Jake Bullit Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 (edited) Our club field is very wet at the moment, so went to the local park and arrived just as the rain started. Flew 3 packs in the rain with my little 850mm P68 and called it a day. Edited November 17, 2023 by Jake Bullit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Flying my long time favourite plane with its screaming Rossi .40,,, 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Super Gnatty - nice one. 😎👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 FMS Pitts maiden flight by club buddy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 Wind dropped, rain stopped, just in time to be too late, darkness fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 Very wet underfoot this morning, but mild and with relatively light winds made for an enjoyable morning's flying and ultimately a decent turn out of members. I deliberately avoided flying anything with undercarriage requiring a rolling take off, but it might have been a good day for a floatplane or similar. You have to take these flyable days when they come though and glad that we made the effort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Great day flying today with excellent weather 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Looks fantastic Ron. 😎 It unexpectedly turned out quite nice mid morning, nothing like the forecast, before turning horrid as expected by mid afternoon. However that mid morning sunshine tempted me to chuck a battery in one of my wee Volantex 400mm warbirds and give it a chuck around the skies of the garden and next door fields. Guaranteed to bring a smile as the wee Messerschmitt carved up the skies and got chased by a crow for a few seconds. When I landed and took the model back into the workshop I noticed that I'd lost my tailwheel, but I was able to retrace my steps to where the Emil had landed and find the 8mm diameter tailwheel in the grass, right away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Why is the sky that strange colour? I thought skies were always grey..... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 (edited) Always blue and sunny at our field 😉 Oh, and the grass is always short. Edited November 20, 2023 by Ron Gray 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 And pigs fly too Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 None of those Eric but today we were treated to an RAF Atlas 400m carrying out a steep (very steep) banked turn at 600 - 700’ just north of our strip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Nice, police helicopter and a few light aircraft are our regulars, though the Red Arrows flew over my house in the summer? What summer. Pleased I was in the garden at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Grumpy, I think you have it, it is not real. I have read all about iy, in the newspapers. In the old days they could add different heads to images, like Jack Nickerson in the "Shinning". Now they can do it via AI, so a unreal sky is created, as in fairy tales. You know, "once upon a time thing". In the real world, where I live, the gulls walk on the beach, afraid to fly, the sand blast you, the road is covered with sand dunes.. The sky, well, it is indescribable, golf courses closed., as staff have been lost in the quick sand in the bunkers, Maybe AI will one day become real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Maybe it has.........maybe I'm not real...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBG Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Ron, is your Eagle the one with a gyro or without? I am thinking of getting one but not sure about the gyro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 With the gyro but in that video I flew it with it on and off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBG Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Thanks Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Smith 1 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) Maidened my electric Capiche 50cc today. A bit cold and I had to watch my finger action as I could see the feeling beginning to suffer. see the link below. https://forums.modelflying.co.uk/index.php?/topic/52940-weston-uk-capiche-50cc-revisited/page/7/&tab=comments#comment-979816 At least I got her down safely after 3 flights 😅 Edited November 22, 2023 by Adrian Smith 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Went out at 9 with 2 UMX ✈️Yak 54 lasted 2 secs as both lipos have gone u/s. 😱😱Mig 15 was better but these are also starting to suffer ⚰️⚰️⚰️Patch not as waterlogged as I expected but I don’t have any jumbo wheel planes. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john davidson 1 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 45 minutes ago, Adrian Smith 1 said: Maidened my electric Capiche 50cc today. A bit cold and I had to watch my finger action as I could see the feeling beginning to suffer. see the link below. https://forums.modelflying.co.uk/index.php?/topic/52940-weston-uk-capiche-50cc-revisited/page/7/&tab=comments#comment-979816 At least I got her down safely after 3 flights 😅 electric and 50cc is it a hybrid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Smith 1 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Nah, 50cc size powered electrically! 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Jealous. Windy and wet here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Smith 1 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 I know how you feel GG. It'll be gloves this weekend! 🥶 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futura57 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) Met up at Epsom Downs today with three other flyers. Took my Top Quark P2 to get in some proper setup flights. The ESC would not initialize and the Spektrum receiver would not bind, despite the transmitter being several meters away. Odd, it was perfectly ok last week and I haven't touched it since. Anyway, I now carry a binding plug in my transmitter battery bay so did a rebind and gave her a flight. After a couple of minutes the model stopped responding to my commands and made its own way to terra firma. Luckily for me I was flying straight and level into wind at around 100ft when control was lost. The failsafe kicked in and everything went to neutral and the motor shut off. She glided at around 10 degrees with the wings remaining level the whole time. Long grass and soft ground meant only the propeller got broken and the cowling a little scuffed. Darned annoying though. So out came the trusty P1, already with 93 notches on her belt. Around 30 flights ago I'd fitted a Spektrum receiver also. Guess what! The darned ESC would not initialize and the receiver would not bind. So out came the bind plug again. This time the flight was uneventful. But now I'm not trusting my Spektrum gear. The lesson is clear DO NOT BUY RECEIVERS FROM THE BMFA CLASSIFIEDS!!! Thankfully, a third model did bind normally on powering up and flew fine as usual. Prototype 2 - Thankfully still with us Edited November 22, 2023 by Futura57 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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