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RC Lander MIG 17 - Build and Flying Review

Ever since the demise of my Alfa Mig I've been looking for another, there is something about the MIG and its swept wing that makes it fly ohhh so well. Luckily RC Lander have come up with a beauty. Its taken some time since the fist prototype was unveiled last summer and after much redevelopment by RC Lander the production version is here, http://www.overlander.co.uk is now the UK distributor of RC Lander products so if you like the look of this 90mm EDF then give them a call or ask you local shop to get one in, you won't be disappointed. The large box arrived, RC Lander are minimalist in the art on the front of the box but its what's inside that counts, and a well packed assortment of parts, all in top condition despite traveling over 9,500km !

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Flair Tiger Moth by Colin Bassham

I didn't get into model flying until 1993, when I joined the Wortley club and started a long hard road of learning to fly. There were no ready to fly planes those days so I built from kits at the back of my garage. My first large kit was a T240 with a 28cc petrol engine. I even had to apply to the CAA for an exemption certificate. This was 1995 and I had joined the RAMS club flying off concrete runways at Acaster near York. I also join the LMA and went to Withernsea meeting where Ian Turney-White took my T240 up for its first flight. He let me land it on the second flight, and I bust the prop, but I was pleased to have got it down in one piece.

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At the recent AGM it became apparent that some of our new members and existing ones would like the option to use the buddy box facility which is often incorporated into most transmitter modules.

This sparked an idea to write a small article to help our members and future ones to train and improve on existing skills so as not to suffer some expensive and frustrating consequences on the field.

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Mad Dogs and Australians ! - Flying 3rd January 2010

Our antipodean member Trev posted on our club forum that there was a light dusting of snow and flying would be no problem. After navigating untreated roads (why do we pay council tax ?) I arrived at our club at about 10:00am, it was snowing (for a change) and the padlock was frozen up, after peeling my skin from the lock I sat in my car and made some quick phone calls tempting members to join in the 'tropical' conditions and to bring some de-icer..... just in case, they took the bait and soon we had a gaggle of members eager to get into the air !

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Top Flite - Gold Edition Giant Corsair - Built by Stuart Josephs - completed December 2009

Previous article can be found by clicking here.....

It was October 2007 when I took delivery and started building the Corsair and now over two years later, I'm very pleased to say, it's finished. And very good it looks too, if I say so myself.

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H&M Performance FW190 with Sound !

After reading an old article in one of the mags left in our club hut I couldn't help thinking I'd like to try this sound thingy stuff in my recently acquired H&M FW190 (cheers Scott Cupello!) After looking about I opted for the Bendini mini system from http://www.benedini.de/ together with a USB programming dongle and amp. A few days later the goodies arrived in a very small box and I thought some chance of getting a large sound out of this thing but oh how wrong I was ....

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Osmose 50 - Build Review by James Gamble

After flying the Vertigo II through the summer months I decided to let it rest for a while and acquired an up-to-date pattern ship and having a Saito .82A Golden Knight hanging around my dad’s workshop and a Saito .91 spare, this gave me quite a few options.

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Voltij - Build and Fly review by James Gamble

It was cold, windy and overcast and I’m on top of Baildon Moor stood next to my trusty old Phase 6 waiting for my set when some guy walks to the edge of the slope, shouts out his frequency and lobs a model into the sky – good old Baildon rules! I watched for a while and then decided to join in.

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Flying 19th & 20th September 2009

At last some decent weather, I'm sure September is the new August !

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RC Lander Hawker Hunter - Build and Flying Review

I've been waiting for this for quite some time, not that delivery was poor or that it got stuck in customs, no, just because for many months I've been trying to convince myself that I could build the west wings version when in reality I hadn't got the patience and there were no alternatives (until now) of flying such an iconic aircraft !

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Well that was summer then .... Flying 6-9 August 2009

Rufforth show weekend usually guarantees monsoon conditions, however the cunning decision to move the show to early August confused the weather demons and made for some very nice flying days at NLMFC.......

