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  I had been ask to help sort though a loft full of vintage models & engines  Of a good friend of mine  who is now no longer able to take part in this hobby,   One of the the models found is this Skyleader  skymaster,  this may have been one ex  Skyleader display team aircraft  as Geoff Wolfe  used to work for Skyleader at one time ...  Here is  his web page Flying steam engines  I think you will find  very interesting, but  i'm afraid he is not able to update ..http://flysteam.co.uk/compair.htm


  Pics here of  original  condition when found before refurb of airframe & recovering .. The Engine is a Webra 61R  this was cleaned up,  Not dismantled.. I used a heat gun to heat up the engine  to soften the  old  caster  residue, removed the glow plug  (still worked)  & added after run oil  to the top of the piston though the exhaust port & carb  slowly turning over the engine,  I then added glow fuel  though the carb this really loosened the engine up,  using more glow fuel  I  flushed  out the gung..

 Mounted the engine in a test stand  refitted the original plug, a flick it was running once again ...
 Removed the old Skyleader servos   and yes they still work ok ... Refitted replacement Futaba servos  & Spektrum 2.4 rx ....
  


 stripped off the covering & repaired Balsa frame & recovered tailplane using solarfilm..
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Paul Brewer was the re maiden Pilot As he is currently flying the one one right 



 Myself  showing the Original Team logo I did not remove  the lower wing covering

 link below to flight it... was  a windy day video taken from my phone forgot to Zoom,  sorry for that & I missed the start of the flight too,   as the video was an after thought  of mine during the early part of the maiden flight as it started well ..
.. The under carriage needs to have cross struts fitting  as it is very springy..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL_xETY_nH0















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