Here's a interesting thing... Inigo Herrera has produced the Vendetta as a personal project but is prepared to produce a couple to recoupe some of the cost.
The Vendetta can in many ways be considered a prototype for the Viper. Inigo has done a very good job of building them and the quality is excellent. In the air it is equally impressive, with good straight line speed, excellent cornering and great energy retention. It has fuselage and wing ballast and is capable of carrying over 2kg of ballast.
Some really good information and photos from Inigo are here.
If you're interested in acquiring one at a very reasonable price contact Inigo.
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Sunday, 13 October 2013
La Muela fun
More from La Muela soon, in the meantime here's some video fun...
La Muela 2013 from Kevin Newton on Vimeo.
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Rotmilan
It's time for a quick update on the Rotmilan now that I've flown it a lot more.
My initial impressions were of excellent quality, great looks and very impressive flying characteristics. After spending several months flying it as my number one model I have if anything become even more impressed.
The quality is as good as planes twice its price. In fact, with fuselage ballast, crisp fit and finish, pull for up really neatly done and excellent wing linkages there is a real joy of ownership about the Rotmilan that makes it one of the best packages I've ever seen.
The flying is excellent whether you're flying old school or energy management. The Rotmilan also gobbles ballast and carries the energy beautifully. The fuselage ballast is handy and I regularly fill up the joiner too. As a bonus, it is without doubt one of the easier models to set up.
You can pick one up from Milan Demčišák Jr for €1,090, which probably makes it the most readily available, best value top class F3F machine out there. Why one earth wouldn't you drop Milan an email or visit the RTG website?
My initial impressions were of excellent quality, great looks and very impressive flying characteristics. After spending several months flying it as my number one model I have if anything become even more impressed.
The quality is as good as planes twice its price. In fact, with fuselage ballast, crisp fit and finish, pull for up really neatly done and excellent wing linkages there is a real joy of ownership about the Rotmilan that makes it one of the best packages I've ever seen.
The flying is excellent whether you're flying old school or energy management. The Rotmilan also gobbles ballast and carries the energy beautifully. The fuselage ballast is handy and I regularly fill up the joiner too. As a bonus, it is without doubt one of the easier models to set up.
You can pick one up from Milan Demčišák Jr for €1,090, which probably makes it the most readily available, best value top class F3F machine out there. Why one earth wouldn't you drop Milan an email or visit the RTG website?
Viper - TecnoEpoxy
I recently spent a really interesting few hours with team Medina who run TecnoEpoxy.
I've had one of their Vector DS's for years. Not only is it a great DS model it os also a fun alrounder that's fun to fly and massively strong and versatile for those untested slopes. In fact mine has done thousands of miles as it permanently lives in my camper van.
It was really interesting to see the CAD design and moulds for their new F3F model the Viper. The Vendetta, which Jorge helped design, has many similarities and its performance is excellent. Jorge intents to use the excellent LDS system rather than RDS. The prototype fuselage was very light yet incredibly strong.
Production should be underway by Christmas. Contact team Medina if you want to know more or get on the waiting list. Also check out their website for some interesting UAV stuff and their excellent Latigo F3K model.
I've had one of their Vector DS's for years. Not only is it a great DS model it os also a fun alrounder that's fun to fly and massively strong and versatile for those untested slopes. In fact mine has done thousands of miles as it permanently lives in my camper van.
It was really interesting to see the CAD design and moulds for their new F3F model the Viper. The Vendetta, which Jorge helped design, has many similarities and its performance is excellent. Jorge intents to use the excellent LDS system rather than RDS. The prototype fuselage was very light yet incredibly strong.
Production should be underway by Christmas. Contact team Medina if you want to know more or get on the waiting list. Also check out their website for some interesting UAV stuff and their excellent Latigo F3K model.
Friday, 4 October 2013
Welsh Open 2013
Welsh Open 2013
Day one was tricky, with a light wind that dipped intermittently below 3 ms, causing several reflies. By flying until it was virtually dark we managed to squeeze three rounds in.
Unfortunately those three rounds were all that we would manage as the dreaded Welsh clag (low cloud) set in making flying F3F impossible for the next two days. So with three rounds we had enough for a result but it did not qualify as a Eurotour result.
