It must be winter because it's stopped raining!

The View from here ….
This season looks like it will be full of new developments and ideas.
The new Lithium Polymer cells are terrific. They give us more voltage and capacity at a reduced weight and they are cheap too - thanks to Graham for that!
These new batteries will allow us to continue developing lighter machines that are smaller and therefore have tighter turning circles. The construction of these new remote control planes will be much more like our traditional rubber power machines. We could be flying remote control planes similar to Jigglets and Flitzers before the year is out..They will weigh about 10 to 15 grams and use geared pager motors with DIY thin plastic or carbon fibre props. The control surfaces will be moved by Muscle Wire. Hopefully we will be able to use 2mm wall foam for the wings for the bipe planes as that would save weight compared to Depron wings and wall foam wings would be easier to make too.

Super capacitors have arrived!, Mark has some samples to test. They are rated at  2.3v and 5 Farads, weigh 2.2 grams with 5mm long connectors. They measure Dia 10 x 20mm long which is very similar to the Panasonic Gold Cap 1 Farad cap. Sounds great for free flight machines like Bernard used to fly when we could get the old "capacitor motors". I would think a 1.5v rated pager would go well on these. These are very powerful so they need to be treated with respect otherwise they might blow up!
Third Indoor Gliding Championships.
At our fun fly on the 26th Oct. Everyone is welcome to come along, there are no rules and no prizes. If it looks like a glider and flies great, well what more do you want? Aeronutz Minimoa and T tail machines are ideal but you can make some up if you like, maybe something unusual like Simon's SB13 flying wing glider? Reckless and or patient glider men will be aero towing thier 2g foamies with Jigglets or in Mark's case a PZL Vilga. Just fit bigger rubber, put a tow hook on the tug's wing, a bit off centre on C.G. position. Use a 5' long lenght of cotton (How am I supposed to win this if you tell them how to do it! - Mark) and have a vertical glider hook on the nose. The glider tends to straighten out the flight line of the tug so get everything turning left as best you can. Tip! 
Don't let the tow line get in the prop.
Cutting the 2mm  foam down to 1mm thick at the LE and TE of the gliders wings. Sand the rear of the plane and the tail / fin down to 1mm. These modifications had a big effect on the Minimoa.
Here is Bill's 12" span T tail. you can's see the mini prop in flight. It flies really slow and has excellent scale wing sag. Gets up to about 15' from a hand launch. It is wall foam, with 12 thou. rubber ! Go Bill Go.

           It has been a busy summer for some folks ...
Janne over in Finland has made great little infra red controlled Corsair He says he flies it in his garden using remote IR emittors. It has elevator, he says it does a nice round loop when powered with a lithium cell and a carbon prop.

Peter Frostick's Pink garden Spit. 15" span, Wes 4.5-06 motor direct to U 80, 140 mA hr Li Poly cell -- 18 grams, wide band Fm 35 MHz (no crystal) Peter is seen here running round the garden with his Spit. trying to pretend  it is just a toy so the neighbours don't get uppity at the thought of R/C garden flying - a clever plan. Oh! and maybe use more red in the paint next time, looks blue from this angle?

Matt (42.83 years old) has converted and ancient rubber power Peanut Miles M18 to electric flight with Muscle Wire elevator and rudder. It uses a 140mA polymer cell and has just clocked up a 40 minute cruising flight!
Seen here with a Kaysun prop. (Korean for black? Ed)  and has the 6mm Namiki Pager motor inside. Gears are about 4.2:1.  Total weight is now around 16.4g  It is made of very old balsa, is a 12 inch span and is a modified Walt Mooney design.  The actuators and motor are fixed to a stick so they can be inserted by sliding the whole lot in through the nose. Actuators can be accessed via the cockpits.  It uses two tiny carbon rods for push rods.

