| Richard
Very nice photos, she looks really well on the water and I hope you’re as lucky with the drying out as we were. With modern encapsulated electronics I think you stand a very good chance of things working OK, except perhaps the servos as these have a degree of mechanical parts.
Tom
I’ve had several comments about the maximum speed for an SE5a and you’re absolutely right my 123 mph is way too slow. Information I’ve received suggests that they could in fact reach 225 mph safely in a dive, I say safely because presumably the pilots survived to tell the tale! I have realised where I made the error; I was quoting from an article about the Shuttleworth restored SE5a and the 123 mph must be the maximum speed that this is allowed to fly at these days, obviously they’re going to be very, very careful with such a valuable machine. I assume that the take off and landing speeds are comparable to WW1 days.
Anyway, welcome to the forum and I hope you find it interesting, any more information you may have about the SE5a will be gratefully received.
Grahame |