DAY .. 28.
February - 2003
RC-funfly.de is a nice guy called Detlef Hilgendorf aus Hildesheim.... He
deals great epoxy, carbon etc and wanted a Wizard from Espen. He also
makes some F5B and F5D planes for own use. DS is prime time for him
nowadays he said (yes it is addictive...)
In the evening Jan and Louise offered us to stay with them in the
summerhouse. Good food and Danish beer bought in Germany :-)
BTW i have over 500 pictures from this trip now !!!
DAY .. 27.
February - 2003
Today we have been to Hollein and bought half the shop. Great shop
and nice service. Outside we flew the Pogo (the wing with impeller). Have
you ever seen over 50 Blue Phonix ?? Cool. In
the evening we went to Martin Webershock and stayed there for the night.
Early next morning we helped him move the heaviest mould of Caracho I have
ever "tried" to lift. Well it went into his Multivan and
goodbye. See you next time Martin (Ørebro Open for some "kjøttbullar").
DAY .. 26.
February - 2003
Very interesting day. Out flying Jaro's new Elita model. Espen was
testpilot in 10-15m/s wind and winch was used. Tests gave the necessary
answers and Jaro was satisfied. Cant give you all details as it is
classified. Had big problem on border so we had to get transit papers. All
ok now. Pictures below (bigger when I get home maybe).
DAY .. 25.
February - 2003
Very interesting days. Milan Janek with Compacts and Racemachine - Acacia
producer - Mrva with Majko model and----- Lots of new ideas and cool
discussions for future things.
Jaro Muller with new "Elita" model. 2850mm - 61dm2 - 8,3% - 1,75....
don't remember all values right now. Standard profile, no big change here. All moving V-tail. Special
construction inside wing. Completely carbon all wing. This is only one of
the special things about the model. Jaro likes evolution if he can make it
:-) Tomorrow we will fly the Elita at local
field with Jaro. You can expect something totally different from Jaro this
time. Today we had dinner at famous Tosca's - really great food and nice
discussions with Jaro.
BTW Brio from Samba (I also
sell Brio. Look at Pike-site) looks really promising and might have
some new techniques not mentioned here yet :-)
DAY .. 24.
February - 2003
08:00 - Just a very small update after a drinking night on town with
Samba. Thnx a lot guys (and Jane offcourse....).
We (me and Espen Torp) are now in Sebranice picking up some Pike's (3
X-tail Superior and 2 V-tail Superior for sale and some "stuff"
for me. Also testflown the new X-tail and it seems just as expected. Low
weight (really low actually) and good control. Should be no need for
adjustments. Have
been in Praha collecting X21 and also picked up 10 Opus (ET-version) with
Sramek. Sorry that we did not meet you Roman but time was not on your
side. Tomorrow we will go to Zilina and Milan Janek.
DAY .. 13.
February - 2003
Splendid weather again and there were no way that we could sit inside and
look at that great weather. The winch was put up and the Pike Superior had
3 long trips around the sky. Ouuuh it is great to thermal.
DAY .. 12.
February - 2003
Nice weather and my uncle on visit. He brought a brand new MPX Royal EVO 9
and a Graphite electro....
This is the
worst Tx I have tried to understand in the MPX family. I have owned Combi
80, 2015, 3030 and currently owns the 4000. But hey this bugger rocks
....... It has a two genius buttons for starting the engine on
electroplanes on the stick and a perfect button for DLG-flying on each
side of the Tx.
After 5 hours of playing the EVO still have power (that's good on a 1500mah
pack) but the Graphite can still not be flown.. :-( But my uncle.. he is
going to have problem with next model also. Sorry MPX - first impression
on menu and instructions was not good. The EVO itself is cool. When we
figured out that the servos had to be in a specific order the Graphite was
ready in about 1 hour. The next model (a 3servo wing Organic 2,5m) was
ready in only 30min. Kinda
beginning to like this Tx now :-)
We were on the ice also but only me flying my Organic, Drenalyn and a bit
GT-wing.
DAY .. 9.
February - 2003
Ah finally a day on the ice. The repaired Pike Plus got into the air and
shines like a star again. The Plus is so easy to fly and handles so
gently. It must be one of the easiest machines to get good flying time
with. Had to long flights (15 and 25 minutes) despite the 5m/s wind. The
tail is a bit twisted so I will have to work a bit more with it. But it
handles great and will be a great cheap plane for anyone that wants to get
into F3J. I will probably sell it soon. Made a small video for those of
you that just cant resist downloading videos..... 844kb
media player
DAY .. 9.
February - 2003
Remember the unlucky Junior that went straight down in Finland ? ( Day 4
at WC F3J - Picture
HERE ) Well I have fixed the broken model and it should now be almost
as competitive again. The fuse broke at 3 different places and the wing
was bent in many ways. A lot of thin zap (the wings are balsa not herex) -
some carbon and epoxy and it is almost ready. A little bit more micro balloons
and some paint and it will be great. I plan to testfly one of the next
days. The weight was better than I thought. Empty 1770g - with gear 2340g.
That is good considered WR midsection - X-tail and plenty of glue.
DAY .. 8.
February - 2003
Today the mainclub had its yearly meeting and I
was off course there. Our modelclub is "just" a group of 34
pilots under the main club Valdres Flyklubb (total 190 members). The
biggest issue this time was buying a ASK 21 for over 60000EUR. That is a
lot of money but that case only needed 30minutes of discussion. Should be
fun to have a few trips in that machine.
DAY .. 7.
February - 2003
Wow big mistake today! Indoor flying was todays
plan but when Tom Olav called "late" I had to get going quick.
That meant that I forgot both the camera and my transmitter. It a long
time since I have done a mistake like that.
DAY .. 4.
February - 2003
Even
more snow and every day it is blowing a bit. It is to cold for winching
but some small 5 minutes flights with smaller planes is OK.
Trip around Europe: Me and Espen Torp is going for a long week trip for
Europe.
Were are we going ? Well here is the list:
- Kristiansand and the boat over to Hirtshals Denmark (Staying with Egil
Myr in Kristiansand)
- Staufenbiel Germany...
- Hamburg
- Praha staying at Roman
(Mr. Lomcovak).
Also a model show in Praha and maybe some beer ?
- Kostelec visiting Sramek that makes the Opus
- Sebranice visiting Samba.
Here I will pick up 5
Superiors and give Jane a big hug :-)
- Zilina in Slovakia visiting Milan Janek that makes the Wizard
- Zilina visiting Karol Mrva and pick up some Majko's (small all glass
electro glider)
- Piestany visiting Jaro Muller. Dinner at Tosca's....
- Wallerstein visiting Weisgerber and look at his new workshop.
- Graupner and Peter Gølz - Look at the WC F3B place. Shopping in
Metzingen
- Kasel and parts for Espen's Joker heli
- Sønderborg Denmark visiting Jan and Louise.
- El-flight....
- Home after 11 days and apx 5000km of driving!!
DAY .. 3.
February - 2003
More snow and more work.
Managed to squeeze in a flight with a X-wing.