Monthly Archives: February 2011

Budget

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The budget we have to start with is of £746.
With this we have to build at least one plane… and I think it would be a good idea to actually build two!
I think we should build a prototype before we start building the one that will fly on the actual competition day.

Power

First we should buy two engines + controllers from the BMFA.

  • Eflight 40amp speed controller £32.19 (rrp £72.00)
  • Eflight Power 10 motor £22.07 (rrp £49.00)
  • total: £54.28  (+ shipping?)
  • Order to be sent to <admin [at] bmfa.org> addressed to Julie Cole.
  • Props: 9×6 ??

Batteries

  • 2x 2500 3S Lipo

Building materials

Foam

I’ll look at good deals to by some EPP foam blocks. still needing to math out the volume and quality needed.

Balsa

Glue

  • Epoxy (slow + fast)
  • uhu foam glue

Carbon

  • 8x 10mm x 1m carbon tubes

Radio equipment

Servos

note: could be we can have a few standard size servos from the Thamesmead Model Club

Stefano Peria

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I met Antony in Ruskin Park flying one of his planes, I got chatting with him and it gave me the idea of starting a model building and flying club. I heard of a project called Make Me Smile Again through The Maudsley Hospital they were offering up to £750 for projects that could promote improve mental health through doing something fun and different, Antony told me about the BMFA competition and I thought it was a great challenge and I applied for the Make Me Smile Again project and told them what we wanted to do and the gave us the funding 🙂

Antony GIBBS

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I’m french and I have moved in London in November 2009 to follow my girlfriend who works in the city.
Trained a photographer (BA in digital imaging, 1994 MMU – Manchester) I now make a living as a freelance web designer.
I want to pass the glider flying license and in the mean time I’ve been having lots of joy from flying some RC foamies as a first step taking me in the air.
I’m very excited by this project.

How it started

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I had just spotted the BMFA Challenge when Stefano mentioned he would be interested in developing an activity around rc model planes at the Mosaic Clubhouse and that Make Me Smile Again could be a way of financing such a project.

So Stefano and Victor filled in the application form for Make Me Smile Again and on the 9th of February Stefano got a confirmation that they had agreed to support the project with £746 🙂

In the mean time, I got a chance to talk with Lucien Cabrol, the inventor of the COLAB Concept (French).  He thought this concept was well adapted for such a project  and gave me some useful guidance.  The concept uses wings that join at their tips, having two major benefits: increased strength by triangulation and being far more efficient than a wing of same width.
More efficient in that it can get better lift, can fly slower and can fly faster that a traditional wing and still remaining more stable, and the best of all, such a wing is still simple to build using the same techniques as for a standard straight wing.

Collab Concept RC model plane