Preparation for Cornwall
In preparation for the Cornwall expedition I have found my daughter’s tent from when she did her DoE some 18 years ago and have added the facilities kindly donated by Mel…
Author: Barry Twilton
Desperate Measures
The latest SMFC attire modelled at Elkstone today…and the flying was good… Mel may post some video when edited
Yet Another Prototype Slope Soarer
Pike the Slope Soarer Following the successful maiden flight at Leckhampton yesterday I thought I should take a couple of pictures of it whilst it is unscathed… Pike started out as an experiment to make half a wing using balsa covered foam to compare weights with the glass fibre wings. This showed a 50% reduction in weight […]
RE8 ‘It Flies’
The decision to build a RE8 is from recent information from Belgium confirming my Great Uncle died whilst flying an RE8 in Belgium at the end of the First World War, which was a surprise as he normally flew Bristol Fighters. This first model is small with a 37″ wingspan and 25″ long and a bit heavy, […]
Riot goes FPV
Following the development of a new fuselage over the winter and the addition of a camera and transmitter, the Riot has now gained a Eagle Tree Vector control unit and GPS/compass. So for those interested in this technology and to demonstrate my inability to fly in straight lines I have attached some data outputs from […]
BFG (Big Friendly Glider)
For those who do a spot of slope soaring, these are my initial pictures of my latest experiment – 3.75m glider using glassfibre wings and balsa for rest of the construction. If it doesn’t fly, it will be a big crash… the BFG development is now ready to test, all we want is a nice westerly […]
A Panther is Bourn
Thought some of you may be interested in the latest winter project, its ready for the initial ‘hops’
‘Thermolite’ Slope Soarer (with a…)
Following on from the ‘Flying Brick’ lessons learned which is ready for the right conditions i.e. lots of lift… I had a rethink on my second prototype requiring it to be significantly lighter and have a motor fitted (hidden when soaring) to enable it to be flown at the field assuming it does fly. The […]
‘Flying Brick’ Slope Soarer
Earlier this year I tried a new flying change – slope soaring using a Spectre flying wing. Following this initial experience, I decided I wanted to build my own conventional type of glider and started looking at kits and glass/carbon fibre planes. However, having spent many years messing with, building and racing cars, I thought […]
Not so Ultimate BiPlane
It has been over 40 years since I last scratch built a plane and then it was balsa and tissue, and it crashed… So this time not wanting to make life easy, I printed a A4 version of a foam plane, scaled the general proportions and used a flight test method of construction. The general […]
