He has adopted a novel
approach with the exhaust at the front of the cylinder. Tony has even
gone to the trouble of casting his initials
on either side of the crankcase and you can see the G for Grey in the
photo of a second motor he has made. Starting the motor was no trouble
and purred along quite nicely. Whilst the days of ARF "everything" allow
many that don't have the time or the building skills to particpate
in this fantastic hobby, it is quite exciting to see the craftmanship
that
modellers like Tony bring to the hobby. Well done Tony and thanks for
paying us a visit. Given the poor conditions, it was decided to try
again on the 26th.
Also there on the 19th were Derril Kay and John Madden from the NWAM
club. Derril brought along his autogyro and John brought along his Executive
Twin which was built originally from Airborne plan No 599. It is a 1.45m
twin engined model and draws it's power from 2 25's. It flew very well
and very fast! In fact the low pass was so fast I over compensated my camera
panning and caught the shot as the model was only just entering the frame.
July 26 came along and the weather gods were kind to us. This allowed 4 entrants
this time (the cost of travel precluded the Hobart guys from from reattending
especially as there is another FF/OT event on August 16.) The entrants on
the 26th were, Kevin Hay - Powerhouse, Andrew McEntyre - Red Zephyr, Derril
Kay - Hot Drop
and myself with a e-powered Kavan Phoenix. I have recently repowered the
Phoenix with a Hyperion HP-Z2213-20, Zippy 1300 lipo and a 9 x 6. A big difference
from the geared 380, 11x7SF prop and 8x1400 NiMh I had recently used. I did
originally power the 380 with the first lipos used at the club, this was
in June 2003 however these lipos were first generation and predated balance
taps. The result was a puffed cell and these were soon retired and it was
back to NiMh. The model is very light weighing just 765gms with a wing loading
of 8.5 ozs/sq ft hence the reason I didn't fly the previous week. This power
train gave me about 95 watts per lb!
A lot of fun was had and the results were - 1. George Carnie 652pts;
2. Kevin Hay 551; 3. Derril Kay 513 and 4. Andrew McEntyre 434.
Other models flown on the day were Merv Cameron's scratch
built ST90 powered Duster, Greg Robertson's Giles 202, Fred Willis had
two models, his trainer (name escapes me) and an ARF Enya powered Dragon
Lady. The last picture (on page 2) is of Peter Riall and his newly acquired
ARF
Boomerang
trainer.
Put a SPARK in your life and fly electric! George
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