AeroNutz News Letter
                              Number 43
                                           Jan. 2001
 

You are invited to our fun fly on Saturday 27th Jan 2001 at Parklands Leisure Centre Oadby, South Leicester 6.30 PM until 11pm. £7 per flier/family. Fliers of machine over 10g must be insured (£1 coin weighs 9.5g) Remote control fliers can fly at anytime but their machines must weigh less than 85g and be of scale appearance - so no stick planes please,

. FliteHook will not be coming along this month as it's too warm,

                                  Note that we are starting at 6.30pm this month only  >>>>>>>

Mark's New Years resolution is to give up making heavy planes.
Panic buying - Mark has some spare infra red Rx's and Tx kits if anyone would like one.
New photos on the web page, mainly F/F AeroNutz designs on the Plans page.

Andrew's clever contra rotating prop design is pictured, he has made a "proper" set of blades for it now and hopes to power his successful Depron profile Sea Gull with it in the near future.  He is also working on belt drive for KP00 motors which should keep the noise down nicely.

Mark swapped his white, 4" span, Mig 15 for the hand in marriage of Alistairs younger daughter. This seemed like a good idea at the time but could be expensive in the long term.

Our Xmas Fun Fly and Indoor Exposition was quite exciting, well getting there and back anyway!
Nice to see some new faces despite the weather.  Chris Strachan's flew some very nice F/F stick and tissue planes including a nice flying wing with Co2 power. Graham Stanley and most of Coventry cam along, Graham flew a nice Falcon Kits SE5 and brought his prototype Vulcan along too. Bought an infra red system and twin motor steering Rx so should be some interesting machines coming from him in the near future.

Some new Fun Fly events :
Impington Village College just north of Cambridge, Sunday March 18th 2001 am until 5pm 100g max weight, £4 fliers £1 normal people. 01223 860498.
Coventry 3rd of February and 3rd March, 6.30pm - 9:00pm Fairfax Street Sports Centre,
Emphasis on safe flying and co-operation between differing types of modellers. Models up to 300g expected.  Insurance required. graham@activity-toys.com Tel 024 7633 4787
FEBRUARY 24 -  POTTERS BAR INDOOR R/C ONLY MEETING - Furzefield Leisure Centre, 5pm to 10pm. Large Hall, so 200g max. flying weight limit. Sub 400 motors only. Informal scale competition for trophy will be held through the evening, but all indoor R/C  types welcome. Contact Gerry 01707 654 092.
 
Single Channel IR control
Mark's new Jigglet biplane with rubber power and infra red proportional rudder control was stalling all over the place, maybe to much incidence, anyway larger coin cells are now used in the nose.
Mark's Super Tango (14" span) flew nice and slow at 1 oz Sq. Ft but was not climbing with 85 thou rubber in it. The rudder control worked well ..despite it flying a bit awkwardly. Again it need lots of nose weight so the cells have been moved up the front and also inside along with the Rx. Panasonic pin cells are much easier to get in than round watch batteries, connect to them with heat shrink and nude wires. Have the wires on the front of the nose block.

Would anyone yet to pay for one of Mrs Homa's home made chocolate biscuit (yes you !) please send a cheque for £3.56, the price was clearly printed on the underside of the box, otherwise its a visit from the family ….

Free flight
Bernard's 25g two cell, planes flew really well. Above the steel work, round and round they went,   if only he had followed Mark's advice years earlier and launched it in the middle of the hall !
John's Sea Mew  was looking and flying very well while his new Gladdy is the finest model ever seen at Oadby. The photo here shows it on Bernard's table following a forced landing due to oily plugs.
Andrewranamuck with the felt tips when decorating his new Groove Jet indoor rubber power F/F machine  - groovy baby.  The Groove Jet will be published in the next issue of Model Flyer. His Sea Gull was going very well too, with a normal motor/prop. though.
John's finest flapper - a micro job about 4" span, 30 second flights !!
Bernard's Christmas Cracker - Bernard had charged his Dipper two cell F/F ready for launching while flying a Nottingham. Paul blew his whistle to start the R/C slot, so Bernard picked up Andrew's R/C Tx, launched the little flying boat and thumbed the sticks. Ray came and asked him what channel he was on - " 92.4 FM"
Nice photo of Barry's Depron electric F/F twins.
Really nice digital photos by Andrew - Tom's rubber 2mm foam Bearcat that used to skim the beams for 60 seconds and his very sucessful Depron Co 2 powered Hawk Speed 6
 

