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Link to previous "Latest Update"
pages.
Intended as a reminder of what the web page has
been showing over a period longer than a month. This means that links to
ephemeral items might be broken.
31st December
More thanks to Ted as the current batch
of front page photographs were taken by him at the post Christmas flying
session at Ferry Meadows.
29th December
Thanks to Ted for the heading photograph
taken at the post Christmas flying session at Ferry Meadows.
Also for his
Blitzstürmer, which is featured in "Members Models".
27th December
Don't forget the flying session at Ferry
Meadows this morning. XC Weather has sensible temperatures but too windy for
comfort, lets hope they are wrong about the wind.
 25th December
Although there
are lots of ways at getting dates and calendars from a PC I still like to have
an 'analogue' calendar to hand.
Click to download a .pdf version of the club calendar that, when
printed and folded, will sit on top of a PC monitor.
23rd December
Le "Champ'46" d'Emmanuel Fillon - you can practice your French on
this web site.
I was told about it by a friend who remembers seeing the
original model at Eaton Bray in 1946.
"18 aout 1946 Angleterre
-International Week Eaton Bray 1st au concours d'Elégance ! Durée
1er 548", perdu de vue et retrouvé à 4milles (7km)"
21st December
According to Wikipedia the Winter
Solstice in 2011 occurs at 05:30 on 22nd December. To celebrate there is a new
set of front page photographs taken at Ferry Meadows when it was warm with
light winds, last Summer - Thanks Mick!
19th December
Derek Knight's new E30
controller, a review, with photographs and installation in a model.
Ian
Middlemiss
16/17th December
There are lots of clips of the Vulcan
on You Tube but one that I was guided to by the Vulcan to the Sky web site was
taken at the Waddington Air Show 2011 by Airshow Vision.
An
excellent 9 minutes or so with a restrained commentary.
Click on the Vulcan banner for latest news of the
Winter service and money raising schemes.
Another video the Vulcan to the Sky page suggested
was "RAF
Film No 67 the story of a Vulcan Aircraft and it's Crew". Shot in the 1960's
and very much "of its time", interesting from that point of view but with
excellent Vulcan footage as well. Lasts 26mins.
14th December
Thanks to Christian Moes, from Canada,
for news about their Mercurian
Mite indoor control line flying.
12th December
As promised the rest
of Ted's photographs from the Bushfield indoor session on 4th December - thanks
for those.
10th December
I continue to be impressed not only by
the quality but the quantity of information supplied each month by James Parry
in Sticks and Tissue on the Raynes Park Club web site.
Issue
80, November has been available for a couple of days now.
 8th December
Even though Ted was flying for the
Peterborough branch of EasyJet he still found time for the current set of front
page photographs.
6th December
Thanks to Ted for the heading photograph
taken at Bushfield on Sunday - there will be some more photographs from him in
a day or so.
5th December
An excellent session at Bushfield
yesterday, the front page pictures intended to give a "feel" of the
event.
There were several freeflight Mercurian Mites, together with Teds
electric powered control line version, which Brian Waterland looped when he
flew it. It was Brian who did the arranging for the event, so thanks for that.
Brian also told gave us a provisional date of 4th March for next year.
3rd December
Doing silly things in full size gliders.......
1st December
Martin's Model
Aircraft
 29th
November
A couple of weeks ago Bernie passed on a link of an Eagle Owl
landing in slow motion - I have watched this several times since and thought it
worth mentioning again. I particularly like the way the owl adjusts its
dihedral when fine tuning its approach. Click the picture for the video.
27th November
Bernie has passed on the
Interclub Competition Calendar for
2012
25th November 2011
Update from Ted, his
Mercurian Mite now has more
power.....
23rd November
Micron have started an e-mail
newsletter; in case you have missed issue two here is the part of particular
interest. "This will be very short newsletter as the only significant item
is that we have decided to scale down and concentrate on micro and indoor
models. Thus, we are having a sale of all products that do not fit within the
new range." - Click to see a list of items with a 20% discount.
