issue no. 45 australian model news · 2017. 4. 2. · handley page “hampden ... the foreshore...

Issue No. 45

AUSTRALIAN

MODEL NEWS

April 2017

2 Australian Model News

Contents

3. INDOOR R/C FLYING AT KNOX 5. BIPE AND BUSH PLANE DAY AT

MITCHELL FIXED WING AERO CLUB 7. WESTERN PORT FESTIVAL 10. HEARN’S HOBBIES TROPHY 2017 AT

KMAC 12. OILY HAND WEEKEND AT MUNRO 15. MARTIN NEWELL’S “MUSTANG” 16. WARRNAMBOOL FLY IN 18. LILYDALE DISPLAY 20. “TWINS AND MORE” AT NFG 24. SAM 600 AT ECHUCA 27. APA MASTERS 2017 AND WORLD CUP 31. NEPEAN SCALE COMPETITION 33. BRIAN EVANS’ HANDLEY PAGE “HAMPDEN”

COMING EVENTS

BALLARAT DISPLAY

MONTY TYRRELL MEMORIAL

ECHUCA - MOAMA FUN FLY

MMRC MULTI - ROTOR RACING

KYNETON AIR SHOW

KEILOR DISPLAY

VMAA TROPHY

SOUTHERN CROSS CUP AND AFFFS CHAMPIONSHIPS

TWIN CITIES AUTUMN SCALE RALLY

SCANNER CHALLENGE

THE TUI CUP

FREE FLIGHT SCALE MASTERS

P&DARCS SCRATCH AND KIT BUILT SCALE RALLY

INVITATIONAL SCALE CLASSIC DOWNUNDER

NAAS MAMMOTH FLY IN

This newsletter is published bi-monthly to feature model aircraft building and flying and to report on aeromodelling events in Australia and New Zealand. Contributing material and requests for inclusion on the distri-bution list may be forwarded to —

John Lamont Unit 5, 1326 Main Road, Eltham, 3095 Ph: 03 9431 0044 Mob: 0415 384 823 E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMN website at - https://sites.google.com/site/australianmodelnews/

In mid March with my annual fishing expedition behind me it was time to get back to aeromodelling and Australian Model News. With things still a little quiet after the Xmas break it was a question of how to find the content for the April issue, so a few calls went out to my modelling contacts around the clubs and in came the reports and photographs. I consider myself to be very fortunate in this respect and again thank those who contribute material to AMN. With my new hip joint working well I managed to get around a lot more and could not help noticing the increasing age of our aeromodelling fraternity. We do not seem to be attracting younger people to the hobby as we did in my youthful years when control line flying was flourishing and every young lad wanted to try their hand at flying a model aeroplane and, of necessity, developed the skills required to build them. It’s all so much easier now with ready to fly models available at a reasonable price, reliable engines, and no difficulty in acquiring the control equipment that you might need. So is it the cost or a general lack of interest in things aero-nautical by the youth of today? Whatever the answer might be, if we don’t find it soon then it won’t be long before my generation and that succeeding it are gone and aeromodel-ling, an interesting and challenging pastime, will also be gone. John Lamont

On the Cover A rubber powered Tiger Moth by Mike Mulholland of New Zealand flying at the Richmond Free Flight Scale event.

From the Editor

(Photograph by Malcolm Campbell)

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INDOOR R/C FLYING

at

KNOX

The Indoor Aviation group are affiliated with the Australian Men’s Shed Association and through this affiliation have obtained the use of basketball stadiums in the Melbourne suburbs of Knox and Wa-verley for the flying of small, lightweight, electric powered, radio controlled model aircraft and small rubber powered free flight mod-els. In order to ensure safe flying with fragile free flight aircraft in the 'shared' indoor space, all remote controlled aircraft normally use 2.4 GHz equipment and a single cell LiPo battery of not more than 350mAh capacity. This restriction also applies to helicopters and other rotor-craft. Seeking a bit more information on setting up the radio gear in my SE5 I attended a recent flying session at Knox, joining some of my old friends and making the acquaintance of a few new friends in the course of the morning flying in mid-February. It was also an opportunity to spread information on this indoor activ-ity through AMN and, despite the poor lighting and small targets, I managed to get enough to put together this report. Those who think that they might be interested in this area of model-ling can contact Indoor Aviation via their website at - http://www.indooraviation.com/ It’s never windy or wet indoors!

David Anderson’s Fokker D.VII by Ares spans 398mm and weighs 29g.

Laurie Clark’s Piper J3 Cub by Park Zone spans 460mm and weighs 29g.

Laurie Clark’s SE5 by Eachine spans 378mm and weighs 40g.

Keith Schneider’s Aeronca Champ by Hobby Zone spans 515mm and weighs 38g. David Anderson’s indoor model collection.


Ron Hickman’s Flying Flea by Eachine spans 358mm and weighs 43g. Geoff Elliott and David Anderson both flew a “Night Vapor” by Park Zone. This

model has a wingspan of 376mm and weighs only 16.4g.

Barry Woodman flew a Sport Cub S by Hobby Zone. Model spans 616mm and

weighs 57g.

