Issue No.24 AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS · Derick Slevin’s flew his Pilatus Porter to third place in...

October 2013

AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS

Issue No.24

From the USA Fort Worth Thunderbirds

“Warbirds Over Lake Benbrook”

Australian Model News page 2

This newsletter is published bi-monthly to feature scale model building and flying together with other modelling events in Australia. Contributing material and requests for inclusion on the distribution list may be forwarded to — John Lamont Unit 5, 1326 Main Road, Eltham, 3095 Ph: 03 9431 0044 E-mail: [email protected]

To use a favourite expression of our immediate past leader, “Guess what”.........old age is not a good thing! I passed the 80 mark this year and my arthritic fingers are no longer as deft as they were, blurred eyesight has restricted my flying for the last year or two, and after a day walking around the flying field my knees need of a couple of days for recupera-tion. I can’t do much about the arthritis but after some prodding from my family and friends I finally capitulated and had a couple of cataract operations to re-focus the eyes, allowing me to once again see my model clearly and putting flying back on the agenda. The reason for relating this is to remind you to get the maximum enjoyment from our hobby while you comfortably can, things only get worse with ad-vancing years! I occasionally visit Model Engines to have a talk with my old friend Tony Farnan and to look over their new arrivals. On my last visit they showed me a couple of kits, for a high wing trainer and a low wing sports model, which include all parts laser cut and ready for assembly. You can build your own ARF and as covering is not included you can dress the model to suit your own individual wishes. It will be interesting to see if availability of these kits prompts a revival in model building. John Lamont.

On the Cover. Bill Kirk’s DH.88 Comet G-ACSS “Grosvenor House” performing at Shepparton with David Law at the con-trols.

Contents

3. NSW LARGE SCALE CHAMPIONSHIP 2013 6. FORT WORTH THUNDERBIRDS

“WARBIRDS OVER LAKE BENBROOK”

8. “TOP OF THE SOUTH AEROTOW”

BLENHEIM - NEW ZEALAND 10. PAUL WINTER’S FAIRCHILD PT-19 11. INDOOR AT DONVALE 12. VFSAA SPORTSCALE AT TWIN CITIES 16. THE ROBBINS AND PORTER

MONOPLANE 18. ALF WILLIAMS FIESELER STORCH 20. VFSAA SPORTSCALE AT YARRA VALLEY 23. DAVID BALFOUR’S BOEING 40C 24. SHEPPARTON MAMMOTH SCALE RALLY 2013 28. JOHN URRY’S HOME MADE ENGINE MOUNT 29. MODELS FOR SALE COMING EVENTS. 30. TWIN CITIES SEAPLANE FLY-IN 31. VMAA STATE FIELD ANNIVERSARY FLY-IN 32. 67TH NATIONALS PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

From the Editor


NSW Large Scale Championship

2013

The Scale Aircraft Society of NSW conducted the NSW Large Scale Championships at the Manning Model Aero Club, Wingham NSW on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July, 2013. The weather for the two day event was absolutely perfect with sunshine and light breezes for both days. Two classes of competition were conducted. One for Advanced and one for Open (flying only). Entries were down slightly on previous years with only four competitors in the Advanced Class and eleven competitors in the Open Class. Thanks to the organisers, Cheryl and John Rolfe, the two days of flying went off without a hitch and this kept the judges busy with only the usual comfort and lunch breaks. The quality of the judging was excellent with consistent scores achieved by most pilots. Thanks to the judges, John Rolfe, Bob Bishop, Ted Ashley, Dean Erby and Anthony Ogle for a job well done. On the flying side, Dean Erby, in the Advanced Class (Sopwith Snipe), again excelled by winning the Static element together with winning the Flying element. A near disaster for Dean, as a result of a flame out, was narrowly avoided, in the second round, when Dean’s Sopwith Snipe toppled over on landing causing the removal of the rudder. True to form Dean did the overnight repair and was able to fly the last round successfully. In the Open Class, Anthony Ogle who has just returned from the USA after winning his class in the Topgun 2013 Event, was again a winner as a result of his outstanding and consistent flying of his Fokker D.V111. Congratulations to Dean, Anthony and all other place getters. The excellent facilities of the host club were appreciated by all the competitors and spectators, particularly the delicious barbecue lunch that was provided on both days. Well done to the members of the Manning M.A.C.

