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New web site administrator
ESSA has got another administrator to help with the web site, as Julian is a very busy man and does more than enough for the club, it was decided at the last club meeting that the web site could benefit from having another administrator to help keep our site fresh and up to date. please don't hesitate to get more involved by sending photos and reviews of your days flying. to allen@eastsussexsa.co.uk,
Another Allen's bbq day
I arranged another mini Southdowns fly-in for Wednesday the 23rd June, we ended up flying at Mill Hill that overlooks Shoreham, I had not flown there before and although the landing took some getting used to, it is a good site with pretty good lift on poor lift days. About 8 non local flyers came down from the Kent area and a load of locals came and went as the day on.
All in all it was a great day I flew every plane I took,
had my first real go at combat and met loads of new faces.
Only one main fatality of the day, My poor 1986 139" Soaron Sunshine, went to far back, a little turbulence put the wing through the barbed wire fence.
Raven strikes back
Thanks Dave,
Dave Cox's Tigermoth gets an overhaul
Dave has sent me some Picture of his Tigermoth ready to take to the skys again.
Can't wait to see her in the air dave!
Jason's day at butts
I found myself at butts lane on tuesday flying a twenty year old phase 6 and the maiden of my new cappuccino (valenta models).
I chucked the phase six off first to see what the lift was like because the wind was dropping off once in a while.
"The lift was really good" and after 20 minutes i decided to do my old "lets see if i can thermal above the houses below with a symmetrical wing trick" bearing in mind there were lots of thermals about.
Needless to say the wind dropped off and i made it back to the top of the slope when a tree got in the way.
At first i thought "no way i'm crawling through the thorn bushes and climbing up to the top of a tree" (cause that's where it was) and then i thought "radio gear" so off i went.
I shimmied through the bushes on my bum, found a long branch and got half way up the tree. After a long time i knocked the plane out of the tree in to a thorn bush, ripped it out of that, got back up to the top of the slope, chucked the cappuccino off, trimmed it out, landed,and stood wondering why i felt so knackered.
As it tuns out, the lift got very good afer my little treck and i would recommend the cappuccino if your after a 2.5 type mouldy.
As for the phase 6, i don't know?
I'm still pulling thorn needles out of my butt.
Salto Elevator Failure
I was at Bopeep on Tuesday 13th April
with my Baudis 4m Salto and very keen
to try my new keyring video camera
(Thanks Allen!). I Velcro-ed it to the port
wing tip and launched the model. The lift
was exceptional; soon the model was a
spec in the sky. I started to throw it about
and looped it consecutively several
times, remembering our aerobatic
competition a couple of weeks ago I
thought I would try an inverted loop.
With plenty of height I rolled the model
and dived inverted, the canopy facing the
slope. I pushed the stick forward and the
model carried on diving straight down.
This is when the world started moving in
slow motion. I thought about the mess
the glider would make at the bottom of
the slope and that pulling out with
positive stick might be a good move
soon. I rolled the glider away from the
slope and pulled full up, I remember
wondering if the wings would break. The
Salto shot up like a missile and stalled at
the top. It was then the fun started as I
discovered that the elevator was now
pretty useless, the model almost
uncontrollable in pitch, all it would do was
zoom and stall.
I fed in full down trim and full down, the
model started to fly in a nose high attitude
but in between the now smaller stalls I
could turn it. I put the brakes out and lost
enough height to attempt a slope side<
landing. I was expecting the Salto to tip
stall. However, I was lucky on the second
circuit to turn the model into wind and
make a hard landing.
Looking over the model I found that
starboard elevator was jammed in the full
up position, and its servo was stripped.
Lucky escape, the only damage appears to be one torn aileron control horn
mounting, from the hard landing and the damaged elevator and stripped servo.
Video of the incident: You Tube Link
ebay.co.uk, search: Car remote key mini spy hidden dvr micro camera dv dc
£8.39 inc postage
