Gliders > Slope Soaring
Mini Toons type close-in aerobatics sloper
Richard Boyd:
Hi Steve , very nice video and cool plane.
Did you build your Le Fish this way ?
surfimp:
It is "in process" and must be finished by the weekend, in time for our first ever VTPR event here in Southern California!
I am updating a thread here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1460543
The one I am building will be a bit of a hybrid. It won't be quite as light as Peter's, but it will incorporate an all moving elevator (incidence integrale I believe the French call it) and I fully intend to do some Madslide -style flip-loops with it, along with the ultralightweight. Going to be fun!
Steve
Richard Boyd:
Way to go Steve,
Please try to get some video and share it with us Irish folk.
It is summer here but we seem to be having more rain than we did in Winter :!:
Some California sun might warm us up a little. :)
We had our fist slope bash up in Northern Ireland this year.
It was dry but no winds.
So we ended up eating alot of hotdogs.
This is a short video of the event.
Turn the volume up and enjoy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/IhXqZZRn2FM[/youtube]
surfimp:
Here's a short video. I flew most of the day and therefore didn't get a ton of video... lol priorities ;)
http://vimeo.com/26238009
This was filmed by one of my new buddies John "Big Gas" Scahill who has a very cool Madslide-inspired Extra that was a lot of fun to fly. Madflight is starting to catch on here in Socal!
My "MadSwissFish" ended up building to 16.5oz / 470g... even lighter than Swiss Peter's! That was a surprise but I did trim the wings down to 1.5m (the Le Fish is currently shipping with 66" / 1.6m wings - something Jack did for the production model, I don't think it helps the design personally and it's easy enough to change ;) ). Anyways it's a fun plane but obviously had some trouble penetrating in the 13-15mph wind! The wing is stiff enough that I might try adding ballast, it's too early to say.
Also, I did manage to get a video of Dawson Henderson flying his solo session. (We did 2min solo sessions towards the end of the day for each pilot to show off his skills... really fun!) Dawson's style is really smooth and flowing and I think this video does a good job of showing it. He got two grass drags, one in the beginning and one towards the end - great pilot :)
http://vimeo.com/26249296
Steve
Happy Days:
There’s some pretty impressive flying there Steve :clap: including the ‘Back Flips’ which 4 axis flying (Vive la France) is famous for.
Very cleaver stuff….. :D
But I have a question :?: . What are the “grass drags” that you refer to Dawson doing?
Keith
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