(Bob Pearce)

Dean Erby won Advanced class with his model of the Sopwith Snipe.

Dean Erby receives his award for first place in the Advanced Class from Ted Ashley.

Brian Birrell’s Miles Hawk Speed 6.


The judges, from left — Bob Bishop, John Rolfe and Ted Ashley. Bill Mansell’s Spacewalker, flown to third place in Advanced Class, is a regular in competition .

Tom Panagiotopoulos flew this Cap232 in Open Class. An aircraft not often seen in competition, this DH. Beaver was flown in Open Class by Larry James.

John Kastelan’s Citabria, flown in Open Class. Bob Pearce flew his Hawker Hart in the Open Class, his first entry competition.

Ted Ashley presents the award for first place in Open Class to Anthony Ogle. The Fokker D.VIII flown by Anthony Ogle to win Open Class.


CONTESTANT MODEL STATIC RND 1 RND 2 RND 3 TOTAL

DEAN ERBY SOPWITH SNIPE 1483 2123.5 1411.5 2279.5 3684.5 1

KEL THOMAS MORRISEY BRAVO 1430 2045.5 2170 2254 3642 2

BILL MANSELL SPACEWALKER 1345.5 2081.5 2067 2194.5 3483.5 3

JOHN KASTELAN CITABRIA 1345 1782.5 1923 1913.5 3263.3 4

CONTESTANT MODEL RND1 RND 2 RND 3 TOTAL

ANTHONY OGLE FOKKER D.VIII 2514.5 2412 2432.5 2473.5 1

PAUL McKEOWN FOKKER D.VIII 2259 1873 2217.5 2236.3 2

DERICK SLEVIN PILATUS PORTER 1719 2120.5 2225.5 2173 3

BILL MANSELL STINSON RELIANT 2021 2122.5 2173.5 2148 4

LARRY JAMES DH. BEAVER 1706 2041.5 2091 2066.3 5

TOM PANAGIOTOPOULOS CAP 232 1890.5 1953 2132.5 2042.8 6

KEL THOMAS PIPER SUPER CUB 1754 2030 1940 1985 7

BOB PEARCE HAWKER HART 1906.5 2015 1930 1972.5 8

JOHN KASTELAN FAIRCHILD PT-19 1738 1906 2002.5 1954.3 9

DAVE WILLEY FIESELER STORCH 1722 1256 1897 1809.5 10

BRIAN BIRRELL MILES HAWK 1521 1473.5 DNF 1497.3 11

Derick Slevin’s flew his Pilatus Porter to third place in Open Class. Kel Thomas flew a Piper Super Cub in Open Class.

Another entry by Kel Thomas, his Morrisey Bravo took second place in Advanced Class.

Second place in Open Class went to Paul McKeown with another Fokker D.VIII.

ADVANCED CLASS

OPEN CLASS


Fort Worth Thunderbirds

“Warbirds Over Lake Benbrook” (I first came into contact with the Fort Worth Thunderbirds through my friend Vic Larsen who I met at the WSC in Canada in 2002. Vic subse-quently introduced me to Woody Lake, the editor of the Thunderbirds newsletter and Woody and I have swapped newsletters for the last seven years. The club operates from a field at Lake Benbrook, a half hour drive to the south west from the centre of Fort Worth. For those with Google Earth on their computer the co-ordinates are32º 36″ 35.31′ N ; 97º 29″ 06.83 ′ W). 2013 marks the 17th year for the Fort Worth Thunderbirds “Warbirds Over Lake Benbrook”. Although cold in the early morn-ing (3ºC ), typical Texas weather prevailed as midday yielded sunny skies and temps in the 21ºC range. Alas, the winds varied from light to occasional gusts of 32- 40 kph. This event started in 1995 with 13 registered pilots and in 2013 there were 51 pilots and over 90 aircraft. This Warbird is open to all aircraft, fixed or rotary wing from WWI thru present. Attendance has been as high as 76 pilots with 120 aircraft representing all five states in AMA District VIII; Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Louisiana. In 2012 the event was held at our new flying facility located on the south end of Benbrook Lake. This is a premier flying facility leased from the area corps of engineers and maintained by the club’s members. The flying is low key, fly if you want or just visit with others that share your interest in warbirds while listening to great 1940s Big Band mu-sic. Oh, did I mention the great food prepared by Gary and Jeanie Alphin and this year assisted by Tab Bowlin. Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, drinks, and chili. Lunch is free to registered pilots and for sale to spectators at a reasonable cost. It didn’t take the line long to form once lunch was announced.