Speaking of age ... researchers at the University of Neasden have finally solved the question of whether or not younger people are celeverer than olde buggers. Stastitstics reveal that while oldies have more experience and know the value of information (and know what real tomatoes taste like ... Ed) younger folks are quicker to learn new tricks and eh, something else but we forgot what .....  Computer simulations and complex calculations have shown that the ideal age is exactly 41 and 3/4 - Mark's age! But we could have told 'em that - Yeah!

Weight limit - Aeronutz slimming club has seen our toys drop from last years 25g flying weigh to a svelte 18g at the moment and more like 13g by Christmas. So the current  85g weight limit seems way too high from where I am sitting. We shall continue with 85g but only because the beautiful Falcon Kits weigh about that much. Maybe we will have to start banning some free flight planes as they weigh more than the R/C ones!

New aircraft paintings here, the better ones are towards the end.

Garden fliers
New cells and control systems have allowed us to make planes that weigh about 30g These would be ideal for a big garden or small outdoor area. Our new 18g indoor R/C fliers would be too light as they would require still air to fly outdoors?
 Here is a fine example Chuck's P51d. Wingspan is 360 mm with root chord of 80 mm and tip chord of 45  mm. Foam wing weight is 6.0 grams.

Battery is 145 mA hr poly-ion while the receiever (72 Mhz) is a DU with actuators on rudder and elev. Motor is from "e-charger" with 4.2 to 1 gear reduction. Prop is a cut down Williams brothers 105 mm to 90 mm. Flys for 15 minutes plus with loops but mostly flying at 33 to 50 percent throttle.Very good speed range from slow to VERY fast. Flying weight is 27.5 grams.Wing is cut to scale outline from a free flight, twin rudder kit. Canopy is flat sheet of .020 clear plastic. Pilot is difficult to see from here.

Mark has a new electronic circuit. It detects when the voltage of a polymer cells gets down to about 3v. It will be used to drop retractable undercarriage and or put on landing lights.  Could also be used as an off switch for free flight electric motors or to switch off tracking devises if you are using a polymer cell and your plane is stuck in a tree. If you just want to activate simple LED light you just wire your LED straight into the chip. If you want to use more power, say for a pager motor or Muscle Wire for retracts, then you switch on a transistor with the voltage chip. It means you don't have to use up a channel just for that and of course free flight guys can do so as well - assuming you have not hit the wall after 40 minutes in the air! More details later.

Free Flight
What about Aeronutz President Joe and Bill?
They have been shopping it seems. Look at these smart new pullies !
Joe is seen here modelling a nice navy blue job while flying the Aeronutz Flitzer design. Peter Frostick suggested using a little more nose weight (always take his advice - ignore anything else you hear! Ed) and it made all the difference. Bill is seen modelling some racy looking golf knitwear while flying is super micro chopper - evidence that older folks are clever than young people? Peter says Bills "Chopstick" flies very well - a fine complement, no wonder he looks happy! (he started trimming it when he was twelve years old Ed)
 
Peter's pics ,,,
Bill

Flite Hook are coming to our next event too, so bring some cash for their nice small plane goodies

The National Space Centre in Leicester does a space shuttle mission mock up thingy for groups of twenty, anyone want to give it a go? Maybe do it before one of our fun fly events? The outer fabric of the building took three months to inflate using Simon's bike poomp (It's French)

Micro Flaps ... Matt reports
  "The P-39 flew pretty well with the flaps, at full throttle it is so
powerful it's out of control.. I will probably not implement the flaps, I think  pulling up elevator and adding throttle, hanging on the prop, is about as good as the flaps."

