Phil's SCSA
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07/10/2007
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Indoor
flying Indoor
flying will take in Gloucestershire. Venue
the main sports hall Chosen Hill School, Brookfield Road, Churchdown,
Glos. GL3 2PL. Dates
for the autumn/winter 2007 are: Saturday
20th October, Saturday
3rd & 17th November, Saturday
1st,15th & 29th December Also AMRC Indoor Flying
at Bristol Grammar School post code BS8 1SR map
SCSA Club Meetings Wednesdays 8.00PM at the Bear, visitors and quests welcome October
17th a talk on aero towing by Steve Holland (confirmed) It is hoped to draw the raffle for two 60 inch for Shandy glider/electric at the next meeting
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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Panasonic Battery news
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365 days standby Power: Use them, charge them, store them and use
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still present. (1) Panasonic Batteries launch with the Infinium a rechargeable battery with a special formula meaning that the batteries stay charged for much longer when not in use, just like a non rechargeable battery. This offers 2 main convenient benefits :Ready to use: Buy them, open them and use them immediately. Panasonic's new Infinium batteries come charged in the packaging thus you can immediately use the Infinium in your favourite appliance INFINIUM battery will be available in the standard size batteries (AA/AAA) for use in all appliances where long-term stability and reliability are a priority from remote control to digital cameras.
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Flying on the island of Mull from Andy John's PMP Synergy. In my opinion a perfect machine to start slope soaring - highly recommended, Andy D |
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Andy's notes to go with the photos posted at http://www.ebley.plus.com/limbo/?M=D
It is September, the heather 'is oot'
There is usually plenty of water
around, rumour has it.............. Mull is the wettest place in
Great Britain
This is a general view of the slope we
were flying from about 1/4 mile as the crow flies from the village
of Dervaig on the Nothr cost of the Isle of Mull
Yours truely, and 'the apprentice'
................he's the one enjoying himself..........
John's.... PMP Synergy...........In my
opinion a perfect machine to start slopoe
soaring...........highly recommended.
I did manage to get the odd moment to
have a bit of fun myself. The Alliaj with 600g
ballast.............the wind was quite strong that day!! just the
sort of day Phil likes..........................
Christine's E-Xit.....................would
I have one with pink on it??????
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Last week I replaced the covering on my
Zagi, it's a 5C all EPP with a semi symmetrical section. I have put
two layers of tape on it, glass reinforced and parcel tape which has
added a little weight 3/4 of this must be behind the centre of
gravity. It used to be slightly nose heavy as per the
instructions and is now neutral. It seemed to be flying
very well and responding well to light lift until I over did the up
and it went into a spin, I let the up off and it stayed spinning,
On Sunday I let Peter fly it and he found it fine. If you are an
expert flyer, a neutral C of G gives you better performance. I have
added some lead to the nose to make easier to fly I have seen three models crash in the last month due to excessive nose weight, if you keep adding weight to the nose the down force on the nose will exceed the opposing force from the elevator. If you reduce the nose weight the elevator becomes more sensitive and its movement needs to be reduced. The majority of flyers like a model to be slightly nose heavy. This can be tested by trimming the model for level flight, putting the model into a shallow dive and letting the down off. it should slowly pull out, if it continues down it needs lead in the nose, if if pulls up quickly reduce the nose weight. |
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Wednesday light lift at Haresfield | |
Thursday at Selsley, warm with light thermals
Stan launching his Impala |
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Friday autumn at Rodborough, the colours exaggerated by the late afternoon sun |
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Saturday's Indoor
session at Churchdown - above a selection of the small cheap and
cheerful models from China, three of them charging on
transmitter/chargers. 2nd on the top row is Chris Bishop's Cessna,
this has rudder, elevator and throttle and flies as good as it looks
weighing only 20grams. have a look at the write-up
from Kyosho. I am still having trouble working all four axis in harmony with my Depron Edge, I can do one roll or one loop and prop hang in a fashion. Still a lot of practice needed and I need help with my Boviphobia, I now tremble when I see Paul or his taxi Steve flew his imitation Crash, nothing imitation the about the meeting with the roof beam, this produced a spectacular shower of white foam. CB showed his usual skill but came second when meeting my models in the air, I think I did more damage than the Holy Cow |
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Sunday started on Minchinhampton Common with some electric and HLG flying, by 10.00AM an easterly breeze had appeared and off to Rodborough. There was enough lift most of the time to keep a Zagi flying, the HLGs had a good time it the light breeze, except for Mike's, a tree leapt out and hit it. | |
For more photos go to http://www.scsa.org.uk/photos/phil/photopage.htm the pages have been added to since last week |