Woody Lake started the Warbird fly-in and was the contest director for the first 10 years. After 10 years Woody passed command to Terry Thorpe but stayed on to co-organize/manage the fly-in. This dynamic duo is going strong as evident by the continued success every year. The pilot’s safety briefing is at 0900 hrs, or 2 Bells for the Navy guys, and for the Marines the Big Hand is on …………….well you know the rest. Again we can’t begin to thank all the Thunderbird support folks that keep this event going year after year. Additionally, if it weren’t for the pilots we would not have the longevity we’ve enjoyed. Year after year the pilots show up and make this fly-in the huge success it has be-come. Terry and I can’t begin to thank you all enough. It’s getting harder to get up at 06:00 on the day of the fly-in but if you’ll continue to attend and have fun we’ll continue to drag our butts out of bed and have fun with you. The camaraderie and friendship developed over the years is over whelming and we appreciate you one and all.

Woody Lake with his model of the Hawker Hurricane.


Jim Dietrick’s beautiful Spad. Built from factory drawings and Balsa USA plans this 87lb beauty is a sight to behold. Jim is a precision scale builder and super nice guy. He said he prefers building over flying which is evident by his craftsmanship. The Spad has had six flights at the time of this writing.

A wide assortment of models were on display - from WWI, through the years between the wars, and on to WWII and modern jets.


New Zealand

“Top of the South”

Aero Tow

All the ordinary non-scale gliders towed up with Velcro releases like Ken McMillan’s Big Sting, Ian Harvey’s old Contest and Alex’s various gliders.

Rex’s Fun Cub and Hand launch glider tow combo that showed you don’t need big stuff to enjoy aero tow. Ron Johnsons SG33 open frame vintage machine was very special and enjoyed by all. Neal Blackie’s enthusiasm and his now battered 5m ASW 28 that really got us started on Aero Tow. Seeing my first taste of triangle racing. Is it a NZ soaring contest of the future? The huge range of gliders both big and small, scale and non-scale. The Saturday night get together at Dodson’s, now under new management and better than ever. For me it was just great to be able to catch up with old friends and to be able to reciprocate some hospitality. It is the people that make these very social events. Oooppps and crashes were few. Aero-tow really is a safe and easy way to get any glider up into the blue. It looks like an Aero Tow circulate has been established in the South Island with two events a year planned for Blenheim, two for Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin or Gore. Put the last week-end in January 2014 in your calendar for the next one at Blenheim. Finally, I would like to say thanks to Peter Deacon who organised this one and to Ken McMillan and his committee and members at BMAC for their continued support of these events and their great hospitality.

Blenheim MAC hosted their 3rd invitational Aero Tow over the weekend of 27 / 28 July 2013. Mid winter weather can be a worry but it was per-fect; cold early on but beautifully bright sunny days that had us in shirt sleeves by lunch time and just a gentle westerly. The turn out was the best yet with strong support from both Islands. Thanks for coming guys. Rob Johnston and Ross Biggar came down all the way from the Auck-land area but the longest trip was actually by Alex Taylor all the way from Southland. We are glad he came too because he towed all day with his amazing big scratch built Wilga with a thumping great 150 twin up front. Nothing was a problem to tow and some of us with small mod-els were treated to vertical climb outs. Peter Hewson, Mr Aero Tow in the south, worked hard with his brand new 33% Hangar 9 Pawnee — it has impressive size and performance. Carl McMillan with his 2m Ugly Stick with a 50cc twin also did his share along with smaller tugs flown by Graeme Smithson and even Rex Ashwell with his little electric fun cub. We had 21 pilots registered and most had multiple models. There were so many highlights at this meeting. Bill Derenzy’s big graceful Phoenix 6 meter K8 suitably rein forced for flight loads. Rob Johnston’s and Ross Biggar’s high end moulded models. Lots of bling and dollars. The double act of Woo (Chris Norris) and Colin Taylor from Wellington just having fun with a small tug and a Calarus foamy while their big exotic stuff stayed in the car park. They actually slope soared Friday and did some more flat field on Monday before getting the ferry home. Woo’s big 6m Grob 103. The energy and bulk are impressive and a little scary on landing. Alex Hewson demonstrated his skills yet again with some high

speed runs and aero’s with Dad’s Discus and his F3B/F glider. Super pilot.