Letter from America
I was testing different props for my RFFS-100 system using an N20  (echarger motor with 4.2 to 1 gears ) and Lithium poly 140 mah.I had made several short flights of one to two minutes with 3 or 4 different 4 inch dia props.Some were rubber or CO2 props as stock and some shaved in chord and or dia ;then rebalanced.At the time I was using a foam wing from a free flight which had been cut down to span from 20 inches to 14 inches with a 3 in chord and weights 6 grams.Profile fuse and tail are  balsa.Total flying weight is 22 grams.At this point I say to myself try to fly with the 6 inch span I had cut out of the middle of the 20 in wing.Never throw anything away...So I mounted the 6 inch span with 3 in chord ,checked the radio and launched.The plane flew away from launch nicely in a gentle left turn at which time I found I had no radio control.IT BECAME FREE FLIGHT.As i watched it circle I shut off my Tx and started my timer as I wondered how long I would fly on the Lipoly I had been using for the earlier flights.The plane slowly circled up and up with an 18 square inch area wing.It got so high I could only see the white wing on the down sun side of the circle.This is at about 8 in the morning with little to no wind.I walked about 300 yards downwind and ever time I looked away from the plane I would have to stand still and wait until I could see a little white as it turned down sun.After about 6 minutes I saw it was descending and I thought it was going to land on the roof of a near by school but it just cleared the roof and landed in the front yard about 30 feet in front of me. No damage and a timed flight of seven plus minutes.PS the Lipoly recharged AOK.It turned out my antenna (9 inches long) broke off a launch (I found the wire at the launch spot) and the RFFS-100 has no motor fail safe to turn the motor off when no RF is present so it flew away at full power.So back to the 14 inch wing which it flys 12 to 15 minutes with the Lipoly 140 mah. Chuck

Pager motors. Pleased to see Didel selling lots of pagers and gears. We will have to do some testing with the lithium cells so see what how much thrust we can get and how much current they eat, they like approximately twice thier rated voltage it seems. Maybe use a voltage booster? The motor shaft might be the wrong size for the brass pinions we normally use? Use props with very thin airfoils and the largest diameter that is practical. If you can get the same thrust as a direct drive KP00 with U80 prop and two NiCD cells you should be ok for a 12g model. You can buy Didel parts from Graham in the UK

Multi meters, Maplins are selling them for about £6. Worth having two so you can measure motor volts and current simultaneously?

Mrs Brown writes from Swindon ... "When can I buy some of those spicy sultana muffins from Asda I read about in Aeronutz news letter 23?"
Me thinks its too early for those Mrs Brown you will have to wait until nearer Christmas. Asda do have the mordacious raisin and Lemon flavoured pancakes to keep us going until then.

Remote Control
On the subject of pancakes, I noticed each pancake has exactly 3.2g of fat - the same weight as Andy's Potensky 35 Mhz Rx converted to give proportional actuator output!

Money.
Last year the money paid by folks to enter the fun fly events just managed to pay for the hall hire, we made £9 profit! So the underwriters got all their money back. This year we invite folks to become underwriters by giving £50 to the club. If we don't average enough money on the door, we use some of the underwriters cash to balance the books.
The entrance fee for the two autumn fun fly events will be the same as last year, £8 per flier. We fly from 5pm until 11pm so that is good value for money compared to cinemas, golf, swimming, off shore power boat racing etc.
Mark continues to try and raise money for Aeronutz by donating profits from sales of magazine articles, plans, winders, 2mm Depron, Z Tron infra red systems etc.

Looking back over the last couple of years I think it is true to say indoor aero modelling has developed considerably. We make use of new materials, new control systems and power plants. There are more folks flying and designing indoor planes too. Its good to see new venues for indoor flying in the magazines diary pages. The problems of big R/C planes mixing with light free flight machines seems to have been more or less resolved?

