Mark
and I met up at the top of Itford hill. I
arrived on the hill around 10.15 and there was already another flier there. He
was lying on the grass and occasionally checking the wind speed with his anemometer. The wind was only around 8 mph and veering
between SSW and SW, not the ideal conditions for his overweight glider which
only saw a couple short flights.
Mark
arrived with his glider (sorry I cannot remember the model) after walking the
same “hard man” route as me up the side of the hill. Unfortunately or fortunately depending how
you view it, Mark was just about to launch his model and one of the servos
decided that wasn’t going to take instructions from the receiver and did its
own thing instead so Mark was unable to fly it!
Another
flier arrived with a 2 mtr moldie and after some surveying of the wind
conditions launched his model. At this
time the wind was a little stronger but as it had moved more SW the lift was not
great. The model flew a few times and
made it back down safely but with some very shaky moments when the wind
dropped.
Not
wanting to be caught out I tried to take as many models as I could carry which
included the Weasel, Vagabond and e-hawk.
I also took my Mamba but left it in the car as I could not carry
it! The Weasel was in its element in the
not ideal conditions and probably saw the most flying. The wind was a little light for the Vagabond
and it had a few flights but nothing spectacular. I was hesitant to fly the e-hawk as I had
never flown it before and after the others had left I decided to give it a go,
not wanting to take it home unflown! It
flew very well a but it is quite light and by this time the wind had picked up
a bit. As I had been on the hill for 3
hours I decided it was time to land the e-hawk.
It seemed to fly so well that it did not want to land and on my final
attempt it got lower to the ground and a gust of wind caught it and it went out
of sight down the hill. I picked up all
of my gear and went to find the errant model expecting to find a heap of scrap
balsa wood. As I got closer I could see
that the tail was intact and then the wings came into view and they looked
ok. To my surprise it had nosed into the
long grass which had saved it. It wasn’t
the cost that would have bothered me as it only cost £30 but would have been a
shame to have had only one flight with it!
Scott
Hi Scotty, Thanks for the write-up, sorry I couldn't make it - yet another medical issue !! Is the E-Hawk the electric model ?
ReplyDeleteHi Rob. Thank you, I hope that you are ok! Yes it's electric but I just taped up the prop and put an nimh direct into the receiver.
DeleteNice write-up Scotty!
ReplyDeleteHi Roger, thank you mate!
DeleteGlad you got a good session in mate. Hopefully see you this weekend if you're out flying again?
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