23/04/2007
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There are four sets of photos on the site, www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/?M=D contains some larger images without thumbnails, the opening page has 4 pictures that are changed once a month, my photopage is updated several times a week, plus the clubs main photo page index DIARY 18th-20th May 2007 G-VFWE 2007, now believed to be Europe's largest flying event for vintage & classic aircraft, will be held at Hullavington Airfield over . For details, please visit the new website at gvfwe.co.uk. May 19-20 BMFA Salisbury Plain Free
Flight Trimming
WIP
Here are a few shots of my Phantom PSS currently in-build.
It may fill a small gap in the newsletter if you have one.
Building it from an R.M.Green plan I bought on the internet last
year.
Span: 48"
Material: White foam core, balsa covered wings, all balsa fuselage,
solid sheet fin, built up balsa covered all moving tail.
The wings are built, awaiting glass tape reinforcing (will Antics
ever get any in stock?), one aileron left to shape and some
reinforcing blocks to add. I'm going to bolt the wing to the
fuselage using nylon bolts rather than use elastic bands as shown on
the plan.
Covering will be tissue if I go for the early gloss camouflage, or
solarfilm if I choose the Boscombe Down colour scheme. The latter
should be far easier to see!
The fuselage needs the planking finishing ahead of the cockpit to
the nose, a nose section to be carved, a canopy to be made, and all
of the tailfeathers.
Another few weeks should hopefully see it finished, work and wife
permitting.......not sure I have those the right way round!
Best regards.
John Evans
Please see attached piccy's of my latest
models, these passions stem from my childhood fantasy of being an
RFC pilot, wine, women, and shooting down the Hun sounds like a
noble profession to me. Don't fancy getting a head full of lead
though.
Eindecker
This model is based on a balsa plan.
Using the outlines the parts are mainly in 6mm depron and I
made up the rest as I went along. The undercarriage was a bit
flexible until I added the front bracing threads, adding minimal
weight but is now stiff.
Power is from a CD ROM motor
running from a 700 mAH lipo.
The real Eindecker used wing warping but
I've gone for conventional ailerons, trying to build too much
scale into a depron model seems a bit pointless.
It had its 1st dog fight and came out
the loser, a SPAD E (spade) attacked from 6 O'clock (about 7.30
actually) dived from a wall in the garage, and broke its back. A
squirt of UHU POR and some tape seem to have fixed it. Those of you
who know about WWI aircraft will get the joke.
I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Nieuport 28
The Nieuport
is a Scorpio foamy kit that
was being sold off cheap as old stock for £20, I can
understand why because its been a pain to put together. Its original
retail price was around £70 which compared to what you can get
now is expensive. Allegedly an ARTF I found it A Real Trifle
Fiddly.
Having said all that it flew for the 1st
time on Saturday and really looks the part. Using a 280 brushed motor
through a gearbox spinning a big prop it has plenty of power and
scale speed. It doesn't like wind thus landing was entertaining as
it can easily get blown over. Definitely one for the still summer
evenings.
Please see http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/michael-bi-plane2.jpg
courtesy of Phil.
Next on the list are an SE5 and Fokker
DR1.
Michael Pearce
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There are three distinct habitats on the commons, of which unimproved
limestone grassland is the richest and most important. This grassland
supports more than 100 species of varied and colourful plants, including
cowslip, common rock rose, bird's-foot-trefoil and quaking grass but,
most famously, it is home to the Pasque flower and 13 species of orchid.
These delicate flowers fare better than coarse and rigorous species in
this impoverished soil.
The 13 orchids found are: bee orchid, frog orchid, green-winged orchid, early purple orchid, common spotted orchid, pyramidal orchid, fragrant orchid, and greater butterfly orchid as well as autumn ladies tresses, twayblade, and white, broad-leaved and narrow-lipped helleborines. Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons, both owned and managed by the National Trust, cover some 350 hectares. Photo by Pete Wolf, an early purple at Selsley |
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Monday at Selsley, the wind was too far north and slope the lift was poor but flyable. Gordon's rapport was knocked about by the turbulence and quite a handful to land |
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How high do think that is? a question often heard on the slope. Ade fitted
a GPS receiver into his Dragon and found out, 2592 ASL a gain of 1922ft. the
photo on the right is of an earlier and lower flight, taken on my Nikon
D50, 80mm focal length and is 70 pixels. I make this about 1440 feet
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see photo |
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Tuesday The wind was NNW not North as forecast and gave some very strong lift, with frequent dethermalling need. Barry's Spitfire was a bit of a handful at first, but a little lead in the nose and a reduced elevator throw tamed it. other photos Barry's Nebula and John's FVK |
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Richard's HLG |
Peter at Frocester |
| Wednesday, poor slope lift at Selsley
with thermals. Richard's new HLG liked the conditions. Tim's
Highlight speed went OK in the light thermals but being very slim it was
hard to see. In the evening the wind swung to SW then west and back to
SW and gave some super smooth lift at Frocester. At the Bear we had a visit from John Emms of Puffin Models, John explained a little about the models motors and accessories, a good evening Thursday at Selsley, poor slope lift but some very strong thermals. see GPS readout above |
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Sunday 22nd at Haresfield, mostly Zagis flown, Peter found there
was not enough lift for his VoltiJ.Two Paragliders tried the air and
landed at the bottom. There was 5 Zagis, but it hard enough getting a
fourmation The lift picked up in the afternoon, I went train spotting, to see a Black5 at Stonehouse ,see one of the photos at http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/steam-train-stonehouse-black5.jpg only to find it was tender first There are more photos of the weeks flying at http://www.scsa.org.uk/photos/phil/photopage.htm |
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