May 2008 Blog

May 31st A low turnout for such a pleasant day. Mike Bond had a good time flying his Magistair and low wing model. His Mig 15 failed to fly at first because the ducted fan was sucking instead of blowing and fell to the ground in just a couple of feet . Paul performed surgery on it, cutting the belly open and swapping two of the wires. It flew very fast, too fast for me to get a photo, the grey against the grey clouds did not help, but thanks to Photoshop we have a fake picture. Our Chairman arrived with an Ebay bought canard , a real mean looking machine. Powered by a Hacker A30 10XL on 4 cells, Chris put on a good high speed display, until the unventilated speed controller gave up. Mark's light weight Katana MD was very impressive, a great 3D machine, I will have to have one. I crashed my Acromaster while trying a low inverted pass, Paul tried to do better with Darren's much abused Buzz and succeeded, hitting the ground much faster and harder. I made a right cock up of flying CB's Byp Yak, unable to compensate for it climbing in one KE and diving on the other, taking nearly a whole battery before I got it to do rolling circuit, a very strange model to fly as it will only turn on rudder. Phil

Mike Bond's low wing model and a fake photo of his Mig15

Adrian flying the England team's Hi-boy	Chairman's low pass, I canardly believe it

CB's Byp Yak and Clive's Newtimer enjoying the calm air at sunset

Friday 30th May

Paul Flying David's Phantom

Richard's Honey Bee	Phil's Easy Pigeon

Thursday 29th May Five members turned up tonight, only to battle with a stiff breeze that saw the normal helis grounded. Phil continued to throw his over powered Acro-master around the sky, performing near perfect 3D moves ?? (that's what he wanted to hear)
.Phil also had his powered glider, which when airborne didn't use much airspace, due to the fact the motor wasn't powerful enough to penetrate the wind! Photo:- Phil's Easy Pigeon . 600 brushed removed and 150watt brushless fitted.
Stan tried his hand at i.c planes again, less than a week after his Pup exploded into the ground a new one appeared complete with a nice shiny engine and a few mods.
	Stan and Phil started to run the OS47 engine in, then it was ready for its maiden flight, to cut a long story short Bill and Ben would have got it airborn quicker. Stan would like to thank the following people: Darren for the loan of various tools and a servo horn, Phil for the loan of a file and his expertise in bodging, Mike for keeping the aircraft still when ground running the engine and supplying various other items and last but not least Clive for telling him about the mods after the first crash !
The highlight of the night was watching Phil "helicopters are a pain" The Fridge (!) trying to pilot a helicopter on Phoenix, we have never heard so many excuses for poor flying. Darren.
Tuesday 27th A dull day but a lot better than the awful weekend, CB made a brief visit and helped me with my Acromaster, suggesting a lower pitched prop and more rudder movement to improve prop hanging and knife edge. Richard flew his Attrition and had the first flight with his Ultimate Bi-pane, I had set this up with insufficient exponential at first and Richard found it a little twitchy . Neil had several flights with his Electric Telemaster using a buddy box lead connected to Darren's DX7. the model coped with the breeze and was easy to fly, Neil got on well for a new flier.

Richard Herbert's Ultimate Bi-plane, flew well and coped OK with the breeze	Richard's Attrition on it's second outing

Stan and Phil's Acromasters taking off by a "brave" photographer	Acromaster at sunset

Darren's Buzz against the best sunset this year. unfortunately it was so dark Darren could not see it and landed a long way from the strip. The left hand photo is straight off the camera right hand photo has been lightened by 20% 3rd photo
Friday 23rd The showers stopped to give pleasant evening. Darren continued hovering his Raptor with a hula hoop cable tied to the bottom, it looks like he's getting the hang off it, very stable so the training ring may be coming off soon. Darren was also seen flying CB's Big Bubble. Stan had minor engine problems with his Concept 60 Jet Ranger, he also flew Darren's very popular Buzz

Chairman's venerable old Multiplex Twinjet now also Lipo powered. 3rd photo

Stan's Concept 60 2nd photo	Stan's Rainbow posing for the camera
	My Multiplex AcroMaster now with the decorations stuck on, this was more of dodgy sort of wobble than a knife edge pass.

