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Thermal / Flat field / 2010 Thermal Dates

« on: December 22, 2009, 00:00:53 AM »

Nimsa Thermal events for 2010.

11th April 2010               Open event
5th April                          100S Cup
9th May                          Open event
23rd May                        Open event
6th June                         Area Open Championships
20th June                       Open event
4th July                           Open event
8th Aug                            Open event
22nd Aug                         Open event
5th Sept                           Open event
19th Sept                         100S Boyce Trophy

All info for these and NIMSA's slope dates at our website www.nimsa.co.uk
At Open thermal events we also hold an electric soaring event.

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Slope Soaring / Fiu - A Lightweight Slope Wing

« on: December 03, 2009, 19:24:31 PM »

Decided I needed an agile lightweight slope model as the last couple of slope trips have been in <10mph winds. Found the Fiu at www.jivaro.org aame place as the Madslide

The pic below is 3 hours work. Just releasing the ailerons, covering and RC install and it's done

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Scale / Astir CS Mould Build

« on: November 01, 2009, 16:47:43 PM »

As we didn't get to fly today, I've been doing a bit of surfing, (wet enough on the bloody hill to surf!). Came across this Spanish site with a photo montage of building a  mould for an Astir CS

Enjoy    

http://aeromodelismoextremadura.jimdo.com/nuestros-aviones/astir-cs/

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Slope Soaring / Some older Pictures - late 80's

« on: October 23, 2009, 19:40:14 PM »

Came across a few pics that I thought might interest some;

This is one of the first places I flew a slope soarer from; Duart Point on the Isle of Mull. Mull is a great slope place. Slopes for every direction by simply driving across the Island!



A few pictures taken flying with the Clwyd Soaring Assoiciation above Horseshoe Pass, Llangollen, N. Wales. with Ray Jones and Vic Steele

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PSS / SU25 Frogfoot

« on: October 13, 2009, 18:39:52 PM »

As the NIMSA boys will tell you, I NEVER have only one project on the go. Along with the Jart, I'll be building a PSS SU25 Frogfoot from the Griffiths & Briggs Plan. 44 in wingspan with foam wing and tail.




Pic of the plan



Plan called for 1/8 liteply formers. Didn't have any liteply so bagged some glass cloth front & back on 3/32. Should be more than strong enough!



To be continued...........

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Slope Soaring / Jart from scratch

« on: September 24, 2009, 20:41:31 PM »

Most people will know of the Jart, but for those who don't check out;

http://www.jartworld.com/

Plans used to be free, but now are $10. I've had mine for a looooong time and only just getting round to building. The Jart is available to buy in a couple of versions, but being a tight Scotsman, I'm going to build from scratch.  Model has a glass fuz which I'm going to produce using the lost foam method. The best explanation I've seen of this can be found here: http://www.pjmodelclassics.be/ under Building Methods. Basically you shape the fuz in foam, glass over that and then melt out/remove the foam. The wing will be a standard vac bagged blue foam. The original is a one piece, but I'm going to make the wing removable for ease of transport.

Started tonight, by making templates for the fuz,



I then cut this from blue foam and shaped it before starting to cover it in strapping tape:



More to follow as it gets done

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Thermal / Flat field / 20/09/09 Thermal/electric

« on: September 20, 2009, 17:41:25 PM »

Nimsa's final thermal event of the year ran today. Here's a copy of the results.

Low turnout for a variety of reasons, 5 in thermal and only 3 in electric. Conditions were very changeable with some quite severe wind gusts and very little thermal activity. Only one flight I can remember getting away in lift. Open was flown over 4 rounds of 8 minute duration with a discard. Electric was 3 rounds of 6 minutes, 15 seconds motor run (all models being used were brushless motored)

Results are:

Thermal: 1st Frank Jackson
              2nd Paul Freeman
              3rd Bob McIvor

Electric:   1st Paul Freeman
               2nd Sam Phenix
               3rd Frank Jackson

          Congratulations to Frank & Paul



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Thermal / Flat field / Boyce Trophy for 100S

« on: August 09, 2009, 19:56:33 PM »

Today was the NIMSA Boyce Trophy for the 100S class of glider;

Details and pics here:

http://www.nimsa.co.uk/results.htm

http://www.nimsa.co.uk/Boyce%20Trophy.htm

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Thermal / Flat field / NIMSA Thermal events

« on: August 04, 2009, 22:58:21 PM »

Thought i'd make the first post here;

I know it's a long way for most of you from the South, but NIMSA has a fulll programme of thermal events throughout the "Summer ?" months.

Full schedule on the events page at www.nimsa.co.uk.

Last Sunday was the Area Open Championships, 4 rounds of 8 minutes with a discard, followed by the top two scores having a 2 round fly off, which was closely fought. full results on the Nimsa website

DLG also seems to be taking off in the North, with quite a few people building the dl50 as a starter model. There are also a few blasters around as well as the odd o/d.

If anyone wants info on thermal events, drop me an e-mail

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Scale / Vector Graphics for Sailplanes

« on: July 29, 2009, 23:06:17 PM »

This site may be of interest to anyone building a scale sailplane

http://www.rc-network.de/magazin/artikel_04/art_04-0040/art_04-0040-07.html

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Slope Sites in Ireland / Northern Ireland Model Soaring Association

« on: February 26, 2008, 09:09:04 AM »

Website is back up again at its' new host:

www.nimsa.co.uk


Basic info is available at

http://geocities.com/billscottni@btinternet.com/nimsa.htm

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For Sale / plans for a 5.3m Fafnir glider - SOLD

« on: January 07, 2008, 21:00:59 PM »

Had these printed out to build from, but have decided to build to a smaller scale. I have Vince's permission to put these up for sale and am only recouping my printing costs.

Comprises:
1 sheet for fuselage
1 sheet showing all formers, ribs etc
2 sheets of wings, 1 reverse printed

All for Vince's 5.3m version

Make me an offer!  postage £4

Please PM me, payment via Paypal and item will be posted first class rolled in a tube

SOLD