Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines - - - - - - [badass]

Quote: Did this guy get killed ?? You may be thinking of his son, Mark, who died in Spain in a Buchon crash back in 2000 - shook me to realise it was so long ago! MIke

Brilliant thanks

Some old photo's I've found - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3513666...ts-came-cropper.html

Always had a fancy for one of these but wasn't sure if I could manage two motors in my early days and never got round to it later . Probably never will now I like the name Pfiel =Arrow too.

Is that big models, or, modelers who are big? :whistle:

Yes indeed OT, I count myself very fortunate to have met her and worked with her in the CAA. Sadly, she passed away in 2002: Ann Courtenay Welch OBE, née Edmonds, (20 May 1917 — 5 December 2002) was a pilot who received the Gold Air Medal from Fédération Aéronautique Internationale for her...

I think the Taiwan regulators are under serious pressure to make the reasons for this accident visible to the public, as it should not have been an accident in the first place, the ATR is capable of flying on one engine, as are all other twin engine aircraft in this size category. Having said...

Beware, the Rotax engines are the finest device known to man, for turning Petrol into noise!

And a further one from the same source In case anybody missed it, Biggin Hill Airport have stated that they will make up the £50k shortfall to keep the chapel open.

Perhaps it would have been better to put this rather complex aproach, other than the crash was expected, i am not gifted enough to offer an argument to your physics, But, if i can find his number, i know a man who is :evil:

Thanks Alan. Yeah I did hear that afterwards. His reactions were spot on. It was good to see it fly again subsequently after it got repaired. Cheers.

Great job on the vid ;)

Ian the owner and builder of the bulldog is a member of the Winterton club where I fly so I'm quite lucky to see his stunning monster models on a regular basis

Very very nice aircraft, i do like these 50% ones

When I was a lad I remember seeing 'a lot' of B36 bombers flying over my parent's house in Surrey, later on in life I associated this with the RAF Royal Review in 1953, but having looked it up, 6 B36 visited England in 1951. The C82 tracked u/c can be seen in this picture. [attachment] ...

That yellow jet is a Boulton Paul P111, 1/4 scale model Tony

Some seriously good trimming there. Seafire looked wonderful.

Eric You are most likely right. Although my slightly smaller Depron pusher lightweight has a similar power to weight ratio and even lower wing loading it was specifically designed as a 'low drag' airframe with a thin wing section and it handled the blustery conditions yesterday reasonably well....

I was reading about the Royal Navy Sea Harrier - more about why later ;) Its final upgrade to 'FA 2' standard in 1995 included for the first time ever a GPS navigation system - a conventional hand held Garmin 100 mounted in the cockpit! :woohoo:

Must be a labour of love winding all those motors up. :cheer:

The great man again, this from the series piece of cake, how he ever died a natural death, I will never know, great pilot, son and father sadly missed., this is more than a low pass, its precision flying,

... Aye, mo' power could do it. I think she just about makes it off the water. It's quite different taking off from water with a cross breeze than land, as you get light on the floats the wind wants to turn you, the floats and rudder hold you shraight to a point where the wind overcomes the floats...

A Quick "hello" to the FPV forum, and especially the pilots of the camera plane, see you next week!! chris