(Allan Knox)

Peter Hewson’s Piper Pawnee landing after completing a tow.

Alex Taylor with his PZL-104 Wilga tow plane.

Blenheim


Bill Derenzy’s 6m wingspan Phoenix ARF model of the Schleicher Ka-8 in flight.

A very large triangle racer in an unusual colour scheme.

Ron Johnson’s Zögling primary glider has a 1:10 glide ratio. A vintage glider lifts off behind the tow plane.


Having just written off a Seagull Yak 54 1.20 size, I felt it was time to move onto something a little larger and a little more forgiving. While searching the internet I discovered a local shop that had a reasonable size PT-19 on sale at a price too good to refuse. I watched the website for a couple of weeks and finally had the courage to bring the subject up with the one who holds the purse strings. There was one last check of the website just as we were about to leave to go to the hobby shop only to find the model was no longer available. Totally devastated I extended my search on the internet and discov-ered a plan for a ¼ scale version of the PT-19. Money was exchanged and the plan duly arrived. Going through my archive of old Scale RC Modeler magazines, I dis-covered an article that had been published about the design, build and initial flying of the model which was designed by Jim Folline back in the 70’s, just after the first of the Quadra motors came on the model-ling scene. Jim designed the model with removable tail feathers and the main wing was a three-piece that had a complicated system of joining the 3 pieces together. The initial model is said to have flown extremely well on the Quadra 35 at 31¼ pounds but the article assures me that the model built from the plans should come in between 23-27lb.

I have made a few changes to the original plan. I have made the tail feathers a permanent fixture in the hope of saving a little weight in the tail area and I have used foam cores for the wings, as I am more com-fortable working in foam than with the rib and spar method. The main wing still breaks (wrong choice of word) just outside of the main under-carriage, without the complicated Z type break in the join that Jim de-signed so that he could include the flaps in one piece. The fuselage is covered with Solartex and 2oz glass cloth using the West epoxy system, and the wings have ¾ oz cloth. The undercar-riage legs are left over gear from a 1/5 scale Mustang and it will be powered by a DLE 55RA petrol engine. It was supposed to be ready for this year’s Shepparton Mammoth Fly-in, but the cold weather is playing up with the drying and setting time of the glue and the epoxy coating. One can only bring so much at a time into the lounge so that it can be dried in front of the heater. Undercoating should start in the next week or so, if we ever have some calm fine days. Paul Winter

Paul Winter’s

Fairchild PT-19


Indoor at

Donvale

Sean O’Connor has built an interesting bit of equipment to investigate optimum wing design for F1D models using 1/3 scale all balsa models. The gravity powered launcher, based on the principles of an ancient Greek and Roman siege engine, provides a repeatable launch velocity. The glide time is measured by stopwatch to determine the efficiency of the wing design.

Paul Butler’s pusher canard is built from a plan on the Hip Pocket Model-lers website and flies nicely.

Mike Glaister always seem to have a collection of models on hand. These are all Bostonians despite their different styles.

Paul was also flying this Bostonian “Observer” built from a Randy Ran-dolph plan. A little too heavy to be competitive, but a fine flyer.


VFSAA SPORTSCALE at

TWIN CITIES

David Law preparing to fly his Pitts S2A assisted by Noel Findlay.

This two day event has, in the past, been a competition on Saturday and a rally on Sunday but this year the rally was dropped and the competition continued through Sunday morning. We didn’t have the sunny conditions that we usually enjoy at Albury but the wind was light and the occasional bursts of sunshine made it a pleasant weekend. Entries were good for the Flying Only section but numbers were low for Scale and Large Scale. The new concrete strip and taxiways provided a new experience for many and most man-aged to adapt to the smooth surface fairly quickly, although a few taildraggers with only a skid still preferred to use the adjacent grass strip.

Competitors and local TCMAC members enjoyed the usual convivial Saturday night dinner at the Newmarket Hotel. Flying continued on Sunday morning until, with the winners declared at 1:00pm, we started back on the long trip down the Hume Highway pausing only at Nagambie for our usual egg and bacon sandwich at the Café by the Lake. It was another good event at Twin Cities and is recommended for all scale competitors. It’s the site for the 67th National Scale Events so take note of the programme at the end of the newsletter and set yourself for some good flying at a top class venue.