Aeronca Champs of Lew Rodman and John Gottschalk in tight formation.

David Hipperson’s Boeing Stearman by E-Flite spans 388mm and weighs 48g.


BIPE & BUSH PLANE DAY at

Mitchell Fixed Wing Aero Club

The third year for this event drew flyers from Ballarat, Geelong, MARCS, Keilor, Ararat, Bellarine, Greensborough and Camperdown to join the Mitchell members for an enjoyable day of flying and social-ising. I was unable to attend due to another commitment but Jon Bellamy was able to assist with the photos. I don’t have any details of the models or their owners but I hope that those who were there will recognise their model and appreciate Jon’s efforts.


Western Port MAC

AT

THE WESTERN PORT FESTIVAL

The naval force was constantly under attack by an assortment of aircraft and,

coupled with the pyrotechnics, it was good entertainment for both the specta-

After relying on other people for photos and a report on this event over the last few years, I finally got there myself despite the 180km round trip from Eltham on the northern edge of Melbourne to Has-tings on the far away southern end. Taking place on the Hastings Reserve adjacent to the bay and run in conjunction with the Western Port Festival it‘s a good display of mod-el flying by the Western Port club, always culminating in a mock at-tack on a ground target, complete with pyrotechnics. In past years the finale has been a tank attack with large scale tanks rolling over a model village while aircraft provided overhead protec-tion but this year the tanks were not available so the attack changed to an aerial onslaught on a naval task force of surface ships and submarines. There was some spirited low flying involved and with plenty of smoke and flames the onlookers were well entertained. It was a fine sunny day, the light southerly wind was straight down the prepared strip and there was a good assortment of aircraft on display and flying. As a part of the Festival there was no charge for entry and a constant stream of spectators filled the pit line throughout the day.

THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS


The foreshore reserve at Hastings is an excellent display field.

Dennis Davies’ Fairchild PT-19 is an ASM ARF with a wingspan of 2.8m and

powered by DLE 60cc twin cylinder petrol engine. His “Spitfire” Is an ESM ARF

with a 2.1m wingspan and powered by a DLE 30cc petrol engine.

Dominic Biviano starting his Great Planes ARF Boeing “Stearman”. Model

spans 1.8m and is powered by an MGH 38cc petrol engine.

Mark Stewart’s Douglas “Dauntless” is an ARF by VQ Models. Model spans 2m

and is powered by a MGH 30cc petrol engine. His “Stearman” is a Seagull ARF

with a wingspan of 1.8m and is powered by a DLE 20 petrol engine.

Wayne Gorsuch’s scratch built semi-scale model of the Messerschmitt Me.323 troop carrying glider.

Craig Bavery flew this Krill Aircraft ARF Extra 330SC. Model is 3.1m wingspan

and powered by a MVVS 190cc four cylinder petrol engine.


Dominic Biviano had a novel sunscreen for his Seagull ARF “Kittyhawk” model with this camouflaged netting.

After the attack on the ships Dominic Biviano decided to finish the job com-

pletely with his “Kittyhawk”.

Brian Holmes’ Hangar 9 ARF “Twin Otter” is powered by two Saito 62 four

stroke engines.

An ARF model of the Italian Macchi C.202

Stephen Gray in the control tent .

Bruce Bryant’s Sig “Rascal” is a big ARF at 2.8m wingspan. Powered by an OS

160 twin cylinder four stroke engine.

Wayne Gorsuch displayed this large “Sunspot” glider, an early 1950’s design

published in “Aeromodeller” magazine.


HEARN’S HOBBIES

TROPHY

2017

Hearn’s Hobbies Trophy 2017 placegetters - from left - Mark Ellins 2nd, P.J. Rowland 1st, Murray Wilson 3rd.

(Derek Pickard photograph)

This once prestigious event is now a shadow of former years and only attracted five entries despite the almost perfect flying conditions. It was won once again by PJ Rowland who is the perennial winner of this event, usually vanquishing those who may try to dethrone him. Interestingly, he flew a what might be consisered a dated, convention-al design but still managed to surpass the best efforts of those flying state-of-the-art Yatsenko models. Peter Koch flew a Doug Grinham designed model as did Derek Pickard who was making a return to model flying after a long absence.

The Yeoman event, run in conjunction with the HH Trophy, was marked by Reeve Marsh’s Piper Cub breaking free and becoming a free flighter for a short time and for the spectacular crash by Steve Vallve with his profile Yak 55, attributed to a brain fade when flying inverted. DOWN is UP when you are upside down! (that sounds a bit convoluted when you say it, but it’s right).


Mark Ellins’ Yatsenko Shark Ellipse 2.

Murray Wilson’s Yatsenko Shark Ellipse 2.

P.J.Rowland’s “Tiger”.

Peter Koch’s “Jazzmate”.

Derek Pickard’s “Jazzer”. Dave Lacey’s “Dolphin”.


Reeve Marsh’s unusual selection for a stunt model was this Piper “Cub” powered by a HP 20.

Bruce Mackay’s ARF Top Flite “Tutor” powered by an OS46LA.

