Never mind the weather - who has been flying, then?

[GrumpyGnome]

Looks and sounds great Ron...

[SIMON CRAGG]

A few more from today.

 

Still playing with the camera, but getting there.

 

Another good (Hot) day at the patch!.

[Eric Robson]

All charged up and ready for another day at the field, this will be 5 consecutive days flying mostly on my own. Last week I had an aileron servo fail on my Warbirds Replicas Tempest 5 minutes into flight, broke off the front end and broke the wing, repaired it has had 24 flights this week. Some of the models I have flown so far.  Before and after with the Tempest, the one  I have flown the most is my Acrowot, (no picture) as it is ic so not depending on batteries.

[payneib]

Still not flown since the May bank holiday. Was keeping my fingers crossed for Sunday, but the forecast is looking like another wet weekend. 

[aidan mcatamney]

Last night with the P51

[Adrian Smith 1]

Nice see a P51 Red Tail version modelled, Aidan. Those boys achieved a lot in their time in WW2. 

[aidan mcatamney]

13 minutes ago, Adrian Smith 1 said:

Nice see a P51 Red Tail version modelled, Aidan. Those boys achieved a lot in their time in WW2. 

Thanks Adrian.  Yes they certainly did and the pilots were all brave men who operated them.  

[Paul De Tourtoulon]

Nice Lancaster, a cool 26°c at 9am a few flights with my OS FS powered Se5a.

[Eric Robson]

2 hours ago, Paul De Tourtoulon said:

Nice Lancaster, a cool 26°c at 9am a few flights with my OS FS powered Se5a.

Flair kit? I have one waiting for a change of motor, flew it originally electric but cracked the wooden prop on  a touch and go it snapped  and pulled the motor out, that was 3 years ago. I have a FS to go in but keep putting it off. One day? 

[Paul De Tourtoulon]

1 hour ago, Eric Robson said:

Flair kit? I have one waiting for a change of motor, flew it originally electric but cracked the wooden prop on  a touch and go it snapped  and pulled the motor out, that was 3 years ago. I have a FS to go in but keep putting it off. One day? 

No, I bought it second hand without an engine from Montpellier over 10 years ago, it was an ARTF, probably from the UK,

 it really flies well and perfect for doing touch and go's on one wheel.

 

 I did build the Flair one, it lasted for years till it fell apart with fuel seepage into the firewall.

Edited July 19 by Paul De Tourtoulon
Flair

[Eric Robson]

1 hour ago, Paul De Tourtoulon said:

No, I bought it second hand without an engine from Montpellier over 10 years ago, it was an ARTF, probably from the UK,

 it really flies well and perfect for doing touch and go's on one wheel.

 

 I did build the Flair one, it lasted for years till it fell apart with fuel seepage into the firewall.

My original Flair Se5 lasted for years, the kit cost £45 when they first come out, it went the same way as yours 

[martin collins 1]

Is the 109 from a Warbirds kit Eric?

[martin collins 1]

Good evening at the field yesterday, three more flights on the GeeBee, the NGH 38 only needs another three flights to complete the running in, prop will go up a pitch to an 18x10, fuel mixture will changed to a 35:1 mix and once re tuned will have the cowl and spats fitted. The other model i flew was a SLEC FunFly, on the second flight it suddenly started pulling badly left, full right trim was not enough to correct it, on landing all control surfaces appeared normal and working. Only thing i could see out of the norm was the pin stripping on the left wing had come loose along 50% of it`s length, surely that couldn`t have caused that much drag but i taped it just in case, next flight was perfect, it was obviously flipping up and causing a huge amount of drag!

[Martin Harris - Moderator]

Great flying yesterday and it was definitely summer like - amongst the general flying we had 8 Arrows Hawks in (loose) formation for a full sortie. Just one short of a full Red Arrows team. 
 

Sadly, all the regular cameramen were flying so no film of the fun - concentration levels had to be high and the formation loop was interesting to say the least!

[GrumpyGnome]

Had an ok morning Thursday....

 

Flew my (second hand) Timber in 3S to see if that resulted in cooler LiPos - nope, still toasty! Just lost a little vertical performance...... hmm, will have to do some 'research', i.e. use Google

 

Flew latest W4, obviously still flies nicely, but seems to need a lot of up trim, in comparison with its predecessor...... and the same balance point. Will give the wing and tail incidences some scrutiny.....

 

Arrows Hawk just keeps on racking up the grin-filled flights. 

 

Also familiarised myself with the club 'drone', which we purchased with a grant, and got to help look for downed models in the crop fields surrounding us. Whilst it doesn't do much for me, if really is an impressive little beasty!  Had to cut short flying to go and help rescue a club mate whose motorcycle had broken down. What lunacy disables an entire machine if the fuse for ancillary lights fails.... 

 

Yesterday was very windy, even quite blowy in the evening, but I took the opportunity to take my repaired P47 for some engine and taxi trials. Came back with half a dozen little gremlins to fix, but the RCGF started on the second short twirl of the starter, which was encouraging. Fix the gremlins, bolt the cowl on and fly it next! Hopefully more successfully than last time!