On the subject of long flights - Mark and Simon's have been making some progress on thier man powered, full size aeroplane. The machine is designed for transcontinental flights. This will no doubt involve long flights over water. Testing times. New high tech cycling bloomers have been developed and tested to see if they are suitable for emersion in icy waters. Mark is seen here during testing .... the warm dry bloke in the safe and secure boat is Simon

Propellor planes - Designers Dilemma
Mini electric model design is getting a bit confusing.
If you are a new flier this might help by clarifying the situation, but it is easier for you to understand than for me to write !
The model design starts with the cells as they have a big effect on flying weight which affects the planes speed and power consumption. The voltage of the cells effects the control system you can use, for example the  WES Technik servos die at 2.7v,  while coil actuators are more powerful at higher voltages. Our voltage boosters give regulated voltage supply throughout the flight so the control power stays the same.
70mA Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) cell.
These cells have a slightly lower voltage than the Ni Cd cells. Bernard is tinkering about with some new free flight models using just one 70mA Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) cell. These are powered by a direct drive KP00 motor driving a cut down Union 80 or GWS mini orange coloured prop. They are a simple cabin type monoplane, Depron construction and weighs about 12 to 14g and has a span of about 12” with a scale’ish looking cord. The first one flies Ok suggesting that minor developments will get them up in the roof steels. Cute looking machines!
50 and 110 mA Ni Cad cells
There have been some nice F/F balsa and tissue machines that use just one Sanyo 50mA Ni Cad cell. The Push E is one example. These models have  direct drive props with KPOO motors but weigh a tad more than the 70mA NiMH planes because the cell is about 1g more. Dr Chris has made some infra red controlled, two channel planes using one 50 or 110 mA NiCad cell. Chris's planes use efficient “coreless” pager motors with lots of gearing and a “big” DIY prop that is very thin so it cuts through the air easily making it efficient.  The cell's voltage is increased using one of his own DC/DC voltage converters so the flight motor and control system use four or five volts.  For two examples see his Tiger Moth and SE5 on our indoor R/C web page.
Ni Cd cells can be charge at one Amp in 3 minutes after a few  slow “running in” charges. Also the charger can be quiet crude. They can take high loads too, but a one Amp load flattens the cell pretty quick! They are used from 0.85 volts to 1.4v fully charged
Lithium Polymer cells.
These are a big step forwards for mini planes. They are very light for their capacity and most importantly one cell produces 4v dropping down to 3v much higher than the other cells. Under typical flight conditions the voltage drops to about 3.7v after a few seconds and then very slowly the voltage drops to 3.0v where we must switch it so otherwise it would be damaged. This higher voltage is very helpful because the control systems can operate without a voltage booster or if you use a voltage booster it will much more effeceint.
There are several sizes available, the smallest being 40mA hr which weighs 2 grams. The 140mA hr one weighs about the same a one 50mA NiCd!
A limitation of the Polymer cell is that you have to charge them slowly using a proprietary charger. Between half and one hour is a typical charge time. They are usually operated at a maximum of seven times the cell's capacity. So a 140 ma cell can discharge at a maximum load of 980 ma.
If we use the 140 ma hr cell we have to be careful not to go over 1 amp load. The KP00 motor is very good at about 2.5v but uses lots of current at higher voltages, so we cant us it direct drive on a 140mA polymer cell. We could get around this by using bigger gears to reduce the load on the motor or use a direct drive Kenway size motor. Pager motors can be quiet big and powerful so we might be able to use a larger size and gears. The coreless design uses less current but needs more volts, so maybe use two 40mA  (6.4 to 7.8v) polymer cells? These cells have a maximum load of 200mA.
Another use for the 40 mA polymer cells could be to power the control systems in models powered by rubber or CO2. Unfortunately they are an awkward shape, very thin but about 20mm x 25mm, so getting them up in the nose of the plane to balance a rubber power plane might be tricky?
 

NEWS LETTERS BY POST
Oh dear!, we are having trouble producing the sticky address labels. We have a few left but we must decide what to do? Either give up news letters by post and just send a list of flying dates at the beginning fo the year. Maybe folks could send in 8 self addressed labels each autumn? Not self-addressed envelopes though, we need the envelopes that are easy to glue down and are the correct shape! Don't forget that public libraries have access to the internet, ask on of the staff to get you our web site which is http://www.aeronutz.flyer.co.uk/sept2002.htm  This way you will see all the pictures that cannot be included in the paper version of the news letter, some of which are in focus!

