The little copter is so cool. Nobody ever makes a scale copter though. Small 3D printed gears you could work out a drive mechanism inside a scale fuselage.
Great video Chris. Shame it was a bit to blustery to trim the Mosquito a bit more, but the adjusted decalage and nose weight was definitely evident. 👍🏻 Thanks for tagging my channel in the description as well. Much appreciated 🎉
Hi, the air was very rough as you can see, not good for us. However much later in the afternoon with just 3 of us left on the field the wind dropped off and we did nice flights. It was flat calm at 6 pm and I was alone with no sheep for company. Great video, nice to see Marks Mossy at Lodge I'm itching for us to get it trimmed. At least my Meteor sound interesting!
Really safety concious, people standing all over the place launching aircraft in all sorts of directions! Not a problem with the light rubber powered jobs, but diesel powered?
Though to be fair the diesel type engines here run on a mixture of mostly castor oil and ether, only 1/3 is Parafin and they use tiny amounts of fuel maybe 1 - 2cc per flights or less than a thimble full. With silicon rubber lube there's probably not much in it
Lovely looking planes. I take it that was the Miles Falcon at 7:15? Great livery and what a glide! To my eye, it looked perfectly trimmed. Would like to have seen a close up as I might build a Miles Magister or M20 next (from Outerzone plans). Thanks for the video.
Thanks Patrick . It is Miles Falcon from the Dave Rees plan with a bit more sheeting round the nose and detachable wings. There are some shots of it here - scroll through to image no30 in the gallery oxfordmfc.bmfa.club/2024-free-flight-scale-fly-in/
@@squirrelnet28 Thanks for the link. I admit I had to linger at the Miles Magister as well as the Falcon, lovely paint jobs. I'm getting back into the hobby after 50 years away, still learning all these modern techniques.
The 'Control' is much more subtle and hard to do than having direct control . The models are carefully trimmed to fly in a set pattern when you get it right and model does what you intended the reward is huge, way more than flying RC in my opinion
Plus these models were popular in a time when radio control wasn’t available, it took real skill to build and trim these models successfully, and you have to be quite brave to throw a model to the wind when it’s taken so much time and effort to build.
I tend to stick to the flying for youtube but the stills I take are usually posted on HPA have a look at www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php?topic=27591.0. or have a look at the Scale Outdoor free flight - UK facebook.com/share/n98Qt2tDaLFHbB4x/
On that Bristol Freighter flight, the engines were perfectly in sync at take off, where the props could be seen turning at the same rate, but then got out of sync as the flight progressed (evidenced by the thrumming beat), with the left engine producing more power than the right which caused the tightening right circle. Anyway, thought that was interesting.
Hi, Thanks for the video Chris, I'm sure it was a brighter day weather wise than it appears. I'm sure it was very enjoyable for all of us, and a big thanks to those from the Oxford club who made it possible.
Must pull tight on that gurney wind that rubber 😔😔. Throw high and never forget life is the pull of rubber can’t get that warm feeling anymore. Balsa .