Early morning preparations in the pits. Gary Sunderland at the starting point preparing to fly his Albatros with Phil Shufflebotham ready to assist.

Max Rowan from Ballarat in the starting box with his Piper Pawnee. Roger Carrigg, also from Ballarat, starting his Stearman.

Greg Lepp running up the motor in his Cessna prior to flying. Paul Winter with his Spacewalker that came to grief on a very low flight manoeuvre.

Bob Hulett’s Storch, John Guscott’s Tiger Moth and Corby Starlet, David Balfour’s Curtiss Robin and Chris Henry’s Tucano.

Bob Hulett with his ARF Fieseler Storch.


Roly Gaumann’s Piaggio P.149 was a new model with only a few flights to its credit. It’s a very smooth model with a retracting tricycle undercarriage. Used by the German Air Force as a trainer before being retired from service this one, now privately owned, has a rather unique colour scheme.

Gary Sunderland’s well used Albatros is driven by a smoky Moki which still manages to produce a high rate of climb under full power.

David Balfour’s Large Scale winning Curtiss Robin is another model that has seen a lot of flying but still performs well. Lots of wing area and a big petrol engine make it a fine flyer.

David Law flew a new Hawker Hunter to win the Flying Only competition. The all composite model is powered by a 10kg thrust turbine and has a very smooth perfor-mance.


SCALE RESULTS

CONTESTANT MODEL STATIC RND 1 RND 2 RND3

D. LAW PITTS S2 2880.3 2317.5 2517.5 2473 1

N. FINDLAY DH FOX MOTH 2745 2374.5 2337 2353 2

TOTAL

5375

5108

G. SUNDERLAND ALBATROS D.III 2415 914.5 2143.5 2137 3239 3

J. GUSCOTT HUSKY - - 1410 - 705 4

CONTESTANT MODEL RND 1 RND 2 RND3 TOTAL

D. BALFOUR CURTISS ROBIN 2228 2365 2273 2319 1

C. HENRY TUCANO 2084.5 2213 2303 2257 2

LARGE SCALE RESULTS


D. LAW HUNTER 2515.5 2580 2681 2630.5 1

T. SMALL PIPER L4 2541 2400 DNF 2470.5 2

G. LEPP CESSNA 150 2257.5 2457 2319 2388 3

R. CARRIGG STEARMAN 2344.5 2427 2338 2385.5 4

T. PUGH PIPER J3 2352 2314.5 2239 2333 5

I. LAMONT YAK 54 2079 2391 2047 2235 6

R. GAUMANN PIAGGIO 2239.5 2157 DNF 2198 7

B. HULETT STORCH 2202 2187 2080 2194.5 8

K. OSBORNE R/P MONOPLANE 1950 2161.5 2172 2167 9

M. ROWAN PAWNEE 2148 2115 1996 2131.5 10

G. WHITE EXTRA 330 2074.5 DNF DNF 1037.3 11

P. WINTER SPACEWALKER 1591.5 DNF DNF 795.8 12

N. SHARP BEAGLE 1560 DNF DNF 780 13

J. GUSCOTT TIGER MOTH DNF DNF DNF - 14

FLYING ONLY RESULTS

In addition to the competition aircraft there were a few more models on display throughout the weekend. John McLennan from Ballarat is a keen scale modeller who pro-duces models at a prodigious rate. John brought his latest effort, a model of the DC-2 “Uiver” flown by KLM pilots in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. David Balfour had his now finished but not yet flown model of the Boeing 40C and Ken Osborne, the king of the unusual, had an r/c bird that I endeavoured to photograph with dubious success.

John McLennan’s model of the KLM DC-2 was built to his own plans and while it’s very much “stand off scale” the “Uiver” is a tribute to his enthusi-asm for modelling.

David Balfour’s Boeing 40C is a big biplane with an OS 200 four stroke up front. David recently visited the Boeing Museum and was able to photo-graph the example of this aircraft that is on display in the museum.

Ken Osborne’s r/c model bird is a present from his son who bought it in France while on an overseas trip. It’s an ornithopter with very lifelike wings, body, and tail. It’s so lifelike that, on an early flight at the TCMC field it was seized by a hungry kestrel and carried the length of the field before the real bird decided that this model bird wasn’t to be its next meal and dropped it.


