Sunday 23 February 2014

Went flyin' yesterd'y......

Owen, Lyal, Jason and myself spent the morning at the Prospect School. The weather was finally good enough to go flying. I got in one flight of my Bi-Slob before the wind came up. 
Jason had an unfortunate accident with his Nobler - it pancaked in very hard during some maneouvres. The bellcrank/controls jammed. The full story won't be known until after some exploratory surgery. Apart from some bad "bruising" and converting the undercarriage into retracts, the damage does not seem too severe.

Owen had a few models to test fly. The Mental Block powered by a K&B shows great promise and looked good in the air.
Next was the corflute combat wing - a tad tail heavy (by about 1/2 a kilo!). Didn't stay airborne for too long. No real damage, these things are virtually crash-proof.

The resurrected Thunderstreak had a few teething problems, the main one being a loud vibration during the last flight. After landing, we found the engine had come loose. The only damage was the groove in the top of the fuselage made by the flexing of the needle valve. 
I could go on but I do not want to embarrass my old mate, Owen, so I won't mention the loose spinner, loose muffler and floppy wheel pant.  I think we will just leave it at that.

Jason's .38 Special. What's all that black stuff, Jason? 

Owen's Mental Block


Jason's Nobler 

Jason's Nobler

Owen's Thunderstreak showing the damage caused by the
needle valve. You would not think it could flex that far.

Readying the 'Streak for its maiden flight.


Lyal launching Owen's corflute wing

So far, so good....

Oops! Too much up.

That's better!


Owen shows how its done.

Nice launch.




The Thunderstreak  on its test flight.



And to finish off the day, a bit of two-up flying for fun.







Friday 21 February 2014

Owen Cameron is not known for sitting around for too long. Here is his latest project - a Corflute combat wing. With the State Govt. Elections in full swing, there will be no shortage of corflute from all the campaign signs. 





A few of us have these AP.15 engines but have not tried them out
yet. This should do the trick!


















Tuesday 18 February 2014


New Team Race Pilot in the making..... 

Eleven year old Kyle Stout only went solo a week ago, now he is flying two up, practising Team Racing with his dad, Darren. 


Duck, Dad! I'm coming over the top.



Thursday 13 February 2014


Alan Beggs' son, Michael in the early 1970s.

Alan's other son Scott, early 1970's.

Thunderstreak Ressurection

Owen Cameron had crashed his Thunderstreak back in March 2012. He couldn't bring himself to throw away the wreckage and just recently, he bit the bullet and carried out the repairs. As Bob McKenzie has been known to say:" It's easy to fix. Just needs a new bit between the propellor and tailwheel"!

The original Thunderstreak being readied for its maiden flight in 2011.





The crash!


Salvaged bits


Its going together.......


Nearly there.....
















TA-DAH!!! Its finished!