1960s Coupe d’hiver postal comp

[billdennis747]

Looks nice. Don't put it in those trees; I've never seen a wood-coloured model before!

[cvasec]

Very nice, and a good glide.
Ron

[dputt7]

   Thanks for the video Tim, now I don't have to describe just how good it flew. It really did fly straight off the board.

[THB]

Thanks Jeremy - yes trial-and-error likely to be the best option.

Mike - thanks for your advice with the prop - I'm a single-blade convert now - half the work! No real lift about that morning - too early/cold. Polish designer Juliusz Jaronczyk claims "Coffee" will do 105secs in still air on 6 strands of Pirelli rubber, 6 × 1 mm, wound to a maximum of 320 turns. Mine has 6 strands 3/16in SuperSport. (I do have have some Pirelli - but it is long ago reduced to a crystallised form... I keep it out of nostalgia / a need for authenticity / hoarding issues.)

Bill - Thanks. With the name 'coffee' I couldn't resist doing it in coffee colour. When summer arrives the model will be exactly the colour of our larger field - brown soil and straw grass :-) Dave seems to be able to find his scale models painted in German splinter camouflage in bushland, so I'm up for the challenge!

Ron & Dave - thanks - yes very pleased with the floaty glide. We just need now to get some official flights in for the postal over the next couple of months!

cheers
Tim