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The Club event list needs updating, please email any event dates for this page http://www.scsa.org.uk/events.htm
The SCSA site has a new host over the next months the pages will be updated, some text formatting has to be done as the style sheet links are now wrong, this is problem to me as I don't know what the word style means.

Cross country comp
This only attracted 3 entries in spite of the best venue and perfect conditions. This comp was chosen as a relaxing easy to fly comp that would not interfere with normal flying. Results and photos on the club web site

Membership
Tim still has some membership and insurance certificates to hand out. If you have not joined yet there is a form at http://www.scsa.org.uk/membership.htm You are insured as soon as Tim receives your money. For BMFA members it is only £7

Please note my new club address, Mike has has added an extra "L", I was getting spamed off the old address.
my Ivor-smallpiece@littlehampton.com attracted a lot of mail for various dubious medical products and has been removed

For sale
I will be selling my Pat Teakle 5 metere ASW20 sometime this year, I hope to take it out for another session on Selsley or Frocester.
I did a write up at http://www.ebley.plus.com/models/asw20.htm It has a new canopy, 8 servos, air brakes, flaps, the retract has the servo out, heavy duty ni-cads and wing tip extensions
The wings have the original covering and fuselage could do with a make over. price about £130
This is a big model and needs to be flown with care by someone with experience of scale flying, It will fly hands off, but needs to be landed carefully. Balancing the various control movements and a little mixing has made it nicer to fly than my first impressions

DIARY
Indoor Flying, details click here see map Gloucester Model flying club. Saturday 11th March 2007. 6.00pm until 8.00pm

Mar 8 Malvern SA Auction
7.15 on. Colwall Village Hall, B4218, East of Ledbury. Contact Nick Neve on 01684 561160 or nickneve@clara.co.uk or see www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/auction2006.html http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk:80/auction2007.html

Mar 16 Three Shires MFC Swapmeet
7 pm on. Dudley & Kingswinford Rugby Club, DY6 0AW. Contact 07963 777841 or ste007@blueyonder.co.uk

Mar 31-Apr 1 South Wales Model and Craft Show
Bridgend recreation Centre, Bridgend, CF1 4AH. Contact Barry King on 01656 661338 or king-barry@btconnect.com or see www.bridgend-events.co.uk

March 16th Three Shires MFC Swapmeet 7 pm on. Dudley & Kingswinford Rugby Club, DY6 0AW. Contact 07963 777841 or enquiries@threeshiresmfc.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1903 765496 / 752866 or 07000 AMERANG Fax: +44 (0) 1903 765178 / 753643
E-mail:enquiries@amerang-group.com

FMS Free Flight Simulator

I am having great trouble trying to use rudder and throttle together. To help with this I am practicing on FMS. This is the F-Air I have been trying to prop hang through the gap between the shed and the tree for practice. The model is at http://kimagure-hikoki.hp.infoseek.co.jp/Hanger4/F_Air.zip It's some sort of overpowered light weight fun fly and runs with FMS flight simulator, download free at http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html

I bought the E-sky 4 channel usb dummy transmitter from ebay link

If you find a model that prop hangs better please let me know, I increased the rudder travel on the F_air by adjusting the par file

The basic program comes with a selection of planes and two helicopters. This must be 'old hat' by now but works fine for a small program. It needs DOS 4 or better a 24Mhz processor or faster, 200k of hard drive space and at least 64k of ram.


Goooooal CB's IFO scoring at limbo	Chris Bishop's Toilet seat with a hole, modelled on the one at his home, in spite of the odd shape it flew OK

Is it a bird? is it a plane?, not faster than a speeding bullet, or more powerful than a locomotive, but able to fly to the top of tall buildings and get stuck; Clive pocked it down with his fishing pole. Is depron the right material to make a man of steel out of? An excellent and visually striking fun model, what can you do with a sheet of depron?
	Paul's Pogo VTL, great fun I intend to build one. This flew very well able to hover and fly slowly at high angles of attack. Paul has not perfected the vertical landing yet.

Sunday at Selsley, the morning started well with 8MPH straight on to the west facing slope but went a little lumpy when it went a little to the north and picked up in strength. Peter had a problem with a stuck out brake, this happening on launch when the wing moved slightly tightening the brake cable. Photo Peter's elderly Discus more photos at February photos

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