Electrics - BEFA meeting Feb 1999

My first ever indoor meeting. The BEFA meeting in the Parklands Leisure Centre, Wigston, Leicester. Held on 14th Feb 1999 the meeting was well attended with BEFA members coming from all over the place. My trip from Reading was nowhere the greatest distance travelled. It was also gratifying to see the local South Leics crowd of mainly free flight exponents turning out to swell the numbers. Some of those tiny free flight scale models powered by rubber, CO2 or electric were a delight.

The variety of R/C electrics was pretty wide too. From the 51" span SloMoWatts and pretty big Taubes through several scale foamies to the seriously lightweight carbon/film Kolibri of Neil Stainton. This suffered a mid-air with one of the much heavier Taubes fairly early on in the proceedings but was repaired and flying again later in the day.

Neil Stainton's Kolibri (before the attack)

All foam p51 flew well but was a bit highly loaded for indoors

28" wingspan Vickers Vimy in foam by Dave Ridgeway. He also had his SE5A which is the free plan feature in one of the recent magazines (but I didn't get a picture, sorry).

Bob Smith's ?? CV1 (interesting clour scheme)

Gordon Tarling's version of the SloMoWatt. At 51" it's a bit big for a smallish gym. If you fancy one of these Gordon will probably sell you a plan.

The South Leics freeflight contingent were also out in force. Many of these models are made entirely of Depron and powered by KP motors and a capacitor (3.3 to 4.7 FARADS !) instead of batteries.

See ! My LF1 does fly.

And at the end of the day the Kolibri was still flying after running repairs.