Steve Vallve’s Sukhoi powered by an OS46LA. Steve also flew this Enya 36 powered “Flight Streak”.

Dave Lacey’s FROG 500 powered Hearn’s Hobbies “Demon”.


My annual fishing trip to Narooma comes up early in March and while idly looking around various club newsletters I found that there was to be an event at the Munro field on the weekend on which I was travelling. Munro was not far out of the way as I was already driving through East Gippsland so I made a point of calling in to meet another group of model enthusiasts. It was, of necessity, a short visit but I met up with Barry Murphy the organiser of the field and with Tom Prosser who I have known from the 1960’s when modellers from Victoria and NSW met to fly aero-batic competitions at Wagga. It was a mix of control line models and r/c models powered by diesel engines, together with some practice flying by very fast FAI pylon racers, and attended mainly by local modellers with a few visitors from Melbourne and Sydney. After introductions and a quick talk with those taking part I took the accompanying photographs and continued on my way north.

OILY HAND WEEKEND at MUNRO

The Munro field has this open front shelter with tables and chairs and a fine

collection of empty bottles. The field is in a paddock leased from a local farmer,

far from any other dwellings and not subject to any noise restraints. Excellent

for pylon racing.

Andrew Arapakis and his son Danny came down from Melbourne, travelling in style with their models and living quarters all together in this very large trailer.


A wide range of models on show, all diesel powered with the exception of Mike

Pettigrew’s F1C free flight model at centre right.

At the control line circle, again all diesel powered aircraft.

Mike Pettigrew (left) and Tom Prosser with the models on display. Barry Murphy (left) is the man responsible for organising the field for pylon

racing and is seen here with Danny Arapakis and their two FAI pylon racers.

I thought that this model looked familiar and it was. Danny Arapakis purchased

it from Peter Koch to pursue his interest in control line aerobatics.

A nicely built, own design control line model by Barry Murphy and powered by

a 2.5cc diesel engine.

I missed the names of these two control line flyers preparing a vintage barn

door stunter for flight.

Mike Pettigrew relaxing with his FAI, F1C class free flight model.


We are all familiar with r/c models of the popular North American P-51D “Mustang” in various sizes but Paul Butler alerted me to this micro model of the famous WII fighter. Built by Martin Newell (resident in California, USA but sounds like an Englishman) the model is 1:96 scale with a wingspan of 117mm and total weight of 3g. It’s fitted with 8 channel radio equipment controlling the ailerons, rudder, elevator, flaps and retracting undercarriage. Working navigation lights and machine guns are operated by transmit-ter switches with a speaker on the transmitter simulating gun fire.

The airframe is made of 0.020" thick Durabatics foam. The foam is printed on an ink jet printer then formed. The fuselage is monocoque. The fuselage and fin are made from a single piece of foam that wraps around from the underside and is glued along the seam on the top. The wing and horizontal stab are each a single piece of foam. Videos showing details of the model and the model in flight can be seen on youtube at - Display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgRTPGYEQA Flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QwabcKUTuI

Martin Newell’s

P-51D

“Mustang”

Undercarriage retraction demonstration. .

The airframe, motor, radio receiver, control surface actuators and carbon fibre

propeller were all built by Martin Newell. The tiny P-51 in flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgRTPGYEQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QwabcKUTuI


WARRNAMBOOL FLY IN

2017

The BRMFC pit area on the south side of the field.

The Warrnambool Model Aero Club held their annual fun fly over the weekend of March 4th/5th unfortunately clashing with the Avalon Airshow as it seems to every second year. No doubt the Airshow has a detrimental effect on both the pilots and public that turn up. Nevertheless it was a great weekend away and quite well supported. The pick of the days weather wise was the Saturday with bright sun-shine from mid-morning onwards and light to moderate wind mostly from the south. On Sunday it was overcast most of the time and by midday the wind was strengthening from the south but still quite flyable. There were models in the air most of the time to keep the spectators entertained and to that end Rod Mitchell was probably the star per-former with his twin engine Neptune and P-38 Lightning. He man-aged several flights with each on both days doing water bombing and bomb drop displays. The Warrnambool club now has two new sheds, one for machinery and the other to be fitted out as club rooms. They have been con-structed behind the existing facilities which are to be eventually dis-mantled once the new ones are complete. Throughout the weekend the club was giving trainer flights to spec-tators using the buddy box system. It is a good idea and a way of encouraging and coaxing people into the hobby. The club had a couple of raffles running, one primarily for spectators and the other for pilots. They had quite a number of prizes for pilots and continued drawing until the prizes ran out. Roger Carrigg

One of the two new sheds which will replace the old buildings at the Warrnam-

bool field.

The model used to give trainer flights to spectators throughout the weekend.

Peter Evans preparing to fly his DLE 35 powered Pilatus PC-21.


Rod Mitchell taking off with his Neptune water bomber.

Glen White sorting out glow plug problems with the OS120 FS in his Mew Gull.

Long time Warrnambool member, Jack Williams, contemplating his “Citabria”.

Ballarat club models in the pits.