21st November
Thanks to Mick Page for the new set of
front page photographs - these from this years power nats.
 19th November
Click to see the video taken by Ted at
Oundle MFC meet 11th Nov 2011.
17th November
Don't forget that tomorrow, Friday
18th., is the club agm at Peakirk, 7:30 - 9:30
15th November
The usual stunning photographs plus some
information of general interest in the
November edition of Radio Control Soaring Digest - worth the
17Mbyte download.
13th November
A reminder of the excellent
"Small Flying Arts" from
America where there are Tutorials, Free Plans a Model Showcase and a Discussion
Forum.
"SFA is the web's largest model aircraft community, providing
resource and discussion on topics like free flight, indoor flight, R/C flight,
gliders, rubber powered airplanes, micro-flight, and more."
11th November
One for the diary?
7th November
The model shop for the 'sport' modeller:-
Dens Model
Supplies
5th November
The excellent
"Sticks and Tissue, October, edition from James Parry at the
Raynes Park Club is now available.
3rd November
Thanks to Mick Page for the new set of
opening page photographs taken at this years Flying Aces.
1st November
A reminder of updates to the
"Meetings" page.
The AGM is confirmed as November 18th at Peakirk from 7.30 -
9.30.
A day time indoor flying session at Bushfield from 10am until
1pm on December 4th.
The Mike Lucas Memorial Fund contributed to the cost of
the hall hire for this event.
30th October
Video of indoor, electric
control line flying at Whittlesea last Friday......
Some more photographs added to
the original Mercurian Mite
page.
29th October
A Peterborough Fet Timer in an
electric Tomboy from Long Eaton.
26th and 27th October
Both Ian and Ted have sent more
information for the Mercurian Mite page.
24th October
Mercurian Mite:- At Impington Brian Lever
was doing well with his MM plans, a number of people going away with copies.
Click to read his description of
"what to do" plus some pictures of MM's already under construction.
23rd October
Home from holiday just in time for the
Impington meeting. An excellent turn out from PMFC.
The front page for the
next few days gives just an impression of what was happening.
14th October
No updates to the web site until Monday,
24th October
Don't forget the Impington
Village College Indoor Meeting on Sunday week - 23rd
October
Always a good day out.
12th October
Thanks to Mick who provided two batches
of 2011 Flying Aces photographs, neither batch were available for very long, so
I have combined them into a set of 17 that show randomly on the front
page.
10th October
Technology, Entertainment, Design. - TED.
Not our Ted,
although technology, entertainment and design does fit for him.
Click for a UTube video of a r/c "gull". Stick with all 6
minutes of the film for the actual flight.
8th October
John
Andrews - Aeromodeller. Beware accompanied by music......
6th October
The Aerofilms Collection is a unique air photographs archive of
international importance. - English Heritage
Click to view a selection of the photographs.
4th October
The September issue of
"Sticks & Tissue" is available from the Raynes Park
Club.
Includes three excellent close ups of i/c engines plus lots
more.
2nd October
Thermo Formed Depron
Wings.
Taken, with thanks, from the August 2011 edition of RC Micro
World.
Click here for latest .pdf edition and details of how to
subscribe.
23rd September
Thanks to Mick for the latest batch of
front page photographs - these were taken at the R/C Nationals, 2011
There won't be any further updates to the web site until 2nd
October.
21st September
Club indoor dates for the Winter
listed in Meetings.
19th September
Some Autumn indoor dates:-
October
14th - Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition, near
Warwick.
October 23rd -Impington Village College Indoor Meeting
October 30th -
Fenland MFC
Swapmeet, 9 am on. Village Hall, Sutton St Edmunds
November 5th -
Gildings,
Market Harborough. Aero Engines, The 13th Annual Vintage, Classic &
Modern Sale, includes Ron Moulton items. Catalogue available 28th
October.
December 4th - BARCS Soaring Fair, Leicester
December 11th -
Loughborough MFC 14th Annual
Swapmeet
17th September
The origin of the Leicester based
Motorvation
Model Engines.
