| Hangar |
Aircraft |
Category |
Date |
Preview |
| David Duckett | Guillows Fokker D-VIII | Build | 23-Feb-08 18:56 |  |
| Views : 9129 |
| Mad? Lt Rojo got drunk & fell down on his backward carved prop. Lt Rubio made it all right. |
| wingspanner | West Wings Spitfire Mk 22/24 | Build | 23-Feb-08 18:13 |  |
| Views : 1845 |
| managed to come acroos a picture of me third from left at top winning an indoor competition in 1982 with a flight of 20.9 seconds with a glider called a zlin. |
| wingspanner | West Wings Spitfire Mk 22/24 | Build | 23-Feb-08 17:41 |  |
| Views : 1946 |
| Well, its hard to follow on from David but ill need all the support i can get. Its been 24 yrs since i picked up a scalpel and a piece of balsa and i'm wondering why ive left it so long. I must be mad... |
| SteveM | Guillows Series 500 - BF 109 | Flying | 23-Feb-08 16:43 |  |
| Views : 8866 |
| The wing apears to have gone askew, resulting in straight flight rather than a circle. At this point I put away the camare and began chasing it. But about 150' away a tree kindly caught it for me. I broke the wing getting it down - back to the hanger. |
| SteveM | Guillows Series 500 - BF 109 | Flying | 23-Feb-08 16:40 |  |
| Views : 8713 |
| Here the plane has leveled out and has swept about 180° from where I launched it. By this point I was ginning ear to ear and starting to laugh like a kid. |
| SteveM | Guillows Series 500 - BF 109 | Flying | 23-Feb-08 16:37 |  |
| Views : 8797 |
| Initial unpowered glides were like the BF-109, short and steep. Moving the wing forward and removing 1.5g of nose weight moved the CG back, fixing the problem. Here we see it as it begins to climb and turn into a 40' circle around me. |