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RC Lander F16 - Build and Flying Review

You know there is something quite bizarre about checking EMS parcel tracking numbers and guessing how long customs will take to check your parcel, this one was almost a record for me 8 days in customs then released without charge! Still the rest of the service was ace and despite what I can only guess must have been copious sniffer dogs and x-rays the RC Lander F16 arrived in tip top condition .......

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NLMFC on tour at Dishforth 29th June 2009

It was dull and overcast to start with but things soon warmed up .....

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It Ain't 'Artf' Hot Mum - Flying Sunday 24th May 2009

It was an intriguing day at the North Leeds Model flying club.......

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NLMFC's Home on Youtube

The North Leeds Model Flying Club has had a presence on youtube for a few years with videos of our antics added regulary, as you can see we have a lot of fun !
I've added a permanent link to this article on the main menu (to the left)

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Flying Sunday 26th April 2009

It wasn't any ordinary Sunday at the north Leeds Model flying club.......

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Flying Sunday 19th April 2009

At last a glorious sunny Sunday ! The sunny weather brought out our members en mass for a cracking day flying.....

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Radical RC Quick Wing 20mm

Trevor Barton

The Yorkshire Air Spectacular Christmas Model Show at Harrogate Pavilions is always a temptation, the site being only a few miles from home, and November 2008 was no exception. So, along I went, clutching my little wad of cash, seeking a bargain here and a bargain there, finding bargains just about everywhere and as usual I soon found myself approaching the end of my budget and wondering what to do with the last few quid.

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I had been wanting one of these since I saw David Muir's fly at Rufforth in high Summer.  His flew in a scale like manner on the recommended electric set up of E-Flite 46, and a 4S1P 5000 mAh pack.  It had enough grunt for prototypical low passes, with hammer-head turns to line it up for the opposite run.  It did loop and roll, but looked a bit embarrassed doing so.

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Bought this model direct from YT and started the build back in November 2008 and completed it mid February. Good kit and it went together well apart from one tiny problem.

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Well the first of March dawned sunny, warm and calm, so some of us decided it was way past time for a trip to the strip - the first of the year for many in the club, only bettered by two of our more senior members who are obviously made of sterner stuff than us young 'uns!

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RC Lander Rafale - Build and Fly Review

RC Lander followed up their immensely popular F9F Panther with a Twin EDF version of the Dassault Rafale (English: Squall). The full size is a French twin-engined delta-wing highly agile multi-role fighter aircraft, it was produced both for land-based use with the French Air Force and for carrier-based naval operations with the French Navy. Although the full size was marketed for foreign sale no orders were ever received, luckily the model has not suffered the same fate and no wonder, its a beaut.

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 NLMFC on tour - BMFA Northern Area Fly-in 22nd February 2009

A few of our members, well the ones who didn't have to work or recuperate from a stint underwater in Norway, ventured off again to the BMFA Northern Area Fly-in at dishforth on the 22nd February 2009. The weather forecast was windy but fine but hey after the atrocious weather so far this year a glimmer of hope was all the plethora of folk needed to turn out....

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NLMFC on tour - BMFA Northern Area Fly-in 28th December 2008

A few of our members, well the ones that didn't have the lurgy, ventured off to the BMFA Northern Area Fly-in at Dishforth on the 28th December 2008. We met up at the gatehouse at 10:00am and after gingerly asking a man with a very big gun where to sign in we were off ......

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Boy Wonder at the F3P Nationals

Our young member Connor cadged a lift to Leeds last weekend to take part in his first competition. So good are his scrounging skills that he also managed to blag a model to take part with !

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Vertigo II - A Blast from the Past

By James Gamble

Aeromodelling is one of those interests that seem to be passed from father to son.

It’s more than just an interest, it’s an engineering skill.

