• AeroNutz News Letter               Number 4
    • November 2001
    You are invited to our fun fly on Saturday 24th Nov. 2001 at Parklands Leisure Centre Oadby, South Leicester £8 per flier/family. Fliers of machines 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, ask before travelling.
    Tables and chairs provided, fishing pole too. Bring a warm jumper. 5PM UNTIL 11PM
    Infrared.
    Our Fun Fly on 24th Nov will be graced by the presents of Dr Chris, who will be bringing his super 12g one cell, two channels, IR, Tiger Moth biplane, the flight motor runs via his DIY voltage booster. He also has a 17g SE5a and by the time he gets here - half a dozen new ones.
    Delta Blues. Mark’s new 10” span delta “Vulcan” two cells, two channels seemed to be lacking power (new cells) and the rudder would not move left (stiff hinge) but should be flying for its second outing at Oadby later this month. The 12” version has been fitted with a geared motor so it should climb a bit better, it steers OK and was stable at our last Fun Fly.
    The new two cells Mig 3 has had it's wings twisted straight (always a good idea on a Mig 3) and been retro fitted with a geared motor so that should be better too.

    Mark's Rubber powered 14" span Corsair flew well at Watford - stable, got up high and it was steering left OK. A high altitude crash broke the nose off before it's side thrust was adjusted allowing to to turn right. It's all back to gether and will hopefull be a little beautty on Saturday. It is currently using 100 thou. rubber, 1200 turns and a standard grey plastic prop. The IR Rx and 1 F capacitor are right up the front in the nose thus balancing the plane without adding weight. It has a 150 Ohm coil and the smallest size magnet. Flying weight is 11 grams

    It must be winter soon, We have had Haloween, Guy Forks night and the Autumn Lathe Dressing

    Viva Ikara !!!
    New - four excellent rubber powered fun fliers from Ikara. These 8” span roof skimmers follow on from the successful Butterfly. They are nicely painted profile foamies which use the successful plastic Ikara props. I have seen several flying well and a couple of chaps did some nice mass launches. Flights of 45 seconds are possible when you lower the left aileron to keep the wings level. Form an orderly que when Flitehook come to our next fun fly.on the 24th Nov. This winter I can see us having mass fighter sweeps of P51’s, Spits, Zeros and Me109’s, don’t delay buy 20 today!! Look out Spitfire man (Peter Frostick) you are not alone.

    Andy had-a-go with a video camera at our last event and has posted the resulting clips up on his own web site. These a tests to see how long it takes to down load them and what quality they are when the quality is reduced. We are thinking of having categories of vid clips, so we can build up a library. This will be of use to new designers who can refer to successful designs, which will be handy if the cat just slept on a successful machine. Faces will be edited out so married chaps can continue to tell “her in doors” that they are just popping round their girl friends and to the pub - mums the word.

    F/F  - Watford
    Good range of machines here this year, no yellow Piper Cubs!! Nice to see a very good rudder powered, wall foam, Stealth Fighter. Superb Co2 Depron, WW1 machines from Peter Smart, he had an Albatross about 8” span flying ROG up to the steels and back - up and down, up and down, all day. He did some super hand launch flights with his rubber powered Lancaster accompanied by Richard’s Me110 night fighter.
    Andrew had some good flights from his F/F Catalina (the blue one) and has tamed the R/C version too.
    Bernard had a successful two cells shoulder wing Depron machine. Mark’s planes where useless.

    NASA is asking for details of Bernard’s new jungle juice fuel, as mentioned in last month’s newsletter. This story was a porky pie, a whopper, a fabrication, an untruth and a misinterpretation of the facts. I have told him not to stop making up such stories (otherwise I will tell his mum)

    Caution - ASDA now have some mini shopping trolleys for kids - Ahhhh!!! Shin pads obligatory

    Our last event was well attended, lots of free flight stuff (flying), John’s rubber power flappers, a couple of little radio machines, several 25g infra red models, nice chatty atmosphere and Parklands hired some tables as the others where in use. Hello to the new folks who came along. They seemed happy enough when they left, I am sure future new nutz will leave even happier with an Ikara Spitfire - good idea to bring a shoe box to put them in.
    Ray had a micro infra red plane which did not quiet have enough power, a 12” span two cells direct drive Swordfish.

    Mark loaned his infra red Corsair to a couple of Swedish indoor fliers (Lasse and Johan) who are just getting into infra red control. They flew it at a big national event and caused quite a sensation by all accounts. They have a background of building stick and tissue machines with Co2 motors, they are powering the IR system using either large capacitors or one cell and a voltage booster. Interesting line of development here and we hope to see some interesting machines from them in the future.
     
    Gasparin have a new super small Co2 motor, more details later, Lasse and Johan have been flying the Dragonfly  which uses one of these motors. Peter Smart said he had one on the way too.
     
    Flitehook are coming to our next event - barring disastrous, riots, plague etc

    Peter Frostick has moved up to the north east, he has been flying with the local Aeronutz there. They where particularly impressed when he got his little chopper out. Seems like a lot of the older fliers have little choppers, Bill and Bernard have little ones too. Peter’s stays up longer, maybe he has been playing with his for longer or maybe he has better rubber lube.