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Welcome to 'KAFJELDE', DEAN MONTICELLI, ASHIR QURESHI, and 'YDDRAIG' whose names have all been added to the ModelFlight reminder list.

 ASHIR QURESHI asks:

Does anyone know where I can find a free plan for a model stand on the web since I've tried searching myself but can't seem to find any?

I haven't located a free plan anywhere, but this rather interesting stand is offered for US$75 at http://home.pacbell.net/pkmetco/superstand.html If that's a bit pricey, it might give you an idea or two . . .

If anyone has a d.i.y. design that they would care to share, I will be delighted to publish it here on ModelFlight.

An update from Christopher Knowles from the Heartland of the USA

My primary transmitter came up with two switches missing.  It is an 8103. I have an older Airtronics Infinity.  Those two systems listen to one another, so I moved some connectors on the receiver and everything was honkey-dory.  I took out my new Bird of Time and cruised along the bottom of clouds one day.  (The winds were violent up there!)  Anyway, everything worked fine.  The next day I took it out to a contest and the receiver stopped listening to the transmitter.  I lost the plane from about 150' up.  I think it is repairable, but that will have to be a winter project.

Horizon, the USA Distributor, called yesterday and said that the JR is repaired.  I had the two switches replaced and the lithium battery replaced.  It should be home next Wednesday.

I have an old friend, from California, who teaches at MIT working on a plane for me.  He has said it will be put in the mail today.  So, I should receive it next week too.  It is a Wee Gillante.  It is one of Bob Dodgson's last designs.  He's the man who gave us multifunction sailplanes.  He is out of the designing business now and has taken a position with Boeing.  Many of us like his work.  When the new bird gets here, I will have three Dodgson birds that will be flyable.

Nice to hear from Chris again - he's a great sailplane enthusiast.

Good news from Mike Masters

Hi Reg,

. . .  Our field opened again last week, finally, after the foot and mouth, so hoping to get the plane up and get some camera shots for you to post.

Happy flying

Mike

Glad to know you're up and running again, Mike; looking forward to your pictures.

. . . ModelFlight #39 - particularly good edition this. I'll be e-mailing Norway for a couple of those flying wings. I need one to replace the Pico Jet - bought Saturday 4pm - destroyed Sunday 11am!

Regards

John Lee

Well done, John!

Can anybody beat that, I wonder? Send your confessions to ModelFlight, please!

Tore Loodin is a happy man!

I was at Påldalen to day. I went by train to Rönninge trolling the Astro Viking on a two-wheeled trolly such as ladies use for the groceries, the plane strapped on outside and the two part wings  inside. Other equipment in a bag over the shoulders. Probably very like the female part  going for golf in the TV series 'Fawlty Towers'. 

I departed at Rönninge where another oldtimer, Bengt Oknemark, waited in his Volvo van with a Playboy Senior for the rest of the journey to Påldalen. The promenade to the railway station began in a thunder storm shower, but arriving at Påldalen sun was shining and light wind breathing, just right for oldtimers! We each did three flights on a total of three decilitre of fuel together. We are mostly flying with the four-strokers on next until idling, so the fuel consumption is very low. 

The most spectacular thing happening there was, however, a lad testing a large pulse-jet engine 150 cm long, which to and from howled as a fighter jet at full bore. This is sort of a ramjet of the same kind  as pushed the V1:s from Germany to England  during the forties. Perhaps Reg Heath remembers them. The intake of the engine is equipped with one-way valves, which lets the air go through them. then fuel is injected and poff, it explodes, the valves are automatically shutting. This is instantly repeated at a very fast rate. The noise of the full-sized  engine roars like a giant bumble bee. The last time I saw such a thing was at the Lemwerder military airfield  in Bremen, Germany, many years ago, when World Championships in F3A aerobatic was held there. In a pause they flew an R/C jetfighter with a pulse-jet engine. When starting the engine, three fire brigade cars were standing by being ready to extinguish fire hazards! The model started with a horrifying howl and flew successfully, landing in one piece. After a  stunning silence everyone took the hands from their ears and applauded cheerfully. I think this was in the middle of the seventies.

The picture of the engine and the crew was taken by Rasmus Ehrengren. There are more pictures at the site http://fly.to/paldalen  

Now I will go to bed playing my internal video with pictures and movies from a wonderful day in pastoral surroundings. 

Good Night se´z Tore and his armpit Siamese cat Caesar!

Thanks, Tore - a lovely report!

I asked Craig Trickett how he was doing over there in Newfoundland (Craig is President of St John's R/C Model Flyers)

Good to catch up with you, Craig, and thanks for the promise of things to come.

See the latest news from St John's on club scene and one or two of those pics on photo gallery.

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