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The French Corner / Airtec Pixel.
« on: March 28, 2018, 23:42:40 PM »
I have just returned to England to live after 13 years in France. We lived about 10 km NE of Carcassonne in a lovely little village called Malves en Minervois. Whilst we were there I bought a lovely French model called an Airtec Pixel. It is an wingeron model with a fixed 'V' tail. Elevator and aileron are both done by a swivel wing system, a similar idea to a flying wing. I never really got chance to fly it there because of low flying military aircraft near to the village and the nearest flying site I could find was close to the Basin St Ferréol near Revel. It was just too far to drive to fly. A fantastic site, but!!

Now, I live in NW Wiltshire and within easy distance of the flying sites around Stroud Gloucestershire and now I have had chance to fly it and really enjoy it! It flies cleanly in just about any conditions from light winds to quite strong and the biggest problem is slowing it down for landing. I just wish that I had been able to fly it in its home country.

I have honored it though with the colour scheme of the Tricolour

P.S. I am sorry that after all my time in France I was not able to post this en français. Speaking is no problem, but to try to write it would take me a week!

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Misceleanous / Hello to everyone.
« on: March 23, 2018, 00:05:34 AM »
Hi folks, I would just like to introduce myself.

I fell on your forum a couple of days back and it looks really good. I started flying here in England about 30 odd years ago and was a member of the South Cotswold Soaring Association (SCSA) for 18 years before I moved to live in France for 13 years. I have recently moved back to England and have rejoined the SCSA. So now I am back to the slopes around Stroud Gloucestershire once again and really enjoying it. I have no idea just how many models I have, but they range from a very small, foam, all moving wing, fixed 'V' tail Mosquito Hawk to a 10' Mimi Moa, a Fouga Magistare, Bird of Time and all sorts of others. I still fly on 35 meg and also have several smaller 2 channel models on 27 meg 'grey/brown' split crystals. I have never had a problem with clashes on that one!! I also have a couple of electric soarers. Nothing competitive, I just love to get out when the wind doesn't blow and I can't get to the slopes.

I hope to be able to give as well as learn on here. I have no knowledge at all of the 2.4 kit and hardly know anything about the electric side either, so hi folks...

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