Cheshire Falcons
Model Flying Club
Much of our Summer flying is supervised
by the 'udder' residents.
On Sunday 28th Sept '08, Ray took his Zero to the Scale fly-In at Osbournby in Lincs,
a 3 hour drive each way, but "worth every minute of the journey" he reports.
Ray likes his Corsairs but often surprises us with new models.
And he certainly surprised us with his new fifth scale
Corsair which
has a real presence in the air.
Here is Ray with his beautiful 1/4scale 104" span Chipmunk powered by a Zenoah 38 petrol engine
and for realism, can you beat his 81" Zero with a 50cc Brison petrol engine up front,
flown by Ray at the Lleyn MAC Scale Warbird weekend in March'08.
The happy campers Ray & John got to fly their Zero and Hellcat models together, seen here with 'The Rivals' as a dramatic backdrop.
Ray gets a hand from Ken in launching his PT19,( nice little model-the plane of course) but only cos it's more fun that way!
Thats what the Falcons are all about!
Ray and John flew their 'largish' Cub variants together this week,
very slow and scale like as they did a formation flypast.
This large model
Skyraider has a 5 cylinder, radial, 4Stroke glow motor and is from the Hangar of the late Ray Slack,
who designed and built the engine.
A little fettling at the strip followed by a perfect flight.. well maybe a minor retract problem!
The Saga of Darth Vader...Pilot Extrordinaire!
The Maiden flight in March of Phil's new World Models Groovy 3D.
The new OS 4stroke is partly run in, range checks
and control rates all confirmed. Ken assists as Phil gives it a last burst of throttle
and Darth Vader grips the controls as she starts her run!
Helped by quite a lot of elevator the model almost reluctantly clambers into the air but on rotation just clips the longer grass.
As you can see below the 3D elevators have a 'counterbalance' tip, forward of the elevator hinges.
On takeoff the drooping LE of the Port elevator had hooked some long grass which had ripped the whole elevator from its moorings.
Once in the air the extent of the damage was hidden by the fin, so Phil, thinking he had
simply lost a tail wheel,
assumed that this model just needed more trimming than most!!
Our Pilot somehow managed to complete a crazy sort of circuit, made a surprisingly gentle 'flared' landing using the
half elevator remaining
and his model lived to fly another day!
Phew!.......Well done Darth
And the lesson learned?
With this model use minimum elevator for takeoff and stick to the mown strip!
The handsome ARTF WOT trainer
designed by Chris Foss.
and Mal the slightly nervous new owner...............Everone likes to get involved in
fettleing a new model for is maiden flight!
Though he is a long time club member Mal has not been flying for about 8 years, and he proved that RC flying is just like riding a bike,
once in the air, it all comes flooding back to you. The Maiden flight was 100% successful with no major trimming problems, a fistful of aerobatics and a featherlight landing.
Well done Mal, but lets not forget the designer, we have discovered yet another Chris Foss model which ticks all the boxes.
... well, most of the boxes!...Mal reports that the snakes in his ARTF left much to be desired and were immediately replaced with neatly soldered Bowden cables.
(Please note-Commission cheques for this free advertising should be made payable to: Cheshire Falcons Christmas Booze Fund)
