Sunday, April 01, 2012
New SA height record
The SAMAA has recognised a new SA height record. This was claimed by Aaron Tshabalala flying from the Diepsloot Club just North of Johannesburg.
The new record is 19 329 feet or 5891 metres above launch point.
A 55 cc petrol engine of Chinese origin powered the record breaking aircraft which has a span of 3 metres and mass of 4,3 Kg.
The plane is launched and landed under radio control but most of the flight takes place under a Locosys GPS. The GPS feeds into a "credit card" computer -- a Pandaboard ES -- that drives the servos and maintains a pre-programmed flight pattern.
This flight pattern is a full power climb until the fuel runs out, followed by a circling glide back to the landing area. The initial rate of climb is 2000 feet per minute. The plane carries enough fuel for a ten minute engine run. The total flight time was 46 minutes and 13 seconds.
Aaron thanks the following people and organizations for help and advice on this unbelievable achievement:
The SAMAA, his associates at the Engineering Department of the Centurion Technicon, two scientific officers at Denel, who cannot be named for reasons of security, Sky Hi Systems which provided the GPS and Pandaboard and all the helpers at the Diepsloot Club.
(Sorry no photos yet)
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Minutes of Management Committee Meetings
I have re-instated the Minutes section on the web site.
Here's the link.
Here's the link.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Fun Fly round 1 at Barnstormers
Barnstormers Flying Club hosted one of the Gauteng region's Round 1 of the 2012 Fun Fly Series on Sunday 11th March 2012. The R35,000 cash prizes, which will be presented at the Fun Fly Masters on the 24th and 25th November 2012 attracted a record entry of 12 pilots. The competition was very successful and as a bonus three companies Hobby Centre, RC Pilot and UHU presented prizes.
More here.
More here.
Friday, March 09, 2012
Saturday, March 03, 2012
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