The indoor flying season in Edmonton started Nov.1. There is no formal club, just the usual suspects meeting in the old hangar on Kingsway. Flying is from 7:00-10:00 P.M. Thursdays and goes on ’til the end of March. The air was full of Park Zone Cessnas. Great little planes

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Maestro BROOKS conducted prototype v2.2 around the pylon course Thursday night. Roll authority is much improved and is now suitable for racing. The lighter racing prop and the heavier aileron servos have combined to move the C.G. to about 32% chord. This has made the model overly sensitive to pitch inputs so the battery tray will have to be lengthened to bring the C.G. forward when using a legal racing prop. The C.G. is O.K. for outdoor flying with a 7035 prop.

IAN BROOKS tried to fly the AS-4cr in the old hangar on Kingsway last night. The model is too fast for the area (33 paces x 46 paces) and sidesliped into the floor in a steep bank.The difference in preception between indoors and outdoors is quit striking. The model didn’t seem all that fast outdoors and Ian had no trouble keeping it close. Indoors, it was down the hall in no time flat at half throttle. The only damage was a small flat spot on the lower left side of the nose but the front of the battery was squashed.

Rectangular plank wing, no airfoil section. Minimum wing area: 180 sq.in. Minimum frontal area: 1.5″ x 1.5″. Maximum prop GWS 5043. Motor: GWS outrunner. Weight about 7 oz.

Another AS-4 completed. This one has a flat bottomed 6mm thick crescent wing. The receiver is a Berg micro stamp. AS-4#2 flew away after encountering severe glitching. I had similar problems with another plane and nearly lost it to a crash so I no longer use Micro 05 S receivers. If the wind ever goes down I’ll give it a try, and if it’s O.K. I’ll put it on the site.

Nov.20 Two more Blue bird 303 servos have gone bad.That makes 7 of 12. As attractive as the size, price and weight of these servos are, I won’t be using them in any more designs.