The conditions were pretty variable as evidenced by some pilots of the highest quality finishing well down the order (poor Stefan took some stick!) but Pete Gunning has been knocking at the door for a while now and thoroughly deserved his win and was very happy to get his name on the legendary Welsh Open Trophy and to win the excellent prizes provided by MKS servos. Team GBU of Thornton, Newnham and Newton again took the team prize.
Model-wise there were the usual Freestylers and Needles. I was flying a Rotmilan and I can't understand why there aren't more of these around, it really is an excellent package that is remarkable value. It's fantastic quality, a stunningly good all-round plane and costs less that £1,000.
The Vendetta from Inigo Herrera looked really good - and I'll add a few words and photos about that soon. It is in some ways the prototype for the new Viper from TecnoEpoxy in Spain - which looks very interesting indeed. There was also the new Merlin being sold by T9, which looks like incredible value.
Day one was tricky, with a light wind that dipped intermittently below 3 ms, causing several reflies. By flying until it was virtually dark we managed to squeeze three rounds in.
Unfortunately those three rounds were all that we would manage as the dreaded Welsh clag (low cloud) set in making flying F3F impossible for the next two days. So with three rounds we had enough for a result but it did not qualify as a Eurotour result.
The conditions were pretty variable as evidenced by some pilots of the highest quality finishing well down the order (poor Stefan took some stick!) but Pete Gunning has been knocking at the door for a while now and thoroughly deserved his win and was very happy to get his name on the legendary Welsh Open Trophy and to win the excellent prizes provided by MKS servos. Team GBU of Thornton, Newnham and Newton again took the team prize.
Model-wise there were the usual Freestylers and Needles. I was flying a Rotmilan and I can't understand why there aren't more of these around, it really is an excellent package that is remarkable value. It's fantastic quality, a stunningly good all-round plane and costs less that £1,000.
The Vendetta from Inigo Herrera looked really good - and I'll add a few words and photos about that soon. It is in some ways the prototype for the new Viper from TecnoEpoxy in Spain - which looks very interesting indeed. There was also the new Merlin being sold by T9, which looks like incredible value.
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Peter Gunning Mickey's Massive 2718.402Jose Luis Alvares Paketes 2691.743Martin Newnham GBU 2672.174Gerardo Plaza TWC 2659.985Simon Thornton GBU 2658.856Joel West Mickey's Massive 2605.307Inaki Elizondo TWC 2585.888Graeme Mahoney
2574.379Paul Upton RPM 2563.8110Scott Ravenscroft
2556.8711Fernando Moro Paketes 2547.3512Paul Garnet
2540.1813John Phillips
2534.1514Richard Bago RPM 2481.6815Mark Abbots Team Wrecker 2475.8416Frank Hulton Team Willow 2472.2317Tom McPherson FARTS 2465.9018Mark Redsell
2464.5619Kevin Newton GBU 2441.5820Tony Livingston
2431.4421John Edison FARTS 2414.3722Keith Wood FARTS 2410.0423Alvaro Silgado TWC 2409.5724Carlos Rivero
2403.0925Mick Walsh
2370.4726Andy Burgouyne Team Willow 2369.1327Jorge Medina Team Buckaroo 2368.3728Markus Meinssner
2327.2529Ronnie Lampe Team Wrecker 2320.7030Inigo Herrera Team Buckaroo 2283.7231Dave Rumble Team Wrecker 2281.0132Tony Robertson Paketes 2270.9933Ian Web
2259.8234Mark Treble
2259.2335Lazaro Martinez Team Buckaroo 2253.9036Martin Drewitt
2241.9937Ian Mason Team Willow 2198.3638Daniel Schneider
2190.9539John Treble
2174.0440Stefan Bertschi Mickey's Massive 2156.8241Mike Evans
2148.5542Thomas Henselmann
2132.1643Tom Foreman RPM 2111.8744Paul Stubley
1950.1945Marcelino Punal
1589.01
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GBU 7772.602TWC 7655.443Paketes 7510.094Mickey's Massive 7480.525FARTS 7290.306RPM 7157.357Team Wrecker 7077.558Team Willow 7039.729Team Buckaroo 6905.9910Tea Swillers 4725.10
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