FliteHook came along, they have some really nice new "foam" wheels from the Czechs and also some Panasonic Lithium "watch" cells which would be ideal for the new IR rubber power/Co2 machines, Mark will test the cells to see if they can handle the 15mA load (they can - MD) . The cells are 4mm diameter and about 25 mm long so it would be easier to fit them into the nose of a rubber powered machine.

Bodders brought his boy along - hasn't he grown !
Yes, you can buy Depron and KP00 motors in the USA, Campbell Model Supplies …. home of the capacitor plane motor.

Park Fliers
Dave Ridgeway showed us some interesting little rocket motors, really small American ones that burn for 1.1 seconds and zip little gliders up nicely
FliteHook are supplying Zing Wings, F/F, rubber catapult launched flying wings. You launch them with the wings folded back and then they open up and it glides for 269378 miles. Very well designed for £2.
Andrew fitted bigger props to Barry's Depron rubber powered  Owl twin and it flew well during the summer
 

Two Cell Two channel
Mark only got to test glide his new Vulcan, meanwhile his Depron 25g machine flies well but does not turn too good with the two magnets on the outside of the coil - he will fit one inside the coil and have it rotate on the joint line of the rudder/fin for the 27th.
Graham's 16" span Jigglet and Rays two cell machine don't seem to have enough power to climb? Despite the fact they weigh less the 25g, seems to be a problem with a lack of thrust? Bernard's 25g two cells fly way up in the roof? Maybe the prop was one the wrong way? Its touching the motor? fedup power MOSFET? Tx pot not moving to full one? Knackered cells? ultra fine power wires?
Mark has tested the KP00 on two cells and direct drive with the Union 80 mm prop. Volts are that of the battery not measure across the terminal of the motor.

Santa brought Graham had a super Kodak digital camera, many of the new web site picas are by him with it. The blurred photos on our web site where taken using the new Aeronutz AN37 3/XTAS "Little Beaut." digital camera which Simon made using a cardboard box, Blu Tak and a lens from Maplins. The photos are a bit blurred because the connection cable to the P.C. is too long. Santas sleigh now has a flashing red light on it to comply with E.U. regulations ....

Ken Sheppard's forwarding address …runs for pages. He is now with Bodders, Ken Swales and Dave at Model Flyer. Ken makes a plane, Bodders photographs it, Dave writes about it and Ken  flies it. So if it crashes who's fault was it?
Nice photo of Rays twin steer Mosquito, R/C Sparrow hawk resting after a long flight and F/F Comet.
The foam R/C biplane Dave Ridgeway was flying was designed by a Danish Nut Michael Henriksen  B. Husted and will also be in the next issue of M.F.
Both of Ray's ducted fan foam remote control models flew, one R/C with a servo and the other using twin steering IR. His IR twin steer P38J seems to leap off the ground and then come down with a crunch, too much incidence? Not enough down thrust?

The Works book shops have a very nice colour book for £5 - Classic Civil Aircraft Guide 1920 to 1964

Captain Black would prefer that you did not mention his twin engine R/C model did not fly as it
might unsettle is passengers!

Ray Gayada's R/C Triplane was going much better.
Falcon Kits are about to launch thier new Tiger Moth, similar to the SE5 and DH2.

Mike Watters has sent us some great photos of his new D8 foam R/C machine at 22" span.
Eric Hook / Peter Frostick are making a new 2mm wall foam I.R. biplane that will fly on three cells, it is based on a super successful three cell profile development machine.

Single Cell Infra red?
Dr Chris has flown a two cell version of the Push E (similar to the one in this months issue of M.F.) He is now working on a one cell version with a new secrete motor.

Cameron Diaz wont be at our 27th Jan fun fly following a bust up with Mark who has refused to let her fly her Pico Stick as it is banned. A pity as he had bought some new trendy glasses and grown a beard, which she likes.