DAY .. 30.november 2006
Andre's T-rex became pretty cool when I got some time on it with my plastic printer...

DAY .. 29.november 2006
A dad and his son out flying is always something special. My son had been asking for a while now and it was a sunny day with no or little wind. We found a field that was not so wet up the hill and set up the bungee. I think he was very confident in himself but came right down again when he found that he needed a lot of practice to fly this new model. That is the beauty of modelling to me. One always have to work for it. But for a 9 year old it was weird I guess as he flew well this summer. But still I think he liked it ;-) Photos by Andre

DAY .. 28.november 2006
A friend of mine have been building a T-rex and I have helped him setting it up. So what was more natural than that I got the first flight! It flew ok and I think all settings was almost spot on. Just a few clicks and adjustment of pitch curve and it hovered well.

DAY .. 26.november 2006
It was supposed to be a F3J competition but because of very heavy winds only 4 of us flew. But what a day. It was SO good to finally get some winch starts. So it became a practice day in sunshine and with the snow disappeared (travelled a bit south for this) but high winds (10-15m/s with 20 in the gusts. That is 22-33mph and gusts 44mph). The competition was not started. Some carnage. A Graphite built up broke a joiner on launch and a Pike Perfect went down in turbulence at low altitude behind some trees.
The starts today on 400m mono (200m to turnaround) was extreme and cool. We flew Brio, Crossfire, Pike Perfect, Graphite and X21. All held up fine and all was bending good.... except the Graphite offcourse.... VERY nice day for me and had a lot of starts with both thermal and speed practice. We all agreed that even with 1,45 line breaking like sticks it was worth it ;-)
See also Egil's report HERE

DAY .. 25.november 2006
Thinking about twisting that DS record? I am atleast. A model you have not seen on the DS slope is being made for me and tweaking directly for DS alone. Will not reveal... In the meantime I got a fresh and nice email from Dirk Flug with new airfoils for release on the internet. Read more in my DS site

DAY .. 23.november 2006
Car is packed for sailplane flying but the weather is not cooperating. So I do some service on a friends Majko and X-wing and tested the X-wing outside our workshop. Long time since I flew this kind of wing and I had forgotten how well this wing flew (speed 280, Gunther prop and 2 cell lipo). Andre took the pictures.

DAY .. 19.november 2006
A trip to Sweden and "cottage" in south Norway in the weekend and I offcourse some pictures of the cottage we rented (the one in the middle). Swimming pool and bubble bath indoor off course so almost a house and not a cottage. Nice weekend with friends. With low red light from the sun I got some very cool photos I think compared to the daytime photos. This would not be possible with a fuel heli I think.

DAY .. 14.november 2006
I did some more flying today as I wanted to test some difficult photos. Winter with white snow and water with low light is fun so I first went to a waterfall. This I was sure was not going to be good and I was right. Pictures straight onto a almost frozen waterfall is no good. But I did not want to go the far way in snow to get good ones. Might have gad to if it was a paid thing. Got a cool photo of a farm before I moved to a river I had seen in the local newspaper. They want to build a small powerplant here. Got some ok photos and also of a local shop just by the river.

DAY .. 14.november 2006 Flat out Bipe from RC-flight.com
I needed a new indoor model this year so a GP Bipe was today ready for maiden. It was a short flight due to work and charging but still I got 5minutes before I had to rush. The model seems to be flying very well and suprisingly light in the air. It is 320g due to size and the equipment I have in (MTM400XT and GP650mah on a 9x3.8) but I think it is needed since it is so big. Earlier I have flown a few double deckers but this one was smooth and could fly very slow. It is good to have a model that have a certain amount of drag when you fly indoor. But then it needs to be designed correctly so that it does not tip stall etc. The set itself is made a bit different than the shockflyers but with a lot of cool plastic parts to make life easy.. Comparing I liked these solutions well but they needed some sanding to move freely all over (typical plastic moulding). Reminds me of building small plastic models really ;) What was really different from others is that they have carbon rods with a neat system with hinges instead of tape. This seems to work well on my model and everything runs freely and can withstand the cold conditions I fly in. More on this as I get more airtime. While charging I flew my Nemo mini-DLG and earlier in the day we tested the smoke system on Arild's Velox 2,6m. Cool - especially were the smoke came out of the DA canisters ;)

Photos of smoke by Andre

DAY .. 11.november 2006 - Kings Cup
Finally got my King's Cup on the 60th anniversary of the local club. It was a great party with 50 people and 4 dishes at a local hotel. Me and Geir Atle also flew some night flying both indoor and outdoor. He had a motor model and I flew my Joker 2. It was COLD with -12 celcius (10F) but the Joker performed well with no problems. Earlier in the day I also flew the Diablo
It was GREAT to get the King's Cup!!!! Read the local newspaper HERE (very cool the local reporter had no good pictures so they used one my son took ;). - More pictures from the party HERE by my son and me (a great bunch actually)

DAY .. 10.november 2006 - Joker in the air again
Finally (well quick turnaround actually) the Joker 2 is in the air again. New tailboom, mainshaft, drivebelt, tailrotor shaft, pushrods, battery, blades, etc. and I am in the air. Getting the hang of this now so did not need a single click on the trim on the first flight after the crash. Could see the rotor needed a touch of adjusting but rock steady and a night picture (flew with lights) showed that there were no vibrations ;-) My son Fredrik took some funny pictures.

DAY .. 3.november 2006 - Diablo and Easyglider
Now the reason for yesterdays testing of Easyglider without my son was that today I was teaching his school class what flying is about. After 2 hours of teaching in the classroom (with some indoor heli flying) we went out and I flew both the Diablo and the Easyglider. The kids worked as winch so I could take as many starts as I wanted because they were eager to see this thing ;-) The project was a success it seems!

DAY .. 2.november 2006 - Diablo and Easyglider
My son wanted to fly sailplane competition with me so I had to buy him a sailplane. The choice fell on the MPX Easyglider that flies ok and can take a lot of beating. Fredrik built some of it himself but got a little help from me.. So I guess I was entitled to a testdrive ;-) The model flew as expected and with the supplied CG it flew hands of with a few clicks up trim. Might take a bit lead out of the nose but that will be later. I also flew the Diablo although only a small road for landing. So takeoff had to be from the hand. No problem off course since it is overpowered. Good to have the lipo alarm as my cold batteries in the Diablo went low on voltage sooner than expected

Need assurance that you have enough power onvboard? I have used a few Lipo alarms from Peter Kirby and he has now developed a new 10S Lipo alarm for me to have on the heli and Adrenaline. I have now used the 5-6S version on the Diablo and it works well! Gives me early feedback of when to end my hovering or start to end the aerobatic. It can be adjusted for various types of batteries/voltage so it can be tweaked for your setup. Contact Peter Kirby thru email HERE or check some of his actions on Ebay