Bad news, Joel, I hope you get the camera and lens back. Surely if you know who nicked it, it should be relatively easy?

I wrote a comment, there's a clue there to which one is mine

It looks like he lost control of the Flowbee Haircut Systems product he reviewed...

Well, that's convinced me.....I am going to Hong Kong tomorrow, I don't suppose you know anyone there who sells converted cameras?

Great shots, and an amazing bit of work converting the camera! I love the first one, it does look a bit HDR as Axel says, but I want to try IR out myself, especially on aerial shots (assuming it works through laminated glass windows, which I think it will).

Welcome to the forum!

Gotta go fly a real one now, Dhaka back to Doha on the freighter.

Just as I wrote that, the phone rings and I am told the plane is still in Calcutta!!

Cool, I will check it out! I have heard people fly models here, but have never seen a shop selling anything. Saying that, I have only ever been in the City centre Mall once.

The engine does looks slightly offset, the front engine mounting is on the right hand side of the fuselage.

My day of aerobatics are over sadly Though did some a few years back on a Yak52. It's an expensive hobby.

I still have a control line plane though, which I designed myself (well actually modified heavily: I used the wing off an existing model). It has a glow plug engine which is far too big for the plane, and is very fast and a bit unstable. It's in the UK, I can't get fuel for it here and can't bring any in my luggage unfortunately, but next time I am back I might fire it up again, if the friend I left it with hasn't pranged it.

That plane in the first picture has no rudder, evidently it relies purely on centrifugal force to keep the lines taut.

I used to have one of these, also on control lines, though it looked a bit different. Mine had a twin boom tail, and was bright yellow. Great fun, and they make a dreadful racket! Unfortunately I eventually wrote it off trying one aerobatic manouvre too many. It ended up almost completely buried!

I find it a bit odd that anyone would take exception to someone being able to purchase a lot of good lenses in one go.

I don't have any Ltd lenses (I could afford a few) but so far I haven't been able to justify the expense (mainly to my wife). I have some very cheap lenses that I think perform very well. I am still very interested in how these expensive lenses perform though, especially when compared to cheaper options.