December 2015 Newsletter

If you are a member of the club, you will receive a copy of our newsletters electronically, unless you opt out, and prefer paper, each quarter. If you wish to contribute an article, then please email our newsletter editor, whose details can be found on our officer’s page. We are always looking for content, so if you
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New Dynamic Soaring Record 513mph

According to Andy Ellison on the RCM&E Forum “Spencer Lisenby established a New Dynamic Soaring world record 513 mph flying his Kinetic 130 at Weldon, with a wind up to 60 mph. 513 mph is 825,6 km/h, an impressive 229 m/s.” (This is now out of date – Ed. April 2023) So I looked for
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Club Hits RCM&E Magazine December 2015

You may not get RCM&E Magazine like I do, and if not you may not realise that the Scale Fly In, usually organised by one of our members Ant Jervis, is always held in the middle weekend of August each year. It is an event that has been running regularly for a number of years,
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A10 Launch on the Orme

As some of you know, I am a member of PSSA – www.pssaonline.co.uk which is free to join. We build scale models of jets usually, and slope soar them. One of our members, Andy Meade, has built a 37lb A10 Thunderbolt II – if you want to read about the build it is on the RCM&E blog. It
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Scale Fly-In 2015

This year’s weather wasn’t quite as kind as last year’s. Saturday started off with a cold North West wind; ideal direction for the gate. The problem for these large scale planes flying at the gate is landing particularly with most of the pilots not familiar with the site. The other problem is the restricted parking
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Tornado Lost Foam Build

These photos also appear in a Build Blog on the Model Flying Website here, as well as in an LMMGA Newsletter, which is reproduced in pdf form here. The build was completed as part of a Power Scale Soaring Association “Mass Build” (in inverted commas because only about 4 of us took part in 2015 to celebrate
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Jart – 70 inch Wing, Lost Foam Method

This was a build which involved an enlarged plan from the 52 inch wing version, Foam Wings from Barry in Edinburgh, and lots of sticky mess from fibreglass.  To read the building blog by Peter Garsden, go to the Model Flying Site
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September 2015 Newsletter

If you are a member of the club, you will receive a copy of our newsletters electronically, unless you opt out, and prefer paper, each quarter. If you wish to contribute an article, then please email our newsletter editor, whose details can be found on our officer’s page. We are always looking for content, so if
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South Slope of the Orme Flying

Yesterday (20th August 2015) was the sort of day where you wonder whether to fly because the forecast is changeable. I am staying at our caravan in Anglesey where there are some reasonable slopes round Holyhead mountain, and Church Bay, but nothing to compare to the Orme, which is a 1 hour drive. Often the
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Glassing

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