Valter's Spacewalker with Dave's Astro Hog in the background.

Shawn's Stik with Magnum 91 power and fuselage covered in carbon cloth and epoxy.

Francois' electric Addiction.

Large tug...

and larger gliders

This is Adrian's new 5 metre Alpina

Here's clip of its first take off.

Getting ready to fly...

Jon

Izak

and Andrew

Dave's colourful Farmhand. 

50 cc petrol engine.

Made from plans and a short kit from RC Modelworld.

Sun Power

THE Paris Air Show, one of the oldest and biggest events of its kind, gets under way at Le Bourget on June 20th with many of the exhibitors keen to promote greener aviation. Besides aircraft powered by biofuel and new lightweight fuel-saving designs, such as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, there is plenty of other kit promising to help make aircraft more efficient. But nothing could match the rather ungainly bird that touched down on runway 21 in the evening on June 14th.

The aircraft, known as HB-SIA, has the wingspan of a jumbo jet but just a tiny single-person cockpit. It is designed to be powered only by sunlight. HB-SIA was built by a Swiss-based project called Solar Impulse, which was set up by Bertrand Piccard, an adventurer who helped to pilot the first balloon to fly around the world, and André Borschberg, a fighter pilot and engineer. Their ultimate aim with Solar Impulse is to build an aircraft that can circle the world using only the power of the sun.

More here

Hilton's extra large Stik had its first flight today. It is powered by an RCG 26 cc petrol engine.
Unfortunately both the fin and rudder came off in flight leaving it with no yaw stability. Luckily he managed to land in the grass with no further damage.

Here's a short clip...

I wish my wiring and control cables looked as neat as this -- inside Valter's Chipmunk.

High Altitude Long Endurance

The unmanned aircraft has a wing span of 18 meters but weighs only 30 kg, utilizing a structure constructed of carbon fibers and powered by solar energy generated by amorphous silicon arrays covering the aircraft’s wings. These cells, no thicker than sheets of paper also form the wing's airfoil. The hand-launched drone uses different energy resources during the different flight phases. By day it flies on solar power generated by part of the solar arrays. By night it is powered by rechargeable lithium-sulphur batteries that are recharged during the day using solar power.

More info at these links...
Defense Update
Aero Society Channel
Global Observer  -- good video clip here.

Greg's big new electric Sea Fury

Denis' immaculate Big Stuff..

... here's a clip of a take off.

Peter working on the carb of his 50cc DL petrol engine.

Ted and Alex.

Ted's photos

For some time now Ted has been taking pictures of flying at JOMAC.  He gave me a selection of the best photos -- and they really are quite extraordinary. You can see all 114 of them here.

Adrian's 1:3,5 scale Slingsby Skylark 4 had its first flight today.

Here's a short clip of aero tow launches.

Harry's MVVS Evolution petrol engine. There's some fine engineering in that carb. Equally fine is the on-board starter. No messing about flicking the prop, just a switch on the transmitter, very cool -- see clip below.

Plenty of aerotowing today. Here's a short clip with some extra airborne shots from Stuart. He's given me  a whole lot of footage taken from his Supertug.

Maintenance work, leveling and repairing the paving.

Testing the paint for the tables.

Jon's Aeroworks Extra.

FC's electric pattern aircraft.

Denis' new Big Stuff.

Stuart has installed a new Zenoah 80cc petrol engine in his Stinger. Very impressive, an engine that commands respect. I think Charlie would like to highjack it for his Harvard.

Here's a video clip of the first run. It was very breezy so there's a bit of wind noise.

More about the Mud Duck here.

Two Piper Cubs

Andre's Cub had its first flight today. Charlie was the test pilot.

Here's a short clip of Howard's Cub