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Pictures from Indoor meeting 22nd September, no write up as I am catching flight early Sunday morning. |
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Pictures from Indoor meeting 22nd September, no write up as I am catching flight early Sunday morning. |
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Tuesday 18th
September.
Paul
and myself tested new indoor flying venue. Tough job, somebody has to
do it. Took a lot of test flights or would have if I had taken along a
charged battery for my transmitter! The floor area is 40 X 40 metres the flying space slightly larger with a clear roof space. For comparison Chosen Hill
is approx 25 X 15 meters with allsorts of ceiling furniture To
rent this dome we need more people, 20 plus at £7.00 per head to break
even on an evening. It has other attractions (bar) which should be
open. Please spread the word of this possible venue it’s only a few
minutes drive from the centre of Gloucester with good access from
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A few action shots. |
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Bar and lounge area. |
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Sunday 9th September. Weather great, wind light northwesterly all day, warm and mainly sunny. Many
fliers out during the day. David Gurr probably the club’s youngest and
easily smallest member brought along an electric control liner. The
batteries are carried in the rucksack on his back with power feeding
down the lines. Little underpowered but did manage a couple of laps,
needs dad to loan him a larger battery pack to allow for voltage drop
down the lines then should perform well. Stephan
Peart visiting from the Cirencester Club flew a Hanger 9 Spitfire, flew
very well and the retracts coped very well with the strip very scale
like in the air. However the camouflage colour scheme was as with most
ARTF warbirds not quite the right colours. Steve had rubbed the
covering down to remove the glossy finish to give a semi matt finish.
This is a good representation of many of the full size warbirds flying
today, as many owners choose a “silk” type finish, as it is far easier
to keep clean. Paul
Butcher brought along an all foam electric ducted fan Mirage, which he
obtained at Much Marcle last weekend. He asked me to fly it for him
despite my recent record with ducted fans. On the first attempt one of
the fixed main undercarriage legs ripped clean out, not my fault as an
inspection clearly showed a nearly total lack of glue. With
the u/c block well glued back and Clive giving the centre of the strip
a short back and sides it got airborne on the second attempt. More than
amply power it looked very good in the air apart from the
undercarriage, which is fixed down. Now
call me Mr Picky if you like but heavy fast jets do not fly around with
their “Dunlop’s” dangle in the breeze, in fact at 500 mph plus they
wouldn’t dangle they would probably break off, if you want a model jet
to look fast you have to get the wheels out of the way or not fit them
at all! At the other end of the model spectrum I had a go with “Cookies” Silverlit
“Single
Wing Mini Plane” two function with proportional motor control and
left/centre/right non-proportional rudder control. Great fun and a lot
easier to fly than Silverlits twin engine types which rely on
asymmetric power for steering, as you can steer the Mini Plane while
gliding. Also the mini plane has a largish gear motor prop which acts
as a brake when the power is off giving quite a slow but steep glide,
making the mini plane very controllable unlike the twin models which
become free flight once you stop the motors. At
around £20.00 for everything (less 6 “AA” pen cells) I can see these
being the model of choice for indoor flying. Purchase from Tescos at
5.30pm with the weekly shopping and be flying at Chosen Hill
by 6.00pm. See Notice/events for more details. Forecast for the rest of week looks great. Monday a bit breezy but then very light winds through week, I’ve got the week off and I will be flying, see you down the field. |
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Young David Gurr with his model .David and dad ready for his first lesson. |
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Ready to circulate. |
Steve Peart prepares to sample the site with a trainer |
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The Chairman from his best side! |
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How to avoid hurting your back with a large model. |
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| Steve Pearts Spitfire at rest and looking great in flight. | |
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 Pauls artistic shot of the day |
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Friday 7th
September. Superb afternoon/evening, light northerly wind went calm later. Ken Brill and John
“Cookie” Cook had Little Silverlit models out flying. Well
Kens is actual a diminutive all EPP free flight chucky from Robotbirds
costing all of £4.95 he has installed a twin motor set up from
Silverlit biplane to control it. Still needs a bit of work but looks
promising. Cookie
had one of the newer Silverlit models single engine with rudder
control. The model goes under the very imaginative name of “Single Wing
Mini Plane” just a pity their innovation does reach to names! Total
package less AA batteries for TX? £17.50 or less if you shop around. As
for the future, check out the Kyosho Minium. 2.4
Ghz, 3 channel proportional less than 22 grams all up. See
the Robotbirds website for prices, £77.95 complete with TX.
A complete fuselage is available as spares for £32.95 this contains all the workings! The possibilities
this opens up are incredible. Does it work? Well mine is on order and I have not seen a product from Kyosho that doesn’t work, my Kyosho Concepts go back
to the early 90’s and still are going strong. The future of our hobby is looking great, it may be looking small it will be silent (nearly) and you will see most
of my large IC models on e.bay before they become worthless!!!!!! Flew
my new Hydroplane (Miss Hyperion Hydro) needs painting as I didn’t use
supplied stickers, but flies very well for a boat. Also got some flying
shots of my twin engine “Jerry” sadly not as fast as Kens single engine
version, to little pitch on the props the twin uses 3” X 3” the single
the ubiquitous 5” X 5” white Gunther being more efficient.
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 John "Cookie" Cook with his Silverlit "Single wing mini plane" |
£15.00 less batteries for TX. Shop around, you can get them from "Tescos"! |
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"Cookie" flying in superb conditions |
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Ken Brill looking happy with his modified "Happi" |
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A brace of "Jerries" twin and single |
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Twin "Jerry" in flight |
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"Miss Hyperion Hydro" more photo's when painted |
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