Jump to content
Please be aware of scammers when using the Sale/Wanted forum areas

Nick Cripps

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    569

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Nick Cripps

  1. Nick Cripps

    Nick Cripps posted a gallery image in Member Albums

  2. Nick Cripps
    My humble apologies to Pat and, especially, Ian Peacock. I have been corresponding with a clubmate about the Purple Haze who sent me the following reply: "I remember the model. It was designed by a friend of Millo's and named after his wife Hazel. A small high wing model but very nippy and aerobatic." In my defence I was but a spotty-faced teenager in the 70s, just started in aeromodelling. Rob was a prolific designer and builder in those days and, as he was a keen promoter of the Purple Haze within the Long Eaton club, I just assumed it was one of his. Ah well, you learn something new every day in this game...
  3. Nick Cripps
    Pat, The Purple Haze was designed as a fun sports model not initially as a pylon racer. The wing used a Jedelsky-style design with a thick LE and thinner sheet TE section with elongated triangular ribs underneath to give support for the covering and hence a more recognisable wing section. Most found it more convenient to build it with a foam wing though and that was the version kitted. The Azure Lady was indeeed a glider, as were a few other of Rob's designs. He did also design the cartoon scale warbirds that were later kitted by Roger Halton. They're probably the original Fun-Fighters before the name was adopted elsewhere... I attended Sywell in around 1976 with Rob where the Azure Lady was demonstrated for Peacock Models. The towman, Jeff Clifton, apologised after the 1st launch saying he'd had to release the model early when he'd got halfway across the runway and saw a full-size Islander bearing down on him! Apologies for going off-topic a bit, the memories are coming back (hopefully correctly).
  4. Nick Cripps
    The Purple Haze was a very popular model in our club in the late 70s, designed by one of our members, a certain Rob Millinship. The original used a Jedelsky-style wing but was replaced by veneered foam when kitted by Peacock Models. I'll ask around at our next club meeting and see if anyone still has a copy of the plan. incidentally, another of Rob's designs kitted by Peacock Models was the Azure Lady. The original name "Shy Talk" was not deemed suitable for some reason!
  5. Nick Cripps
    I only went into Wayland's a few times but it was very much like Goodyear's in that respect. When Alf eventually retired, the model shop separated from the newsagents and was run by a few different people. At one time it was known as Premier Models which is probably the name you remember. Super Models in Spondon was run by Dave Heaton and then later his son, Mark, but as you say closed at least 10 years ago. Terry Tippett was the brains behind Micron radio and at one point had 3 shops, all in a small shopping precinct in Sandiacre, not far from M1 J25. Micron radio was very popular in the local area at least but struggled when the japanese manufacturers started to flood the market with cheap (relatively) radio in the late seventies. My first radio was Micron, too, and I still have it somewhere, I think. Converting it to 2.4GHz is an interesting idea but I think the DEAC pack would need replacing!
  6. Nick Cripps
    The shop on Nightingale Road was Goodyear's. It was adjacent to a newsagent also run by the proprietor whose name was ...Alf Goodyear. It was one of those wonderful old-school model shops that we all miss. You could go in and ask for something obscure and Alf would just rummage around in the back and find one for you - brilliant!
  7. Nick Cripps
    Alternative venue: RAF Syerston. It's a satellite airfield for Cranwell (like Barkston) and is in the same local area, a few miles SW of Newark on the A46. According to Googlemaps, it looks to be of a similar size to Barkston so should be able to host all of the usual events. Worth investigating by the BMFA?
  8. Nick Cripps
    Dave, The Mew Gull is one of my favourite aeroplanes. I've got an "Aircraft Archive" of racing and sporting aircraft which includes the Mew Gull. I'll bring it along to work on Monday and you can make use of the office photocopier.
  9. Nick Cripps
    "Suction surface" - you can tell you're a turbines man, Phil. Looking good....
  10. Nick Cripps
    Sad news indeed. My condolences to Janet and their family.
  11. Nick Cripps
    Er, 70oz is 4lb 6oz, not 5lb.
  12. Nick Cripps
    The Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith, starting with "Gorky Park", set in communist Russia, are a good read. Interestingly, I've just discovered there are 2 more which I haven't read yet - bonus! Craig Thomas has written many good novels including one of the best ever "Firefox", although the sequel lets it down a bit, and don't even mention the film..... Also recently got into Harlan Coben. Very american but the stories are well-written, often with an unexpected twist at the end.
  13. Nick Cripps
    And another for the list, please.
  14. Nick Cripps
    Will-o, I have to admit that I've not seen any C/L flying at BWA events but I do recall one of my local club members flying from our site when it flooded some years ago. He built a Catalina from the Aeromodelller plan, powered by a couple of PAW 19s. Just don't try it from a boat......
  15. Nick Cripps
    How about having a go at flying off water? More info here British Waterplane Association
  16. Nick Cripps
    And another Merry Christmas
  17. Nick Cripps
    Count me in please.
  18. Nick Cripps
    Jim, the BWA have the use of a lake next to Billing Aquadrome near Northampton on the 1st Sunday of the month and also host 3 meetings a year at Colwick Lake in Nottingham. Both of these will probably mean s bit of a drive for you but definitely worth the trip, especially the Colwick events. More details at the BWA website **LINK**
×
×
  • Create New...