Dave Barling from the Bellarine Club about to take-off with his “Ugly Stik”.

Neil Sanders and his model boat engineering buddies put on a display of their

superbly built and detailed radio controlled boats .

Graeme Allen’s Cessna “Bird Dog” taking off.

Allan Wilshire’s scratch built DH.82 Tiger Moth.

Jamie McLaren’s Wots Wot XL biplane in the pits with David Bell’s 5.5m glider.


The Lilydale & District Model Flying Association conducted their 2017 Radio Control Model Airshow on Sunday 19th March at the flying field. The field is located in Yering in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. With the CASA permit formalities complete and a 1500 foot ceiling for the day all was set for a fabulous day. The day dawned fine and mild but temperatures quickly rose with the maximum for the day being around the 34C mark. Wings were light for the whole day. Almost perfect flying weather. The Airshow commenced sharply at 10AM with a group of club mem-bers flying their civilian scale models. During the course of the day we were to see F3C and 3D helicopters, pylon racers, gliders being towed to height and F3A aerobatics. There were awesome displays of mam-moth scale aerobatics courtesy of Phillip Singh with his Edge 540 and Scott Matthews and his ½ scale Pitts. In fact at one stage when Phillip was giving a demonstration with his Edge he was briefly joined by a rather large wedge tailed eagle. The eagle observed the action and gently sauntered away from the action. Unfortunately early in the day Scott Matthews was unable to get the turbine of his De Havilland Vampire to spool up properly and it was parked for the day. Shortly afterwards Neil Addicott lost his Euro just after take-off when it went into failsafe and crashed in a nearby field. Not an auspicious start to the day. However as all good modellers do we soldiered on with several large scale models, an assortment of scale warbirds from both wars flown by club members and a couple of visitors. For a little nostalgia there were a couple of control line model-lers who put on an enthusiastic display of aerobatics and some exiting combat routines.

There were also a number of unusual models including a wing flap-ping raptor which handled the slight breeze at the time with aplomb. There was even a session with four “bugs” undertaking a streamer cut competition For the newer generation there was FPV racing and some drone flying including an octocopter. The drone racing and some sport aerobatics had the crowd spellbound. I’m sure sales might well in-crease after these demonstrations. Action was non-stop for five hours with the show eventually coming to a close at 3PM. We were honoured by a visit from two local politicians – David Hodgett and Christine Fyffe. Christine’s husband David is a member of LDMFA. There were over 900 paying public and children attend the day. All children under 16 were admitted for free. They received a chuckie glider (courtesy of the MAAA) and a ticket for one of three gate prizes. That old doyen of the microphone, Cliff McIvor, provided a fantastic narration of the event. The AvServe team from Coldstream were in attendance with their full size simulator. This proved a popular venue throughout the day for young and old alike. There was an aerobatic demonstrator by a local from the Lilydale Aero Club in his fill size Decathlon. The general feeling amongst the model-lers was that we modellers do it so much better than the big boys. But that is just our opinion. Terry Pollock

LILYDALE and DISTRICT

MAC

DISPLAY

2017

(Photographs by Chris Daley of CD Photography)


Mathew Bailey’s F3A Aerobatic biplane in the middle of a roll. Neil Addicott returning to the pits with his Cassutt Racer.

Henny Van Teylingen’s Octocopter in flight. Tony Lloyd-Bailey’s Pilatus PC-21 taking off — piloted by Matthew Bailey.

Scott Matthews’ 1/2 scale Pitts in a cloud of smoke. Steve Malcman’s SBach aerobatic model.

Brian Evans’ Fokker Dr.I triplane. The 3D helicopter flown by 17 years old Josh Labita.


“TWINS and MORE” at

Northern Flying Group

This popular event by the Northern Flying Group continues to draw a good attendance, maybe not quite as many as usual this year as it clashed with the Australian grand Prix and a few people may have cho-sen to watch the car races. Ken Thomas, who was responsible for starting this event, missed this year due to some health issues but his “Katy” Award continued and was won by Colin Kahn with his multi engine scale models constructed from foam and covered in brown paper. Colin also selected an Aurora 9X radio as first pick in the Pilots Prize draw so he had a very good day. The weather was fine and warm with only a slight breeze from the south and the flight line was busy as multiple aircraft took to the sky. Brian Ev-ans had a couple of unusual models in his push/pull two engined canard and all foam ,five winged, twin electric fan powered canard. Another couple of models that impressed were Peter Mack’s ARF Boeing 737, which was all foam but looked impressive and flew well in its Qantas colours, and Peter Ralston’s scratch built Caribou constructed from a mix of foam and balsa. With aeromodelling overwhelmed by ARF models it’s good to see that a few still prefer using their skills to construct their own individual aircraft. It was another successful event and I look forward to next year. If you have a model with two or more engines or wings then make a point of attending.

Colin Kahn was the winner of the Ken Thomas “Katy” Award for

the most innovative model and also picked up an Aurora 9X

radio in the Pilot’s draw.


Brian Whellan flew the very old aircraft built by ATC members back in the

1950’s. Originally powered by a Dynajet pulse jet it has been converted to IC

with four OS 25 engines.

