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I did not take many pictures today. It was an unfriendly day :-) A caliper on my van stopped working and would stay in compression which wore out the pads in short order so I had metal on metal. I had planned to just replace the pads and worry about the rest when I got home. Two problems first the rotor was already dangerously damaged. with the heat of continious compression I fear a failure on the 700 mile ride home and then the discovery that I was given the wrong pads. Now I had my van jacked up and pulled apart. What do I do. Randy Boadway the CD of naram 49 was extremely cool and let me borrow his truck so I could go get the parts. Doing this and fixing the fan ate up half the day. Then I wanted to fly some rockets which ate up more time. The events today were B eggloft altitude and Open Spot landing. Neither are photographically exciting and are extremely difficult to photograph at all. (again small models usually fast) so I concentrated on flying my models and shot whatever was flown while I was out at the sport range. While few they are nice - Enjoy. I got some nice videos too!! |
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This (right above left below) is my MPGB Turbo 2000 with a lighter shorter booster. it was stable but weather cocked pretty badly it needs either the longer booster or no wind. I had a camera on one of the glider and it worked fantastically except that I deleted the video accidentally. I flew two camera's one in the glider and one in my Vidroc on an F20-7 the Vidroc got nothing (was off when it landed) and I realized that I had forgotten to format after the last flight. a few minutes later I decided to format it now so I do not forget again and I accidentally formatted the one from the GLIDER Grrr so I will fly this again probably Friday and get some video.
Left this is Edmonds 2 Channel boost glider kit (Future kit??) anyway ait had a problem and did not seperate from the booster so it came in ballistic. We were all watching it crash when I screamed out ROLL IT HARD thankfully he did this without hesitation and it saved the model. I realized the roll was full width airlerons. because of there position size and model length this would quickly become a spiral roll which dramatically slowed the model and then allowed the small chute for the booster to separate away from the model assembly. The chute on the front and the large surface area of the glider were even and it landed flat and slow with almost no damage and that damage we believe was boost damage and why it did not seperate. Needless to say we were very happy to not be cleaning up a rekit pile :-)
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