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Slope Soaring / Mini Toons type close-in aerobatics sloper

« on: February 23, 2011, 14:39:27 PM »

:clap:  :clap:  :clap: congratulations fred

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Slope Soaring / Who's building what - 2011

« on: February 22, 2011, 10:42:19 AM »

hi gerry
that looks good  :clap:  :clap:
maybe it's just me but i love to see a glider all built up before it's covered  

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PSS / 787 Dreamliner PSS

« on: February 17, 2011, 14:26:15 PM »

:clap:  :clap:  :clap:  

good stuff john

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Aerotow / tow line

« on: February 13, 2011, 19:25:53 PM »

never thought the weight of the line used would have an effect on the glider being towed



the picture shows two tow lines both the same length but different weights
because of the model we used as a tug i used the small line now i've got the 1/4 scale cub i started using the heavy line and it's easier seen when you drop it before landing
last year we where able to tow a 3m glider with the top line, but today i was towing a 2.5m ventus and the heavy line made it impossible to tow the line just bowed in the middle and dragged the glider down

unfortunately we didn't get any sort of height and the glider crash landed :!:  
a lesson well learned in all the years i've been doing this i was well caught out today   :!:  

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Slope Soaring / First NIMSA event of 2011

« on: February 13, 2011, 19:00:53 PM »

:clap:  :clap:  :clap:
glad you got to fly bill
wish now i had went  :!:

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PSS / 787 Dreamliner PSS

« on: February 12, 2011, 17:21:54 PM »

:clap:  :clap:  :clap:

good stuff john, do you think i could tow you up  :?:

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Scale / ASK-13

« on: February 09, 2011, 18:39:54 PM »

thanks alan  
i'll get the book off you soon bill

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Slope Soaring / Mini Toons type close-in aerobatics sloper

« on: February 09, 2011, 17:17:43 PM »

:clap:  :clap: great stuff looking forwards to seeing the end result

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Scale / ASK-13

« on: February 09, 2011, 17:15:40 PM »

:clap:  :clap:
very good bill forgot about that one  :!:  :!:

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Scale / ASK-13

« on: February 09, 2011, 16:54:28 PM »

elevator now made i have a bit of sanding to do  rounding the leading edge

before i start the wings i have a good bit of work to do to the fuselage, i'm going to first fix the tail plane on and set the incidence, i've already done a bit of work round where the canopy will go and where the cockpit will start



i'm always thinking ahead :!:  

i've never built a set of wings with washout before so i'm looking for advice here, you can see from the drawings at the root it's set at 0mm and at rib 14 it's set at 3mm and at rib 27 it's set at 9mm
is there an easy way to build the wing getting the trailing edge straight :?:

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PSS / 787 Dreamliner PSS

« on: February 07, 2011, 18:41:08 PM »

:lol:  :lol:  :clap:  :clap:  :lol:  :lol:

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Scale / Slingsby Skylark 2

« on: February 06, 2011, 13:05:48 PM »

looking good alan  :clap:
it's coming along nicely

bill it's hard to get motivated sometimes maybe we'll get out next sunday  [-o<

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Scale / ASK-13

« on: February 06, 2011, 12:17:40 PM »

this is the work done so far finally got the rudder made it took a bit of a hand out of me  :!:

hoping this week to get the elevator done this is the lazor cut parts for it all i have to make is the leading edge which is made out of 1/2 balsa

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Slope Soaring / DS Record now at 468mph or 0.61 mach!

« on: February 06, 2011, 08:07:16 AM »

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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Aerotow / hanger 9 cub

« on: February 01, 2011, 14:36:20 PM »

hi john
good to hear from you missed you at the area meeting
i'm lookin forwards to towing you and richard up i'll have to get a day down to Dungannon when it heats up a bit  

and well have a few pints of the black stuff  \/