Trinity indoor flying meetings

[TheLurker]

Last from Andy and we're into the comic cuts.  Proof that indoor aeromodelling isn't as sedentary as it is reported to be.

Me trying (and failing) to stop Peter's Fieseler Storch hit the fire doors.

[OZPAF]

Did it miss the table leg Lurk? Hopefully you stayed upright as well.

John

[Stunthenk]

The K-40 is no more. Ceremonially destroyed with the Smart Size 9.  It was not co-operating at all.

What a pity about the FK.40! I someone would send met the plan, I would build a replacement!

[lccjaw]

What a pity about the FK.40! I someone would send met the plan, I would build a replacement!

 Unfortunately Peter doesn't build from plans. He uses an enlarged 3 view and makes it up as he goes along.

[dputt7]

Loverly models. Thanks for posting.

[TheLurker]

Possibly the shortest newsreel ever from a Trinity meeting, but it does have the official maiden flight of JAW's Preston Sonex Highwing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Io7LSHVtQ

As processed by Squirrelnet laboratories who, in a minor technical miracle, have managed to remove the worst of my fat thumb from the top LH side of the frames.

Thanks Chris.

What a pity about the FK.40! I someone would send met the plan, I would build a replacement!

Unfortunately Peter doesn't build from plans. He uses an enlarged 3 view and makes it up as he goes along.

Indeed.  There is only one documented method for getting a plan out of Peter; it involves a rubber truncheon, a great deal of work copying from what he, laughingly, provides as his "plans" and not a little guesswork. DAHIKT.

Did it miss the table leg Lurk? Hopefully you stayed upright as well.
John

It did, hit the fire doors instead so no damage sustained and the doddery old nit did manage to remain upright.

[Stunthenk]

Well, could you at least extort from him the 3-view that he used?

[Jmk89]

Well, could you at least extort from him the 3-view that he used?

I don't know which 3 view was used but there is one here
https://archive.org/details/Flight_International_Magazine_1930-02-14-pdf/page/n1/mode/2up

[Stunthenk]

Thanks, this is the only 3-view I know of. Looking for more info on the FK 40 I came accross a report of the 2010 Nijmegen meeting, with pictures of an FK 40 peanut built by Frenchman Jacques Cartigny complete with comment on the misspelling of the KLM title on the fuselage!

http://www.iifi.nl/reports/interscale-2010-wout-moerman.html

The 6th picture is also interesting; it is a Koolhoven FK 53 by Jan Willem Roest. Sadly Jan Willem died some years ago but the model is still extant; the new owner was flying it at a meeting we had in February last. The colours are thought to be correct, but I know not of any proof.

[TheLurker]

Well, could you at least extort from him the 3-view that he used?

Evening Henk,

I've sent him an e-mail message asking whether he used someone else's plan (he's quite keen on Cartigny's plans) or worked it up from a three view. Peter is... unenthusiastic about replying to e-mails so there may be no answer until I can work him over with the rubber truncheon at the next Trinity.

Just out of interest I had quick poke around "teh intarwebs" and the only Cartigny plans I could find for Koolhovens were for the FK-59 & FK-58.

[TheLurker]

...were for the FK-59 & FK-58.

I did, of course, mean to type FK-49.  Ho hum.

[Stunthenk]

Hi Lurk,
Please exercise any socially accepted level of violence to achieve our goal. On the other hand, the FK49, being a twin is unfortunately outside my current scope as a beginner in this aspect of model flying... And there is a nice three view of this aeroplane in the authorative 1981 Dutch book about Koolhoven by Theo Wesselink and Thijs Postma. Unfortunately, this book lacks ANY colour description! Apart from 5 paintings by Postma which under the current rules are artist impressions.

[TheLurker]

Reply from Peter late last night.

"...the dreaded Koolhoven came not from my drawing board but from the esteemed pen of Dave Mitchell via Flying Aces No 326 Jul-Aug 2022."

He also wondered if it might need a bigger fin than the one drawn.

Cheers,
Lurk

[Stunthenk]

Anyone have this plan? And the article? The FAC back issues list on their website has an update to 2018 and issue 269

[9600baud]

Did the Candice fly? If so, nicely?
I may try a pusher and I like the Malmstrom plans very much.

Cheers
Alex