The Robbins and Porter Monoplane

My recent visit to Albury allowed time to visit the Albury Library Muse-um to see the exhibit featuring the Robbins and Porter monoplane replica together with the original flat four engine and the small scale model built by Ken Osborne. Both the replica aircraft and Ken’s model were built using a 3-view developed by local enthusiasts from photographs of the aircraft and a few recorded dimensions.

Ken Osborne’s 1/12 scale model of the Robbins and Porter aircraft.

The original 40HP air cooled engine is on loan from the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne. It is believed to be the first four cylinder horizontally op-posed engine used to power an aircraft.


Ken Osborne’s flying model of the Robbins & Porter Monoplane.

The aircraft was constructed in 1912-13 by Robbins and Porter in their motor garage at 532 Kiewa Street, the present-day site of the Albury Li-brary Museum. The original building was demolished and this photograph depicts the garage as it stood in 1913.

Ken Osborne’s 1/4 scale flying model is 2m wingspan and powered by an OS 70 four stroke engine. Flown by Ken in the recent weekend Sportscale event, the model is relatively stable in flight although it has a very low airspeed and is definitely a fair weather flyer.

Azor Robbins and Alex Porter with their monoplane which they built in 1911, eight years after the Wright brothers flew at Kittyhawk and only two years after Blèriot flew across the English Channel.


Alf Williams’

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch


Alf’s Storch is built from plans by Ed Newman in the USA who is something of a specialist when it comes to the Storch, having built several at different scales and gained high placings at Top Gun with his models. The model is 2.85m wingspan, weighs 10.5kg and is powered by a Laser 200 V- Twin. The cabin framework is built from steel tube for maximum scale effect with the rest of the airframe being conventional balsa and plywood. Covering is Solartex and it is finished with automotive acrylic paint. Alf has further modified his model to incorporate folding wing panels.


VFSAA SPORTSCALE at

YARRA VALLEY

This warm sunny Sunday in the Yarra Valley did not attract a very large entry but those that attended had a pleasant, if challenging, day. The calm conditions for the first couple of contestants soon gave way to a strong cross wind that provided a test of skill for the remainder of the day. With few models available for the Scale and Large Scale sections all were placed in the Flying Only section providing a wide collection of competing aircraft with varied performances. Noel Whitehead has managed to procure a new RV-4, replacing the Robin that seemed to have continuous undercarriage problems, and demonstrat-ed once again his comfort with this particular design. David Law only flew his Spitfire in one round thus opening the door for three Yarra Valley members in Graham Jenner, Daniel Wheeler and David White to place at the top end of the results. David Anderson with his Mew Gull had problems on one flight as did I with my Yak 54 that I was sharing with Ian. Gary Sunderland’s Bristol Scout and Greg Lepp’s Cessna did not appreci-ate the gusty cross wind while Arthur Smith’s PZL P-8 was also a bit of a handful in the wind. Rob Dickson made his usual late appearance, this time with a P-51 Mus-tang, to miss the first round while Joe Finocchiaro had problems with his Piper Cub and was able to fly in only one round.

Models in the pits. You don’t have to carry your model and support gear too far from your vehicle at Yarra Valley.

A sunny spring day in the Yarra Valley.


Yarra Valley member David White was a newcomer with his large Sbach. The model had plenty of power and flew well in the wind.

David’s Sbach climbs away.

Veteran modeller Arthur Green flew his Polish PZL P-8, an early 1930’s variant of this rather unusual fighter.

Arthur’s P-8 flew fast and furious with its two stroke engine.

David Law only flew his 1/4 scale Spitfire in one round, opening the door for others to place in the event.

Some of the nice detailing around the cockpit of David’s Spitfire.

David Anderson’s Mew Gull on take off. The Mew Gull looks every inch a racer as it makes a fast take off into the clouded sky.



