|
|
||
Email from Steve
I am told the SR has been the most winning slope racer in the UK.
I have sure met a lot of great hobbyists there. You being the first.
Cheers, Steve
|
||
|
||
| My ASW20 has been sitting at home for months waiting for
the right conditions for a maiden flight. Tuesday's forecast for Wednesday
was 12MPH northwesterly, so I had no excuse. Knowing John likes a safe
centre of Gravity so I fitted the ni-cads well back, there is a large
quantity of lead in the nose as is usual with scale models. As a rough
guide it would be the weight of a pilot divided by twice 4 cubed for
a 1/4 scale model, the ni-cads make up 6oz of this. I arrived at the slope in the morning and I was the only one there, I guess John and Don are occupied watching the river Severn and collecting water. The model weighs around 13lb and needed two hands to hold it in the 15MPH breeze, I managed to hold the wing and transmitter in my left hand and held the model on the C of G with my right, as I ran down the slope it floated away, helped by a little flap. There were no surprises in the flying, it handled like most heavy RG15 profiled models. Rolls loops, stall turns and outside looping were all OK, The bunt does look a bit odd as the heavy fuselage bends the wings the wrong way. Next the brakes, I had over estimated the elevator compensation, and it dived when they were applied, easily adjusted in flight with a FF9. Finally test the stall, this was very late in normal or flapped mode and even later with the crow breaking deployed. The model is the updated and strengthened Pat Teakle 1/3.5 scale, wing span 4.5 metres; unfortunately this model is not in production |
||
|
|
