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When it was Summer..

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And we could get to the patch without welly boots, Ian Andrews turned up one Sunday with another of his ‘unusual’ flying machines…

 

 

 

John Bishop was there with his wizzy photo apparatus to take some flying shots and reports:

‘Herewith some flying shots of Ian’s latest creation. It’s scratch build from an American plan I believe and it’s called “The Real Thing” (like Coca-Cola). It flies well but the ground run was proving to be a tad tricky with the eventual loss of some small but essential parts!’

 

 

 

John Bishop’s Whirlgig Autogyro Thing

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John has sent over an update on his Whirlygig autogyro project which some of us will recall from its erratic if not entertaining take off procedure, but which is nonetheless an awesome if not slightly puzzling (ie how does that work?) flying machine.

John reports that:

After a rather hairy test flight performance is much better now since I replaced the earlier 3-bladed rotors with a 4-bladed set.  Stability and general handling are much improved.

Which is a good thing!

Vic’s New Hurricane

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Some shots of Vic’s Hurricane getting its maiden flight. It’s a Mk 1 Hurricane in Polish airforce colours. Vic’s research tells him that this squadron was chalking up the highest number of kills early in the war because of the experience and expertise of the Polish pilots.

 

 

photo´s John Bishop

Carlos’s Ansaldo SVA 5 – Maiden Flight

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Congratulations to Carlos Guerra whose magnificent Ansaldo SVA 5 had its maiden flight at Stow Maries aerodrome on Saturday 6th May.

At 33kg it’s firmly in the ‘Large Model’ category and Ian Redshaw took the sticks on this occasion to make it fly. A change of prop for the second flight the following day gave increased performance. Carlos took  this video of the first flight with barely a tremor evident as he grasped his camcorder:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrTC8CNP58&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]