Went flying.

[Pete Fardell]

Very parched indeed- are you sure that's not the Serengeti? That looks like a very good day's flying though. (I see the Wilga still glides as well as ever!)

[Squirrelnet]

Thanks Pete

(I see the Wilga still glides as well as ever!)

You can't quite see on the clip but after a full on spiral dive it pulled before it hit the ground into a smaller stall and hit the ground with less speed.

I'm at the do or die stage with this one fully expecting to be able to use the engine in something else shortly but to my surprise and after much unconventional trimming ideas I did actually get the bin dodging Wilga to glide .... ( gurney strips on both sides inboard to stop it tip stalling and reduced incidence ) .
 
I think counterintuitively it was actually stalling as it came off the power and basically entering a spin...all my efforts to try to keep the nose up in the glide were just making it worse and it had a tip stall habit without power despite 1/8 washout. Bizarrely all this disappears when the engines running which made it harder to work out..... having said all that no doubt the next time I try to fly it it won't glide again  

[TheLurker]

...curse of the camera

I have an hypothesis about that.  I reckon for hand-launched models it's pilot that's camera shy and the result is, often, a poorer than usual launch or the launch is delayed/hurrried beyond the ideal point because the pilot is conscious the camera is running.  Nice to see all the same.

[Pete Fardell]

Four scale modellers - Pete Fardell  Ivan Taylor Chris Brainwood and I - went to Luffenham to partake in the FF filming for the SMAE 100 years. Misty but flat calm and some good flying. The drone footage should be interesting - like CL combat without wires or streamers!

Assuming this is the finished article, I fear the December drone footage is now on the cutting room floor. That said, I can see why summer sunshine is a much better advert for the BMFA! Also, it's only a three minute film so it's good to see FF Scale is still properly represented, by Ivan Taylor and Andy Hewitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8DHfpVPxF4

[TheLurker]

Was flying as a guest of the OMFC, well Abl, at Port Meadow today.  My Elf behaved itself, the Bird Dog did not (so no change there) and the Ryan M-1 got a couple of brief hops - too gusty even at 7pm for reliable trimming - and no more, but enough to suggest that it'll be OK.

Here's the MIMLOCT https://vimeo.com/737179775

Gary Dickens has a story to tell about his Cloud Tramp, pictured, but it's his story so you'll have to ask him.

I've got a handful of pics that I'll post tomorrow.  

Squirrelnet, I'll bang the snaps and the unchopped video to you via WeTransfer if you want them for the OFMC site

ETA. Gary, let me know your e-mail address via PM and I'll send the pics I took.

[Squirrelnet]

Thanks Lurk that would be great , shame I could not make there myself today

[DHnut]

After Being blown and rained out for the last 2 years we had a good turn out for MIMLOC with 6 AMAC members flying at Windsor Park on the North Shore of Auckland. There was a lte change of venue due to a rent a crowd demonstration in the cityat our usual site. Great to be participating agaiin.
Ricky

[FLYACE1946]

I took out my old Cloud Tramp today at the magic time and flew it as expecter. Made three circles at maybe 15 feet of altitude and about 30 feet around, thats not bad for one that is easily 25 plus years old. Really pleased over all.

[TheLurker]

Some models from yesterday's flying at Port Meadow.  In no particular order.
Andy Blackburn's Pfalz
Bill Dennis' Garter Knight & Les Trumeaux
Bill Dennis' KK Lysander.  Which, contrary to tradition, flew very well.
Bill Dennis' P-30 the name of which I have forgotten.  Sorry Bill.
An Etienvre.  Don't know whose, but you've got to love a rubber powered Dolphin.
Gary Dickens'. What is it Gary?  Brain fade here.

[TheLurker]

...
Gary Dickens' Cloud Tramp
Mike Stuart's Howard DGA.  Don't know which version, cos that registration belonged to a Ryan Brougham.
Mike Stuart's KK Eaglet doing a fine impression of a Kingfisher in those colours.
Peter Smart setting up his MKI Hurri for a Rhubarb.  Simon in the distance.
Peter Smart's Cessna 150s
Peter Smart's new Rollason Druine Condor

[TheLurker]

...and last but not least.  These are all Simon Rogers' models.

Avro 560
Bleriot XXV
De Bischoff Avionette
Lockheed Vega, "Winnie Mae"

[Squirrelnet]

Great pictures Lurk.

