20/4/13

Great afternoon but not a big turnout at the field, here's three pictures I got, I didn't shoot many really. One's Mel's, looks like an old three channel jobby which I don't have any details of but I'm sure Mel will be along to fill in some info. I maidened his new "giant" Wot 4 for him and it flew very nicely too, not requiring any trim at all. The other is Danny's foamy which he's busy getting far too much fun out of.

A great day flying. Bit of a low turnout but very nice to get some good stick time

The 3 channel jobby is a Dave Boddington's Tyro, engine is an ASP .15 scratch built from plans.

Now you mention it I started with a Tyro Major + OS 35FP, I'd crash every flight, home cyno, back again, don't know why I didn't take the cyno to the field save a couple of trips, I'm still no better now

I didn't think cyno had been discovered when you started Rich

we were using it to stick people to the toilet seats in school, it was called super glue then

sorry i missed it but was up the Orm PSS about 30 flyer there Tim flew his new Hawk, very nice looks bloody gorgeous (nice paint job Tim must have taken an age ) lots of molded stuff too

Rich wrote:we were using it to stick people to the toilet seats in school, it was called super glue then

When I started we had to boil animal bones to make glue

We know!



Sorry Brian! Just couldn't resist that!

As a point of interest the Tyro was the first R/C plane I built, it was from a kit way back in 1974 and had a DC Sabre diesel for power which I later replaced with an Enya .09 R/C. following that I progressed to a Tyro Major with a clapped out second hand Merco 35. Ah those were the days.

Personally, I really like this sort of plane. Even in these days of engine development towards larger petrol or leccy and super sophisticated rc, these types of models offer unsurpassed fun for the time, money and effort