Sunday Slapper Movie!

What do you do when you have one Slapper hanging around..... you chase it! A little fun on the Sunday, the most hilarious aspect to this film is watching Martin run. However he plucked that Slapper out the air like a man possessed!

The Rumster's Slapper Game from Rob on Vimeo.

The Slapper is an awesome foamie... it motors around like a Zaggi on cocaine, we don't usually agree on much, however Both Martin and myself definitely agree that this is one spaff-tastic model, and we want one! Nice one the Rumpster! Rob

Sunday 15th April

What an amazing day

Turned up at the North Slope Westbury at high noon Sunday. Martin ( the other one ) and Ocelot Graham were just leaving.

I walked to the edge with the mighty Gilbert and set up for the day.

The Legendary Gilbert firmly parked himself in his fold up camping chair. He got up occasionally to either make a fresh brew , or to take to the air like a Top Gun ace and show the young'uns how to combat properly - Deadly!

Pete and his Strega. Pete is giving the Slopejunkies salute and for what its worth I am awarding him best landing of the day.See it for real in the video below.  It was understated, smooth,accurate,soft and all managed without arms flapping and large amounts of self congratulating. The diametric opposite of a Rob Coles Landing.

Nicks Luna and his zaggi ( if its made of foam and is the same shape as a ''dairylea slice'' its a zaggi). Nick came a close second in the landing stakes with the Luna, again in the vid

Dave 'The Rumpster' Rumble turned up slope edge directly from a Fancy dress party where he attended as a member of a S.W.A.T team. Robert on his hands and knees again trying to get the magnetic switch work.

This is Rumpsters ARIS disguised as an ALLIAJ. Everything about this glider is wrong the colour,the wing shape,the build quality and the price. BUT fully ballasted it weighs more than Michelle Macmanus and screams about the sky faster than Rob running through the gates of the local 'car bootie' on a Sunday morning. A lot of the competition pilots use these and the reason is they are a superb glider. I love it!

Now for my first video, unfortunately the camera settings were wrong ( not enough mega pixels and frames per secondso very grainy) and I am a ''movie maker'' virgin but I tried to get a bit of everybody in. Stick with it and watch it as there are some moments of genius . Don't go full screen but expand is ok.

Martin

Sunday... what a day!

After watching Martins failed attempt at video editing (and taking it off after a day in embarrassment) thought I'd pull my socks up and get to it...

This needs to be watched full screen, with the music turned RIGHT UP! Listen out for commentary too....

Untitled from Rob on Vimeo.

This was the culmination of a great day.. We have more to come!
Rob

Stuff to get on!

Bare with us chaps and chapesses... we have a lot of material to get on but will take a day to do! with Martins video editing it may take a few weeks... especially as the only thing hes ever filmed is him abusing himself.

Rob

Easter Monday, No Flying, The tedium of Setting up

Easter Monday

There was no flying to be had due to the typical British Bank Holiday weather so it was an afternoon of chores for me. The Tanga has not been flying particularly well lately ( not going round corners like its on rails essentially)  so I decided I would ''go back to basics'' . I would revert all settings back to the manufacturers settings and with the help of the Futaba 10CHG manual try and do some clever stuff

I had to pick up a CofG jig from Robert along with a micrometre ( god only knows what he has been measuring with this)

The C of G Rig. Mounted on top of a camera tripod a couple of rubber balancers and steel rulers. All looks a bit gay in the gentle shade  ''soft moss''  green but actually does a very good Job. Thanks Rob

I put the Tanga on the JIG, The C of G was at 110 mm, Breta models suggest 105mm . I put some more ballast in the nose and then got to the business of putting all the manufacturers throws in. Very helpfully these were in degrees so I had to use some old school trigonometry to turn this into millimetres of movement at the end point of each control surface ....

A screen of numbers on the breta models website. Took some thinking about but I now have all these dialled in. With the help of the 10CHG manual I have now got more settings than Rob's got brain cells. I have a launch control setting, thermal flap, speed setting, distance setting and normal setting. These are all on a switch but I have also retained a camber flap / aileron / elevator mix on a variable knob. I have a funny feeling I have moved into the realms of doing things for the sake of doing it. What I would say though is the FUTABA 10CHG is a fantastic piece of 21st century radio equipment and is ripe for playing with.

Martin

EASTER.... @ Roundway

 Someone died for us, got reborn or something today... What i know is that a WNW can only mean one thing, Roundway Hill. As the highly detailed map above (annotated in such a way that even Martin can understand) shows, we stand on an outcrop of chalk at some 650ft above sea level with supreme views of the Wiltshire countryside. Although does not provide the lift of Westbury, does give us some very dynamic forms of flying over some very interesting landscapes.
 


Mark turns up carrying the mighty Ash. This glider was designed for this hill, open cross country flying with a big span easily viewed from over a km away. Beautiful flying with this, i love flying this and hang around Mark like flies around shite, until he gives up his Tranny to me!

Fly you bastard!

Bionic Geoff, recently released from Hospital/Prison gets his Trinity F3B prepared, we spent a bit of time on this today playing with C of G. I like this glider, has serious potential, feels solid... like a Volvo!

Geoff still trimming after 4 years of ownership

Bionic Geoff setting up my chair..

Malcolm strolls in (very very ill) with his Salto, pretty little glider, i hoofed it off and the canopy ejected itself, needless to say it all survived. Not to be outdone he went back and got his Blade.

 Look at these two very different transmitters.. The MC24 is a number of years old, however is still at the top of the tree as far as reliability and functionality (like my 3030 Martin) Below is Nicks Royal Evo, on the screen is models current height in meters, battery power left and time flying... amazing. The MC when new was over a grand, the Evo you can get for £400. Love technology....

Well a fantastic day God.. thanks. A pity Martin could not join us, as i would of liked to see how his Tanga performed against my Rotmilan today, as the Rotty ROCKED! Still i expect that chick-flick was really good wasn't it Martin?

Rob

Easter Sunday...

Time to start making excuses chaps! Roundway Hill tomorrow i have cast my expert eye on the weather and there is a perfect slot between 11 and 2! Get up there, get the flying in, get back for Sunday lunch... PERFECT!! Don't take no shit from the misses... and slink out!

Rob