A few pics from yesterdays brave souls who ventured out to Tharwa for some flying. It started off very grey and ...
Friday Flyers
Deacons Fly Again
Veron Deacon this was a kit in the UK that was started in 1957 and was designed by Bill Dean. It was originally ...
LW PLA Graywing maiden (sort of…)
Maidened a new LW PLA version of the Eclipson Graywing today (https://www.eclipson-airplanes.com/egw-80).
What an excellent flier!
I’d ...
Neil’s Brigidier Build
So I haven’t built an RC plane from scratch since the early ’80s (and even then it was an Ugly Stick ...
Lovely weather for flying …
Last Wednesday (May 27th) the weather was great and there was a good turnout of keen flyers at Tharwa. Here are ...
Rebuilding a Fibreglass Cowling
This is my latest COVID-19 project and its turned into a real saga. Once upon a time a few years ago I had a very ...
Friday is for Flying?
Great autumn weather makes for a good morning’s flying at Tharwa …
Another COVID Project
Learning how to use my DIY CNC Router. The goal was to build a router that I can use to cut plywood and balsa parts. ...
Every lockdown has a silver lining….part II
The 3D printing has been going very well. Have now nearly finished two more planes since my last post.
One is called ...
Update of Lockdown Project
Building complete. Final sanding & covering next
Another lockdown project …
I originally flew this Sbach (just before the coronavirus lockdown) with an NGH 17cc petrol engine but on the 2nd ...
A New Eddie or Otto?
Ken’s “Eddie” is reborn. His original was held together mostly by the plastic film covering he ...