Off to the nats!

It must be that nats time of year, no wind to practise but the willow and Merlin are ready to pack and the alarm has been set for too early in the morning.  The models I know are more than capable but I'm not so sure about my thumbs!

  Excuses to come and with a little bit of luck some pictures each night.

Storm flying

  Sorry, no pictures from the weekend but after flying the my new Willow 2 in such light conditions last week, the chance of flying in the big winds we had this weekend couldn't be missed.

  Not properly set up and using about 800grams of ballast in winngs blowing from 25-45mph probably wasn't the cleverest thing I've ever donw but wow was it worth it.  The Willow 2 was away straight and then I couldn't believe the progress I was making around the sky.  The turns are getting better with each tweak but in a straight line- that even i can't mess up, she accelorates and shifts like nothing else!

  I am very biased but I didn't half have a smile of my face coming home from the hill!

Willow 2 Maidened

  I’ve been pacing up and down getting ready to maiden the Willow for a while now and Sunday gave me the chance.  A busy Whitesheet in the sunshine but very light air was my chance to maiden the Willow 2.  Once the model had been inspected and approved by just about everyone there she was quickly into the air.

  Even with the lack of set up it she shifts!  As I improved the set up through the morning the Willow 2 just got better and better- co-pilot wanting his lunch brought a halt to things but its clear that as well as being built to an excellent atandard the Willow 2 can accelerate better than any model I’ve flown, give her a sniff of lift and that tail coes up..  Definitely more set up to go before the nationals in June but I can’t wait.

  It was great to see Whitesheet so busy, it’s not so long ago that Whitesheet seemed to have a real lack of flyers.  I don’t think that there’s a better place on the main land to enjoy a day’s flying in sunny light conditions.  

Broken a tail? cracked a fuselage?

  I nearly forgot to post some pictures of the spare tails and fuselages that I have been sent in my last goodie box.

  I can offer the fuselage booms and nose separately

and the tails either sepatately from £50 or with a fuselage.

Drop me a line for the price on your combination.

just 1 willow bargin left

  I'm going to be boxing up a few Willows over easter!

The only one left is the white/blue willow 1 model.  The paint marks are so light on this model- I think we're getting fussy:-)  £350 and it's yours.

The E Merlin is also waiting for a suitable set pilot!

Willow 2 pictures

As I promissed here's  a few more pictures of the complete Willow 2 model again.  I'm plannning to get it built ready to fly ovver easter.  The look of tthe nnew fuselage annd tail makes a huge diffeerence to the look oof the model- I know that the wing is fast!

The wing came from these amaizing cnc cut molds- no wonder it works!

Put together the completed model it looking good

  I'm goinng to offer the first batc of thhese models at £500 each as a special offer.  Get in touch!

A box of real goodies!

I'll post some more pictures and text later but 2 really cool new models landed this week.

The first is the e merlin. A complete new fuselage molding. Crisp, clean and very very stiff. Unidirectional carbon from leading edge to tail. The fuselage is made for 38mm motors

If you're a budding f3a pilot we want a test pilot for this one!

Biggest news of all- the willow 2 fuselage and tail have arrived. Stunning molding again. Ive been testing the new wing for a good while now so i'll post about the models history with lots of pictures later. I cant say how excited i am about this model.