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Slope Soaring / Re: Mt Leinster 24/25 Sept 2016

« on: September 15, 2016, 20:29:16 PM »

I hope to attend on one of the days. This weekend looks good too - 2.15pm Saturday at Kilkakee in the Dublin Mountains if anyone is around.

Peter

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Slope Soaring / West Wings Skylark build thread

« on: May 02, 2015, 17:45:05 PM »

Tack down, trim and secure the film around the edges with the iron and let it cool   - then heat and shrink the middle part of the surface last without heating the edges again.  In this way the film will not pull away.  Nice build.

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Scale / ASW 20

« on: September 01, 2014, 22:23:14 PM »

Hi Joern & Alistair,

Are you both building the Mike Trew version?  This plan must be over 30 years old. The canopy area on my plan is grey(!) rather than black and the text on it reads '1/8 plywood or paxolin canopy frame' - I made mine from plywood.  The airfoil I suspect is a scale one - I'm not sure what it is. There are certainly more efficient sections for models around but it flew fine on the slope.  It looks a similar section to on Roy's Cirrus. Good luck with your builds and post some pictures.  I've just started on a Slingsby Gull Mk 1 from the Paul Dean plan - endless fret sawing but formers are now cut. Will start a separate thread once it begins to take shape.

Peter

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Scale / ASW 20

« on: May 17, 2014, 22:47:23 PM »

First flight of the ASW20 today at Killakee. Here it is is back on the ground in one piece.  A little on the windy side 30 kph+ for a test flight but it seemed to go well -  landing a little hairy but survived with just the rudder horn pulled out after digging a wing in.

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Slope Soaring / 2014 MACI Insurance

« on: May 07, 2014, 19:47:33 PM »

Fred,

I have your 2014 MACI card - are you still at the same address or did you move?  Send me an e-mail and I will get it to you.

Peter

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Scale / ASW 20

« on: March 29, 2014, 21:25:01 PM »

Hi Roy,

The first Mike Trew plan I built from was a Pilatus and I went for film covering on the fuselage - not entirely successful as the fuselage shape is quite complex and hard to get the film on neatly without having too many joins.  Hence on the ASW I went for a paint finish - I glassed the front end and then spent quite a lot of time filling and sanding before applying an undercoat and then several spray coats of paint, sanding lightly between coats. I just used a commercially available spray can.  Make sure whatever glue you use for the planks can be sanded easily - otherwise it may be quite hard to get a smooth surface - I used Resin W. Result - still some imperfections but it is a home crafted model and has not popped out of a mold so I am not too worried!  Yet to fly it - thwarted by a combination of weather and work.  

Best of luck with your build - certainly there is a lot of effort in a planked fuselage but good to have a project like this on the go and the end result is quite satisfying.

Peter

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Misceleanous / Who is good at finding car parts? OFF TOPIC!

« on: February 10, 2014, 21:17:19 PM »

Hi Fred,

Can you get UK dealers to ship via ParcelMotel?

Peter

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Slope Soaring / A proper Irish Slope week end :)

« on: July 04, 2013, 21:37:09 PM »

Must have just missed you Fred on Saturday last at Kilakee.  Had good conditions and flew my P6 mid-afternoon for half an hour. Cloud was just clearing when I got up so perhaps you were there earlier. Nice picture of the bog cotton.

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Scale / ASW 20

« on: May 20, 2013, 22:57:06 PM »

Thanks everyone.  As always - Keith asks the pertinent questions...! I am determined to get it airborne this summer so I can get on to the next project.

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Slope Soaring / Le trip to Le Menez Hom

« on: May 20, 2013, 22:50:47 PM »

Wonderful pictures and videos - what a great collection of scale gliders.  Very impressive.  Like the colour scheme on Ronan's B4 - looks great.

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Scale / ASW 20

« on: May 12, 2013, 19:24:31 PM »

And eventually... it's almost ready to go! Just some wiring to sort out internally and some lead to go in the nose.

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Slope Soaring / today

« on: February 27, 2012, 22:18:22 PM »

Great day on Saturday.  I can vouch for the fact that Fred's ASW 15 was a tiny speck (and it is a big glider) way below us down the valley and the master pulled it off again!!  Great rescue!

Dune de Pilar Fred?

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Slope Soaring / Foam Quark

« on: January 09, 2012, 22:28:00 PM »

Great looking model John (and Fred!) and an interesting build - I'm sorry I did not get out last Saturday to see the first flight but I enjoyed the video.  Perhaps next weekend now the wind has subsided a bit.

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Slope Soaring / Visiting Ireland need flying contacts

« on: September 10, 2011, 11:20:15 AM »

Wind  looks a little too far south for Kilakee today - will give it a miss.  We usually fly from carpark overlooking the lake.

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Slope Soaring / Visiting Ireland need flying contacts

« on: September 05, 2011, 22:27:27 PM »

Hi John,

A (small!) group of us usually meet up at Kilkakee at 2.30 on Saturday afternoons for gliding  - five of us there last Saturday with a nice light westerly with buckts of lift.  If wind looks OK next Saturday some of us may be there - at the moment the wind looks NE though. Will post here if I am going.

Peter