Mode Zero

Another brilliant day at Baildon today, met up at Mother Hubbards (Websters) for the usual Fish & Chips, the up to the slope in bright sunshine and a 20mph westerly. A good turnout, 6 or 7, each with at least a couple of models. Shaun had his new SAS Venom, as mentioned in Retro Ramblings - initially a bit pitch-sensitive but tamed by a slightly more forward CG and a really agile flyer. Hard to orientate inverted though! Ade had his Pixel and hopefully will have some photos and video for us. I took the Reeds Impala and S/C rudder-only Moonbeam - which on its third flight caught a huge thermal in the landing area and ended up way, way back nose-deep in a bombhole brim-full of water & reeds... fortunately no-one to see me disrobing to recover it....
It was really far too windy for S/C but... well, you know
Later, after the others had gone, it calmed down nicely and the S/C Moonbeam had a few more sorties in more comfortable conditions...
Me & Neil left about 9pm, even though it was still bright sunshine and I was tempted to go back up the slope for half an hour...

I'd love to see more single-channel flyers on the slopes - it really is fun, very satisfying and none of the diesel muck or electrickery faff
There are many S/C glider designs from back in the day like the Slinky, Wizard of Oz, Silent Knight, Force-Four, Aries, Clio, Apprentice, Demdike, Bolero, Beaconeer, Saturn, Sigma, Skybaby, Susi, Zeitgeist, Nomad, Nova, Imp, Windward, Gray's 'Headbutt', Jack Headley's 'Microfish' and Tadpole, plus of course the Impala & Soarcerer, and the Graupner kits Amigo II, Filou etc... back in the day the mags were full of them and most are on Outerzone

Or, do what we did back in the day™ which was to re-use an old wing from say a Tyro or whatever, build a quick fus, sheet tail, throw it off a hill !

It was a great day,. The Yorkshire Slope Lads group is growing at a pace. Very soon it will be like the 80's again on Baildon.
Pleased with the SAS Venom wing, but I am a tad biased with that platform.

Sloping with a difference this week: Fish & Chips AND ICE CREAM!
Blowing a strong westerly, overcast but a good turnout including Colin this time, seven peeps with 12+ models...
Andy's (Angelwings) teeny tiny 'Dammit' was amazing, smaller than a Sharkface and hugely aerobatic Available as a kit too!
First time out for Colins Wildthing, he loves it!
No S/C antics this time, too windy.

Anybody fancy joining us in the Yorkshire Slope Lads flyers ( AKA Coffin Dodging Glider Guiders) message me and I'll add you to our WhatsApp group so you can see when we are planning meets on't hills.

Shaun.

Another brilliant day at Baildon, good turnout, at times we had 9 models in the air!
We had a couple of mid-airs but no damage and a great day was had by all.
15-20mph ish maybe gusting a bit more, so lots of exercise retrieving the S/C model...





Colin would like the sun moved a bit to the left please



I stayed an hour or two after everyone had gone, it was a lovely evening, moonrise over Baildon
(over the East slope of course, we were flying the West...)

It was a cracking day , excellent fun and reminded me of the 1980's at Baildon when 9 in the air was a common sight.
It's starting again.

Had another Baildon fix today; this is becoming a habit.

If anybody is interested my Phase 6 Sport is looking for a new owner. I've had my fun; time to move it on. Twin wing servo set up.

The Phase 6 now has a new owner.

Happy day soaring on crook peak with the zeitgeist

Flying it on the button, but have to use propo to land it as it’s a spine backed ridge and beyond my competence to get it down in one piece

For me, it works better than the Wizard of Oz – and no idea why except that perhaps it’s got a longer tail moment.

The Wizard of Oz seems to Zoom more out Of turns – I got rid of the lifting tailplane and that improved things

The Wizard of Oz gets flown with either a McGregor conversion or a reeds set conversion

If I use the reeds set I use normal proportional and have a dual receiver set up so I can switch over to the reeds set – and can just about land it on most of the slopes of crook peek but not the razor and you can probably guess why it’s called the razor…





Video is on the mode zero YouTube channel

I'm thrilled to hear of someone else sloping reeds and S/C Nick!!!
I've never been to Crook Peak but it looks like a great site, Zeitgeist going very well
Thanks for posting!
(we missed you at the Ivinghoe Nostalgia Day...)
Phil