Please see the email below from the President of the MAAA advising that we no longer will be receiving paper membership cards. We will be ...
Successful Maiden for Gary’s Tundra
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For Sale – The Kracken
I am letting some of my birds go to new homes. The first is “The Kracken”. This FliteTest designed depron aircraft is a lot of fun to fly. It takes off very easily, handles well, no stall issues (no power, full up elevator and it just settles towards the ground). It can also hoot along at a good pace with the twin motors at full power.
It has been built to accept a wide range of 3S LiPos in a dedicated velcro strap underbelly mount. I have used 3S batteries from twin 2200s to 8000.
The “wow” factor in this bird is its night flying ability. Forget looking for dots in the night sky. The entire body of the aircraft is the light source which can be changed in flight using your 7 channel TX.
The removable bomb hardpoints are included.
Other Details
• Control Rod: 1.5mm
• Servo: 2 x Corona CS-939MG
• Wingspan: 1860mm
• Wing Area: 84 dm2
• Length : 800mm
• Weight RTF: 1.9kg
• Motor: 2 x Turnigy Park 480 1380kv
• ESC: HK 40 Amp x 2
• Prop: Two 8×6 APC
• Rx: Orange 7ch with satellite
Ch 1: Throttle (Port ESC)
Ch 2: Aileron (R-Elevon)
Ch 3: Elevator (L-Elevon)
Ch 4: Rudder (Stb ESC)
Ch 5: Gear (Ord Switch 1)
Ch 6: Flaps (Ord Switch 2)
Ch 7: Aux
• Stabilization: Nil
• Flight Times are 1000mA/minute
I am making The Kraken available for purchase to club members for two weeks before I list it on RCTrader.
$100
BBQ Next Sunday
Hi everyone, weather permitting there will be a BBQ for members and their guests next Sunday (May 29th). I’ve just checked BOM and the ...
Indoor Flying – May 15th
Hi everyone,
As some of you know I organise a monthly indoor flying sessoin for all people in the ACT and surrounds.
As I cant post to our club facebook page, I thought I should use the weekly forum to let you aknow that it is on this Sunday (15 May) starting at 4:30pm for a couple of hours.
We meet at the Tuggeranong Archery Club and fly in their hall which has an area of about 40m x 20m x 8m, and over the years have had all sorts of models come along, from small racing drones, RC Drift cars, Capacitor powered free flight, EDF jets, Helicopters and 3D aerobatic stuff.
There is really no limit on what people have come along with over the years, but we cant use internal combustion motors, but if you have one of the CO2 beauties we would love to see it, and models should wigh less than 300 grams.
Largest model we have had is a 30″ span biplane called the Gym Dandy though we dont see its owner much any more, the smallest, and 8gram home made 3D model that used to travel down from Yass.
Anyone is welcome, but we ask a $10 fee from pilots to help cover the hall hire.
Dave
Some Photos From The Flying Last Sunday
The Club’s February BBQ Finally Happened … In March!
After the indifferent weather of recent weekends Sunday finally presented an opportunity to get out and enjoy some good flying weather. Here ...
Fillon’s “Champion”
Emmanual Fillon (b. 1917) was a prolific designer and builder of free flight models and winner of the 1937 Wakefield event. Fillon’s ...
UPDATED AGAIN: SIG Flip Glider Mass Launch Now On Sunday 13th March
The SIG Flip glider mass launch is now on next Sunday, March 6th, as part of the club’s February BBQ.
Want to join the fun?
There are still some glider kits ...
Where are our Viagra Cup Champions???
Southern Region Electric Glider Competition 2022
Round 1 of our 2022 Southern Region Electric Glider Competition will be held at the Cooma Club field on Sunday 27 February 2022. The event is based on a simple rules format that encourages flyers of varying ability to participate and enjoy the days gliding activity.
The event will again consist of two classes, up to 2.6 meters class and above 2.6 meters to a maximum of 4.0 meters.
We have made some minor rule changes to enhance the event. These are, allowing models in the under 2.6 meter class to fly without a height limiter, to have 30 second motor run, (at CD discretion), above 2.6 meter models must use a height limiter device. The height limiter device to be set for 200 meters or 30 second cutoff.
Please read the rules as below so you are familiar with, this will enhance your enjoyment of the day.
Height limiter devices such as the Soaring Circuits CAM or the Altis V.4 are suitable, there are others available as well.
Lunches.
For these events we need to self-cater for lunches, ie bring your own lunch and drinks. This makes it much easier for the host clubs when we do not know the numbers to cater for. Fruit cake will be served at lunch.
We envisage a 9.45am pilots briefing, 10.00am start time with a lunch break around 12.30pm.Weather permitting we should complete the event by around 3.00pm.
For each event we will award a trophy for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each class. We will aggregate the scores recorded for the best 3 rounds and award a perpetual Leader Board trophy for the overall year winner. An entry fee will be charged to cover costs.
Event Cancellation & COVID 19 Requirements.
In running this event we must adhere to any Government Health advice regarding COVID 19, ensure 1.5 meter social distancing and personal hand sanitizing. We will have hand sanitizer on site on the day. All flyers and assistants will be required to register name and mobile phone contact number on the day.
For this event we require all flyers and assistants to be double vaccinated, and to be able to show proof of this status.
To deal with the advent of bad weather impacting this event on 27 February 2022, we will make a decision to cancel the event and advise this on Friday night, 25 February 2022 by around 6.00pm.
This advice will be communicated by email, SMS and also put on the Lake George Facebook page.
By doing this we will save flyers and unnecessary trip to Cooma and give them time to rearrange their weekend activities.
Note: We will only issue this advice if the event is cancelled.
The Rules.
- Launching method, electric motor, height limited to 200 meters or 30 seconds.
- All flights will count. No attempts allowed.
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Coming To Airspace Near You …
Israel has just announced full certification for this drone to operate in civilian airspace and it has also been purchased by Canada and Switzerland. The full article can be read here
Models for sale
Hi Guys,
Im cleaning a couple of items from the shed and have 2 surplus airframes..
1 x Curare 40.. Hano Pretners anthedral tailed pattern ship. Airframe is solid and will require recover and fitting of your gear. Used to run a 46 with pipe on 10×10 apc. very slick..
1 x executive twin.. twin os26fs powered, operating strobes and still contains all the gear (might want to ditch the 36mhz rx!). Engines have sat for a very long time and will need a good clean and bearings. Bit of hangar rash, but not a difficult project to get back in the air. Very nice flying model with that great twin doppler. It will fly asymmetric but I recommend landing fast…