VMAA secretary, Norm Thompson, is always looking for a photo op. so here he

is again, this time with his OS 120 powered ARF “Super Skybolt” and very

elaborate and rather expensive looking transmitter.

Brian Evans’ ARF “Bronco” and his all foam pentaplane now powered by a

pair of electric ducted fans.

Mark Radburn’s Twin Mustang and Nieuport flew well throughout the day. David Chivers ARF collection of Lockheed “Lightning”, Grumman “Tiger Cat”,

and F-14 “Tom Cat”.

Anthony Monteleone with his ARF “Ultimate Bipe”. Jim Pascmalis’ Blackhorse ARF Pitts biplane is powered by aa OS 120 AX.

engine.


Peter Mack’s ARF, all foam, Boeing 737. The Boeing 737 looked very realistic in the air.

Tim de Haan’s electric powered, ARF, DH Mosquito.

Peter Ralston and his scratch built DHC “Caribou”. This model has a foam

fuselage with paper covering and a conventional, built up, balsawood wing and

tail assembly. Wingspan is 2m and it’s powered by two OS 27 LA engines.

Joe Matthews heading for the flightline with his “Twin Telemaster” powered by

two OS 52 four stroke engines.

Andrew Smallridge and Kevin Chiselett of SC Models supported the event. . Bill Pearce with his ARF WACO biplane.


Anthony Monteleone’s Ultimate Bipe climbs away on take off. Joe Matthews’ Twin Telemaster in a steep bank.

Norm Edmunds is a regular at this event with his Cessna 310. Brian Whellan’s four engine model flying on three.

Peter Mack’s Douglas DC3 is an all foam ARF that looks very realistic in flight. Brian Evans’ Pentaplane canard in flight.

Mark Radburn’s Nieuport was the only WWI aircraft flying on the day. Tim de Haan’s Mosquito in flight.


ECHUCA March 2017

Our first country competition for the year was at Echuca where we all love to fly because of the friendly people at the club. The weather forecast was for a perfect weekend and for once the forecast didn't let us down, perfect weather both days and a very good turn up in all events. Saturday started off with 1/2A Texaco which had thirteen entries, five in I/C and eight in electric, the only person who didn't get into the fly-off had radio trouble and could not fly. With plenty of thermals and very little wind Rob Taylor came first with nearly 23 minutes, his first ½A win since his garage fire, “good on ya” Rob. Steve Jenkinson took out electric with a 20 minute flight. The Echuca boys put on their usual superb lunch and after that we all went back to flying Burford, this event had five entries and it was agreed that they would fly only one flight and then the fly-off. Unfortu-nately Don Grant didn't change his model on the transmitter and blew his “Creep” to pieces on launching, a lesson we all learn at onetime or another. Three of the remaining four flyers reached the fly-off and Kevin Fryer started his winning run. The next event was the GT of Oldtimers, Duration, where we had nine entries in I/C and four in electric. The thermals were a bit scarce in this event with only four getting into the I/C fly-off and three in electric. Our “SILLY OLD BUGGERS” club gained a new member, although not as old as the rest of us, when Lyn Clifford stuck his hand in the propeller of his YS engine at full revs. We all thought he was going to pass out and started running in different directions in case he needed mouth to mouth, YUCK! Welcome to the club Lyn. I/C in this event was taken out by Col Collyer flying the late Brian Stebbing's “Stardust”, boy does that thing climb.

Electric was won by Kevin Fryer with his recently converted “Cumulus” his second win of the day. It just goes to show you don't have to be a ‘greenie’ to make the best use of electricity. Day one was over and off to the Workingman’s Club for dinner. Sunday dawned a little windy but as the day wore on it dropped and became variable. First event was Texaco and with eight entries in I/C and three in electric there was plenty of lift for six in I/C and two in electric to reach the fly-off. Again lift was in abundance with first place going to Kevin Fryer for a 31 minute flight and all fly-off times being over 20 minutes In electric I must have jinxed Laurie Baldwin by say-ing that it was a very reliable model and he had been flying it for a long time, only to have it crash in the second round. Sorry Laurie. This event was taken out by the ever popular Steve Gullock. The last event of the day was ‘38 Antique with six entries. All except Rob Taylor reached the fly-off and Kevin Fryer had his fourth victory of the weekend flying the same Cumulus, after a change of prop and fuel, with which he had won Texaco. Of the seven competitions Kevin entered he won four. This must be some sort of a record, a just re-ward for all the time and effort Kevin puts into the hobby. On behalf of the SAM 600 members that attended, thank you to the Echuca club for a fantastic weekend. Everybody had a marvelous time . Brian Laughton

Kevin Fryer presents Rodger Mitchell with his award for 3rd place in Elec. Duration. Col Collyer receiving his 1st place award for Texaco from

(Photographs by Graeme Gulbin)


Duration winners, from left — 2nd Lyn Clifford (Racer), 1st Col Collyer

(Stardust), 3rd Don Grant (Playboy).