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Ben Buckle Junior 60

by Trevor Barton

Well, having survived the challenge of the Orion-E build, I decided it was time to try something a little more adventurous. I'd heard a lot about Ben Buckle kits, they are supposed to have a reputation for quality, and seemed like a good compromise between building something from scratch and building from a fully cut kit. So, I took my £70-odd to our friendly local model shop and got myself one of these...

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When Peter Came to Town ....

Our French member Pierre Jackson left his luxurious pad in the South of France to return to blighty for a spot of flying in September, as usual his timing coincided with some fantastic weather and plenty of flying ensued, a potted history of his exploits follows .....

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RC Lander Panther - Build and Flying Review by James Hindle

I bumped into Scott from www.brchobbies.com at the Rufforth show and was chatting about new EDF models, Scott mentioned the new Lander Panther and the very mention of the word Panther knew I had to have one, I always admired the Panther but the only kits available were too much hassle to build, needed a bungee or were just too expensive.

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Multiplex Blizzard - Build Review by James Hindle

After seeing the pictures from the Nuremberg Toy fair and suffering motor mount fatigue on my aging Acromaster I knew the solution .... Blizzard. I'm not

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That was Summer then - Flying 27th July 2008

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B-25J MITCHELL ARF WWII BOMBER - by TOP FLITE

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A Tale of Two Halves - Flying 13th June 2008

Woody.... sorry I mean our chairman Gary sporting his 'new job' haircut kicked the evening off with a series of adrenaline

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It was in the dark dark days of January that the urge came over me to build something.  Fresh from my experiences with my Christmas Cularis, I decided it was time to stretch myself and build right from a kit, and right from a kit I did build.

So, hot-footing it to the model shop, I slapped my £28.49 wodge on the counter ...

“Give me the best model kit with real balsa bits you have for that, shopkeeper!", I demanded.

"Coming right up, sorr, right away, sorr!", his hands trembling and eyes staring greedily at the enormous pile of cash.

And this is what caught my eye ...

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NLMFC on Tour 8th June 2008

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Flying 15th May 2008

 

Welcome ...........

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Flying 14th April 2008

 
After a long spell of unsettled weather even earlier in the morning the heavens cleared, the wind subsided and hey presto a few of us turned up for a fly ….

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 Overlander Talk - Thursday 27th March 2008.. What a Great Night

John, Paul, Ollie and his Dad Stan drove the 97 miles (most of it on fumes) to get to the Mexborough Arms for the club's quarterly meeting.

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CMPro - CHINA MODEL PRODUCTIONS - AT- 6 TEXAN - 160 size - Built by Stuart Josephs

 

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What a glorious weekend it has been, it was really nice to go to the strip today and join in the fun that everyone was having, the strips were in fantastic condition (thank you Barry) and the flying was superb......

First up there was James with his Cermark Victor (see news for a review), the victor flew like it was on rails (although heavily greased)

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Well, Haddon rang me last week, and explained that because Nathaniel and John (Carby-Hall) had such hectic social lives they couldn't arrange a training session for Nat this weekend, and would I possibly be able to make it at 2.30 on Saturday. Having seen Nat's flying before under John's expert tutelage I was pretty confident my somewhat amateur (that'd be non-existent) skills as a trainer wouldn't really be required, so I swallowed any trepidation I might have had and agreed.

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Top Flite - Corsair - Built by Stuart Josephs 

Well no one ever said it would be easy & if I had realised just how right they were, I would not have started this one.  The CMP ARF kit would have been much easier but I wanted at least a 7ft wingspan & this Top Flite kit was the only one I could find. The last time I built a plane from a plan & bits of balsa wood, was with my late father and I would have been about 6 years old. 

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Cermark Victor Review by James Gamble

Choosing your next model is never an easy task, it’s like a kid in a sweet shop and with so many manufacturers producing a wide variety of aircraft you just want everything.
Each month a new magazine comes out which teases and convinces you that you need something new , or somtimes you spot a particular model on the field which out performs anything you've seen.
I recently found myself doing a bit of aerobatic soaring at Baildon Moor and spotted a Voltij performing some great aeros - before the common sense kicked in, one was on order in the Nemo colour scheme. I haven’t finished that yet because I’m building a new Overlander Shorts Tucano with a slightly higher spec. than before, but it's always seems the case that when you are halfway through building your new kit -  you go and buy another.
A short trip to Leeds Model Shop possibly to by some glue resulted in one more kit.

