Hi all and welcome to my world or
the world of model flying as I see it!
I hope everything is well with you in your modelling world.
As to me in my world everything is just fine. So what have I got for you this
month? Well small is the way it’s going this month, I have a lot of
information about different small models, a report from Switzerland on indoor
flying provided for use by a reader, a interesting idea for the Plouf and
a report of how I got on in the club foamy pylon event I told you about last
month.
I have
received some information from my good friend Urs Szymanski in Switzerland
about a interesting indoor model that is being flown by one of his fellow
club members, and a large model show with a lot of indoor flying at a town
called Sinsheim in Germany, so lets start with some photos of his club members
Hercules.
This model is a foam built Hercules of 23-inch wing span, it
was cut on a step 4 cutting machine and was the builders first indoor model.
It is powered by 4 direct drive N20 motors, and a 6 cell 270 mah battery pack
servos are all 6g micros.
The test flight was made by as Urs puts it
“the club’s anything flyer” I take it that he is the one
member that will have a go at anything! It sounds like it was a good move
because on the test flight it was a right hand full but once it was trimmed
out it flew very well, Urs is now trying to get the builder to make one twice
size but with the same power set up he believes this would make it a lot better
to fly.
The
best thing for me to do with this next item is to hand it over to Urs so I
will print here exactly what he had to tell me about the Sinsheim show, So
over to you Urs.
Every year in the small German town of Sinsheim
is held "Fazination Modellbau". This year we, the slow flyers had
our own hall due to the completion of hall No:6, that meant a much welcome
larger flying surface. So now all the planes were grouped together along with
the sellers of modelling items, for Sinsheim is the place for stocking up
on those items so dear to our hearts.... Money easy come easier go.
If your interest was in boats, cars, trucks
etc. they along with more shops were present in the other halls. Also outside
on the local full size glider field was the neuheiten show (new models).
Here you could see the latest models plus
a lot of other stuff actually flying - a great idea. The weather was real
spring like all through the week .
 Inside
in hall 6 non stop flying went on continuously except for 15 minutes
every 2 hrs when a show was given to the public to give a good cross
section of the possibilities of indoor flying. In between this show
if your frequency was free you could fly as much as you wanted. There
were always several models in the air and what was amazing was that
despite a mixture of all types (slow and not so slow) all flying at
the same time there were few hits and even these were seen as part of
the fun.
About 50 % of the models were the impressive
small ultimate, extra, fully acrobatic type, usually with a small brushless
they happily did hovering, rolling circles etc. Slow flying sure has
come a long way and it shows.
Thanks for that Urs it looks like a
good time was had by all, as to the performance from brushless motors
and better cells this can only be a good thing for the electric flight
side of our hobby. |
As a side line to this as you can see if you
out there send me something like the above I will use it when I can. So don’t
just sit there reading this get and tell me about what you and your club are
doing after all - Bumpy Green is for you all to contribute to.
Email
me on waynesworld@bumpygreen.co.uk
to
be part of the Bumpy Green experience.
One other interesting
thing is like a lot of you out there Urs has a copy of the Plouf plan. I have
got to be honest and say this little model has become very popular if the
number of plans I have sent out is anything to go by but that’s a different
thing all together. Now then back to the plans that Urs has for his Plouf,
you see he is thinking of building it as a electric model. This I see as being
no problem to a man like Urs because I have seen some of the small indoor
models he has built, once he has this finished you will be the second to know!
| Small
Model Association... |
Staying
with the wonderful world of small models as you can see from the photo I’m
still flying my Plouf it still turns heads and gets good comments from those
who see it fly.
But the other model you see in the photo is
even smaller than the Plouf. It’s called the Hawker Headbutt it’s
all of 19 inch wingspan with a total all up weight of 5oz, the radio gear
consists of 2 Futaba 3601 servos a jeti Rex 4 receiver and a 110mha battery
pack.
As you can see there is no shortage of space for the gear,
and as for the cost well I built mine from wood in my scrap box, as to the
cost of the gear well this only cost’s a little more than standard gear
nowadays but with a model like the Headbutt you get twice the fun.
Here are some photos taken on the slopes of Ian Buckley with
his Jamara Cub.
10 out of 10 for spotting that this is a power model and yes
we fly gliders on the slopes but Ian was flying it as a glider. Obviously
under power it was climbing like a home sick angel but once the power was
cut it would glide and stay up very well.
It was nice to see something different like this, in fact
with this being on the slopes and me with the plouf and headbutt it was starting
to look like a small model association event (I hope you approve Gray!)
You
may remember that last month I said I was going to let you know how I got
on in the foamy pylon event held the other weekend.
Well as you can see I did a lot better than
I expected coming 2nd and 4th.This was a new event to me so I didn’t
know what to expect. For those of you that don’t know how this event
is run it runs a little along the lines of a F3F event. Let me explain.
As with F3F you have a course marked out by
two sets of poles 100 metres apart, but unlike F3F, four of you stand at one
end of the course with a caller and the time keeper because this is man on
man racing. At the other end of the course you have a flagman each with a
different coloured flag. Before the start each flyer takes it in turn to hold
up his model to be identified by one of the flagmen at the other end, once
that is done and all pilots are ready you all launch together and have 1 minuet
to climb to height you must be off the course before the minute is up, the
last ten seconds are counted down and you all come thorough the gate and head
up to the other end where your flagman will raise the flag once you have past
the poles or gate at that end you then turn and come back and so on with the
winner being the first to complete ten laps.
A good day was had by all me in particular
because of my 2nd and 4th. As to how I came 2nd and 4th well that was because
before the event we had been told by the comp secretary that he was going
to run two classes i.e. wing type gliders and conventional shape gliders and
I had both so entered both.
Well
that’s it for this month, next month I will tell you about the show
at Sandown and I have a new model to show you that fly’s backwards!
And we get in a flap with one new model, and just before I go don’t
forget to have a look at the new Bumpy Green Model Shop when it goes live
next month.
So until next time just remember this “Work like you
don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and fly
like no one is watching”
BUT PLEASE KEEP IT SAFE
Wot4 Wayne
Email
me on waynesworld@bumpygreen.co.uk
Article by Wayne Haycock for Bumpy Green
Model Aerodrome
May 2003
| Comments left by others... |
where can i get plans for Hawker Headbutt |
Where can i get a plan for the Hawker Headbutt. it looks great fun.
(i think i miss-typed my email address last time)
Thanks.
Tom |
| Comment by Jerad on 20050808082709. Rating 5 |
Can I get some plans for the Hawker Headbutt too please? |
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