Phil's SCSA Newsletter
10/12/2007
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Editor We are not receiving many articles for the newsletter, it looks likely that it will not survive in its present form, the last article to be submitted was by Bryan in October. Perhaps this reflects the general lack of interest in flying models. Thursday 29th November was perfect for flying, warm, sunny and good lift on Selsley, but there were only three flyers. It seems most people are busy or taken up other interests, our membership suggests many people still take an interest in flying but don't get round to doing it. At the AGM we must have a think about where the club is going now that most members don't fly; there was a brief interest in park flyers but this has disappeared with only me and Mike turning up at the indoor session at Gloucester. No articles or model reviews have been received for
the club web site this year and
although most of you own digital cameras only a handful of people have
submitted
photos for publication. Mike is again updating the club web site, I still
have access for minor updates There will be no news letter next week I will be away for a while
Video clips
We have a problem with videos on our club site, we only have 1Gbyte of bandwidth and this is quickly used up. Broadband allows us to watch full screen streaming movies, I have been looking for a free host for these.
Try the link below on Stage6 , the
clips are compressed using the DivX codecs and you need to install a small
program to watch them. Youtube reduces the resolution and changes them to
Flash. I would like to find somewhere to load Windows WMV which is more
universal
If you are not able to see the movie clip
download this free viewer for DivX
The Annual General Meeting of the South Cotswold Soaring Association which will be held in the Bear Hotel at Rodborough on
followed
by a quiz Membership will be taken on This evening |
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Barcs open letter click link to read http://barcs.f3b.co.uk/0-PDFs/openletter.pdf
I have a Pik 20 ¼ scale glider kit for sale it's wingspan is 3.75m £150 this is the last one I also have a spare fuz I will give with it Tel 01452 714701 John Williams
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I bought one of these Li-poly voltage checkers off Ebay , at first I was
confused by the readings, 401. 40.2 and 4.05. After checking with a volt
meter I found the first reading is cell one, decimal point to the right, the
40.2 is for cell two. The photo is showing the voltage of cell two (white
and yellow wires) on sale here from ebay at about £5 |
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R/C equipment -> Servos7712105 SUPER MICRO (6.0g SERVO (S6 EnErG)
For sale £8.00 for two, SRP £7.99 each , Bought for
indoor 4oz model project but too heavy, I used 3gram servos Tel 01453 826164 |
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Indoor Flying
at Bristol Grammar School post code BS8 1SR map Also AMRC
Indoor Flying at Bristol Grammar
School We restart Friday Jan 4th 2008 for a 10 week run. Be there http://www.bmfa.org/events/ev_dec.html
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Mike the web has given me a CD with FMS Flight sim scenery
and model files. The photo is a screen capture of a light shockie flying in a stadium, this flies like my 3mm depron Yak, or rather crashes like it I will bring it to the AGM if you want to copy the files, lots of models and three indoor venues. |
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Selsley on Friday After a gruesome week, Friday afternoon produced
a strong 20 mph WNW at Selsley. Len, Alan, Andy D and Guy braved the
cold air to enjoy some superb soaring. Alan flew his Phase 6 look
alike, Andy his Aliaj, Len his Discus and Guy both Prodij and Miraj.
The lift was awesome and surprisingly smooth. Andy managed to decapitate an extra large cow
turd on landing, much to our amusement but Len was less fortunate, to
suffer an intermittent transmitter failure with his Mpx Cockpit,
resulting in some fuselage and tail damage to his Discus. We decided to run for home as dusk was falling
and a squall could be seen heading towards us from the Severn. A wise
choice as the rain drops started to fall as we reached our cars, a
well worthwhile if short winter outing. The weekend, to come, looks as
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A good session at Chosen Hill school on
Saturday, CB has mastered the stable prop hang and tight spinning, I appear to have not
grasped basic safe flying. Mike came with another Extra, this time with a flexible under carriage. Steve had two new models but flew with great caution, not flying one of them. I finally managed a couple indoor one roll rolling circle, but only when no one was looking. The Holy Cow has turned into a raging Bull with the addition of a 200 watt motor, be very afraid There are some photos at http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/?M=D and a video in DivX at http://www.stage6.com/ and on Youtube at lower resolution http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4d8pvO-gfGs . I have just strung the clips together without editing, no music, just me and the motors wining. Chris will post the report on the Gloucester club blog. at http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/ later This event will now be weekly, Saturdays at Chosen Hill School Churchdown 6.00 till 8.00PM |
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My Mini IFO |
CB's home brew bi-plane |
Sunday
Sunday 8th December I went to Haresfield for about 8:00am , the wind
was measured at 37mph on the small slope but I reckoned it was more The wind was in the 25+mph region, Pete flew his Sambal 60 inch
pylon
racer - you all must know the one - when he flips the ailerons up for
brakes it screeches like a banshee. There is a photo of him flying
it. The lift was very bumpy with the occasional bit of South wind
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I
eventually got my old Graffiti flying and had 10 very good minutes before a shower called for me to land. It seemed very slow to react on the final few metres of approach and when I checked it out the 4 wing servos moved very slowly - the elevator and rudder (V-tail) worked at full speed - so I decided to check it when I got home. I checked the battery on an all moving 6 servo load (option on Futaba FF9 servo test menu) and the voltage dropped to 3.6 volts. I had a cell gone down. It was surprising about the servos, the 2 working normally were the old fullsize Futaba 3001s, the wing servos were Graupner C341 minis which although they are rated at 4.8 Volts certainly objected to 3.6 volts. The battery pack is now in my recycling bin and I will get a new one this week. I think the more sensible flyers came out later when the weather had brightened up but I bet they missed the best of the wind and the lift. Bryan |
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Sunday p.m. Selsley
15+ mph WNW another superb session but only Andy D, Christine D and Guy.
Where are all the SCSA slope soarers? You can’t all have been
out in the morning, it was raining! (Wasn’t it?) AJ, PJ, MJ and a
Zagi, all had a good time in the booming lift. Wrap up warm and come
flying….. Guy
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For more photos go to http://www.scsa.org.uk/photos/phil/photopage.htm the pages have been added to since last week |