Indoor October 2009

Low inverted Shockie

Brian's Wing

Paul's little Lazy Bea

Kyosho Minium

Meredith causing global warming with his CO2 powered free flight model

Bob Steel, one of his many models

both sides of Phil's Ikrasus shockie

Phil practices nose in, Brian was a little surprised

No I can't spell hornythingy

David's free flight Dart

Mike's Sumo, a great indoor model VTVL

An Ember

Malcolm's Trex-450 

Paul's mini Lazy Bee

Clive's Viper 70

Pete's CX3, running a bit lean

Lee's Trex 250 with  Hughes 500 body

Pete R-H's 3 bladed Gaui 200 VES, without the stabiliser gyro

George with Contra heli

Pete R-H's 'plastic-fantastic' or 'Bumble-bee'

Brian's EPP shockie

'Supplementa'l

Have received the following light hearted email from Trevor England regarding my comments on the uses of MDF.

Firstly, the model referred to ('Ben') only has a small amount of MDF used,
i.e. to hold the wheels on and for the Motor Mount. the rest is Balsa, Depron
and Carbon fibre. It's the design and construction that make it strong, not
just the MDF.

Secondly, the model ('Ben') is a lovely slow flying stable model which, on 2
cells, is perfect for indoor flying. 3 Cells makes it more suited to outdoor
flight.

Thirdly, MDF is a great modelling material when used in moderation in the
right places. Especially when attached with liberal quantities of Epoxy
Resin!

Lastly, the crashes involved were not all caused by 'Ben', but this little
MDF wonder is attracting some unfair criticism for being sturdy, resilient
and not being broken by other wayward models, drifting carelessly into it's
flight path.

I'm looking forward to flying Ben around the dome myself soon, or any of his
siblings MDF creations... hopefully with as few collisions as possible. :-)

Trevor England

Numbers down a bit only 21 flying. Nice day quite a few flying at the field a few off sick or otherwise committed. Those that did fly (well most) had a great nights flying.

One has to ask the question whether 6 mm MDF is really a suitable material for the construction of indoor models. My workshop is lined with many square meters of the stuff, it holds the insulation in and provides a smooth surface for painting which one feels is a proper use for 6mm MDF. I have never considered the possibilities of it as an aeromodling product. Bit like making boats out of concrete or houses out of custard.

It certainly makes a very heavy strong model that you don't want to get in the way of. Adrian was in fine form ploughing his way through several models without even a scratch. If it had a bigger fuselage he would be able to get more kill markings on it.

Mike tries to land his Mcx on the barrier.

The flight line

Lawrence's Blade MSR 

Rob's Kyosho Minium Edge 540

The England's MDF special.

Bob Steel's Micro Mustang

Bob's Shockie, centre mounted motor with variable pitch prop, allowing backward flight.

Three shot's of Bob's Mini Piaget.

Unlike Andy's and the Chairman's Bob's flies very well, his secret get the weight below 40 grams.

Uses modified (much modified) Parkzone Vapor brick plus a couple of similar servos.

Result it flies well.

Our Chairman's Blade

Brian's Storch

Paul's Wing

Steve's IFO

Colin's Ember

Andy, Phil and Steve flying Twister Storms

Dave Steele with two of his many models

Lee's Eflight MSR

Pete Wolf's large but friendly Lazy Bee

Richard's Eflight CX2

David hovering his Harrier

Great start to indoor season. Windy day with grey overcast and a threat of rain outside meant that the indoor evenings got of to a flying start. I had promised "fun, skill, frivolity and stupidity" and the assembled fliers didn't skimp on the delivered all four.

30 fliers (22 GMFC members plus 8 guests) flew the new 2 1/2 hr, 12 slot session. Nice to see quite a few new faces hope you all had a good time and will pass on the message that all are welcome. Remember that although run by the GMFC it is open to all fliers with BMFA (or other) insurance. We need to keep the numbers at this level if we are to continue with the longer session.

The introduction of the new "Mini" slot proved very popular. Although planned to allow small fixed wing models to fly one side of the dome and beginners heli's on the other, on the night most choose to fly just micro fixed wing models.

In one slot I counted 15 micros models, Embers, Vapours, Sukhoi etc, plus a couple of the new Parkzone Ultra-Micro Mustang to name but a few. There was the odd midair but with all the models being the same size, weight and speed damage was minimal.

Rob Blake flying for the first time indoors put on an impressive display of helicopter aerobatics, first with his T.rex 450 which met with a bit of an accident and then with his 250 which he parked on the roof inverted at one point.

I had my new Techone 'Mini Piaget' (piglet to most people) 16.5" span, not impressed with it far to floppy, Andy had one also it was better behaved but under powered, Phil had a quick fly with both. won't be rushing out to get one he said. I'm going to persevere with mine, come along next week for 'piglet part 2'

Just a quick request, will helicopter pilots doing/attempting 3D/aeros fly on the far side of the dome and those with more stable types (contra rotating etc) fly along the pit side. Should lessen the chances of a "450 size" helicopter getting into the pit area.

Chris B.

Pete Wolf's FreeBee although quite large its ultra low wing loading makes it great to fly indoors.

Brian Rawnsley's GWS Cub starting its 4th season of flying indoors.

Chairmen's Blade starts its second season.

Adam Stuart, new visitor to the dome prop hangs a Ikarus Yak. Don't see this about much now.

Being able to purchase as BNF (bind and fly) has made this range of models very popular, with an increasing range of models we will I think see more Parkzone models in the air.

Chris Challice's little balsa tissue mini model.

Jon Hobbs another newbie indoors flies a contra rotating Bell.