Thursday 22nd August 2002

MODEL FLYING FIELD

Sean and I had quickly built a UFO that was intended to replace the UFO/Lander we had built with Andy some years back. The UFO was designed to fly on 3 x D12-3 Estes motors. The main body was turned on a lathe from pink foam and then painted with emulsion before spraying silver. The top of the UFO had a Xeon beacon and a sounder for effects. The parachute was hidden below the Beacon. A funnel was used to 'hide' the motors and the underside covered in old CD's to reflect the light from the motors at dusk.

The flight was very stable. It looked wuite good in the evenig sky. The quick match lit the motors quickly and the UFO went up around 70 to 80 feet. The CD's reflected the flame from the motors on the way up. The chute did not deploy and the UFO can down upside down! Time for some mods me thinks...

Richard Parkin flew his Anubis on a D12-5 to around 1,200 feet, arrow straight and recovered 20 yards upwind. Next up was his Yankee on B6-4.

Darren and Sean Longhorns lawn dart was most impressive. This would not be the only spack that the clan would produce.!!

David flew his Estes Mant boost glider on a C6-5. This realy did go well. The glider stayed up for ages, around 3 minutes and 30 seconds. John Bonsor commented that the flight was probably the longest at an IRW event. It looked good for Sunday, so long as he got the glider back!! Luckily a local lad (Malcom) followed the glider all the way to the ground and brought it back to David in one piece.

We all did a lot of prepping for the HPR flying that we expected to do the following day.

Goto report for Friday 23rd August 2002