Electric Duration winners, from left — 2nd Laurie Baldwin (Westerner),

1st Kevin Fryer (Cumulus), 3rd Rodger Mitchell ( Playboy).

1/2A winners, from left — 2nd Kevin Fryer (Cumulus), 1st Robert Tay-

lor (Stardust), 3rd Don Grant (Anderson Pylon).

Texaco winners, from left — 2nd Lyn Clifford (Racer), 1st Kevin Fryer

(Cumulus), 3rd Steve Gullock (Bomber).

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. K. FRYER CUMULUS FORSTER

99 IGN 24 600 600 600 1897 3697

2. L. CLIFFORD RACER ENYA 60 18 600 600 600 1800 3600

3. S. GULLOCK BOMBER ENYA 53 15 600 600 600 1560 3360

TEXACO


1. C. COLLYER STARDUST DUBJET 40 25 420 420 420 983 2243

2. L. CLIFFORD RACER YS 63 28 420 420 420 772 2032

3. D. GRANT PLAYBOY YS 63 28 420 420 420 487 1747

DURATION

DURATION (ELECTRIC)

COMPETITOR MODEL RD. 1 RD. 2 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. S. JENKINSON STARDUST 600 600 1205 2405

2. C. COLLYER PLAYBOY 600 600 1170 2370

3. L. BALDWIN STARDUST 600 600 1136 2336

COMPETITOR MODEL FLY– OFF TOTAL RND. 1 RND. 2 RND. 3

1. K. FRYER CUMULUS 700 1540 391 420 420

2. R. MITCHELL Playboy 660 1500 240 420 420

3. L. BALDWIN WESTERNER 620 1460 420 420

1/2A TEXACO (ELECTRIC)

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL RD. 4

1. R. TAYLOR STARDUST COX 420 420 384 1375 2215 420

2. K. FRYER CUMULUS COX 420 420 420 1200 2040

3. D. GRANT ANDERSON

PYLON COX 420 420 420 894 1734

1/2A TEXACO

COMPETITOR MODEL RD. 1 RD. 2 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. S. GULLOCK DALLAIR 600 600 838 2038

2. R. MITCHELL BOMBER 600 600 816 2016

3. L. BALDWIN BOMBER 600 590 1190

TEXACO (ELECTRIC)


1. K. FRYER CUMULUS FORSTER 99

IGN 192 600 600 988 2188

2. C. COLLYER FLAMINGO OK SUPER 60 144 600 L/O 600 889 2089

3. D. GRANT RC 1 ANDERSON

SPITFIRE 64 600 600 668 1868

‘38 ANTIQUE

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. K. FRYER ATOMISER PB 40 300 933 1233

2. S. JENKINSON DIXIELANDER BB 38 300 656 956

3. L. CLIFFORD CREEP D/O 38 300 270 570

BURFORD

RESULTS


Lyn Clifford’s 25 years old “Cadet”.

Lyn Clifford’s “Cadet” gliding in over the hay bales.

Col Collyer’s “Flamingo” returning home.

Don Grant launching his “Anderson Pylon” in 1/2A Texaco.

Competitors preparing for the Duration event.

Greg Jenkinson flying, Steve Gullock timing.

Trevor Taylor releasing Robert Taylor’s “Playboy”. A Happy Birthday for Steve Gullock.


APA MASTERS and WORLD CUP

2017

This year the Australian Pattern Association’s premier event was held from 10th to 13th March at the Charles Kingsford-Smith club at Pitt Town, NSW. The club lies in the middle of a group of turf farms, mag-nificent! If posts on social media were anything to go by, there was a lot of serious practice being undertaken prior to the event. The event attracts international fliers as well as those invited by the APA. This year those who made the journey were; Robyn Trumpp, five times German F3A Champion. AC Glenn, former USA F3A Champion Peter Collinson, USA Kimiyo Takahashi, Japan Hamish Galloway, New Zealand Andrew Palmer, New Zealand James Danby, New Zealand Australia’s finest gave them a run for their money in the F3A class. Other classes to fly were Expert, Advanced and Sportsman. In the same order each class had 19, 14, 4 and 6 entrants. All states were represented at the event including Sportsman entrants from Perth. Friday was set-aside for a day of practice. With a healthy cross-wind and two flight lines set-up, nearly everyone elected to ‘wait their turn’ on one flight line. As the flying ceased late afternoon, people queued for oven-fired piazza. The guys did really well to keep up with the ever-revolving horde. During this time draws and raffles took place. The evening was finally capped with an auction where auctioneer Peter McAllen sold, among other things, a potato for $110 !!! Saturday dawned every bit as good as Friday with a lot less wind. Flying, started at 9am and comprised four rounds for Sportsman and Advanced and two rounds for Expert and F3A. Flying finished around 5:00pm. The evening was then the APA AGM followed by a sit down catered meal. Just great! Sunday dawned wind free and flying commenced at 8:30am. This time, Expert flew four rounds and Sportsman, Advanced and F3A flew two. At the cessation of flying the CD withheld the final placing’s for the Sportsman, Advanced and Expert classes for presentations at Monday’s closing finale. For F3A the top ten were announced for the Finals to be flown over two rounds Monday.