Thursday 22nd A dull evening weather wise but the flying was lively. Our chairman flew a new members GWS E-Starter but found the geared brushed motor a little under powered. My Multiplex AcroMaster, over powered by Hacker A30 XL went as expected, the 14 X 7 prop also OTT pulled it vertically at a rate of knots. Stan flew his Twinstar in a spirited fashion and two of our members got silly with Darren's Buzz, how low will it fly inverted? Answer, into the ground, see photo	Stan's Twinstar speed run photo

A new members GWS E-Starter 2nd photo	Chairman's Big Bubble and Phil's Acromaster
Wednesday 21st No pictures as Phil flying elsewhere. Had first mishap with T.rex 600 (predicted three days ago) trying to re-enacting Adrian's tail side of the previous evening. Only 4 fliers for what was another superb evening with the wind dying of completely. Ken flew his Blade helicopter and Kyosho Minim, both performed well in the still air.
Tuesday 20 Richard Herbert flew his Attrition for the fist time, after a long construction period. A poor solder joint was subject to a quick on field repair to see him back in the air again. The evening saw half a dozen fliers out to enjoy what was an absolutely perfect evening, the wind dropped right of to nearly flat calm and with full cloud cover but relatively bright conditions gave for one of the best flying conditions for a long time. I flew my electric Funtana 90S at about half eight in air that was absolutely silky smooth. This had to be the best flight I have ever had with this model. Adrian had a little mishap with his T.rex 450 when it trailside into the ground. Darren got in several sessions with his Raptor, while others continued the destructive testing of his "Buzz".

Darren's Raptor 30.	CB's electric Align T-rex 600.

Paul asks for a go with Stan's heli!	The camera flash highlighting CB's Byp Yak against the evening sky.

Friday 9th A good day, the southerly breeze disappeared tea time giving us a perfect evening. Mark was able to fly his light weight Katanna, this was its maiden flight and it flew superbly . Paul's trainer went real well after 40 minutes setting it up, I could not find the differential aileron setting on the DX7and had to use a mixer. This is a great trainer very stable and easy to fly. Richard and Darren flew their Buzzes.( you wait ages and then.....) I kept pouring fuel into my Giles and had to phone Clive to deliver more. Phil

Mark's Electric Katanna	Paul Launching his Newtimer

Paul's high wing electric trainer	Richard Herbert's Buzz
Wednesday 7th CB is away on one of his short work breaks, so we will get a fewer words and more photos as I am no wordsmith. Another pleasant evening, but only 4 flyers. The farmer was out again making hay while the sun shone and Clive joined in cutting the strip, I found I could avoid tipping nose in on the long grass by holding up elevator.

Stan's Rainbow taking off and against the sunset, I will get some details on this model
	My Giles, now fitted with a Thunder Tiger 40, I have given up trying to get the ASP 36 to run without cutting during attempted aerobatics Phil

Tuesday 6th A perfect evening for model flying, Nothing to write home about really. photo: the maiden flight of Stan's Rainbow
Monday 5th A busy day with little or no wind and just one shower. Paul's radio Queen suffered engine problems. Keith took the the training undercarriage of his heli. Mark put on a superb aerobatic display with his Acromaster and later his helicopter, spending a lot of time inverted. Darren's Super tiger 39 pro suffered a big end failure while being run in on the ground. Stan's Acromaster had a spectacular speed controller burnout and Ken's Newport hit the ground rather hard after refusing to come out of a turn, apart from that everyone seemed to be having a good time. The 2 gliders failed to find lift. Paul Gurr test flew a new members high wing electric trainer, floated in real slow for landing, much better than the usual heavy ic trainer. I continued with my Giles, doing uneven eights, loops not round, rolls that barrel and stall turns only half right, I guess I will never make the nationals. Phil

No bank holiday for the farmer, The tractors lap times got quicker for some reason, maybe the tyres warmed up or the fuel load decreased	and of course the usual bank holiday rain, which stopped play for a while

Stan's Twinstar 2nd photo	mass launch, well Stan and Clive

Mark's Acromaster, very impressive	Ken's Newport
	Brian's profile funfly

Sunday 4th

Chairman's Raptor 550e in a plain rapper	and Darren's Raptor 30 with the on the ground posing body by Canomod

Paul's 4Star (a Twinstar with 4 motors for extra grunt). Second photo with wing and tail plane air brushed in	Mark's Badboy behaving well on landing

Saturday 3rd

	Stan's wayward Cessna being rescued from a tree. There were 4 hungry birds squawking at me from the nest
	How many Glos-MFC members does it take to set up up Darren's helicopter? That would be Stan to make the adjustments, Darren to watch and learn and two to take the micky

Darren's Flyingwings Buzz flashing bye in the failing light. It went great on two cells and a lot faster when our chairman supplied a three cell lipo. Easy to fly, vertical climbing and unbreakable, great fun. Darren will enjoy this model when he gets a go Phil
Friday 2nd May

Keith, now progressed to moving his heli round the strip	Steve's Raptor

Bob
	A training session with CB's Twinstar, no not me I have acquired too many bad habits to be helped, perhaps it's the company I keep. Our chairman is practicing his camera work and broken the habit of a life time by getting the model and the pilot in the frame Phil

Chairman's electric Funtana 90S.	Richard Herbert's Attrition, fitted with an OS 30 four stroke.

