Innehållsförteckning för May 2023 från RCM&E

It’s back again! Our 11th annual Pontefract Single Channel and Retro event will be hosted by the PANDAS club on Sunday 16th July. As before there’s also an electric only fly-in (any model type) on Saturday the 15th. Since 2010 our small band of S/C and Retro enthusiasts has grown and grown and now we have a multitude of like-minded friends across the world. In fact, several of our Australian retro fans are looking into the possibility of running a parallel antipodean event this July. Full details for this year’s retro fest, location etc. are available at www.singlechannel.co.uk. Originally the event was conceived for single channel only but it has evolved over the years and any R/C guided model from the start of the hobby to the early 1980s is…

The ASW 28 powered glider from Volantex comes with EPO foam wings, tailplane and fin/rudder assembly. The fuselage is a nice blow moulded plastic item complete with a pilot and canopy. The review model came as a plug and play version, so it was factory fitted with six 9-gram servos for ailerons, flaps, rudder and elevator, as well as a brushless 850kV motor and a 30A ESC. A box containing all the required clevises, pushrods, control horns, screws, propeller and spinner is also included, together with a scale pilot on a moulded tray and a separate clear canopy. Wing joiners, coloured winglets and stickers are also included. All of the control surfaces are hinged with foam and require flexing to ease any stiffness. I am a little concerned that these…

If you are planning an aeromodelling event over the next few months, then please send details - up to 100 words maximum - to Beth Ashby at: beth.ashby@dhpub.co.uk. If you intend to visit any events listed, please check with the organisers before travelling in case of any last-minute changes. 2023 APRIL April 15 Delyn Model Flying Club Spring Swapmeet at Halkyn Village Hall. Holywell, Flintshire, CH8 8BU. Three words: bluntly.asked.aware. New venue with ample free parking. To book a table contact Bill Lowes at darcyrabbit@aol.com or call 07811 159891. April 15 Aylesbury MFC BMFA Glider Day. Attendance fee is £10. Free BBQ and refreshments throughout the day. Ample free parking adjacent to the event field. Attendees must have a suitable glider; we cannot supply ‘loan gliders’. Gates open at 9:00am…

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DANGLING DOUGHNUT Seen earlier in Dave Goodenough’s report from last October’s Ashbourne scale event, Ian Redshaw’s 1/3rd scale Sopwith Pup, greatly modified from the Balsa USA kit, is powered by a geared Zenoah 38. The gearbox allows the large prop to work very efficiently but that doesn’t help when the model skips around on landing. Shedding a tyre in a cheek clenching arrival, the Pup hauled away for another circuit before alighting oh-so gently (inset) on its wounded wheel. A bit of fixing saw it cavort again. Photo by: Dave Goodenough Camera: Nikon D3200 Lens: 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Aperture: f/4.8 Focal length: 150mm (in 35mm: 225mm) Shutter speed: 1/1250 ISO: 400 Settings: Pattern metering…

Get in touch... kcrozier@mortons.co.uk DAMBUSTER PRO-PLAN Great minds think alike they say and whilst that may be an exaggeration in this case (for KC at least!) it is certainly true that the Editor and Power Scale Soaring design duo Martin Gay and Gordon Studley were on the same page when it came to thinking about ways of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the famous Dambusters raid on the Ruhr valley dams on the night of 16-17 May 1943. Kevin was thinking of commissioning a small(ish) scale Avro Lancaster to use as a free pull-out Pro-Plan and Martin and Gordon were first on his list of regular plan contributors to contact. As luck would have it, they were thinking along exactly the same lines and a Lanc was already on the…

It will probably come as no surprise that NG in the moniker of the full-size version of this stylish aerobatic aircraft from Extra Aerobatic Planes stands for Next Generation. The 8.3 metre wingspan aircraft features carbon fibre wing assemblies, a two-seat carbon monocoque fuselage and is powered by a 315hp Lycoming six-cylinder engine. It is rated at +10/-10g during aerobatics. Just a year after Extra unveiled their eye-catching new design Pilot-RC did the same with their 1.97 metre scale version to provide a high quality 1:4.2 scale R/C kit that experienced model builders can put together in a day. But, as regular readers will already know, I am a bit of a slow coach when it comes to building my models, mainly because I am a bit of a fusspot…

In 1970, when Dennis Bryant’s Condor was first entered in scale competitions, no doubt it must have caused quite a stir with its over seven feet wingspan and powered by a .60 two stroke. At the time the maximum weight for a scale model was 11 lbs or about 5 kg ready to fly but without fuel. It was no mean feat to achieve this with such a large model, but Dennis managed it by keeping the structure as light as was sensible. Further weight was saved, for instance, by replacing the lower rear part of the fuselage sheeting with tissue. With all these precautions made the model just touched the upper end of the scales, even when ‘forgetting’ to put in the battery pack to avoid the model from…

Get in touch... kcrozier@mortons.co.uk TOP LETTER For his letter this month Martin Collins wins a very popular LiPo and low self-discharge receiver pack combo courtesy of Overlander Batteries - www.overlander.co.uk FOAM BUILDERS A number of us on the modelflying.co.uk forums are using Foamboard and Depron to build some great looking models which could be mistaken for having been built from traditional balsa wood. This form of construction is comparatively quick, light and VERY cheap compared to conventional materials. I have built a Messerschmitt Me109 at 36” span. Foam to build the airframe cost under £10; similar sized wood kits cost upwards of £90. I have just finished a 32” foam R/C version of the 26” control line Keil Kraft Skystreak; cost of the foam to build was under £5. If…

You’ve gone to prepare your model for another session at the patch, whether IC powered or electrocuted, set up the charger and found that the model’s battery is dead - utterly and irrevocably so. Why, you ask yourself. Well, it’s obvious really. You left the model power switched on/plugged in and the battery has bled its electrons through the receiver/ESC to the point where recovery is impossible. So, what to do? A BEACON OF HOPE Ok, you’ve murdered the battery. Get over the loss and replace said repository of power with a new one as NiMH, LiPo and similar batteries are ruined by total discharge to zero volts. Reach for your access to the interweb and seek out ‘a well-known internet auction site’, keying in something like ‘5V or 6V…

May Each year, plague, pestilence and weather allowing, the Derby Radio Control Flyers have their annual scale fly-in, the late-season jamboree that brings in pilots and models for a bit of a frolic on the Ashbourne airfield patch. As last year the weather was looking soggy as I drove over the ‘landscape lumps’ to their site, in conditions our Scots brethren describe as ‘dreich’. Would anyone be there in the mist, clag and uncooperative wind? Oh, me of little faith! Hardy souls were already setting up their wares when I passed through the misty portals, just before 10:00 am. So, what was going on? TRENCH WARFARE? Ashbourne visitors campaign varied models and the ‘big boys’ this year weighed in favour of WWI types, though other biggies were present. Without more…