This winter I have baught a new sailplane model, first time in years… Helios was really a good choice. Amazing to see how are made those new DLG, and flying is superb !Modern 2.4GHz radioset also now goes with downlink as a basis, that is you c…
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Shots from 2012 v2 : in mountains
by Bill Elliott •
Some other shots from flying Pyrénées mountains this year.
Shots from 2012
by Bill Elliott •
A video made from various flights along past season… Flying in 2012 part 1 : Flat Land from MScherrer on Vimeo.
Flying with tufts
by Bill Elliott •
On a blue thermal day, I spent some time adding whool tufts at wing/fuselage junction of my LS6. Here is the result : Flying LS6 glider with whool “tufts” from MScherrer on Vimeo.The objective was to visualize flow separation in the root of LS6 gl…
Water & McCready setting
by Bill Elliott •
In the waiting of proper weather, here is a table that was derived while studying McCready ring value of various sailplane, with various wing loading. It gives you an equivalent additional Mc Cready setting to be representative of polar change due to w…
Still in the workshop
by Bill Elliott •
This year I am not exactly as early as wished at finishing yearly work on the LS6, already some good day were missed… Now my Pruefer is coming next week, everything should be fine ! I am getting trained at using my Drift HD camera, interesting f…
French oldies
by Bill Elliott •
Not exactly sailplane stuff, nevertheless a few interesting views of french prototypes from the 50’s, that I numerized from a VHS owned by Jean-Claude Fayer some years ago.Rare images for some of them.
Sailplane Stories & Ressources 2012-01-30 13:59:00
by Bill Elliott •
Back in 2008, I had the opportunity to organize a cession at ISAE wind tunnel, in frame of a student project. It was concern with the characterisation of a sailplane model, the Jibe 2 from Flybiwo. If found I had stored some image from this cessions, h…
Video footage from past year
by Bill Elliott •
Here is a video assembling different flights over past season. Those shots were flown starting either from my “home airfield” of Moissac (LFCX) or from different flying trip : Jaca (LECI), Bailleau (LFFL) & Luchon (LFCB).
Mountain flying + Family
by Bill Elliott •
We spent, as a family, a day in Luchon airfield (LFDH), that stands so to speak in the middle of Pyrénées mountains, on french side.
The weather was nice for the kids to play outside, and grass runaway was very welcoming…
For dad, autumn thermal where just right to discover this new area. I was also happy to fly over the slopes I had quite much flown with models.
Friends showed me the way to spain…
The most amazing thing was magical october’s light !
