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.

day 2

  Day 2 of the Champion of Champions race was another challenging one, the Ice cream slope was it’s usual variable self but full ballast seemed to be the order of the day again. My second best time of the day came from a flight with no climb out at all as the lift timed it’s entry to the slope with my own.  My own flying had too many wait for the buzzer moments to really maximise the air and climb the placings. 

Dave couldn't get help fly the Merlin- fast!

  Those EM pilots with a plan clearly out flew the rest of us to be honest.  Pilots who really knew where the course was regardless of the conditions and carried the energy through turn after turn could blast their way through the patches of weak lift and really milk the good air.  The Sultan of Smooth Simon Thornton was my pick of the day for doing this, he Fosa, Extreme, Freestyler,  Ceres White model with orange spots looked as if it was on rails- very fast rails!

  It was great to see Dave Wright of T9 making up the 4^th pilot to fly a Willow model this weekend, after picking up his Merlin on Saturday he was racing it straight away and putting in some excellent runs,  I can’t think of many other model you could do that with.

 

  Abbo's Caldera consistently ripped up thhe edge all weekend- showiing it's aerobatic genes!

  There’s really no where to hide with a competition design to have the best pilots flying the fastest models for the most rounds possible.   My own lack of racing was exposed but you can’t argue that the top pilots were there this weekend.  Well done Martin for keeping the race going in the face of those throwing bricks and vowing never to come again (they did!).

  After 2 days of tough racing Mark Redsall came out a deserved winner- See you nnext year Mark!

a PB finish to a wild day

Just a few words after a wild day on Mickies.  I'll work on some pictures later, dodging rain hale and snow with the 35mph wind doing some interesting things from flight to flight and leg to leg.  I think just about all pilots had the air either coming on or going off part way through a run.  Its a huge testiment to the quality of f3f in the UK now that in testing conditions sub 40's are no longer a guarrantee to the top 5 or 10. 

  After starting with a 40 I thought that I'd blown my chance but with the wind straightening up for my last run, my long course still delivered a 38 with the model well on step and screaming.  I wasn't the only pilot with a PB either.

  Scores to come elsewhere but in the 5 years of the Champion of Champions have seen a real developement in UK f3f.

Merlins at the Champion of Champions

  A couple of days to this years Champion of Champions race and there looks to be a good showing of Merlins- I always love to see that you can take on the big boys at the season ending final with a model costing a quarter of the price!

  I'll try to post some pictures of the race and get my excuses in early after Saturday's racing.

 The Spring bargins should be landing in the next few days with the best built, best values models yet (but you woudl expect me to say that).