John and Ursula Haytree supplied model engines and
parts for over 40 years, building a reputation very few people to this day can
match, becoming well known throughout the Model world. John eventually retired
from the engine repair scene and a void opened in the model engine repair
market.
I was granted permission by John Haytree to continue with the
service and repair of engines he previously undertook, and my new company
Motorvation Model Engines will continue to offer a service to ensure engines
can be kept in peak condition. Modellers who had repair work carried out by
John Haytree, will no doubt be aware of the exceptional customer care and
dedication given to every engine he worked on. It's going to be a tough act to
follow, but I will endeavour to give customers old and new that same unrivaled
service.
15th September
Thanks to Mick Page for the latest set
of front page photographs from Flying Aces 2011
13th September
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11th September
Saturday at Old Warden turned out to be
better than I expected, it was windy, as forecast but straight down the main
runway, which meant the big stand of trees on the far side of the runway
provided a substantial wind shadow. People were flying free flight there and
getting reasonable flights until the model left the wind shadow, whereupon
amazing gyrations happened as the turbulence got the models.
A group of PMFC members were enjoying their control line flying
when they were visited by a small bird of prey, which joined them with a thump
of a landing and then stayed quite close and appeared to watch, with interest,
what was going on. The bird had the jesses of a trained bird and the Falconry
Centre were contacted. It turned out to be only the birds second free flight
session and it was captured and returned for further training. We were told it
also had an electronic "tracker" attached, so would have been found with that
had it not chosen to watch the control line flying.
9th September
Sticks
and Tissue No 57 – August 2011 from the Raynes Park Club is now
available. The usual wide ranging and informative read.
7th September
Brian has now dried out and
ironed the result sheets and spotted some errors in the web results -
apologies, these have been corrected.Click for the Flying Aces 2011
Results
Thanks to Mick Page for an excellent set of front
page photographs, which will be in place for the next two weeks
6th September
Click to read the message from
Chairman Bernie sent the day after Flying Aces.
4th September
Flying Aces today - an early morning
difference in forecasts though. XC Weather for Wittering gives a max of 10mph
at 16:00, with no mention of rain, whilst the Met Office has the same wind
strength but with a potential for rain at any time during the day, at its worst
at 1pm.
Get your flights done early and miss both the stronger wind and
the rain?.......
Home by 16:45 to be told there had been a light shower in
Melton. Not the case at Ferry Meadows though. A short shower at about 11am,
then just after 1pm the rain really settled in; at 14:30 the prize giving was
called, with the rain rattling on the tent it was hard to hear what was going
on! The good news was that a lot of flying had been done before the rain and
you can see the results here:- Click
for the Flying Aces 2011 Results
 The front page is a
picture through the car windscreen during the worst of the rain, I hope there
will be more interesting photographs later in the week.
First occupant of the take off pond was the delightful rowing
boat made for Ian Middlemiss by his Dad whilst Ian was still in junior
school.
Click for larger
photographs.
2nd September
Update in the "Events" section of the GDMAS inter-club Free Flight
Competition.
31st August
The September RCSoaring Digest is now available. Not quite so
much for the non R/C Soarer in this edition but after the moderate/strong winds
at the Nats you might be interested to see what the Slope Flyers use to combat
50mph + winds.
29th August
Thanks to Mick for another selection of
Flying Aces photographs, as a reminder for next Sunday.
Those of us at Cottesmore for the Silent Flight Nats yesterday
were privileged to have a "practice display" by the Vulcan, which was en route
to Dunsmore. Unfortunately a suspected hydraulic problem was spotted and the
Vulcan diverted to Coningsby, missing the Dunsmore show.
28th August
John Stennard in his "Watts under the
Roof" section in September Q&EFI had a piece on the
micro receivers produced by
David Theunissen. - - David also has a general "electric" web site.
26th August
Ted has put together a diagram and
description as to how to connect up his version of the Peterborough FET Timer
for freeflight models.