Art - The final frontier.  Our efforts at miniaturizing control systems have been a big success. But this is easy compared to painting the machines so they look good. New Aeronutz are strongly advised to start painting their planes right from the start so you get much needed practice. Use acrylic water based paints and “proper” water colour artists brushes, these hold much more paint which makes the job a lot easier, if you are born artless.
Make the job easier for yourself by drawing insignia using very fine waterproof ink pens. Aeronutz plans usually have these details lines on them so just cut out the patterns and trace round them - cheating! tee hee. Use a new number 11 scalpel to cut out the templates 
Mark out the aircraft's parts on the foam and then paint them before you cut them out. Better still, draw out a four of each part and paint them all, then keep the parts with the least mistakes! Paint before gluing as the paint does not like to stick to the glue. Bison glue dries clear so it does not mess up your paint work.  Don't forget to paint the inside of the fuselage round the cockpit before you glue the fuselage together - don't use runny paint either otherwise it will go through the foam and mark the other side.

Tips!
* Mix a little water with the acrylic paint, Humbrol paints are the strongest colour so you can add quit a bit of water.
* Mix enough for the entire plane! You will never get the same colour twice!
The foam is white, so you are adding darker colour to it. I often use three layers of thinned paint. The thinned paint dries much lighter colour. On a wing I have the leading edges three coats the top of the airfoil one coat and the trailing edge two coats.
 
When the paint is dry I add a little “shine” to the highest point of the airfoil using some white paint. 

I like to think this makes the plane come alive and gives it character rather than being a dead museum exhibition piece! If the model is dark coloured, try using light colours to show panel lines and ailerons on the dark surface?
Add some oil stains and scratches to taste, but don't go mad!
Ribs on canvas covered planes can be simulated by making the ribs slightly darker at the LE and TE edges and catch the light with some shine at the highest point of the airfoil.
I find roundels and other markings look like the are not "stuck to the skin" of the plane and look like an afterthought! I found that painting the panel lines   and “shine”over the roundels makes them look more a part of the plane.
I have the front of the plane as a focus point. So the rear of the plane is slightly lighter and the roundels and insignia are not too noticeable.
Really small planes look heavy and solid if they are painted too dark? I paint my Corsairs a slightly light shade of blue.
Aluminium finish is a tricky colour to paint. Peter Smart used various shades of grey on his super “Bear” Russian bomber. I try and do it like the graphic artists with shades of light blue and black/blue. The “shine” can be white and blue with very black lines to show shade where panel lines are - use lots of contrast between light and dark on areas where the shine is. The leading edge of a wing has more black in the paint with a bit of blue but well thinned down - experiment on some scrap foam!
The amount of paint in the brush effects how much it comes out onto the foam - too much and it will flood out and you get a very dark colour, too little and you run out of paint.

Free flight rubber power - Jets over Nottingham
Paul has a new, super light weight, 2mm white foam, F14 Tomcat, nice looking paint job, didn't see it fly though.
Mark flew his mini Mig and Melton John flew his super scale wall foam Mig 15. Mark's rubber motor was too long, so his Mig did not want to climb let alone do the usual aerobatics By the time he would it up to 1800 turns to get some power it got stuck up in the roof - and he forgot to get it down. John's Mig has scale features including wing fences, pilot and cockpit and a nice paint job too.

One cell free flight - new
Bernard's new one cell mini plane was a sucess using a 70mA Nickel Metal Hydride cell which is 1g lighter than a 50 mA NiCd. It has a direct drive KP00, weight is just 13g, Depron, cabin design.  It flew but experiments with props should improve performance. Currently uses the new grey plastic or mini GWS orange props but a super thin yoghurt pot prop. would be ideal? Models span just 10 to 12” - he made a box full, as usual. Hopeful he will get 'em all flying at our next fun fly.

