Slope Soaring Sussex is a friendly group of RC glider flying enthusiasts based in Sussex, UK. We slope soar at various locations on the South Downs and have a field for thermal soaring. ‘Slope Soaring Sussex’ is a BMFA affiliated RC Glider-only flying club. We fly many types of RC gliders from conventional slope soarers to Scale, DLG, F3B, F3J, F5J, PSS and more. Our aim is to encourage and promote safe, responsible and enjoyable radio controlled model flying. New and experienced flyers welcome.
Friday 13 May 2016
John's maiden with his Bob Hoey Seagull
Here is some video from John's (fantasticmrfox on the shoutbox) flights with his very impressive scale Seagull model up at Wolstonbury Hill yesterday. The model looks stunning John!!
John, if you want we can add you as an author to this blog then you can post video etc as and when you want. Drop me an email: paul.hampshire@shelf-space.co.uk
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Nice one John, a challenging project that looks very realistic, well filmed.
ReplyDeleteHi John, Most impressive and very realistic model. Brilliant control for what looks like something that might be difficult to control ? It's a great piece of building too.
ReplyDeleteExtremely impressive! Do you know where I can get the plans? I can only find the raven and turkey vulture plans online.Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYes! Very difficult to fly, especially the maiden. Incredibly pitch sensitive (mainly cured now with additional nose weight). Also had issue with a mix of adverse / proverse yaw on either wing. Solved with post flight contro surface adjustment and some additional TX programming allowing me to trim in flight. (can trim now from proverse to adverse yaw in flight to find the 'sweet spot'). I have a trace of the plans for anyone interested which I did on the PC. They are not engineering standard but they are what I built the model from and will gladly mail them to anyone interested. You will need to print out quite a few sheets of A4 and tape them together to produce the full scale plan. As you can see, it's good enough but building was made alot easier by first assembling a jig to build the inner wing halves on. Highly eecomended. I also have some photos I can share which will help.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the itnerest sorry for the late reply (3 years!)
John