Mode Zero

12 - 14 mph Westerly at Baildon today, just me & Neil, Shaun got his dates wrong so missed out
A brilliant day slope soaring with the Lidl Wing, SAS Wildthing & Neils Jet Stream I think its called.
There was fair slope lift but occasionally there would be a massive thermal and the Lidl Wing would spec out, at one point I did briefly lose sight of it, it was so high. No problems whatsoever with the NRF FHSS radio at this extreme range of course
Excellent fish & chips as usual from Websters in Baildon village. Pule is a much better slope, but no chippy so what do you do?
(actually we did find a really nice chippy nearby, Marsden Fisheries on Peel Street, highly recommended)

Phil, I do like the high tec canopy hold down . Too much fun I think, and all done with only 1/2 a Tx

Surely that means you could fly with one hand & eat your chippies with the other???

Joking apart Wayne its great for one-handed flying when you're shielding the sun with the other... and holding a camera with your teeth
I have a confession that might make you smile... the canopy was neatly mounted with magnets, very tidy, but just like during the Blunderbird Pylon Race, I looked away for a moment and then started flying the wrong model - we found mine 100 yds downwind with the front-end broken off and the canopy magnets gone It was lashed back together with red insulating tape for the video! All fixed now (if the Por has dried, sometimes it takes ages inside foam)

Wayne_H wrote: ↑06 Jul 2022, 03:08 Phil, I do like the high tec canopy hold down

After the flying-the-wrong-model whoopsie, the front-end was completely broken off and canopy mounts & magnets all gone.
This was before I'd got the camera out, so for the video it was held together with red insulating tape, and as Wayne spotted, a rubber band!
All fixed up now, looking pretty again and good to go

To have more stability in the snout/rump tip. Let's melt
it with a hot piston from the center outwards to free up space for RC.

I have resized your pictures to be below 1MiB, Cheers/Tobe

Phil & I went to Baildon yesterday.
Epic fish and chips with a jam rolypoly before braving the 35-40 mph draught. The little Piglet handled it well until it reminded me of a repair I needed to do. The elevator horn let loose, tent pegged the fortunately soft earth at Mach 1 and removed the tail. Also a little damage to the wing centre section because I used a metal bolt and forgot to replace it with a nylon one. It's a tough little bugger. Back to Phil's command module for copious tea and diabetes causing chocolate cookies. I hour in the workshop today and it's good to break again.

Great day.

Yes it was a bit blustery, hard to stand at times!
And I'd left my Wildy switched on since Nont Sarahs last week so the battery was completely dead.
Had a few good flights with the Little V (though the wind was way beyond its comfort zone).
However I also took my Meshtastic node, since Baildon is quite a good RF location - meshing and
sloping are two compatible hobbies!
Meshtastic users are not all hams, and so you can meet all sorts of people. Like this:

Does there exist a 'how to' for LiDL conversions?
I'm not experienced with foam, so things like glues to use, where to mount a motor, how to hinge, strengthening, etc etc.

I have one tucked away I'm itching to get flown.

Stew.

http://www.wing-tips.at/Portraet/Modell ... _Umbau.pdf