Monday’s finals were to a different schedule. Russell Edwards flew two flights prior to the commencement of the finals to level set the judges. The final two rounds were excellent. The skill and dexterity that goes into F3A is quite amazing. This was my first competition in pattern and it won’t be my last. Observations were — All but three entrants flew electric. Contra rotat-ing systems, belt or gear driven, sound great. The variety and varia-tion of model design lead me to conclude there’s no definite direction that would provide a clear advantage to the flier. Just like any other discipline within aeromodelling, the average age is going up. RESULTS Sportsman 1. Daniel Wheeler (Vic) 2. Brian Ring (WA) 3. Con Kyriaides (Qld) Advanced 1. Jason Sparks (Vic) 2. Artur Uzieblo (Vic) 3. David Garle (???) Expert 1. Durwin Dharmaraj (Vic) 2. John Brann (???) 3. Chris Henry (NSW) Also out of this event the Australian team for the upcoming World Championships was selected. Good luck men! Australian World Championship Team Glenn Orchard Shane Lysaght Dennis Travassaros Russell Edwards (reserve) Bill Wheeler

F3A 1. Robin Trumpp (Germany) 2. AC Glenn (USA) 3. Peter Collinson (USA) 4. Glenn Orchard (Aus) 5.Shane Lysaght (Aus) 6. Hamish Galloway (NZ) 7. Dennis Travassaros (Aus) 8. Andrew Palmer (NZ) 9. Kimiyo Takahashi (Japan) 10.Richard Hirst (Aus)


Winners in F3A, from left — 2nd AC Glenn (USA), 1st Robyn Trump (Germany),

3rd Peter Collinson (USA).

Winners in Expert, from left — 2nd John Brann, 1st Durwin Dharmaraj,

3rd Chris Henry

The top ten placegetters in F3A.


Winners in Sportsman, from left — 2nd Brian Ring, 1st Daniel Wheeler,

3rd Con Kyriaides (absent).

Winners in Advanced, from left — 2nd Artur Uzieblo, 1st Jason Sparks,

3rd David Garle.

Queued up for practice flying on Friday. The turf farm provided a great flying surface.


The American team of Peter Collinson and A C Glenn.

F3A winner Robyn Trumpp, five times German F3A Champion.

New Zealanders Hamish Galloway, James Danby and Andrew Palmer

with their support group.

Kimiyo Takahashi of Japan and his support team. The Australian World Champs Team, from left — Shane Lysaght, Glenn

Orchard, Dennis Travassaros, Russell Edwards (reserve).


NEPEAN

SCALE COMPETITION

Late in March the Nepean club held their annual scale com-petition. I wanted to attend this event but it was held on a Sat-urday and I had another commitment for that day which had to be honoured. This short report on the event comes from Nevil Bird together with a selection of photographs from the club website.

“We hold the event annually and it is designed to get some of the less serious members into a low pressure scale competi-tion. Pilots are judged on their take-off, straight and level flight, a rectangular circuit and landing together with two manoeu-vres of their choosing.

On Saturday morning we had blue skies and a moderate breeze straight down the strip with lighter conditions in the afternoon. The twelve entrants flew over three rounds with each flight judged by Henry Hutchinson and Barry Re-aby. The awards are for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place with no sub categories for Scratch/ARF or Military/Civilian”.

Results on the day were:

1st. Mark Jacob Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

2nd. Nevil Bird Fairchild PT-19

3rd. Mark Stewart DHC Chipmunk


Brian Evans’

Handley Page

“HaMPDEn”

I first came across Brian’s Handley Page “Hampden” at the “Scratch and Kitbuilt” competition at P&DARCS in November last year. It was an interesting subject and one that I had never seen modelled. When I met Brian again at the “Twins and More” event at NFG last week he told me the story of the test flights of the model and its demise after only six flights. Brian’s report on his model — “The Hampden was built from a 1/72 scale drawing in a book, Hamp-den Special by Chas. Bowyer, bought many years ago for $7.25 from the Technical Bookshop in Melbourne. I scaled up the drawing by six to 1:12 scale and at 1.74m wingspan that seemed about the right size for the pair of OS 46 AX motors that I had available. Ready to fly, the model weighed 6kg with around 800g of lead in the front of the fuse-lage. The wings were foam cores cut in four parts and I was a little con-cerned about the number of holes that I had to make in the balsa sheeting. I need not have worried as it was strong enough to use as a surfboard with the 3mm balsa skinning. The radio equipment used was a Graupner transmitter and receiver with Hitec HS645 servos. The twin rudders were driven via a bellcrank and pushrods under the tailplane. The undercarriage retract units were Robart air. The crew were all minion figures bought at the K Mart toy department. I found that it flew great but was overpowered and quite fast. It came to an end at Lilydale on its sixth flight when the left engine died on take-off, turning the plane 90º towards the trees. It was a case of ei-ther close the throttle on the remaining right engine and hit the trees about 10m up or gamble on missing the trees by climbing out on one engine over the trees and turning back to an open area. I almost made it but needless to say I ran out of airspeed and talent at the same time after turning about 180º. It was a pity, as I would have liked to take it to the twins day and with a few more flights under the belt it would not have felt so bad if I crashed it there, at least it would have had a good audience”.

