Stabilizer recommendation...

[Wingnutz]

Very pleased with results with inexpensive Lemon stabilized receivers.
I'm looking for a stabilized rx with more channels than Lemon's stab and stab plus.
Considering a Lemon 10 ch with an Eagle A3 stab, but I'm certainly open to suggestions.

[sihinch]

I've used 2 A3 Pro with very good results.

Easy to setup and seem to work great.

[Oscar]

I use A3-L with Lemon 10CH R/X.  Works wonderful.  A3 Pro and A3 Super 3 is a bit overkill unless you are planning to do 3D flying and training function (auto level, just like the Horizon SAFE function on the Apprentice)

[Wingnutz]

Thanks guys. Will order a couple this morning. Never used an Eagle stabilizer before...how does it connect to the rx?

[sihinch]

Just plug a servo extension between Rx and stabilizer and then servos plug directly to stabilizer.

[Wingnutz]

Sounds easy! Thanks!

[RogMason]

Bill,
I just noticed your emoji icon is the DH.88 Comet racer. Very smart!  Is that new or have I been living under a rock, wingtip all this time? 

An early version of the DeHavilland logo was red and shaped differently from the final, light blue one, which was based on the Mosquito.  I think the red version was based on the Comet. Can't think why they would colour it red if not?  I found this video of a Comet flying with a Spitfire and a Hurricane at Old Warden in the UK.  It clearly shows the the plan view silhouette of the Comet racer during a low fly-past, starting at 2:00 in the timeline.

Only 3 Comets racers were built and one of them won the England to Australia race in 1934 in just under 71 hours. All 3 first flew just 6 weeks before the race.  All 3 competed. Like the Mosquito which followed later during the war, they were largely built of wood. I think they cost about £5-6,000 each to build and used two Gypsy-Six, inverted - water cooled engines, which were a development of the of the company's popular Gypsy Major engine used extensively in 'Moth' aeroplanes.

It set me thinking, I wonder if anyone offers a Comet racer ARF or kit?  It would be a very distinctive aeroplane to fly.

DH Comet Racer, Spitfire and Hurricane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m6xklvnZ88

[Wingnutz]

Hi Rog,
Grosvenor House has been my avatar for several years. The photo is my Durafly DH-88 flying at ROGO field probably seven or eight years ago. I have always been struck by the beautiful lines of the DH-88, and see its shape in the Me 262...
I bemoan the disappearance of the iconic DH rudder shape in later DH aircraft such as the Venom...very few if any modern designs approach the artistic beauty of the prop driven DHs... Geoffrey, where are you?
BTW, in an effort to get my Comet model to balance, I ended up removing the clear plastic landing light bubble on the nose and replacing it with a blob of red plasticene...and nicknamed the model "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Comet"...
Thanks for the link to the video...beautiful formation flying by the trio of beauties and the Comet with its two "Moth" engines  didn't seem to be struggling to keep up with its Merlin powered escorts!
Part way through a single engine white monoplane accompanies the Comet...Percival Mew Gull?
If you've been napping under a wingtip, I hope the shadow came from a DH wing...nap peacefully, be well.

[RogMason]

Bill,
If you ever find yourself in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, there is one remnant of DH's former glory - The Comet Hotel and Restaurant, at the 'Comet Roundabout'. 
DH personnel including Sir G d'H himself, oft dined there during 'all-nighters'.  It is a stone's throw away from the front gates of what used to be DeHavilland Aircraft Company.  Sadly, the factory is all gone now, demolished to make way for a warehouse industrial park and housing estate. Britain is so full of ancient history and I mean really ancient history, a 1930's aircraft factory, didn't cut the mustard or make the grade considered necessary for historic protection.

So it goes...