Blackhorse Super Air

Make a BIG note in your diary.

 

1:   Buy Loc8tor things and fit to models.

2:   Buy a decent size ELECTRIC plane for carrying a small video camera

3:   Buy a decent size ELECTRIC plane for carrying a vertically mounted digicamera controlled from TX. Use flying straight across Rape field, count pics, noting distance out.

 

Talk the club into getting item 2: or 3:

Item 3: might be best.

Hi flytibloke yes you are right,yesterday we flew a Mentor over with a video camers mounted on the underside ,but I didnt get the view when they played it back.I did get the area they thought they may have seen a wing possibly so Im taking a set of alli steps to the site and walk to that area to see if I can see anything.I did just pop there but as I arrived it poured heavily so may be later

Armed with my lighter ali steps I went to the new location.Could only gues by the walk marks through heavy undergrowth.Apart from getting absolutely soaked I found not a hint,back to the drawing board

write it off.

 

What can be saved from it?

No I cant do that Andy,the New Engine was a Xmas present to myself,I cant give up until I find it,I havent far to look


SEE

Just seeing those photos I can smell the crop,should be cut soon,dont know what Ill do if its not there,gets a bit of a jungle is all thats left

Had to work late Saturday and do the weekly shop after so no time to go to the field.Run out of options really.As Andy pointed out,after the weather weve had lately I probably will be looking at best a wet warped model,at worst bitsleft after the combine eats it.But I crave and end to the saga,whatever it might be!

Some one out our club lost a model in the rape it was there for months. We trampled through the crop looking for it but could not find it. Several of us were there when the crop was cut and the it was only about 30ft from the edge of the the patch. The combine driver spotted it and stopped so that we could retrieve it. I think the moral is to make sure you are there when the crop is cut.

 

Now the bad news: It was an electric model and the motor and the lipo were both trashed. Not sure if the servos were any good and the airframe was soaked and useless.

we lost a model in a full grown rape field and four of us spent one and a half hours looking for it, we found it and went home very hot and tired, full grown rape is the pits to get through you more or less have to swim through it. next day i put my trainer down two hundred yards into the same field, we went looking for it with evertbodies curses ringing in my ears. as we got close to the plane i could hear the engine still running, the engine ran on till we were six feet from the plane. the funny part was the engine was an MDS40

That is one big field

 

Plus side is the rape may have protected the model to some degree from the rain we have been having.

 

Hope the harvest begins soon Stephen and the farmer spots it for you.

 

Kelvin

Thanks Kelvin yes,it all depends on itsattitude.When they flew a model over the field they thought they coul see a wing

Im hoping theyll cut it this week the waiting has been frustrating,and a big big lesson has been learnt