John Privett

OK, I know it's a "little" while after the event, but Fog Dart did say he was interested in seeing other videos of the event, so here's mine.  Very difficult to condense a good day's flying into youtube's 10minute limit too!  Can I just add my thanks to the pilots for even contemplating flying in the blustery conditions.    

OK, let's see if I've sussed how to add photos in here!   If it's worked,  the first two are different views of the same cloud formation taken in Southern Spain in late December 2004.  I believe they're "lenticular" clouds.  These ones hung around for quite a while.  (Ignore the "pattern" at the top left - I had to take the shot through a non-opening window - the pattern is just the reflection of something!)    The third shot is not of clouds as such,  but something that I think somebody mentioned way back near the start of this thread.  It's a collection of numerous contrails from aircraft flying over Lake Geneva.  This was March last year.    

Posted by Peter Budd on 08/07/2009 16:08:30: I can more or less land it where I want, although everyhthing goes pants when its facing towards me.  Don't know why when with fixed wing I'm fine.    I was surprised too that so much of my fixed-wing experience seemed to count for nothing when taking up helis.  And other club members who've flown f/w for years then bought a heli have found the same thing.  Even after learning to hover nose-in (mainly by lots of practice on the sim!) I still found flying circuits quite challenging/worrying for some time.     I'm now fine with circuits but summoning up the courage to try a loop...   Trivial with a fixed-wing,  but my mind just sees £££ signs whenever I contemplate looping the heli! It's all good fun though - and I now use the rudder far more on my fixed-wing models than I ever used to!  

Posted by Terence Lynock on 06/07/2009 23:06:38: Now that gives me an idea but I dont know if it would work, a small i/c engine driving an electric motor as a generator. Could it generate enough power to drive an even bigger motor with more power output than the original i/c engine?, a sort of diesel - electric setup,   regards,    Terry   Well.....  The idea of a "diesel-electric" setup could work,  but you'd never get more power out of the electric motor than from the original i/c engine.  At least not without breaking a few fundamental laws of physics!  In practice you'd get considerably less power out - and probably significant problems cooling the i/c engine.   It does remind me though of something I saw in a modelling mag many years ago - it might even have been one of the American mags.  It was a small generator that bolted to the back of the spinner on a model engine.  The idea, as I recall, was to keep the onboard radio battery topped-up or to provide power for onboard lighting - perhaps on a scale model.  Anyone remember it?  

Steve has reported elsewhere that it was caused by an elevator servo failure.    He also said, "we will be back" and that he'd be looking for another kit on Monday.  

Thanks for the welcome guys!   And apologies for mucking up the posting of the snopes URL in the "Real or Fake" thread... Is there a way of editing posts on here to correct typos or minor blunders?

Hi everyone.  As the title suggests I live in Surrey (well somebody has to!) and have been flying on Epsom Downs for the last 18 years or so.   Like many others I'm sure,  I first took up aeromodelling as a youngster, progressing rapidly through failed attempts at rubber-powered models to success with control-line and subsequently radio with a Tyro Major, Enya 19 and Futaba M6 gear.  That was when I lived in the North East.    Then a few years off for university,  moving south, getting a job,  getting married etc. etc. and returned to the sport/hobby in about 1991.   Mostly fly sports fixed-wing models though I bought a small electric heli  a few years ago and now fly a Sceadu 30 as well as the fixed-wing models - though I'm still a lot less proficient with the heli!   I used to be a regular on the old "usenet" newsgroups and some of you will probably recognise my avatar (once it appears) from a.n.other forum...

Snopes has a bit more info at Snopes  It's quite cleverly done,  but certainly a fake - at least in as much as it's not a full-size plane landing with one wing.   There are genuine one-wing model landings on youtube, eg;   Edited By Phil Wood - Moderator on 07/07/2009 12:59:42

If anybody else is about to call them, note that, according to their recorded message, they're only open between 10am and 2pm!  

Identical problem here too.  Flicking quickly through it, I thought it odd that Sanyo had two identical ads for their batteries.  Then I started getting a deja vu feeling about the other pages!...   I'll call Cust Services.