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Members Models

Control Line

Colin Monk has been around model building since a lad mainly in Control line. Although he had a spell in RC he returned to the 'true faith'. Colin has supported the club in many aspects, organising the swap meet, meetings, serving on the committee, raffles and even helping on the Heli Fly-in. Latest acquisition (top left) is a Steve Woolley designed 'Cobra' with OS 40 FP (CL version with different timing).

Left is Colin's own designed and built 'Billy Bunter' 34" Span, PAW 1.49cc Twin BB Diesel, Wings/Tail covered in Solartex. The fuselage is covered with tissue and car spray. Right is own Design "Puzzler". PAW 2.49 Diesel, 36"span - Wings / Tail covered in Yellow Translucent Solarfilm, Tissue and brushed enamel for the fuselage.

One of the great things about Control Line flying is that it's relatively cheap so you can have a number of planes. Colin's own Design 'Spaceman' 54" Span with O.S. 35 FP. Covered in Solarfilm/Solartrim shown left which won the LMFC Winter Building Competition 1999-2000. There are a great number of plans available in the modelling magazines to choose from although I am sure Colin would part with one of his own design plans and might even assist you in getting started...... if you are interested?
Colin Monks’ latest model, built from a plan. This is a 1947 design by USA flyer Bud Jamison called the ‘’Jamison Special’ – or to give it its’ correct name – the ‘1947 Nats’ Favorite’. Very simple to build. Blue tissue on fuzz, white tissue on wings & tail with blue tissue for decoration. No flaps. Powered by OS 35 FP on straight fuel.

Another of Colin's models purchased from one of the car-boot traders at Old Warden some years ago – it has notched up several hundred flights. This is a George Aldrich design called ‘FliteStreak’ – basically an enlarged version of Georges’ famous ‘Peacemaker’ . Profile fuzz painted black, wings covered in Yellow Solartex with black & white paint trim. Powered by PAW .19 DS.

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Hugh Sewell and his own design 53" wingspan 'Hornet' (about the eighth one he's built) fully aerobatic model with Merco .35 engine. Designed as a F2B stunter it's simple to build construction is very light at 44 oz. first started aero-modelling in 1949, together with a school friend. At that time we flew free-flight sports models and glidersI, and when funds permitted graduated to power free flight with an E.D.Bee motor, which also served as a control line motor; this was later joined by an E.D.2.46 which we installed in a Mercury Monitor.

At the same time I also played rugby and was a keen cyclist, so the modelling had to fit in with these activities. When I started work in 1951 I packed in modelling due to a lack of time. Subsequent events like marriage, mortgage, family etc. took over. During the 1970s I was running a large building contract in Wolverton and, by coincidence, about 30 yards away was a model shop. I strolled in one day and asked the owner if control line was still being flown. This damn-fool question prompted him to produce engines called Fox 35 Stunt, Merco 35, Enya and OS 35 etc., and some kits of rather large stunters called Nobler, Crusader, Thunderbird and Smoothie, to name but a few. This array sealed my fate up to the present since, despite a short lapse trying R.C., I remain a devotee of 'vol circulaire aerobatique' and I am still using Merco 35s.

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A model from club member Jeremy Wilkins. This is a Viko Models readybuilt from the Czech Republic, designed for the new Club Combat class over here. Covered in Mylar with traditional combat pressurized fuel feed system using bladder tank, and polystyrene leading edge strengthened with carbon tows. Engine is class-standard ASP .15

Left: Another of Jeremy's. This is a ‘Super Tamerlane’ ½ A combat model built from a plan. Covered in Solarfilm – engine is a PAW 1.49 DS
Right: ‘Swee’ Pea’ Mini-Goodyear Team Racer. .All-sheet design with ‘V’- tail. Built from a plan. Engine is a PAW 1.49 CT Blue Head.

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A typical Saturday Morning 'Gathering of models'.
Hughie Sewell and his O.S. powered 'Cobra' in mid-flight.

Tony Bowler with what is perhaps the first electric-powered C/L model seen at the field?

Model is a late 1940's design called 'Boxcar Chief'. The motor is a 'Twister 25' brushless turning 10 x 6 prop. A simple spring-loaded potentiometer on the handle is linked via the control lines to a speed controller in the plane drawing 30 amps from a 3-cell, 11-volt, 3000 mah LiPo battery, and Tony enjoys flight times of about 8-9 minutes from this setup, and of course he can land whenever he wants without having to wait for the fuel to run out.

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The Usual Suspects! From L-R: Tony Bowler, Geoff Stevenson, Colin Monk, Hughie Sewell.

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