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New
indoor venue Paul
and myself tested new indoor flying venue. Tough job, somebody has to do
it. Took a lot of test flights or would have if I had taken along a
charged battery for my transmitter! The
floor area is 40 X 40 metres the flying space slightly larger with a clear
roof space. For comparison Chosen Hill is approx 25 X 15 meters with
allsorts of ceiling furniture To
rent this dome we need more people, 20 plus at £7.00 per head to break
even on an evening. It has other attractions (bar) which should be open.
Please spread the word of this possible venue it’s only a few minutes
drive from the centre of Gloucester with good access from Swindon
direction. We would like to use it and we need all your support. see http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/id61.html for more
Much Marcle 2007 show report http://www.herefordshiremodelaeroclub.org/hmacfiles/news_sep07.htm we left before the Spitefire fly bye here a very short video clip http://www.herefordshiremodelaeroclub.org/hmacfiles/spitfire.mpg
Free
to good or bad home
Club Meeting At Wednesday's meeting Doug announced the forthcoming events October 17th
a talk on aero towing by Steve Holland It is hoped to draw the raffle for two 60 inch for Shandy glider/electric at the next meeting
We will need to elect new club officers at the AGM, I have found the photos, newsletter and web site a little too much, but I am willing to continue with one of the jobs.
Indoor
flying in Gloucestershire. Venue the
main sports hall Chosen Hill School, Brookfield Road, Churchdown, Glos.
GL3 2PL. Opening
evening Saturday 22nd September 2007 Dates for
the autumn/winter 2007 are: Saturday 6th
& 20th October, Saturday 3rd
& 17th November, Saturday
1st,15th & 29th December Indoor Flying
at Bristol Grammar School post code BS8 1SR map 14th October West Mendip Soaring cross country WMSA BMFA event list for October http://www.bmfa.org/events/ev_oct.html
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My father and lots of others used to say "if a job's worth doing it's
worth doing well". Well I made a good job of getting a model up a tree. My heaviest model high up the largest tree in the area. While trying to land at Frocester I lost lift the other side of the Oaks and pushed back out to gain height only to find bad sink. I misjudged the the landing approach in one of the fields. thinking I was the far side of the tree and landed in the giant ash close to Peak lane just before the first House. Looking at it from the bottom the sensible thing to have done was dump it in the deep bracken between the roads. The slope at Frocester can be very unpleasant when the wind goes to the south see http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/tree-mendous-effort.jpg Two of Geoff Marsh's tree surgeons, who removed my ASW20. |
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The week last week Tuesday… Andy Miller (accompanied by Bruce, the dog) was on
holiday from Spain and flew his Prodij. It landed out a couple of times
but also found some good thermal lift on one flight. I was surprised to
see a tow hook on the Podij. Apparently, the thermals can be so strong
in Spain, it could be successfully flown as a ‘thermaller’ there! My Miraj stayed up quite happily but that was about
all, as the lift was weak and unpredictable. Ade (or rather his model) was attracting the most
interest. His Dragon and 9C were newly equipped with an XPS module and
receiver on 2.4 ghz. First flight with the new gear! No radio issues but
the Dragon was well out of trim after it’s refit and repair in the
poor air, so the flight was somewhat inconclusive and some serious
trimming will be required to get things back to normal. It’s difficult
to trim and check things, when you are struggling to remain airborne. link http://www.xtremepowersystems.net/xtremelink.php |
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I flew in the evening, the wind was on the point producing very poor lift
with nasty lumps. Barry flew his new Pibros very well made
and flew well for a triangle of depron. Barry's Microflo did not like the
conditions Phil
link to pibros http://www.rc-soar.com/pibros |
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Thursday afternoon at Frocester, Photo Guy's Phase5 enjoying the strong lift |
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Saturday was the first of http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/ indoor sessions at Chosen Hill school Chuchdown . there were 11 fliers and a few spectators. Many people flew the cheap foam models seen on ebay and sold by Clive in his Barton street model shop Tel.01452 308007, these looked great fun. I flew CB's Cessna and it was a delight to fly, able to fly slowly and turn tightly. Paul flew his outdoor EPP Holy Cow, no real damage was caused to the hall, but it left many of us badly shaken. A report will follow on http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/ More photos at http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/id61.html
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CB with his scaled down Pogo |
Junior control line, or in this case supply lines as the battery is in a back pack |
| A good Sunday morning at Haresfield, a good breeze with plenty of lift and the rain missed us, just a few spots. Peter damaged his B2 during a forced landing in the bottom field, see photo. Also his VoltiJ fuselage broke while landing inverted near the point | |
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Peter landing his B2 stealth bomber |
Mike's Mustang |
| For more photos go to http://www.scsa.org.uk/photos/phil/photopage.htm the pages have been added to since last week |