Club Night - 19th August

Morning all,

Just had a gander at the weather forecast, and it is looking pretty damn good for tomorrow's club night. 7mph wind, nice and warm, what more could we ask for?! After the week I have had, I have decided to sack work off at midday, and head straight down to the field with a gallon of petrol, an armada* of rockets, and a fully charged Tx battery. Anyone else heading over?

Cheers
Andy

Yes I'm heading over to the east Coast, Doh!

Yeah, I will head over and get under feet again if no-one objects!

You're more than welcome

Andy

Moi!!!!

Might just bring the Mig for its maiden - Marty has now finished the painting so she is fit to be seen out in public.

I wont be there sorry guys (first one of the year ive missed)

M

Tsk, anyone else got a tug?

Andy

Ahh noooo
Its cold and raining here in bangor, whats it like over there?

Not raining at the mo, although there is a big patch of rain heading our way on the radar pictures

Andy

Not to worry anyone, but its black and raining (a bit) inPrestatyn! As long as it goes out to sea we should be ok!

Ahh.. just watched the weather on the TV, BIG BIG BIG blob of rain Covers ALL of wales and just heads north , that includs DRENCHING all of the north

Started raining in Rhuddlan about 20 minutes ago and is not forecast to stop any time soon I'm afraid

No flying tonight then

Hammering down in Prestatyn now too!

Lol! Very wet here. Well, on with the building!

Whats the official word for tonight then boss man?

I guess thatrs up to you, if you want to get stuck and churn up the field, and quite possible ruin your model then thats up to you.

Actually, I was hoping I could watch someone else do it!






(only Joking - I wouldn't wish that on anyone!)

haha

Fair to say its off for tonight (picked a good one to miss didnt i)

And me it's a sultry 25 & hazy sunshine here in North Norfolk, I think I'll have another pint me thinks

Just got back myself. Rain stopped play

True to form though, I had 1.5 flights of a little RC rocket glider I was test flying. I built a quick prototype to test out some new little motors (5.5 second burn, 150gram thrust jobbies). The little delta was test chucked, worked great, so out to the strip for a first powered flight. I lit the fuse, Jem held on till I said "chuck"...

I Said "go go go", and Jem chucked the little delta. It sank to the floor, and just as it touched down, the rocket fired. A little bit of a skid, and away it went, about 15m altitude gained, a circuit and a landing. Great.

The next flight was not quite as successful. SO much so, I only class it as half a flight. WE timed the chuck much better, and the boost was good for about 2 seconds. Then it seems a servo failed hard over, and the little delta headed groundwards in a nice gentle spiral. For something that only weighs about 100 grams, it buried itself pretty good!

Roll on some dry weather for more testing

Andy

Found out what went wrong. Duff battery pack