The finished airframe ready fr painting

The completed aircraft.


The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force. It was one of a trio of then-large twin-engine bombers procured for the RAF, the other two being the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and Vickers Wellington. The newest of the three medium bombers, the Hampden, was often referred to by aircrews as the "Flying Suitcase" because of its cramped crew condi-tions.[1] The Hampden served in the early stages of Second World War, bear-ing the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and the first 1,000-plane raid on Cologne. As the war went on, it became clear that the Hampden was unsuited to combat missions in the modern air war and, after a period of mainly operating at night, it was retired from RAF Bomber Command service in late 1942. Origin. In 1932, the Air Ministry issued Specification B.9/32 seeking a twin-engined day bomber with a higher performance than any preceding bomber aircraft. Accordingly, Handley Page responded with their de-sign to meet the requirements of B.9/32. The design team, led by G.R. Vokert, drafted an ex-tremely radical aircraft, initially centering on the politi-cally-favoured Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine; howev-er, by mid-1934, development of the Goshawk looked less promising and thus the Air Ministry acted to relax the tare weight requirement of the specification, al-lowing for the use of heavier and more powerful radial engines such as the Bristol Perseus and Bristol Pega-sus. Handley Page elected to name their new aircraft af-ter John Hampden, a 17th-century British politician and defender of civil liberties. Design. The Hampden Mk I had a crew of four: pilot, naviga-tor/bomb aimer, radio operator and rear gunner. Con-ceived as a fast, manoeuvrable, "fighting bomber", the Hampden had a fixed .303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine gun in the forward fuselage. To avoid the weight penalties of powered turrets, the Hampden had a curved Perspex nose fitted with a manual .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine gun and a .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K installation in the rear upper and lower positions. The Hampden used a flush-rivetted stressed skin design, which was reinforced with a mixture of bent and extruded sections. The structure employed an all-metal monocoque design. A split-assembly construc-tion technique was employed, sections were prefabricated and then joined together, to enable rapid and economic manufacturing to be performed. The fuselage was in three major sections – front, centre and rear - that were built using jigs. The centre and rear sections were themselves made of two halves, which meant that the sections could be fitted out in part under better working conditions prior to assembly. All possible assembly work was performed at the benches prior to

installation upon each aircraft.

In a similar fashion to the fuselage, the wings were made up of three large units: centre section, port outer wing and starboard outer wing, which were in turn subdivided. Each section was built up around a main girder spar, leading edge section and trailing edge section.

The wing made use of wingtip slots and hydraulically-actuated trailing edge flaps; both the flaps and ailerons incorporated stress-bearing D-spars. The configuration of the wing was a key feature of Hampden, being highly tapered and designed to exert low levels of drag; these attributes were responsible for the aircraft's high top speed for the era of 265 mph while retaining a reasonably low landing speed of 73 mph. UK Service In September 1938, No. 49 Squadron received the first Hampdens; by the end of the year, both 49 and 83 Squadrons at RAF Scampton had re-equipped with the type. A total of 226 Hampdens were in service with ten squadrons by the start of the Second World War, with six forming the operational strength of 5 Group of Bomber Com-

mand based in Lincolnshire.

Almost half of the Hampdens built, 714, were lost on operations, tak-

ing with them 1,077 crew killed and another 739 missing.

General characteristics

Crew: 4 (pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio operator/dorsal gunner,

ventral gunner)

Length: 53 ft 7 in (16.32 m)

Wingspan: 69 ft 2 in (21.09 m)

Height: 14 ft 11 in (4.55 m)

Wing area: 668 sq ft (62.1 m2)

Empty weight: 12,764 lb (5,789 kg) Max. takeoff weight: 22,500 lb (10,206 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cyl. radial engines Maximum speed: 247 mph (215 knots, 397 km/h) Cruise speed: 206 mph (179 knots, 332 km/h) Range: 1,720 mi (1,496 nmi, 2,768 km) (Max fuel and 2,000 lb (910 kg) bombs, 206 mph (332 km/h))

Service ceiling: 19,000 ft (5,790 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_bomber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_bomber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Whitley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Hampden#cite_note-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Ministry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_Of_Air_Ministry_Specifications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Goshawk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tare_weight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Perseus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Pegasus


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.303_British

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_K_machine_gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_K_machine_gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_edge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailing_edge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_edge_slot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flap_(aeronautics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_configuration#Chord_variation_along_span

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._49_Squadron_RAF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._83_Squadron_RAF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Scampton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._5_Group_RAF



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingspan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturer%27s_empty_weight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_takeoff_weight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_engine


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds#Regulatory_V-speeds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds#Vc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(aeronautics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiling_(aeronautics)


I had this space left over so here’s a picture of our little tinnie at our favourite flathead fishing spot, Lake Corunna south of Narooma.


General Meetings of the Victorian Flying Scale Aircraft 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 welcome 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 web-

site at http://vfsaa.org.au/

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