Phil's SCSA Newsletter
27/08/2007
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batteries Monday 27th Close Encounters, Mars will be only 56 million miles away. Hoax emails suggest it will be are bright as the moon, you should be able to see it at midnight by looking south, red in colour and brighter than the stars GRAUPNER IFS
2.4 Ghz Intelligent Frequency Select: (IFS)
An international development team consisting of specialists in software and hardware has invested several years of development time in creating this new system, and has subjected it to a comprehensive test programme. The examinations included resistance to shock, fall and vibration as well as extensive dust and temperature tests. The investigations confirmed the superiority of the concept, and the result is the superb new Graupner IFS system
http://www.graupner.de/en/graupner-news/viewsinglenews/article/226/graupner-ifs-1.html
Or a new supplier of 2.4 GHz modules at http://www.xtremepowersystems.net/ 5 mile range for those with super sight
I should have mentioned Puffin models in the Woodspring bit last week, John supplied many of the models flown and lent his models to air-aces for aerobatics, he also gave details and explained the power train setups on many of the models.
Avro Anson
last week I had a link to Etienne's Duodiscus wrong, the in flight photo is at http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/etienne-duodiscus-6-75-metres.jpg
F3J European Championship 19th - 26th August this can be followed at http://www.trnavaf3j.sk/index_en.html WEATHER CONDITIONS (CLIMATE): Editor again Uncle Sydney's Gossip column http://mstr.f3b.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1115&Itemid=1 Much Marcle 1st-2nd
September http://www.largemodelassociation.com/eventinfo/muchmarcle.htm
Model Flying Week at
Berrow. Models of jets, More info at http://www.brean.com/modelflyers.asp http://www.breanmodelfestival.com/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage Once again in th includes: Spot the error Indoor Flying at Bristol
Grammar School post code BS8 1SR map September 8th -9th BMFA Slope Racing League 5 Saturday – 60” EPP. Sunday F3F. Whitesheet, Wiltshire. Pre Entry by Wed pm. Contact (60”) Paul Wright on 01344 457793 or Tailslide@ntlworld.com or (F3F) Andy Ellison on 07968 817656 or slopetrashuk@ntlworld.com or see www.rc-soar.com
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14th October
West Mendip Soaring cross country WMSA
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Thermal flying still takes place , though most of our club members have lost interest, A group of fliers former members of our club formed CATS and rent a field for flat field flying. I had an enjoyable afternoon there winching up my Charisma. The models used are lighter than slope models about 2KG wuth a wingspan just over 3 meteres, they are very strong to handle the winch launch putting loads of 150lb on the models | |
Dave
East launches his F3J model, As of 30th July Dave is placed 5th in the 2007 F3J League
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Winch |
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of 30th July Mike is placed 3rd in the 2007
F3J League Click on thumbnails for larger images |
BMFA F3J League 2007
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Thursday at Selsley, every thing flew well in the strong
lift, the two zagis flew nearly to dots. 15MPH on the north facing
slope and no one scale flying, where have all the scale fliers gone?
Photo Ralf's Middle Phase |
Wednesday ASW28 at
Uffington |
Friday at Selsley, a great afternoon the breeze
decreased during the afternoon but the lift stayed much the same, never
getting strong enough for the paragliders . Nick flew his Alpina the 4.4
metre version a classic design going back to 1980. Bill flew his
Calypso, Ade Dragon, Guy MiriJ. Phil's Highlight did not look happy flying into the breeze. My Calypso spent too much time scratching for lift to be enjoyable. My Pegase seemed to out fly everything big enough to cruise a good distance to find and then follow the lift, nothing to do with me as I hardly needed to touch the sticks see picture |
Saturday at Frocester, steady slope lift increasing during
the afternoon eventually getting strong enough for the paragliders to
fly.
photo shows Richard's Gulp, it looked a little heavy for the conditions as it's made for DSing but it performed well The link to the designer did not work on an earlier newsletter it should have been http://www.stevedrake.com/about.htm |
A great morning at Selsley on Sunday, the
weather was better than the forecast, early morning it looked like there
was a little east in the northerly wind, but as the morning progressed
the lift got stronger. Me and Bryan needed to dethermal a couple of
times, I seemed to be flying for ages with the brakes out. Bryan's ASK18
engaged in some extreme aerobatics. Photos Bryan's ASK18 and Andy's ASW17. There are a few more photos at http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/?M=D from me and John Bennett, Sunday's photos are dated 20th-Aug-2007 |
For more photos go to http://ebley.myphotoalbum.com/albums.php , http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/?M=D & http://www.scsa.org.uk/photos/phil/photopage.htm the pages have been added to since last week |