Monday 19th Another day with a cool north-easterly doing the day, but the wind dropped late in the evening to give a great finish to the day.

Rotorshape Autogyro.	Bye Yak posed against the sunset.
Sunday 18th A warm pleasant day if you stayed in the shelter of the hedge, out on the strip there was a cool and sometimes gusty north-easterly wind. The control line circle was busy with George Ford and his son flying a variety of models including a twin-engined Grumman Tigercat complete with arrester hook for carrier landings. I continued with my run of bad luck/incompetence (delete as applicable) with other peoples models. Ken Mattock's pretty little Cierva C30 Autogyro, flew well until disorientation preceded contact with the ground. Sadly the model was badly damaged, I do hope we will see it in the air again. Managed to test fly my new Align T-rex 600CF without mishap. This model is awesome the performance just has to be seen, it's abilities are well beyond my capabilities at this time. But not for long, this model will get damaged!

George Ford's Grumman Tigercat gets away from a hand launch.	Stan tests Darren's re-engined Raptor 30.

"I've got the power"	Adrian's Bear Cat

The Cierva C30 Autogyro gets away from Kens hand launch.	Roger Milne's Extreme Flight Extra 300. Powered by a brushless Torque 2818T/900 outrunner driving a 11 X 5.5 prop.
Phil flying his U-can-do-3D or in his case not do 3D, flies well but the 90 4 stroke is very thirsty

Saturday 17th A dull overcast day, some threatening looking clouds kept most people away, but no rain and just a light breeze. I briefly met Roger Milne a visitor from Lancashire, Roger flew his Extra, details later

	Roger Milne's electric Extra Jim's Shadow under a black cloud and a mystery photo, too low and too fast, but no large white taxi in the car park.

Friday 16th A quite day at the field, Richard was practicing flat eights and I tried to take the barrel out of my left hand rolls with my Giles 202 photo Richard's Honey Bee, the two mounds suggest there will be some track repairs 2nd photo
Wednesday 14th Warm but very windy, Richard Learner's Newtimer and Brigadier struggled to penetrate. Aussi Richard coped OK with his electric heli
Tuesday 13th Not a good evening, the north easterly breeze produced a lot of turbulence. Me and Paul were hoping for a go with Darren's Buzz, I think I may have to buy a fun model at the Thames Valley Airshow this weekend

Darren's Buzz gets a new elastic band but stayed grounded with a faulty servo (is this really newsworthy ?)	Clive's Newtimer at sunset
Sunday 11th A good day with plenty of flying, but not too hectic, mostly fixed wing, the heli and fixed wing giving each other plenty of space. Mark's big extra was impressive, but needed a lot of runway to land. Jim's F3A shadow eat up a lot of sky, the sun in the late afternoon reduced the flying area. John a new member, flew his large petrol engined Ultra stick carefully in the new surroundings. Adrian flew his electric heli and Thunderbolt in a spirited fashion. Mark's overpowered Panic flew like Panics do and a lot more. Phil

Jim's AcroMaster	Adrian's profile Thunderbolt
	Mark's 1/3 scale Extra Hanger 9 Extra 330L 1/3 rd scale 97 Zenoah 80cc twin, 6 JR 8471 servos on control surfaces 1 JR 591 on Throttle JR Radio, Arizona regulator with Fromeco Lithium 4800 mah pack 2nd photo
. Stan's Centaury Predator OS70 with Longrange fuselage

Jim's F3A Shadow 2nd photo	John's Ultra Stick
Saturday 10th A busy day and no problems with helis and fixed wing flying together. this could of been because I was on the ground with my camera persuading them to fly inverted, when I asked Stan for inverted the second word of the reply was off. If I took your picture and it is not here, I probably cocked it up Phil	Mark's Badboy
	Brian's new electric model a SebArt Sukhoi-29S 30E, 1247g. 1550mm Span Motor Hacker A30-14L (490W) 800kv. 2200mAp 20C Hi Model battery 40amp controller 14 x 7 APC prop. 2nd photo

Mark's Synergy N9 with a Y.S. 91 2nd photo	Stan's Graupner Augusta A109 with the Hiem body kit 2nd photo
Well I did ask them for a synchronised takeoff and this what I got, inch perfect. "be careful what you wish for, lest it come true" Ross's large Wot 4 (Zenoah 32) and a large Panic (Fuji 34) flown by Steve a new member
	Jim trying to make our antipodean member Richard feel at home with his Trex 600n pro

May 2008

Gloucester Model Flying Club