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Glueit
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What
we do, How we do it?
  
| The club is mainly a sport
flying club, with some members who do compete in
competition. We fly radio control models built from a
variety of materials from the traditional balsa, spruce
and ply mix to modern foam, fibreglass and carbon fibre
mixtures. The typical Sunday may see models that are as varied
as they come. From gliders, sports, scale, fast, slow,
helicopters, unorthodox models, the list is probably as
varied as you can think of, we have even had a number of gas turbine
models. |
| The models are controlled from
the ground using radio control equipment with a multi
function transmitter held by the pilot and a receiver and
servo's mounted in the model. This equipment gives us
multi functional control over the model aircraft just
like a full size aircraft. The transmitter and receiver
are both powered by batteries, normally re-chargeable. |
| The models can be powered by a
variety of means either by winching them up for gliders,
electric power (ever more common) or powered by internal
combustion engine. These generally fall into 3 categories
1. A Glow engine runs on a mixture of Methanol and Castor
Oil,
2. Diesel, on a parrafin type mixture or
3. Petrol
runs on a 2 stroke petrol/ oil mixture.
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| Our models can come from a
variety of sources, either pre-built (and covered &
painted), built from a kit, built from a plan, or
designed and built from scratch. |
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