photo gallery

THIS is the page for aero-model pictures - your own, or others you've seen at the club or at a show; they are all welcome if they're nice to look at!

If you're not into digital photography or scanning pictures, why not send some photos by regular mail? It's not too pricey; a batch of five or six photos costs $1.00 airmail postage from the USA, for example. My address is on home page.

Three more new models seen on my club field recently:

Left, Colin Grace's Capiche, built by Christ Hardie from RCM&E plans.
Centre, Neil Scratchley's Contact 140, pre-decorated, but since it's taken him two years to get this far, don't hold your breath for the finished photo!
Right, Guest Mark Webster's Flair Giles 202 - amazingly quiet and a treat to watch Mark's impressive aerobatic flying.

An interesting album from Zdenik Drbal from Czech Republic
	Zdenik's delightful scratch-built model ultra-light. Zdenek describes how he made this model: "I took a piece of ply 150 x 350 mm and made the hole for the engine, connected the special metallic fitting for wings and the parts of the fuselage. Engine is Czech production MVVS 0·6. The wings have classical construction with ribs and wood spars. The ribs were cut from material similar to hard assembly foam. The cover of the wings is film. The fuselage was made from pieces of laminate fishing rods. The tail with the rudder and the elevators are classical construction from balsa wood and film covering. The radio set is in the cockpit gondola under the pilot. Radio is 4-channel. The braces under the wings are functional, above the wings there are the cords and the stick above the fuselage is made from ski-stick. The fuselage wings and tail are connected with 4 mm bolts. The wingspan of this model is about 2·2 meters, length about 1·4 meters and the weight 4300 grams.	Zdenik's Commander, 1750 mm wingspan and powered by a Raduga 10 engine of Russian origin.
		1:12 semi-scale model of Sopwith Strutter. Wingspan of this model is about 1460 mm, engine is Czech MVVS 0·6 (10 ccm), radio 4-channel (engine, ailerons, elevator, rudder). This model flys really well and the plan is of Czech manufacture. The original engine for this model is 0·45 (6,5 ccm), but the larger engine has proved to be better and helped to meet the need to have greater weight at the nose of this model.

Zdenik is introduced on the personal profiles page

A nice clutch of electric models from John Anderson, Georgia, USA
	Monocoupe 90A, 65" span, weighs 7lbs. MEC Turbo brushless motor with 14 2000src cells. With flaps and flies really good. Monocoupe 90A, 65" span, powered by Turbo 10 from Model Electronics Corporation, 16 2400 cells Built from Frank Mizer plans - click for details
	American Eagle Eaglet, flies well with its Astro 020 brushless motor and 7 cells. Pietenpol, fitted with Astro 15 and 8 cells
	Finally for this issue, John's Curtiss Robin, equipped with an Astro Geared 15 for power with 8 cells. Not yet flown, but John hopes to test it soon.
Meet John on the personal profiles page

Derick Veliz sent this little portfolio of recent pictures

Super Pinky, 24" span
10 cells, 250S

Derick helps out at the recent University of Massachusetts summer camp flight school in Lowell.

Super Pinky, Razor Speed 400, Super Pico Jet and 57" wingspan Virus,

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