 

This morning has dawned beautifully on the East Riding Of Yorkshire coast, so the Double Trouble, Spacewalker, Hawk and Sea Fury will get an outing..... I might even get photographic evidence.

 

Happy flying, and safe landings to all those venturing out. Don't forget your hat and suncream. 

 

[Adrian Smith 1]

11 hours ago, martin collins 1 said:

Good evening at the field yesterday, three more flights on the GeeBee, the NGH 38 only needs another three flights to complete the running in, prop will go up a pitch to an 18x10, fuel mixture will changed to a 35:1 mix and once re tuned will have the cowl and spats fitted. The other model i flew was a SLEC FunFly, on the second flight it suddenly started pulling badly left, full right trim was not enough to correct it, on landing all control surfaces appeared normal and working. Only thing i could see out of the norm was the pin stripping on the left wing had come loose along 50% of it`s length, surely that couldn`t have caused that much drag but i taped it just in case, next flight was perfect, it was obviously flipping up and causing a huge amount of drag!

 

Yup, I know only too well recently, Martin. I have had leading edges  come unstuck on a couple of aircraft although there didn't seem much difference in control, just the noise. It was like the planes were falling apart. 

11 hours ago, martin collins 1 said:

 

[GrumpyGnome]

The hive of activity at my flying field.....

 

[Ron Gray]

Same here, scorchio 30°

 

[martin collins 1]

That is an awesome flying site Ron, which airfield is that?

[Ron Gray]

Knettishall, Suffolk

[leccyflyer]

Forecast looked decent for today and indeed the day dawned beautiful and calm - forecast winds varied from 4mp-6mph and so loaded up a bunch of aeroplanes and stacks of batteries and set off. Lovely drive to the field, but on arrival the wind was definitely stronger than either of those forecasts. Got a couple of flights in, but the windspeed was building and, though the orientation wasn't too bad for the main runway it was decidedly turbulent and gusty. Half a dozen folks turned up and we did manage some flying, but by lunchtime pretty much everyone had decided that enough was enough and begam packing up - still at least the rain didn't turn up.

 

I remembered the transmitter this time for my Balsacraft FW190 and that went well off the dolly, not having been flown for some time. Found the wee 190 a bit twitchy and so turned the throws down for the second flight and that was much better. Really enjoyed flying here again, even in the blustery winds.  I was reasonably pleased with my landings, but on the last one got to the model to see a prop blade missing. Picked up the model and looked for the missing blade, to save any damage to the mower, as I bent down to pick up the broken blade I caught the throttle stick, the motor burst into life and due to being seriously unbalanced with one and a half blades, destroyed the rolled ply motor mount in a storm of bits. That stopped the FW190's play for the day. Picked up the bits and back on the bench the mount is mostly all back together again.  I'll be replacing the AR500 receiver and fitting one that will bind to my DX9 and benefit from throttle cut, like all my other models.

 

With the wind building I left the other aeroplanes in the car, so no additional maiden flights this week - finished off by chucking my Volantex Me109E around in the strong winds, which she handled with no issues whatsoever, but that was it for the day.

[Tosh McCaber]

Hi Leccy- Glad to hear that your FW nose seems to be almost back together! 

As a consolation- the rest of the club were very impressed with your control of the tiny ME109, in the very strong turbulent wind!

So much for weather forecasts!
 

Edited July 21 by Tosh McCaber

[leccyflyer]

Thanks Tosh - those wee fellas are great fun, even in a strong wind. The Balsacraft tube mounts on their funfighters are formed from rolled ply, with a liteply backplate and a ring of triangular liteply reinforcements. I do have a spare mount, already made up, but this one went back together with no bother and I've given it a good soaking in Superphatic and left it to set overnight. I'll add a few short carbon tows for reinforcement tomorrow and the Butcher Bird will be airworthy again. I had wanted to fly a couple of electric conversions of ARTFs, but it really wasn't the day for maiden flights.

[Cuban8]

Great full days flying today,  arrived at 1000 and last on the field at 1800. Left home in light rain but all cleared through by 1100 - probably 23 degrees and a light to moderate variable wind.

Eight flights, all electric with a couple of models that I inherited from my late, very good mate's estate last year. Not jammed packed, about ten of us in all- just a handful remaining after lunch so no busy airspace.

Just needed a bit of recommissioning and both flew very well on 3S 3000 each about 350W or so. Not rocket ships but perfectly adequate for a bit of Sunday afternoon's stooging around with easy aeros. Eight minutes duration from each with plenty to spare.  Not sure what they are, clearly a Yak 54 and some sort of 1930s racer type - both ARTFs but that's all I know.

 

 

[Nick Cripps]

As mentioned elsewhere, I spent the day at the fly-in hosted by the Don Valley MFC near Doncaster. There was a breezy crosswind which reduced the turnout today (compared to yesterday, so I'm told) but good fun was had by all.

 

I took along the RV-4, Spitfire, L-39 and, seemingly, everyone's favourite model, the Cosmic Wind Little Toni; well, a couple of people told me how much they enjoyed seeing it fly!

 

Current plan is to take the RV-4 and Little Toni down to Old Warden to fly at the Modelair scale event next weekend... but it all depends on the weather.