Flying Sorcerer free flight model First flights !!!

OVERLORD wrote:Thanks for the replies, I'm glad you liked it. I was just lucky to have a day without wind. Although there were some light showers. In the video, you can see the big heavy clouds in the sky.

When I counted the different video shots, I have 11 in total, but I made sure to fill up fuel for short flights in the beginning because I didn't know how it would behave in the air. Next time, I'll kep the same fuel quantity but I will reduce the countdown. The model is a good climber and I noticed that by changing the position of the nose wheel to the left or to the right, the turning circle can be modified.

I built th model with materils I had at home without having to go to the model shop. For the fuse I used 5mm thick balsa and not 1/4" and for the fins the wood I used was a bit thicker: 3mm.

I am Lucky to have the fiels across the road. It is cut every month or so to feed cattle. Some of the grass will now be seasoned with a bit of castor!!

The music is indeed composed and played by Roddie on his keyboards. I got some other compositions of him. He's a very talented  man. I hope he doesn't mind I used his music on the video.

I sent a few pics to Kirt Blattenberger he can put on his site if he wants to. I think he's got a wonderful website where at each visit you'll find something interesting to read:

http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/

He's got a list of drawings and plans of different model airplanes but not all are scanned and online. If you wnt a plan that is in the list without being scanned you can shoot him a mail and he will scan the drawing and article.

Lieven