose been doing the pin striping etc,,,, looks very proffessional.

thankyou Daron

pin strip is easy.. comes on a roll (1.6.. wide)

That's a good looking 'plane Like the colours

Its one of the reasions I kept the box..... + my first....

Machine all finished now, just got to do a engine test, and one more picture.. guess which one