DIY Radio Control
Andy's new three channels machine has plenty of power and it's elevator works OK using a coil actuator. Experiments with ailerons continue. Uses a geared KP00, carbon prop. modified 35 MHz Potensky Rx and coil actuators. 2mm Depron wing, 24g flying weight

Micro retracts - back again
Design brief:
* Avoid damaging props   * Look nice.   * Must be reliable and weight free.
* Must be easy to make   * They need to be simple to reset - just push them back up.
Mark's trying to make some that just pop down when the battery voltage gets down to a pre set level, hand launch. They need to weigh about 3g complete for a 13" span plane. These could be used for free flight or R/C machines. The retracts will come down using gravity and be actuated by a simple Muscle Wire trigger which runs from the polymer flight cell via a transistor activated by the voltage sensor chip.The main problem seems to be how to lock the undies down reliably. Mark has figured out two simple systems. The first locks the gear down by going “over centre” while the second uses a simple catch. Materials selection is important, these retracts will be very small but the pivots must be accurate, strong and smooth running. They need to be fixed to the plane securley too as a crash could put a lot of force onto them even, if  the plane only weighs about 25g. Mark's first retracts plane (second if you include his 95g R/C Sea Fury from a couple of years ago - anyone remember that?) will be a twin motor Beaufighter at about 13.75” span  (350mm). In this case each retract leg will be fixed to Depron plate which will support the motor and in turn will be fixed to the Depron wing. This way it is hoped the entire retract leg can be made and tested before final assembly.

Hot and bothered - Depron and carbon fibre need some heat, about 80 degrees C, which is about as hot as a cup of tea (not coffee Ed?) . Mark is looking into making little ovens suitable for making micro plane wings and carbon fibre props. This will free up the cooker for Sunday lunch again.
Early attempts used a 12v transformer and ceramic resistors. These achieved about 40 degrees using 7 Watts of power. A revised design uses 240v mains supply and got up to 50 degrees using 12 Watts. Mk III will use more resistors but each one will operate with less power so they don't get as hot. Thermal insulation of the box is very important and electrical wiring should be safe for use with mains power supply - don't try this if you are not competent. Future developments include having a shelf in the box so pressure can be applied to one side, then we can do simple vac forming.

Nice to see Chris’s Micro Pitts Special. Made from Balsa wood, food dye paint (?!) poly cell, geared KP00, DU R/C system. We look forward to seeing more of his designs.

Rubber Airliners - Ray had some nice flights with his rubber power Comet at Nottingham. Mark has re-vamped his DC9 by adding a section to the fuselage to make the nose longer. Airliners are fun and look good when they fly slow with the nose slightly. Easy to make too - a tube with wings! They have lots of dihedral too. Bend up the trailing endge of the wing tips a little. The rubber motor is really long but they don't need much power, so use a small size rubber motor. Make the plane about 14” span. Use an Ikara plastic prop on the nose and paint the prop with black stripes, when it spins it becomes a blur so you can't see it. The fuselage is just a simple tube of 2mm-wall foam, no need for formers. Characteristics of an airlines - lots of light blue windows stripes down the sides and a red fin

Ray has a new Z Tron infra red  micro bipe that uses a lithium cell and flies very well. About 12" span, see it at our next fun fly on the 26th Oct.Hopefully we will ahev some pictures of it by then.
 
 Matt has made a Bristol Auto Gyro, very rare these, he says it flies Ok but needs much more power than the bipe version. Maybe that is why Bristol did not put it into production?

John Mack had a super rubber power stick and tissue sports design at Nottingham, very slow flying and a nice big white props. Weights just a little more than nothing. Hopefully we will see more of that through the winter (and more of him! Ed)

Good to see some R/C, electric, park flier, ornothopters, see web site chat page on them. This one is quiet big so it must be a sight to see on a misty morning!

Andy has a Penny, rubber power helicopter, I assume he is working on a secrete 8” long Sea King eight bladder for his micro R/C system, ssssshhh ! don't tell anyone.