Looks like it was a very successful event

[TheLurker]

Well *I* had fun. 

Original snaps on their way, you'll need to crop some of them to get shot of background clutter.
Cheers,
Lurk

[Pete Fardell]

Thanks, Lurk. Lovely models and looks like a really lovely day. Boy that Oxford club knows how to have fun!

[Gary Dickens]

Lurk, my cabin model is a Flying Aces Moth, 1937 design by Herb Spatz and Bill's p30 is the John O'Donnell designed Teacher's Pet.
Gary

[TheLurker]

Thanks Gary.  Any day now I'll remember who's Prime Minister.  It is still that charming Mr  Disraeli, isn't it?

And, now we know what it is, one last one.  Gary and his Moth.

[Bargle]

I flew in the Cloud Tramp MIMLOCT. Managed to find a small field to fly in as my old field is now a construction site.  
I fly a modified Cloud Tramp I call the Cloud Hobo. Videos of my flights. Sorry about the poor video quality. Also a brief video of what my old flying site looks like now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgNYSOhdJ4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgejAhACzGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0l4uAlMVY

[Indoorflyer]

...

Mike Stuart's Howard DGA.  Don't know which version, cos that registration belonged to a Ryan Brougham.

The Earl Stahl/Flyline plan for the Howard DGA-8 has the NC5219 reg markings.

[RalphS]

A very still evening prompted me to take the Skyleada Auster for a few flights. This was built some time ago, see
https://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php?topic=22874.0

It hadn't been out of it's box since February 2020 but needed no re-trimming.  If it had been intended for outdoor flying it would have had more power and right/right trim.  However just nice to see it fly again.   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F8U2Yt00RM8

[Russ Lister]

Enjoying seeing others flying at least .... lovely flight, Ralph 
Thanks for the Port Meadow reporting, Lurk 

[Pete Fardell]

That was a very nice flight, Ralph.

 I got over to my own field this afternoon for the first time in some weeks.
I’m very perceptive so the first thing I noticed was that somebody had tidied away all of the lovely forgiving long grass and helpfully converted into hard cylindrical obstacles that were now carefully arranged all over the field. It was a bit gusty for flying too, but I’d brought two CO2 models along that I’ve been wanting to get sorted for ages, so I pressed on regardless. The completey untrimmed Bebe duly sustained minor damage on its very first chuck, so I repaired it there and then before deciding to wait for a calmer (and grassier) day for it. I had better luck with the Demoiselle though. Thanks to George Kandylakis it now has a level tail setting which, combined with my realising I’d been previously charging it up with an almost empty gas cylinder, meant I got one quite decent flight today. I would have gone again to get some video, but unfortunately an ominous clanging at the gate end of the field heralded the arrival of a truck, a trailer and a tractor with a gizmo on the front to scoop up the aforementioned hay bales. I suppose I could have said, “Hang on my good fellows, but would you mind waiting until I’ve finished flying my model aeroplane?” but I decided a better course of action was to skulk into the woods at the edge of the field before they even noticed me and come home. The forecast is quite good over the next few days, so I’ll go back when the field’s been emptied. Anyway, here are a couple of pics…

[Pete Fardell]

Back with the Demoiselle again this morning. Most of the bales have gone, and there's a nice fully cleared aerodrome area at the rear of the field. Here's a still and a video from today's adventures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxabDyuD54

[calgoddard]

I flew my original scratch-built Three Nite P-30 this past Monday at my usual flying site in Washoe Valley, Nevada, USA.  

I have built two more of these easy to build P-30 models from the Volare Products laser-cut short kit. All three of my Three Nite P-30 models have been very good fliers.

I set the viscous timer button too long on the last flight which lasted a little over 4 minutes. The DT finally triggered when the model was still 100-150 feet high. I was able to recover the model after a half mile hike through tall grass with the aid of my LL Electronics RF locator system.  The combination Yagi antenna and receiver of that system is shown in the last picture.

When I removed the 10 x 1/16-inch rubber motor, it had several broken strands.  It had been wound hard twice before this last flight. It makes me wonder - when did these strands break?

Here is a link to video of the flight:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlYCtzCpfNI

Unfortunately, since the video was taken with a cell phone camera, for a good portion of the flight, the model is not visible.

[Crabby]

Pete good video. Great drama. I thought at first your pilot did a Harriet Quimby.

[billdennis747]

In Mag  Men, was it not a Demoiselle that landed the Frenchman in a haystack?