Just been down to Milton Keynes, to pick up this plane. It is an 84" span Cap 231, the engine in it is a 62cc Zenoah which retails at £315.00, the whole plane cost half of that. It needs the lightest of restoration (about an hour), just shows how long it has been since entering Northamptonshire, there is a whole new Bypass been built around Weedon.
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Music - keyboards, vocals, alto & soprano sax
Painting - watercolour & acrylic
Woodworking - woodturning (acrylic) , woodscrolling and woodcarving
Gardening - flowers, marijuana and vegetables
Baking - gluten free and regular
Paddling - kayaking and canoeing
Exercise - walking, biking ( with dogs ) & yoga
Jewelry making - hair accessories
Reading - romance, thriller and mystery novels
Pembroke or Cardigan?
Photography
Mathematics
Classical, blues, boogie
The dogs
Spitty! That’s awesome! You wouldn’t want to fly that if you’ve never flown one before. It would be too good to practice on, especially with a novice like me…
Wouldn’t mind watching you fly her though…
Impressive list of hobbies there Bratti…
Thank you Mr. Fox. I don’t actually do all of them all the time. While I practice the saxophone usually one hour a night I haven’t painted any pictures in a while nor am I always baking. I’d be 4 sizes bigger. 
For me hobbies help keep life exciting and interesting.
Coarse fishing
Reading detective fiction
Listening to prog rock, acid jazz, some 12 bar blues.
Cycling canal towpaths
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Same here Bratti, I have quite a few interests besides running.
Although I keep regular sessions of running, I like to construct small electronics projects, and add new features and make modifications to my workshop in the loft. Plenty of woodworking, reading and photography. Walking takes precedence when the weather is fine, although covid has kept it local this year.
Have you read any Peter James Percy? I like reading English based detective mysteries, and Detective Roy Grace (Peter James) is based in the Sussex constabulary.
I don’t fly them foxy, my Son does, the design of the Cap does make it a tricky flyer, it has large control surfaces, especially the wrap round elevators and rudder. The response of the controls can be dialled down on the transmitter (its called Transmitter Exponential) which is useful for a flyer new to aerobatic stuff. When the Son started Model Flying, it was natural that I had to be competent (sort of) in building and repairing.
My hobby is drilling holes in bits of spare wood if I am bored using the bench drill
What a brilliant hobby Spitty, your son must have some skill to keep that plane in the air, especially when there will be other planes flying at the same time. I’ve got a small helicopter and it’s difficult to control, not like the drones that everyone uses these days.
Its like anything else Foxy, we started this journey in 2003, when I took a work sabbatical, just like now, as time moved on. there is now a battle going on between electric and internal combustion power, we tend not to go down the electric route, which, a lot of flyers have chosen . If you fly IC, you have to train for a so called “Dead Stick” situation, whereby the engine cuts, and you have to glide, in a airframe that is not designed for this purpose, electric flyers (and IC now to some extent) have two way communication with the aircraft, so, are prewarned about any potential crisis, Ok, this has reduced the instances where a flyer goes home with a bag of Balsa, but, has suppressed the seat of your pants experience where anything can happen, and you have to react.
Fascinating Spitty, modern technology is permeating all and every thing we do now…But does it take away the adrenalin?
Of course it does, if there ain’t no risk, don’t bother.
Hmmm… I seem to have missed this Thread till recently
Making model aeroplanes; been doing it since I was 10 or 11, though things like marriage, work, family and so on have tended to interfere. Now I’m retired, but there are lots of other things to do as well…
Airfix are probably the best known kits, but there are others
Hiking & backpacking. I started in the Scouts and just carried on from there
Recently my legs have started aching & complaining, so I’m not sure what the future will hold for this
Knife Making. Some people grind & forge their own blades, but you have to be fairly keen to do that
I buy in ready made blades then fit my own handles
Leatherwork. This followed on from the knives, and I learned leatherwork to make the sheaths
At first it was just a means to an end, but I’ve become more interested, and have started to make belts & wallets
Touring around. I always used to enjoy going to museums, airshows, and so on, but in 2018 & 2019 I’ve been doing more of this
Going to museums, castles, browsing around villages, cities, and countryside, re-enactment shows, steam gatherings, all that sort of thing
I call it ‘looking at Britain’ - before it’s all changed, lost, and destroyed
Of course, The Pestilence has stopped almost all of that, but I have a weekend planned soon
Reading. I was, and still am, a fan of Scandi Noir, but recently I’ve been reading Stuart Maconie and others on touring round Britain
Our local libraries have been closed for months, so that’s slowed me down a bit
Photography I was fairly keen & capable with 35mm slides, but I just never took to digital. I really must try to learn digital photography and catch up with computer stuff in general
Cooking. I enjoy cooking but I now live on my own, which is a double edged sword
I have the run of a decent kitchen all to myself , but there’s a tendency not to bother
Plane has been in the operating theatre, a new undercarriage (and spats) is being fitted and a new tail wheel. The new undercarriage is more substantial that the old one so, the recess on the bottom of the fuselage will be widened by 20mm today.
The new parts are painted and ready for fitting.
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Note the Dulux “First Dawn” Blue on the office walls.
New and old side by side, you can see how much more substantial the new one is, therein lies a problem. The balance point (centre of gravity) is critical on models as it is on full size, the old undercarriage and spats weighed in at 440 grams, the new on weighs a 1000 (a kilo) so 560 grams have been added to the front end, fortunately, with the chosen engine up front, lead weights had to be added to the firewall area to achieve the correct c of g, the trick is now to remove some (or All) of the weights to restore the balance point.
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First wasband (late) was a member of Pretoria Radio Flyers, we got dragged along there some weekends to watch him play with his Ugly Stick. Not a pleasant day out, I prefered to go walking in the veldt dodging snakes. 
