wookman Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Inspired by Ric’s Polaris here’s an old but bright one to cheer you all up a bit. Phoenix model products Wannabee all done in profilm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiloschista Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Hi Graham, that's very nice indeed! Let's color a bit those slope skies Ric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Here’s another one for you out there in lock down land. This one is not quite so colourful. Stan's Eppisoar finished in June 02 in vynal tape. The chequered is done by weaving inch wide blue and yellow tape. This model was the subject of an RCM&E kit review later that year 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonym Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 That's beautiful Mr Wookman. 'The chequered is done by weaving inch wide blue and yellow tape.' That's mad But looks brilliant! I ought to put rebuild and recover my Stan Yeo Banshee and EPP Hawk on my lockdown list of things to do. EPP Hawk bought off Ebay years ago, Banshee bought second hand at Inwood models - not as many years ago as the Hawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Thanks tonym. I have had a lot of Stan’s aeroplanes over the years and they all fly well. Since Epp became difficult to get hold of he has been rekitting some his classics and developed some new stuff too all in proper tree wood too. I will see what else I can dig out to brighten up people’s days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satinet Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 hours ago, wookman said: Here’s another one for you out there in lock down land. This one is not quite so colourful. Stan's Eppisoar finished in June 02 in vynal tape. The chequered is done by weaving inch wide blue and yellow tape. This model was the subject of an RCM&E kit review later that year What does it fly like? I always wondered if epp would produce an over weight model for a poly floater. I had a bedlam which i covered with pro film. It looked quite good and flew well. Although i felt the correx tail was a bit draggy. The wing connection system wasn't very good imho. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 The eppisoar weighs in at 3lb 2 oz and seems to float around ok. You do have to let the wing do the work though. Don’t slow it up too much. I also have a Summer Breeze that weighs 2lb 8oz and there isn’t that much difference in soaring performance. The big difference is you try harder for longer with the bouncy model so you learn more about scratching safe in the knowledge that if it does go in you ain’t likely to to break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Hi everybody in lockdown land. I have dug out another one for you. This an original PMP Wingbat at 45” span done in solarfilm. Can’t remember when it was built but it must be 25 years old. Originally flown with a dubro mechanical mixer on top of the aileron servo. Worked really well. All done electronically now since the advent of the JR388. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oipigface Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 HMS Dauntless parked at the bottom of our garden this afternoon. Local rumour has it that it’s checking the distances between the folks on the beach: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS8-18 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Second to last row Is it done by you as you volunteered by having time left now? They may have heard of your Van refit? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Just been out in the back yard flying my little contra rotating indoor helicopter. It's definitely not gliding but at least it is flying, sort of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyri Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Who would have thought that this would be my last flight "for a while" Turns out the wing was slightly twisted, it needed lots of trim to fly straight. I have since straightened it but not had a chance to test fly it. The wing is much smaller than a F3F tailplane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentPilot Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Not sure if this belongs here but I didn't really think it worth starting a new thread... My lad asked me to make a glider from his kit. Not balsa or any type of proper kit, just a kids toy setup where you can build lots of different types. I made it but then he said - that's not done, you missed this off it: he's obviously paid more attention to my DLGs than I gave him credit for 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookman Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 You and Mrs SP are obviously dragging the lad up right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentPilot Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 It would appear so ☺ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oipigface Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Went to Eggardon Hill this morning. The slope is about 20 minutes from my house, but I have never been there and found it working really well, so I prefer to go to Wales. Thar’s still not possible, so Eggardon it had to be. Wind was about 4m/s when I arrived, and forecast to drop throughout the morning. I took my Extreme, Ahi and Alula to be flown in that order as the morning progressed. Even though the lift was (as usual) very variable and the air kind of lumpy and turbulent, it was brilliant to be back on a slope again! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_B Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Lovely to get out to the hills again 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian F3F Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 A great evening of summer soaring and thermalling with the local kites. Good to be back on the slopes with good company. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oipigface Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Splendid afternoon with Pitbull 2 at Thorncombe Beacon. 10m/s SW got the plane going really well even though it is slightly off. There is an advantage on this slope to a bit too much W. It makes the rotor-free landing area bigger. Beautiful weather as the photos attest. First one looking east, second looking west. Fewer walkers around than usual. That’s the SW Coastal Path going up to the Beacon itself. . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian F3F Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Getting out at the weekend was cool, flying better, meeting up with flying mates- priceless. Great to see that Ian and family are well, but I'm not sure if the Erwin has grown or Ian has shrunk:-) Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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