N. WHITEHEAD RV-4 2205 2345 2246 2275 1

G. JENNER PIPER J3 CUB 1909 2145 2169 2157 2

D. WHEELER YAK 54 1863 1995 2106 2051 3

D. WHITE SBACH 1986 2073 1595 2029.5 4

J. LAMONT YAK 54 2134.5 882 1895 2015 5

I. LAMONT YAK 54 2008.5 2007 1980 2008.8 6

D. ANDERSON MEW GULL 1825 195 1742 1888 7

G. SUNDERLAND BRISTOL SCOUT 1657 1762 DNF 1710 8

R. DICKSON P-51 MUSTANG DNF 1750 1424 1587 9

D. LAW SPITFIRE DNF 2375 DNF 1187.5 10

A. GREEN PZL P-8 989 1023 DNF 1006 11

G.LEPP CESSNA 150 1722 DNF DNF 862 12

J. FINOCCHIARO PIPER J3 CUB 1412 DNF DNF 706 13

RESULTS

It has become a ritual at each event at Yarra Valley where, after finishing our flying, we join David and Isabelle Anderson for scones, jam and cream at a popular tea rom in Yarra Glen. Despite a number of phone calls to confirm that the tea room would still be open at 3:30pm and our leaving the field in unseemly haste to make this deadline, we arrived at Yarra Glen to find the tea room closed and had to settle for a milkshake for David, Ian and myself at the adjacent coffee shop. Isabelle still managed to pick up a solitary date scone and coffee . Cést la vie!

Droopy pants on Daniel Wheeler’s Yak 54 did not prevent him taking out third place with steadily improving flights.

Greg’s Cessna and Gary Sunderland’s Bristol Scout found it hard going in the strong cross wind.

Greg Lepp and his Cessna 150, assisted by Joe Finocchiaro, with the pic-turesque Yarra Valley scenery in the background.

Yarra Valley member Graham Jenner was another new starter to scale competition and flew his Cub into second place.

Graham’s Cub had plenty of power to handle the strong wind and flew with authority in the gusty conditions.


David Balfour’s

Boeing 40C

After waiting a couple of weeks for the weather to settle David has made the first test flights of his Boeing 40C. The big biplane, powered by an OS 200 four stroke, performed very well.


Shepparton Mammoth Scale Rally

2013

I only had one day available for this event and kept a close eye on the weather forecast for the Shepparton area throughout the preceding week. With the forecast changing daily I decided, on Friday, to make Saturday the day and as my photographs show we enjoyed warm sun-shine and calm conditions throughout the day. Entries were good at more than 100, the flying was continuous and the flight line constantly full. Accidents were few although the mid air collision of the Model Engines Tucano and Brian Evans’ Nieuport resulted in the loss of two nice models. The weather was not so kind on Sunday and, with the wind strengthen-ing, many who faced a long trip home decided to leave early. Neverthe-less it was a successful event once again and remains the premier east coast scale fly-in. Early on Saturday morning and the pits are already full of large scale mod-

els.

The canola crop surrounding the flying area did not allow much landing overrun for large models. Not the place for an out landing!

The excellent weather and the large attendance meant that he line of mod-ellers waiting to fly was quite long at times.


Wayne Harrison’s scratch built DH Dragon Rapide is modelled on the full size aircraft at Duxford (UK). The model is 1/4 scale with a wingspan of 3.7m and is powered by two OS200 four stroke engines. Weight is 15.7kg.

Bruce Hoffman’s Hawker Tempest.

David Chivers’ Austar ARF DH Caribou is 2.54m wingspan and powered by two DLE 20 petrol engines. Weight is 10.5kg.

Eddie Camilleri from Keilor flew this large scale Pilot R/C ARF Yak 54. Model is 2.7m wingspan and is powered by a DLE 111cc petrol engine.

James Galea flew this 1/3 scale Spacewalker built from a Sig kit. The model is powered by a DZY 48cc twin petrol engine.

Tony Farnan with a large ARF Embraer T-27 Tucano which met its end in a spectacular mid air collision with Brian Evans’ big Nieuport 17.

Steve Malcman’s pair of Cessna twins, one large and one VERY large.

Gary Sunderland’s BE.2 models one of the two aircraft used for training at the opening of Point Cook Air Force base. Powered by a OS 91 four stroke

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Steve Malcman’s very large ARF Cessna about to touch down. Ross Smith’s Pilatus P-21 on a low fly-by.

The big Lockheed “Constellation” looked realistic in flight . Ross Smith’s PT-17 on a not so low fly-by but brought to life with high resolution digital magic.

Robert Zyp’s 1/3 scale, scratch built, DH Gipsy Moth on take off. David Foster’s Sopwith Camel looks the part in the air.

Another Model Engines ARF, the Yak looks suitably menacing in flight. Doug Radford’s 1/4 scale ARF Tiger Moth on take off.


