In Other News

Few interesting things to share.

First, Mrs Oz helped me snap a few photos of the twister hawk (Australian Army livery) on patrol around the lounge room.

If you click on the photos in the title bar it will take you to the images directory, giving you a thumbnail of all the images on the site. But I've put a couple here to give you a taste.

This little guy is quite a lot of fun to push around inside. To be honest it wanders a little more than you might expect, but with a little practice and it is definitely possible to fly around safely indoors.

Although I might get there eventually with My little GWS mini-dragonfly there is no way I could attempt that at the moment. That being said, having flown the MDF at nitrodudes recent indoor night I'm aware how much easier things get when you have no wind.

By the way, I've tried the "Blackhawk" outdoors - when they say no wind, they mean NO wind. Even in a 2-3 km/hr gentle as you like breeze the blackhawk couldn't hold position against the wind.

Other news - my TREX is finished (with thanks to Paul @ Nitrodude for helping me with finishing the setup of pitch and throttle curves) and I even had a brief hover of it yesterday. This is such a different machine to the MDF. In it's own ground effect it still achieves a fairly stable hover with very little input. Six inches of the ground I am still making only minute adjustments to keep it hovering compared to the MDF. Now don't get me wrong - I'm glad I started with the MDF (thanks grounddancer) - there's no way I would have had the confidence to try and hover the TREX, let alone the skills to actually do it without the many sessions I've put in on the MDF. So, onwards and upwards in that direction.

Embarrassingly, I've actually figured out how to land aircraft - I used to think I knew, but now I know I didn't. I'll be re-writing advanced landing at some stage in the future. Keep an eye out for it.

Finally, having the RV4 back in the sky has been a delight. I'm not going to pretend she is a challenging plane to fly, but she flys beautifully, is fun, and I did build her, and it is just great to see her crusiing around the sky again.

With the RV4 and the Zero out on the tarmac together the other day I realised that I had choosen to only bring my two oldest planes to the park - nostalgia eh (it ain't what it used to be I hear). See you next time.

Cheers,
Oz.