Trinity indoor flying meetings

[TheLurker]

All photos. Andy Blackburn.

1, 2 Just to prove that little boys never, ever grow up, Lee & Chris staged a dogfight.  Chris' SE5a vs Lee's Roland Walfisch.

3, 4 Lee's Roland CII on its own.

[TheLurker]

All photos. Andy Blackburn.

1 - Laurie Kirby's Bucker Jungmann
2-4 - Peter Smart's Fieseler Storch

Tune in again next month.

[Stunthenk]

Wonderfull models, nice atmosphere and venue. The possibility of flying every month makes me so envious!

[OZPAF]

Great shots - particularly of the dogfight Lurk and Andy. It looks as though the observer/gunner of the Walfisch jumped overboard in fright on seeing the SE5A.

Is that a printed Tissue finish on the Walfisch?

John

[TheLurker]

Wonderfull models, nice atmosphere and venue. The possibility of flying every month makes me so envious!

Aye, we're not too badly off for indoor flying venues in the southern/mid-English parts of the UK but most are autumn/winter only so having a year round site like Trinity is a real bonus.

Is that a printed Tissue finish on the Walfisch?

It is.  Quite by chance Lee had some SE5a sheets with him on Saturday and these should give you a feel for the work involved.  They're for an unmarked machine but adding the image layer(s) for a known scheme is, he says, straight-forward. 

I am trying to persuade him to do Wilkinson's (Wilks) of 287 sqdn* blue nosed SE5, but he's proving hard to convince.


*See, "Biggles of 266".

[OZPAF]

Thanks Lurk. I have only tried tissue Printing on a small scale - this effort is amazing.

John

[Squirrelnet]

Lee's models use a lot from paper model making techniques as well. The sheets in the centre are the paper parts printed onto normal printer paper. Most of the details such as guns, radiators cowlings etc are from paper.

[TheLurker]

Another month, another Trinity and a good time was, mostly, had by all.  Some snaps

1,2 Barry Dunkley's build of the Preston Antoinette.
3 Colin Sharman's anonymous F1D from a Chinese kite.  It is leading to "interesting times" for Colin.
4 David Herman's Gyminnie Cricket.

[TheLurker]

1, 2 John Whatmore's Preston Serene Coupé. JAW's went all out on weight reduction for this one, 5.5g as seen.  Flies extremely well, but JAW was having trouble getting the circuit tight enough for Trinity/

3.4 John Winfield's Pudgey. A nice slow flier.  Spot the tail weight!

[TheLurker]

A couple of Impington models for you now.

1,2 Steve Edward's build of the Mick Flack Tiddler
3,4 Nick Peppiatt's incarnation of the Bruce Lindsay Tailless Two

Both of these designs are reliable flyers.

While I'm here; it seems Impington are having some kind of bash tomorrow (12th April) to celebrate their 80th anniversary.  I don't know if there will be cake, jelly and ice cream or even lashings of ginger beer, but there jolly well ought to be.

[TheLurker]

1,2 One off the Ark, or should that be Ark Royal?  Lee Bate's Gloster Gladiator.  This one is about 25 years old.

3,4 Paul Masterman's Bostonian Knight. Doesn't affect its flying characteristics one iota, but I absolutely love the blue he's chosen for the fuselage.

[TheLurker]

The traditional Peter Smart post....

1  Gloster Bamel
This was intended for last year's indoor nats, but proved a swine so didn't make the cut.  Today it was much more tractable and shows every sign of being turned into a reliable flyer.  According to Peter the prototype held the world airspeed record for a time.

2  VMC (Andrew Darby) Fokker Dr1 for CO₂.
Peter's waiting for good weather and grass to test this out of doors.  Chris will be along soon with some better snaps.

3,4  Aeronca Chief.
Peter's OD.  Decoration still to be finished, but when it's done it'll represent the aircraft that Peter got his PPL on. Proved pretty easy to get the trim about right.

[TheLurker]

1 - Chris Brainwood's cartoon scale foam Hawker Tempest (or it may be a Typhoon)

2 - John Holman's err umm. This is embarrassing.  I didn't note it down and now I've forgotten.  Anyway it uses sheet (Jedeslky style) wings instead of built up and it flies jolly well too.

3,4 Steve Haines' 16" span Keil Kraft Gypsy.  Rock steady flyer. Got some newsreel of it which I'll get off to Squirrelnet labs shortly.

[TheLurker]

Last snaps today.

Nick Peppiatt's Watt If.  A 3 channel RC version of David Lovegrove's foam Wot Ho. The electrics were, ahem, liberated from a Huang Feng 220 and the RC gubbins are Aeroc (?) Spektrum compatible. Speed is good for a small hall like Trinity and AUW is only 8.9g

The rigging?  A fix courtesy of GM to stop it clapping its hands in flight.  Nick didn't fit a dihedral brace.

[dputt7]

A great bunch of models and as always. thanks for posting!