Impressive and good fun. I do have a bungee and an ancient glider which can be launched from it. The glider is a Micro Mold Sprite with an 8 foot span,moulded plastic fuselage and foam / hardwood wings, nothing like Tom's glider. Must bring it to the field sometime.
Mike, The glider on the bungee is the smaller blue/yellow 2 metre one on the ground in the still shot, not the 3.6 metre electric soarer I'm holding. The bungee'd glider is an Austrian X-Res kit I built and purely by coincidence I covered in blue/yellow which were the colours I used when I first started on a bungee with my 100" Osprey in the late eighties. The X-res is all balsa apart from a little spruce for the wing spars and comes out at a really light 3.6 oz/sq ft.
There's something about unpowered gliders it's the most satisfying form of flying both full size and models.
Your welcome almost missed the loop which lost u the lift u had but i did have the sun in my face and was getting giddy spinning around with the model right over my head looks gr8 fun ;) look forward to u and Mike sharing the bunggee and some sky :)
I must check the radio in the Sprite it's 27 mhz. It worked some years ago when flown off the slope at Castle Hill as launched by Broken Wing who I don't think was too impressed? It has flown at Mill Hill, Croydon Airport,Colley Hill,Warlingham,The Common Broughton Gifford, Devils Dyke. On it's first flight in the 1970's it piled in due to interference from CB Radio.
Hi Mike. I was worried about the radio you were using for the glider - 27 MHz with all the interference around nowadays ... OK for cars and boats but I felt it was not a good idea to continue to fly the glider on very old and original 27 MHz equipment. At the end of the day it was your choice. Regards Peter
Good point Pete, I have not looked or tested the old radio recently and also not removed the transmitter battery so there could be problems apart from those caused by interference. I had problems you may remember with my 35 MHZ gear last year so would need to take care if I attempted to use that. The old Servos would be no use as the connections are old Futaba style so if I do re-equip the radio everything would need changing.
Soz didn't do any pix but found the bungee launch of toms e res glider interesting :)
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ReplyDeleteImpressive and good fun. I do have a bungee and an ancient glider which can be launched from it. The glider is a Micro Mold Sprite with an 8 foot span,moulded plastic fuselage and foam / hardwood wings, nothing like Tom's glider. Must bring it to the field sometime.
Paul, thanks for videoing and posting :-)
ReplyDeleteMike, The glider on the bungee is the smaller blue/yellow 2 metre one on the ground in the still shot, not the 3.6 metre electric soarer I'm holding. The bungee'd glider is an Austrian X-Res kit I built and purely by coincidence I covered in blue/yellow which were the colours I used when I first started on a bungee with my 100" Osprey in the late eighties. The X-res is all balsa apart from a little spruce for the wing spars and comes out at a really light 3.6 oz/sq ft.
There's something about unpowered gliders it's the most satisfying form of flying both full size and models.
Your welcome to have a tug on my bungee :-)
Your welcome almost missed the loop which lost u the lift u had but i did have the sun in my face and was getting giddy spinning around with the model right over my head looks gr8 fun ;) look forward to u and Mike sharing the bunggee and some sky :)
ReplyDeleteThat was great to see and well done Paul for the video under difficult sun conditions.
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ReplyDeleteI must check the radio in the Sprite it's 27 mhz. It worked some years ago when flown off the slope at Castle Hill as launched by Broken Wing who I don't think was too impressed? It has flown at Mill Hill, Croydon Airport,Colley Hill,Warlingham,The Common Broughton Gifford, Devils Dyke. On it's first flight in the 1970's it piled in due to interference from CB Radio.
Hi Mike. I was worried about the radio you were using for the glider - 27 MHz with all the interference around nowadays ... OK for cars and boats but I felt it was not a good idea to continue to fly the glider on very old and original 27 MHz equipment.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the day it was your choice. Regards Peter
Good point Pete, I have not looked or tested the old radio recently and also not removed the transmitter battery so there could be problems apart from those caused by interference. I had problems you may remember with my 35 MHZ gear last year so would need to take care if I attempted to use that. The old Servos would be no use as the connections are old Futaba style so if I do re-equip the radio everything would need changing.
ReplyDeleteJust come fly with wotever is working come have some fun :)
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