Conwy Soarer
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DREAMFLIGHT AHI freestyle RC sloper
Conwy Soarer replied to Conwy Soarer's topic in Gliders and Gliding - General Discussion
I have flown the Ahi twice now, from a sea slope with winds upto 20mph and also an inland slope with winds of not more than 7 mph. I am very impressed with the performance. -
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Posted by FilmBuff on 21/07/2017 00:17:32: Hi guys. Thanks for your responses and concerns! I have been flying RC models for 37 years. It's lack of time rather than experience that's behind my request. I live in Northampton and currently working on a project in Huntingdon. I know how you feel, I have 2 unbuilt mouldies in the shed. Tony Fu used to offer an excellent mouldie glider build service, not sure he still does, he is also difficult to track down. Drop sloperacer an email as he also runs that.
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A month or so ago a few sneak peek pictures started appearing on social media hinting that Dream Flight were about to add a new design to their fleet. I have always been a big fan of these designs as they are so well thought out and perform really well to boot. Anyway, as soon as they appeared on T9 I pre ordered and eagerly awaited news of delivery. A box duly arrived yesterday via DHL inside a very colourfully labelled Ahi kit. Inside were the usual EPO mouldings including a fishy fuselage, a pair of nicely elliptical wing halves, tail plane, fin, carbon wing joiner, push rods, hardware bag, stickers and a lovely shiny carbon fibre canopy with fitted magnet catches. An hour or so later with the excellent instructions, Blenderm tape, small Philips screwdriver and knife I have a model sat in front of me ready to go! Typically British weather has brought thunder and lightning so the maiden will have to wait.
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Last Saturday I was flying with the St Davids College lot, the wind was a bit NW so we were flying off the end. For those of you that know it the slope drops away gradually from the car park and ends in a fairly steep almost cliff above the road, further out there is an even bigger cliff with drops down to sea level. Anyway one of our seniors was on buddy with another student flying the SAS Venom. What looks to have hapenned is that it went into spin and was not recovered in time before going out of sight! We had a good look from all angles, Sir went very close to the edge in places but no sign of it. Just in case anybody spots it here is a picture. If anybody spots it please get in touch, only recover it if it is safe to do so!! There are some proper drops there!!
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Elastic Flaps, what are they?
Conwy Soarer replied to Mel Jones's topic in Slope Soaring and Dynamic Soaring
Gap free hingeing system invented by Grob in the 80s (I think!) very similar to the 'living hinge' system we see in moulded models where the hinged surface is done in the lamination phase. When I find a link will post it. Seem to remember it being used on the Astir sailplane from my full size days in the past. -
Weirdly the PSS meets on the Orme seem to match my duty rota at school precisely, duty housemaster again next weekend, fingers crossed someone might cover for an hour or two to fly my Vampire and Tucano with other PSS models not just the Orme gulls and SDC kids.
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Chucked the Weasel off Snowdon today in 50mph plus winds, I was flying on the slope where the Ranger and Llanberis paths meet. Quite exciting at times with very rough conditions and a bit of cloud flying. We are blessed with some excellent 'off piste' slopes on this island of ours if you are willing to invest the time and effort you will have a ball. A Weasel EVO or Trek is the ideal weapon. Duct taped a Hobbyking wingcam to mine for this video. snowdon from JJDemery on Vimeo.
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Posted by Phil Cooke on 18/09/2016 18:14:56: Thanks for the heads up on the road infringement CS, what time of day was that? Were his models PSS models you could see? I can certainly ensure the message is delivered prior to our next event, but I cant confirm if this chap was really affiliated with us or not? Not sure sorry Phil, I think there might have some PSS in there and also some foamies, it must have been just before 13.00 as that was my curfew! Not sure whether it was a genuine mistake or not, instinct was telling me he knew what he was doing. All it takes is for someone going the wrong way meeting a car going the correct way thinking they are in RallyGB (see that a lot!) or a road biking tearing up the tarmac - could have been nasty. Well done with the event by the way, excellent local press coverage also!!
