Remember this!

See a couple of posts down how Martin managed to smash this blaze up last Sunday with a crappy launch... it was abandoned on the hill, i felt sorry for it and took it home.









 Add a shit load of Gorilla Glue, bit of patience, some black paint and you get this..............

Just test flown, it go’s great! very fast and agile... bit like me really! Next stage is to beef it all up for some serious aerobatics. Will add weight, but worth it, very pleased.

Rob

FOSA IS READY

Today I received pictures of my new Baudis Fosa . Tomorrow I transfer a bucket load of euros to Jiri Baudis but I reckon its worth every one of them

God knows how these ugly pieces of carbon cloth and molds turn into 2 beautiful wings

The fuselage.  This will arrive ready to go minus the receiver. I am looking forward to seeing how that little dumpy battery will work. The 'Rumpster' swears by them. He said something about its has less amps but the ones it does have are more reliable or something... I am an eneloop man so looking forward to seeing which I prefer
Have you ever seen a servo tray like that one?

Lining up the RDS before putting in. I remember spending 4 long evenings trying to get the RDS into the Tanga. Possibly the most tedious / soul destroying thing I have ever done apart from sitting in the car with ROB for 2 hours driving to the BWLCH, that particular journey ended with me having to spend an hour on the telephone to the samaritans

This is the Tailplane coming out of the molds. Still frazzles my brain how this actually works and comes out looking so god damn pretty

This is the guy that built this glider and did the install. He looks like a bit of a character. I keep having a vision of him slumped outside of a bar after drinking gallons of potato vodka  once the money transfer clears and if he does, good luck to him. He deserves it.






















With any luck the Fosa should be with me by the end of the week. All I have to do is put a receiver and switch in and that it .....A maiden


Martin

Aerial Warfare at WESTBURY!

From Northerly first thing, round to a North Westerly late in the day this slope works. A mixed bag.. Pretty much flew everything that could be flown from Quads, Electric Foamies, Mouldies, Wings and some things that ought not to of been flown! Shared the hill with the Paras.. not so bad, they know when to stay clear, especially when a half ballasted Rotmilan F3B/Tanga is blasting around.

Some people bring a car up the slope... Not Geoff he brings the hanger!!!  Nice lines on that Willow, not so nice on that arse.

This is Geoff on the right, Geoff looks after his pet below... Get your filthy paws of that trinity, and stop shitting every where!
 

 Check me out! Notice that cool calm air about me... Thankfully Graham was reading out my height, distance, power consumed, direction everything apart from looking at the dam FPV plane as my spotter!

 This is the result of letting Martin launch your glider... Nick, make sure you never let Martin forget this, because i wont! More in the video.....

Because of Martins crappy launch downwind resulting in a crash, we gave him a wind sock so he could get it right! I took 3 pictures just in case he did not.......

Gay dogging paragliders. We over heard them discussing the "rusty trombone" technique.. no idea what that is.... No Colin today unfortunately to dampen down the crowd.

We said "land next to the horse" not fly right up its arse! Chris paying particular attention not to get kicked in the knackers.

A happy bunch of pilgrims, these guys had every type of glider under the Sun, some flew better than others. That lad on the left is a master stunt pilot featured in the last copy of the BMFA mag. Incidently when do they come out? i never seem to get it!





Turn volume up to max and chuck the Mrs out....



Rob

ASW 17

ASW 17 is now for Sale


Here is a quick video of the ASW17 flying this afternoon. There is some good onboard footage of the recently painted Westbury White horse and watch out for one of the worst launches of all time.


This glider is not pretty but never fails to fly super smoothy....


Robert is cracking on with the usual summary of the day. He has stacks of footage and this one will be one not to be missed, even he won't be able to fluff this one up!




Martin

Balls to the rain....

April showers have lived up to its name.. so much so that they decided to stretch to May, June and July! However we will commit remote aviation on Sunday morning!  Westbury there may be a chance... So time to prepare, charge those gliders, transmitters. Get the excuses in early to the Mrs..  I shall be there as soon as the mist clears. Planning to test my FPV gear I've fiddling with, going for serious distance and height. Wont publicise as the CAA may bust my little ass! Also interested in close proximity glider chasing. Anybody want a blast at FPV... Sunday morning!

Rob

PS. Martin do you mind not coming. Thanks

Care in the community...

 Once in while we like to go out and impart are valuable knowledge to the masses.. think of it as "outreach work" so on a quite evening i went to Geoff's place.. Geoff has been featured in one or two movies, his last appearance was with his Baudis Trinity being very badly out of trim. Geoff has been RC'ing it for yonks so i was interested to see what was stuffed in his cupboard...


Geoff has a relatively small garden... this is the reason! bloody great long hanger!!!

This is whats in it.. amongst other things! A Blue Air lines Ash 26, 5 meter virtually finished. This is perfectly proportioned and stiff as a priest in a brothel. Just to prove this point, what would you do to test the strength of your 5 meter Blue Airlines Ash 26?     YOU DS IT!!

Minimoa waiting a refurb. This is 1/4 scale and looks great!

A load of junk in the corner... including a Baudis Banana, Trinity.... Oh and a third scale all moulded carbon Pilatus!!!!

Seriously braced inside for strength, massive carbon joiner and nice scale cockpit. Geoff you need to get this in the air! I also found a Thermik XXL fantastic mouldie lurking under the drum kit.

Where do planes and gliders go when the die (apart from the Hudds house) Geoff's attic!!

The priority is to get the ASH flying, should take a couple of hours of programming, then the mighty Pilatus must be flown, then theres the Moa, then all the 1/4 scale stuff, then .......... i need a drink.


That concludes this week's Outreach work. Next week Martin goes to Grahams house to give advice on the intricacies of vacuum bagging, as well as a video demonstration on the holding abilities of super glue on his lips (not grahams)... I cant wait.

Rob

At Last Decent lift at Roundway

Sunday 1st July


Touching on a 40mph blow, coming from the west of south west and at last stacks of lift at Roundway. For those of you that have flown Roundway it is a hill that doesn't often generate bags of smooth lift but this was the day it did...




Robert filled the Rotmilan up with Ballast and spent the afternoon darting up and down the side of the slope practicing his F3F  full of self congratulation as to what a great job he was doing

Martin came along with his Jart and Predator 2.
Rob flew the predator 2 and felt it was a good glider smooth and groovy.
Martin flew the JART which I think is a weirdly pretty glider that cut through the air beautifully and was clearly good fun to fly. I will probably treat myself to one for Christmas.

Picture of Robert and the Jart, watch the video to see ''what happens next" . We were all hoping it would spear him but no such luck!!!

This little gadget is amazing. It is a freesky 2.4ghz module with 'Telemetry'. Not exactly sure what was going on but my understanding from Steve was buy a £20 module for the tranny and a £20 8 channel free sky receiver and the 2 will talk to each other. Steve is able to track the co ordinates ( long and lat ) of the glider, signal strength transmitted / received, battery levels and stacks more... Staggering value.. In a couple of years every radio set will have this.






Now for the video and thanks to Mr Goodwind the quality at last is pretty good. Full volume, full screen and enjoy











Martin