The Victor manufactured by Cermark.

This company usually produces some nice looking models and this was no exception, but it did have some flaws.
One of the first victors which was reviewed was by Ian Mason in the Quiet & Electric magazine seemed to have a lot going for it but he did comment on a couple of issues which could have been improved so I hoped that these problems would have been ironed out by now, but on with the build.

Straight from the box the fibreglass fuselage looked fine with no sharp edges and the wings and tail were warp free and pre hinged.

Installing the servo cable through each wing was described as a simple task but in reality new lengths of cable had to be cut and new ends soldered on as they would not fit through the holes provided.
Servo covers seemed to suffice but as with two other Cermark kits I’ve had in the past, the linkages didn’t seem up to the task, and neither did the flimsy wing joiners made out of some cheap plywood.
The plywood joiners were replaced with carbon fibre versions and epoxy held everything solid.
Incidentally the linkages provided were used and haven’t yet caused problems.
The two halves of the V tail were glued together using a template provided but when it was held in place to the fuselage it was quite apparent that it was out of alignment.
This is exactly the same problem Ian Mason described.
With a quick read of his excellent article (also posted on the web), I built up the tail saddle using epoxy and micro balloons which improved it greatly.
Motor, speed controller and battery were fit in about 30 minutes and the wing was bolted into place.
With the folding prop and aluminium spinner fit, incidence and balance checks were performed and after slight adjustments it all looked good.
With a cycle of the battery and a final check along with TX programming a test flight followed.
Launch and landing I believe a beginner could cope with due to it being a tremendously stable model.

When it comes to aeros, the Victor can perform loops, roles, inverted light with a bit of stick input and outside loops are possible if you have enough speed or with a burst from the motor, but the rudder is pointless, only allowing a fraction of yaw, but that’s V tails for you!
A minor fault is the colour of the underside wing and tail (Grey) good thinking Cermark! Maybe a brighter colour on the side you see the most may help!

Flight times on a good day have been in the region of 30 to 45 minutes and I seem to get about ten vertical climbs before recharge, and on a slope it fairs reasonably well.

Here’s the equipment I chose to install:-

*4 HS55 servos
Hi-tec 06 receiver
Hacker A20-20L motor
Hacker 30A speed controller
Tornado 2200mah battery

I’ve got quite a few flights in recently and I really like this model, but if you do consider building one, do replace the wing joiners for carbon ones.

*Update*

Its now Feb 2010 and the Victor is still going strong! I have opened out the motor cooling section on either side of the fuselage a fraction more which seems to keep the Hacker cool,  but bar that this thing is still flying strong.

James Gamble

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Addiction by precision Aerobatics - Short review by Gary Clayton

This was an impulse buy after watching the great video’s of it flying on YouTube. I say impulse, but I actually had been after a bigger 3D machine for some time now after owning a small profile 3D plane called “Sammy”.

I went for the combo version which included the recommend motor, “Thrust 20” which was made by PA especially for this model using an APC 11X5.5E prop on 1800 to 2200 3cell lipo’s.

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">Well, what can I say, I arrived at about 1pm and after navigating Trev's wonderful parking (I know there's planty of space in Aus but your in Armscliffe now mate !!!!) managed to park my car (there were only 2 other cars in the car park so still no excuse Trev !).

With the wind blowing and nobody in sight I wandered over to the hut to find Gary, Connor and Steve contemplating a good summer whilst sheltering from the wind and cold, you can tell Gary is a surrogate yorshireman as he was forever playing with the setting on

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The North Leeds Model Flying Club

It has been brought to our attention that there are rumours that the North Leeds Model Flying has lost its superb flying site and closed. We would like to clarify that this is untrue. We have received a noise complaint following repetative early morning IC flying and after visiting the neighbour have resolved the matter, the club is now ELECTRIC ONLY FLYING. We are still flying from our site and welcome new members who fly electric to come a join us.

