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.

All the pictures on this page are thumbnails - click on the picture for an enlarged view

Here's John Stewart from Perth, Scotland, with his beautiful glider, and just look at that magnificent scenery! Like a few more of you, John is also a cat-lover - and his favourite is over there on the right!

Marc Hauss with his 10m Nimbus

Tony Baker of the Southampton Soaring Society, kindly sent this interesting account of the SSS Scale Aerotow Meeting held on 1st/2nd September and which was an absolute sell-out! Credit for all the pictures belongs to Tony.

With around 21 overseas pilots attending Middle Wallop Airfield near Andover, UK, from all over the World - including two from Mexico plus two more from South Africa! - this year's scale aero-tow event was slightly different in as much that it was not the customary SSS tough scale competition, but more of a huge two-day scale aerotow "Fly-In" . All you were required to do was to just turn up with your glider and then queue up, hooking up onto the back of one of the many tugs in attendance.

On the Saturday evening a "Jazz & Blues" social night was arranged in the Middle Wallop Museum Conference Room along with a superb buffet meal. With bright sunshine all day on Sunday we again saw Frenchman Marc Hauss, one of the very best of the European glider demonstration pilots around, putting his giant 10-metre Nimbus:4 (plus his truly outstanding huge 9-metre Grob-103:Akro) through its paces by flying the full size glider aerobatic schedule from around 1000ft just like the real thing. It's the first time I have ever been to an event and heard a big watching crowd all gasp in unison as he ran this big 85lb machine fast and inverted no more than 1ft off the runway each time!!

The Belgian team,s Zlinn tug

My sincere thanks to Tony for this report. Tony is a professional photographer and writer of the regular Glider Guider column in RCM&E.

If you have a special club event, large or small, and can find the time to share it with us, then I will be delighted to put it up on ModelFlight.

Marc Hauss, 9m Grob Acro and the SSS promo girls!

Josef Bankkes from Belgium with his Rodel - Fox and the promo girls

Tony Baker of SSS presents Marc Hauss with a commemorative present of his weekend

Lisa Dawson, one of the SSS stunning promo girls, in close-up

Mr and Mrs Ekkehard, owners of the Rosenthall Co., with his almost ½-scale Ka:6cr

Treat yourself to something special in 2002 - see the club scene page!

Carlos' latest masterpiece

Take a look at one of Carlos Garcia's latest pieces of beautiful aviation artwork. This is Dick Cunningham's F-4J Phantom II. Cunningham (today Senator) was a U.S. navy ace who flew in Vietnam. This artwork was made for the US. Navy Museum in San Diego, California and is shown here with Carlos' kind permission. See more of Carlos' work on http://fly.to/carlosagarcia/

You might recognise this rather nice pits area as the Paldalen location where Tore Loodin and his pals meet from time to time. This picture was taken by Jngve Johanneson at a recent meeting and shows Rolf Tolstoy preparing his Red Zephyr for flight. The old-timer on the bench looks nice, but I'm not sure what or whose it is.

Two models from the Stiborek boys

On the left, one of the lads (Thomas) with his Thunder Tiger Shark and on the right, a Gnat, perhaps. Hoping to hear more about the power source for this plane.

Meet the Stiborek family on personal profiles and see more of their 'planes on www.mfc-phoenix.at/Club/kollegen.htm

Ian Savage's 'Happy Fly'

Steve Webb's Models Happy Fly 20 is an ARTF with a fully-built-up structure, a symmetrical wing of 46" span and an area of 431 sq in. It was designed for a ·20 - ·30 glow engine, but Ian has installed a Jeti Brushless motor IS/4 and a Jeti sensorless 40 amp controller with BEC. He will be using 8 cells (9.6v) with a Graupner 8 x 4 Slimprop or an Argonaut 8·5 x 6. Weight is 46 - 48 oz, depending on the size of the cells (1700 - 2400 mAh) giving a wing loading of under 16 oz per sq ft.

Ian has converted the landing gear to larger wheels and the model is now a tail dragger, his reason being that he has used mini servos, with a larger servo - an Hitec HS101 - fitted in the wing for the ailerons. Ian feels that these smaller servos are not powerful enough to steer the nose wheel.

The picture below of the nose close-up shows Ian's home-made motor mount containing the 138 gram Jeti IS/4 motor - should get all the air cooling it needs, he says!

	This is John Marchant with his very nice VMAR Chipmunk (sport scale). It is powered by a Thunder Tiger ·46 and looks very nice in the air at around 1/3 throttle. John has flown it a couple of times and is still making minor adjustments to the thrust line, etc.

Lionel Kirby of Test Valley Model Flying Club looked out these photos of some of his models

Cessna Skylane built from a Veron kit,
OS !5FP, 3-channel

Ben Buckle D8 kit,
HGK 20 engine, 56" span,
piloted by Baron Von Reich Pudding!

Vagabond power duration,
Bill Winters plan, 76" wingspan,
vintage power Frog 500 glow,

CRASH CORNER - JUST FOR FUN!

Model: ATS Kite
Owner: Reg
Excuse/Reason: Too windy, I should never have flown!

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