Free Flight Scale is dedicated to promote the building and flying of outdoor scale free flight models for both the sport flyer and the dedicated competition
enthusiast in the U.K.
Thanks
must go to all those persons that have sent me photographs and text etc. for this
site.
Latest
news in Free Flight Scale
Try this website to check for the
wind and weather. http://www.xcweather.co.uk/
Dreaming Spires Free Flight Scale Contest
Rescheduled due to poor weather conditions
for 28th September 2008
No documentation required. Scale contest starts 1.30pm
Contact Charlie Newman 01865 426129
or Laurence Marks 0199370051
Click banner below for Eddie Riding 2008 report and results
SCALE RULE CHANGES FOR 2008.
The Scale Technical Committee has decided
to change the rule regarding motive power for the Scale Outdoor Free Flight.
(Engine Powered).
Rule 6.4.1 will now be -
6.4.1 General Characteristics.
Motive Power
IC piston engines, total 10cm 3
(Electric motors and solid fuel reaction
motors have been removed)
This takes out my Handley Page and the DH10c that I am building from competing
in the Superscale Trophy.
So, to coin a phrase, it is game on and switch to plan B.
Photo Tony
Dowdeswell
Handley Page 0/7 on its winning flight in Co2/Electric class at the B.M.F.A. 2005
National Championships.
The Superscale Trophy with Martinsyde
Elephant 1998.
Another
aim of this site to promote outdoor Free Flight Scale competitions. For example
the National Championships and the Eddie Riding Memorial Trophy as well as the more informal
competitions, rallies and meetings around the U.K.
If you have a Free Flight Scale event you would like to advertise please e-mail
me with the full details and I will include it on the Diary Dates
page.
My
hobby keeps me occupied and out of the Pub as most of my spare time is spent
studiously designing, drawing and building these models for months sometimes
years. It is at this juncture
that my sobriety, common sense and reason leaves me and I take on a Jekyll and Hyde
persona. I find that I have little control over an irresistible urge
to launch the model into the big blue yonder without any sort of control. Methinks I'm not
firing on all four cylinders all the time.
The culmination of all this activity provides an intoxicating cocktail of excitement, terror and adrenaline.
When you combine all this together and add the elation of success it is
the best legal "fix" you can
get.
Lastly,
to quote a certain leading exponent of the craft, this is probably the only
discipline in aeromodelling that thrives on sarcasm. So please excuse the humour and the banter herein
contained as I don't want to get too serious or anoraky. After all, we are
trying to enjoy ourselves, aren't we???
Mike
Smith
Site
last updated 07/09/2008
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