The North Leeds Model Flying Club is a BMFA affiliatd club with a history going back more than thirty years, and today boasts a growing membership of about 40. We have a superb flying site in a relatively secluded location near Almscliff Crag between Leeds and Harrogate. The site has three runways catering for all wind directions, and we have a hard-standing car park and a club hut.

The club caters for fixed-wing aircraft of all types, with electric. Glider tugs are used from time to time for silent flight. Flying is allowed every day in daylight hours, with Wednesday morning and Sundays being the most popular. Out of consideration for the local amenity, however, we do not allow IC or Petrol engines at any time.

The club actively encourages members to continuously improve their skills as their flying progresses. We have a strong commitment to safety, and new members who have no formal BMFA qualifications are expected to demonstrate a minimum level of safety awareness and flying competence by undertaking a “Green Peg” Award before they are allowed to fly solo. We are also intending to arrange for regular BMFA examinations through the BMFA Northern Area Committee for those who wish to take A, B, or C certification. We also hope to qualify at least one member as an examiner .

We also have an active flight training program with experienced members mentoring less experienced pilots up to at least Green Peg level, and beyond if the trainee wants it. We have trainers who use both mode 1 and mode 2, and we can “buddy” up to most types of transmitter if required. We are able to give advice to new modellers on trainers and radio systems. We also have a wealth of experience in electric flight – it would be fair to say that the majority of flying at NLMFC these days is electric.

We currently have a limited number of places for new members, and details can be found by contacting anyone on the committee. Please feel free to visit the site, the best time is probably from mid-morning on Sunday most flyable weekends of the year, or Wednesday mornings in the warmer months.

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By Trevor Barton

So, this Christmas I magnanimously thought I'd relieve Judi of the onerous task of thinking up an exciting Christmas present and suggested to her that I might like a new model.

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Trev learned a lot over Christmas, packing a 40lb Turkey, a couple of sheep, some roadkill and a brace of native armscliffe possums (for the barbeque) was a tall order for his compact family car but nether the less our environmentally friendly antipodean managed the whole lot in one go. Armed with his new skills Trev put them to the test on the 6th of January and managed to pack 4 of his models into the back of the car and what’s more managed to take them out without breaking them…. Well I think he did ….

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Well it was apparently a tale of two halves today, windy this morning and calm this afternoon, unfortunately I only saw the windy bit of the day but stillhad a couple of flights with the F16. The day saw a number of first flights with models, Peter Jackson maidened his Funjet, Trev maidened his Cularis (so good he want's two for syncronised flying). Graham flew his rainbow through a rainbow all in all a good old day at the strip. Click on read more for the rogues gallery !

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At the Harrogate model show in November I bumped into the guys at electric flight Cumbria http://electricflight-cumbria.co.uk/catalog/ and was impresed with the F-16 (4S option), the build was simple following the include Cd instructions and the various threads on rcgroups. After a few flights I must say I'm impressed with the look, sound and speed of the machine, so impressed that I'm painting the model, read more for some pictures and video

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Graupner Taxi 2400 Electric Conversion.

A cryptic text message from my wife asking what was in the box as big as her signified the arrival of the graupner taxi, in short the box was massive ! The service from Motors and Rotors was excellent, packaging was first rate and delivery was as promised. Opening the box showed that this was a true ARF, all surfaces were pre hinged (and pinned) the only setup was required for the stab, the hardware was extensive, possibly too extensive as we will come onto.

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NLMFC has had a presence on Youtube for the last year or so with some of our videos being viewed almost 4,000 times, last weekend (30th December 2007) Jimbo took his video camera along and encouraged a few courageous pilots to perform for the camera, they were:

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