Mark went in a full size Catalina while on holiday down on the south cost. Hello to all the SHIF indoor fliers, particularly Peter and Ken for their hospitality and thanks to Don for the lift

Early retirement - Mark has put his two cell, NiCD cell planes out to grass. Once the marvels of the indoor world, but now they are obsolete, after just 8 months!

Bee line
Dave Ridgway's Bee Line models are doing well, he is making Depron park fliers. He has just made some nice floats too so hopefully we will see some micro indoor planes being formed from Depron “chip tray” style.  The successful Ikara rubber power profile WW2 fighters are about 10” span which is the size we are looking to make our new generation of indoor R/C planes. They are a nice looking plane too, the artwork is printed on the Depron

Hello to Aussie outdoor F/F modeller Keith who’s son now lives opposite Mark! He stopped by one evening to see some planes. One thing that came up in conversation was controlling traditional F/F machines (Kiel Kraft Senator for example?) so they could be flown in smaller fields.
Using the new lithium polymer cells, light weight control gear and cheap transmitters this could be an interesting idea. Rubber power could still be used just steer the plane upwind under power and then allow it to drift back before using the rudder to get it back into the field? Use the control system as nose weight so the plane would not be much heavier? Maybe steer with wing tip drag generators instead of the rudder? Maybe build a complete new rudder with built in coil actuator and have the receiver and battery on the outside of the fuselage?

At our last fun fly three folks brought model boats along, on Sunday Andrew H took his new twin turbo paddle steamer to the Nottingham fun fly. Maybe it should be mandatory to bring a boat? Whats your like?

Andy and Graham are about to produce a micro circuit that will convert a standard 35 MHz Rx for serovs, to allow output to control either coil ctuators or Muscle Wire. Also we understand their new 2g, 35 MHz receiver is not far off being tested.
 
Modern electronics are helping our efforts to miss the walls but those green fingered agricultured chaps have managed to grow Micro Tomatoes that are all exactly the same size! This is very convenient for Aeronutz as ASDA have thier micro Tommies in a very handy 8 pack clear plastic container making it idea for storing all sorts of goodies and or mixing paints in. 12?

Simon has got a job!

Super sensitive Corsair.
Mark's new rubber power 5” Corsair was made in a bit of a rush, as usual. It only took 4 hours to make this one. Cost about 50p each. This one suffered from “dihedral evaporation”, it has almost scale dihedral - whoops! It is prone to spiral diving in to the left, this is rectified by using the ailerons to lifting the left wing a little. But it is so sensitive you only have to stare at the left aileron to get it zooming off to the right. Could be easier to make another,

New folks are welcome to come along for a chat, it's a good time to start indoor flying!

Model Flyer magazine, have an article and plans for Richard Crossley's  Me1106. It is made of stick and tissue, about 11" span and is rocket powered like mini jets should be. They also have some nice photos from the outdoor Nationals and the Czech Scale Nationals.

Graham has a new digital camera, here is a nice picy of Mark 5" Corsair
How many of these can you get in your flying box? Simon tried to video an earlier one in flight - but it just disappears ! We are victims of our own success.

No! its not R/C

- BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IT!

to be continued ....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yet again the Aeronutz are developing new indoor machines.

140mA poly cell

The future ......

Caution !! ASDA Lemon and balck pepper specialty rice, yep! ASDA again

Technical and tactical
A study
The Aeronutz airforce

What do Kylie, Bernard and xxx have in common? They are all 5'2" tall, amazing!?
Earth quake

Brummie fun fliers ALUMWELL CENTRE, Come and fly free flight indoors with Colin and Pete. A guaranteed friendly atmosphere NO Radio. NO Competitions.. 4hrs. fun and trim flying, Up to you. It,s Happening on.NOVEMBER.17 2002. and FEBRUARY. 16.th. 2003. From 1pm. To 5pm on both dates. Contact Colin Shepherd 0r Pete Ashmore 0121 550 6132 01384 211197 E-MAIL. ashaero@hotmail.com
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