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My epic solo build has flown at dawn last Wednesday.
BOC sponsored the first hydrogen fill, we decided from the start that it had to be scale so no Helium.
6 x 100cc fourstroke sparkies.
Incredible sight when she is tethered and they are all ticking over.
It was perfect despite the wiff of gas as she went round on some trial circuits.
Cant wait to see all the Pup's and Camel's diving in for the attack.

Pictures soon.

See you all at Gaydon.

Mike.

Absolutely gutted, and only the second flight.
The time and effort that goes into this hobby is starting to get to me.

You nut case!

Bonzey

Barras
I think you will find the answer in your first email when you describe the engines..........sparkies was the word you used.
Groupie

Jon Horne wrote:Barras
I think you will find the answer in your first email when you describe the engines..........sparkies was the word you used.
Groupie

Huge regret, should of made her electric.

nice fire Mike, I would love to see a third scale zepp. what was the lenght and dia. of the beast? why were you flying at night? good effort mike.

Nice 1 Miike. Hope you had some marshmallows
Although where you went wrong is there looks by the fire as if theres a slight breeze !!!

Andy

Do you still qualify for the official T shirt?

stewart clifford wrote:Do you still qualify for the official T shirt?

I doubt it, ive got an unfinished Scout and the 'Zep' went Titanic on me.
Hey mate 'Curry night' first weekend in December! just the weekend I was going to get the clan down to Marlborough for a leccy fly and lunch/ WAGs shopping in the town.
We need to set it up at Baldock this weekend.
M

Well I hope you have all had a good laugh now.
Sorry but I just couldn't resist.
Apologies to RCME as there was nothing to go up in flames to start with, I was dreaming.

What is worth saying here is how I am just knocked out by the standard of the Dawn Patrol machines.
I was at Osbournby at the weekend which had a few there, all great to see.
However, someone had a Fokker DV11 in yellow with lozenge chamo, Cor it was good, it was just like standing next to the real thing, right down the the fabric.
Real aeroplanes made with real materials, great.

Mike.

Mike Booth wrote:Well I hope you have all had a good laugh now.
Sorry but I just couldn't resist.
Apologies to RCME as there was nothing to go up in flames to start with, I was dreaming.

What is worth saying here is how I am just knocked out by the standard of the Dawn Patrol machines.
I was at Osbournby at the weekend which had a few there, all great to see.
However, someone had a Fokker DV11 in yellow with lozenge chamo, Cor it was good, it was just like standing next to the real thing, right down the the fabric.
Real aeroplanes made with real materials, great.

Mike.

Yep, impressed by that D7. Your Spit aint too bad either, Mike- do you do that one wheel landing as a called manouvre? First time it was port, next flight starboard!

Bob, its always been port, and I have now completely serviced the U/C and its working fine.
The second Spit is coming on nicely and will have seperate systems for each leg.
I think you can tell where Im going with this.
Cheers Mike.

The D7 you saw at Os is owned by a darn fine chap by the name of Neil Armstrong (Buzz2 on RCMF)

Matt Harrowven wrote:The D7 you saw at Os is owned by a darn fine chap by the name of Neil Armstrong (Buzz2 on RCMF)

First man on the Moon, total respect that he has come back to aero-modelling where it all started.

great retort, great zeppelin spoof, you and me have the same fun genes Mike, does this get me a 50%spit discount eh? eh?

ALAN CANTWELL 1131 wrote:great retort, great zeppelin spoof, you and me have the same fun genes Mike, does this get me a 50%spit discount eh? eh?

Ha ha ha Al, no worries thats fine, the kits just doubled in price.