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Electric Flight - U.K. Issue 81 - Summer 2005 "To Encourage and Further all Aspects of Electric Model Flight in the British Isles and Elsewhere" - B.E.F.A. Constitution BEFA Committee 2005/6 ........................... 4 Chairman's Chatter .................................. 5 Current Lines ........................................... 5 New-2-U ................................................... 6 Readers’ Models ....................................... 13 Letters to the Editor ................................. 18 Pampered Jet & the Need for Speed .......... 20 Balckpool & Fylde Electric Day ................. 25 Going to Harvard! ....................................30 Variable Pitch Propellers ..........................37 CONTENTS Cover Photo: The cover photo shows Dionne holding the Editor’s REM (Richard Etter Modellbau) Eagle Ornithopter. It has just had fitted a Himark 2025 brushless motor (4200 rpm/v) from All Electric RC (www.allelectricrc.co.uk), a Jeti 18-3P controller from Puffin Models (www.puffinmodels.com). It runs on 3S Kokam 1250HS packs from IslandRC (www.IslandRC.co.uk) and the performance is now excellent. NEXT ISSUE. The copy date for the Autumn 2005 issue is 31 August 2005, with the magazine due for publication by 30 September 2005. DISCLAIMER A year flying with LiPo ............................. 41 The Yorkshire Air Spectacular ................. 44 A tale of Two Twins .................................. 48 The 51st Toledo RC Exposition ..................55 Hints & Tips ............................................60 Event Calendar ....................................... 64 For Sale / Wanted ....................................67 New to Electric Flight? Start Here ............69 BEFA Sales ............................................. 70 Advertisers Index .....................................70 B.E.F.A. and Electric Flight U.K. wish to point out that the content, techniques and opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of either the Editor of this magazine or B.E.F.A. and its committee. © All information in this magazine is copyright of the authors. Any request to use information from this magazine is to be made to the editor (contact details overleaf). All reasonable care is taken in the preparation and compilation of the magazine, but B.E.F.A. and its committee cannot be held liable for any error or omission in the content of this magazine or any subsequent damage or loss arising howsoever caused. To allow proper appreciation of the photographs used, colour copies of them will be posted on the B.E.F.A. website after publication of this magazine. If you can, check them out at www.befa.org.uk E.F.-U.K. 3
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Page 5 and 6: Chairman’s Chatter Dear members,
Page 7 and 8: You probably heard through the grap
Page 9 and 10: Right is shown the Reichard Sprinte
Page 11 and 12: Left: are the latest enhancement to
Page 13 and 14: Readers’ Models Your chance to sh
Page 15 and 16: The Hornisse away! Chris with his M
Page 17 and 18: A gentle flare, note the Fowler fla
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Page 21 and 22: 1) The battery pack of 9 Sanyo 800A
Page 23 and 24: the model was coming towards me. I
Page 25 and 26: Blackpool & Fylde Electric Day by J
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Page 31 and 32: Oil get it done quickly! The origin
Page 33 and 34: higher than I could have achieved i
Page 35 and 36: touched down "on the numbers" and r
Page 37 and 38: Variable Pitch Propellers by Don St
Page 39 and 40: The collected results are shown plo
Page 41 and 42: A year of Flying with LiPo By Malco
Page 43 and 44: safely accept 1.6A putting several
Page 45 and 46: Inside the hall E.F.-U.K. 45
Page 47 and 48: A Protech Ultimate hovering in fron
Page 49 and 50: The motor used is a double ended Tw
Page 51 and 52: John flying the completed CH-47 The
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The Lama uses contra-rotating rotor
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The 51st Toledo RC Exposition by Ra
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The LCD readout is mounted on your
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esults to your printer for hard cop
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Even using the ply, we can shave so
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Move servos, battery, and even the
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July 2005 (continued) 10th You are
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October 2005 2nd Unlimited Scale Co
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New to ELECTRIC FLIGHT? START HERE
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