Vario meeting on Sunday 11th May

[timelord]

Our club http://www.skelmersdalemac.org.uk/ is hosting a Vario meeting next Sunday if anyone is interested in attending.

[TrexMADuk]

I will hopefully bring the big electric ec145 for a first outing, but we'll see how far I get this week to get it actually flying.......but have others to bring like the BK117 and a R22

[TrexMADuk]

Well finally managed to get along to my local Vario show and wondered why I've not been before...superb site and an even greater range of scale helis to looks at... I should have arrived earlier but didnt, so by the time I was parked I think I was the last flier in ... great weather as well with 26C plus so I now have a sore head.

Below are a few pics from the day and I even managed to get the R22 flying...what a machine! I have some videos as well so will post these up soon.

[timelord]

Yes it was a good day indeed. The turbine Lama is a lovely model and it is the first time i have seen it for real. I fancy a turbine heli myself but would have to sell my fixed wing turbine model to fund it.

[timelord]

Vario meeting

Here are some photo's i took at last weeks Vario meeting at Skelmersdale. I took several shots with my stills function on the camcorder so the quality won't be that good.

[timelord]

A couple more photo's here

These did not get through with the last upload for some reason.
I like that turbine pod & boom. Does anyone know what model it is????

[GhostlyRock]

Similar to an ' Alouette' I think.

[modtron]

Hi Timelord,

I'm glad you like my Pod & Boom Turbine machine.

It is made by Scalecopter in germany and called a ZYCLONE V2

It uses a JetCat SPT5-5 Turbo prop engine, with the ECU set to the Heli settings.
As it runs it's own JetCat govenor system, you can run upto 3 selectable rotor speeds.

It flies liek a dream and the Vario do was only it's 4 & 5th flight.

The Lama, which I also flew, belongs to a very good friend of mine - David Cadman. It is the Vario 1/4 scale version with a Jakodofski engine.

As you may have seen - it also flies superbly and I just love being able to fly it for the owner.

Modtron
OXford UK