24th August
Mick has produced some photographs from
previous Flying Aces events for the "reminder" on the front page of the web
site. The ones I put together from Bernies Sculthorpe photographs show people
using i/c engines, which might give the wrong idea. No i/c at Ferry
Meadows.
22nd August
5 of Bernies photographs from Sculthorpe
have been converted to "front page style" together with a reminder of Flying
Aces on 4th September.
20th August
Bernie was very busy
with his camera at the Sculthorpe meeting last month.
18th August
Some photographs by Mick Page from the
Timperly Gala held last Sunday at Barkston.
 16th August
This Maplins
glue gun got a mention back in January this year, since then I have made good
use of the tool. It seems Maplins will not be selling the gun after the current
stocks have gone. Check out
the bottom of the article for information added since January.
14th August
Dave Clarks Beaufighter - see 11th August.
Front page photographs from Mick Page
13th August
With a pair of ED 2.46 Racers used in Dave Clarks
Beaufighter perhaps it is time for a reminder of
Eric Clutton - DOCTOR
DIESEL - from Tullahoma, Tennessee.
 11th August
Dave Clark won 1st prize in the
Sam 35 Control line competition at Old Warden in July with his Bristol
Beaufighter.
 9th August
An
addition to the Bump series of models is the "Bigga Bump" from Ted -
see the bottom of the original Members Model
page from September 2010
7th August
Thanks to Ted for the batch of front page
photographs that are now in use.
5th August
In his RCM&E column
Alex Whittaker was
being enthusiastic about
Cox
engines and mentioned this Wikipedia link.
3rd August
"Hobby Free Flight" - European
based competition free flight supplies.
1st August
Sticks
and Tissue No 56 – July 2011 from the Raynes Park Club is now
available. The usual wide ranging and informative read.
30th July
The model shop
for the 'sport' modeller - Dens Model Supplies
28th July
Radio Controlled Soaring Digest have combined their July and
August editions. The usual stunning photographs plus information of
interest to flyers in any modelling discipline, not just RC gliders.
26th July
U-Build Models had an advert in the latest BMFA News, I was
going to give them a mention as a result of that - an original group of rubber
models. Then at Old Warden Sunday those of us free flighting were handed a
leaflet from the company, so another reason to spread the word. Where are the
kits produced I wonder?
 24th July
An Ebenezer from Rob
Smith.......
22nd July
Harry Perkins - A group of front page
photographs in memory of Harry, who died recently.
Put together by Mick
Page.
20th July
Bernie has posted an updated list for the
Interclub comps held by Ian & Diane Hibbert at Barkston.
Click for a .pdf
version.
18th July
On Monday 11th July at Orton Mere meadow
there was a Control Line get together.
Thanks to Dave Rumble for
his gallery of photographs.
16th July
Australian Free Flight Plans
Club P20 Competition this Friday, 15th July at
Ferry Meadows
Peter Gibbons, organiser.
14th July
Quality FAI Free Flight Equipment available
at:-
http://www.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2896.0
14th July
Thanks to Ted for another group of archive
photographs that are "front page pictures" for the next few days.
12th July
Music wire for tiny DT
springs
10th July
An interesting German web site:- Modellbau Claus Thiele, with
freeflight items for sale in the Modelle/Freiflugmodelle section. I am reliably
informed that 'Bausatz' is kit and 'Fertigmodell' is assembled.
8th July
In case anybody missed the German answer to
the older persons towing problems, this is about a third of the way through the
latest Sticks and Tissue - see 6th July
 
6th July
Sticks
and Tissue No 55 – June 2011 from the Raynes Park Club is now
available. The usual wide ranging and informative read.
4th July
Thanks to Ted for the group of archive
photographs that are "front page pictures" for the next few days.
2nd July
The Canadian use of the "Peterborough Timer"
mentioned on 27th June comes from the
"Small Flying Arts" bulletin board in the section "Electric Power
Free Flight".
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