Ross Smith from Lithgow, NSW, brought two large models. The PT-17 is scratch built from a Balsa USA kit . At 1/3 scale its powered by a DA 150 petrol engine and weighs 22kg. His second model is a Pilatus P-21 built in balsa and plywood from an Aerobell (Switzerland) kit. The P-21 is powered by a Wren turbo prop unit which drives the 28x12 3– blade propeller at 5000rpm.

David Balfour’s scratch built Boeing 40C is the latest addition to his collec-tion of 1930’s aircraft. The model is powered by an OS 200 four stroke engine.

Neil Addicott’s Grumman Panther is scratch built with all metal covering.

Andy Thomas from Bendigo flew this 2.8m Marchetti SF260. The model is a Composite ARF powered by a DA120 petrol engine and weighs 17kg. A broken rudder cable and consequent rudder flutter gave Andy a challenge which he overcame very well to land safely, the only damage being a very loose fin.

Darryl Reilly from Orange, NSW flew this attractive Cessna 195. An Austar ARF, the model is 2.2m wingspan and weighs 8.5kg. Powered by a 28cc petrol engine.

David Law and Bill Kirk wait in line to fly Bill’s ARF DH.88 Comet.

Mike Farnan’s 6.3m wingspan ASK-21 glider is a Phoenix ARF. Fitted with a retractable auxilia-ry electric motor, the model is self launching and weighs 23kg.

VICSCALE Victorian Flying Scale Aircraft

Association The Special Interest Group

for Scale Modelling in Victoria.

General Meetings of the Association are held bi-monthly on the first Thursday of the even months at the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria, 1 Gardenia Street, Blackburn. Visitors are always wel-come and a highlight of meetings is the presentation of new models as they are constructed, and discussion on building techniques by members.

The VFSAA Calendar of events is available on the VFSAA website at http://vfsaa.org.au/

Brian Whellan with his scratch built Corby Starlet..

(A simple engine mount constructed by John Urry from easily obtained material.) The mount was made to fit a YS-63 to a Playboy old timer that originally had a “Pricerite” cast aluminium mount. Through a change of owners I got the model mi-nus the mount. Material used was two pieces of 75 X 50 X 6 aluminium angle cut to width and fitted back to back. No fancy equipment is used, just cut with a hacksaw, file smooth, and finish on a linishing belt. Notice that the two halves aren't the same, the offset is required to place the crankshaft C/L on the upper sur-face of the top half of the mount. When all bolted up it holds itself together. The bolt holes on the firewall face are not symmetrical as they were drilled to match the existing holes in the firewall. John Urry Townsville Aeromodellers

Home Made Engine Mount.

John’s YS-63 and the new mounting on his Playboy.


Three BRAND NEW UNFLOWN E-flite aircraft

#1: P51B Mustang 52” wingspan. It is finished in matt olive drab covering. It comes with Eflite eltracts, Hyperion mo-tor, Hyperion LiPo pack, Hyperion metal geared servos. ESC. Futaba 2.4G receiver and APC prop. All of these components are installed and are brand new !!!!! The manual is also includ-ed. $299-00 (no offers) #2: Boeing Stearman 44” wingspan. Hyperion motor, Hyperion LiPo pack, Hyperion metal geared servos. ESC. Futa-ba 2.4G receiver and APC prop. All of these components are in-stalled and are brand new !!! The manual is also included.

$299-00 (no offers)

#3: DH Beaver. 68” wingspan with nav. lights on tips. This aircraft has had only three flights so it is virtually brand new. It does fly very well. It comes with an OS electric motor, Hyperion LiPo pack, Hyperion metal geared servos. ESC. Futaba 2,4G re-ceiver and APC prop. All of these components are installed and are brand new !!!!! The manual is also included. $299-00 (no offers)

#4: Rainbow high wing. 63” wingspan Hyperion motor, Hyperion LiPo pack, Hyperion metal geared servos, ESC. Futa-ba 2.4G receiver and APC prop. Spare wing is also included. $160-00 (no offers)

Contact Ian Thompson 04 08 33 5523

FOR SALE




67th National Championships

The first Bulletin for the 67th Nationals, to be held at Albury from December 28th to Janu-ary 5th, is now available on the VFSAA website. The programme shown here is a draft only and may be subject to change.


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