Pandas 2025 Single Channel & Retro Fly In.

[Shaun]

We've got the dates for this year's retro extravaganza.

12th & 13th July.

Saturday - General fly in Electric and IC models.
Sunday - Single Channel and retro do - Sam 35 will put on a few fun fly comps if anybody wants to join in.
Not sure of a theme yet but there will be one.
Control Line on both days, no Free flight.

Camping available by prior arrangement.

Time to get sorting out the fleet.

[Stew]

Hoping for a lovely sunny day with the lightest wisp of a breeze.

[Tobe]

After a lot of thinking we have come up with a model for Ponte and I assure is something you wouldn't build otherwise despite it's extremely simple (could even be built in depron or similar) and an extremely good flyer. If you go for electric omitting the 1 cc diesel the nose need to be elongated about an inch.

Grokker Article.pdf

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Grokker plan1.pdf

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Grokker plan2.pdf

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The Grokker was designed in the early 70's by Tore Paulesn former member of the Norwegian F3A team both in Bern / Switzerland (1975) and Springfield / USA (1977) where he competed with a patternized Spitfire!
You are going to note that all measurement is in mm and the drawing show 2 sizes where the second one is brackets.

https://classicpattern.com/tore-paulsens-spitfire/

Tore's Grokker had as power plant his homemade 1 cc diesel.

I had several under the years but only one left...

...and it comes in 1/2 size

[Shaun]

Grokker is even simpler than the Blunderbird we had so much fun with years ago. Very quick and cheap to build, (hours not days) . The electric version doesn't even need covering or painting; a quick blast with hairspray will keep moisture out of it.

Shaun.

[Mike_K]

For those of you who are not conversant in Danish (or Swedish?), here is an Acrobat ocr version that has been translated into English by Google

[Tobe]

...actually Norwegian!

[Mike_K]

...actually Norwegian!

My mistake Tobe. I realise that Tore is Norweigen, but I thought the magazine (and address to order the plan from, Lystrup) were Danish?

[Tobe]

....they sure are Danish!
Not sure but the text might be Danish...never thought about it, I just read it as our languages in written form are quite similar and you really don't translate

[Shaun]

Thanks for doing the translation Mike. Appreciated.

[Mike_K]

I've "merged" the two Grokker 3 plans together, added the "bit in-between" that was missing (they were not scanned to the edge), added English translations (not that they were really needed) and scaled it 1:1, not half size as the original. It is a deceptively large plan, 805mm x 577mm, so will need 8 A4 sheets tiled if you don't have a larger format printer

Grokker_plan_full_size.pdf

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