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Christchurch and District Model Flying Club |
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GOLDEN HIND FLIES! |
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A glassy Sunday morning at Longham, and here’s 5 months-worth of model-making doing a low pass for the camera, on its third flight. The Short “Golden Hind” G-Class Empire flying boat spans 100”, weighs nearly 8 lbs, used 9 metres of Solartex and over £100 of balsa, another £100 on motors and SCs, then there’s the 1lb 12oz of ballast in the nose...mainly batteries but some lead. Then there’s the time...say 3 hours a day (the wife would say “huh?”) for 100 days allowing time off for holidays and what have you. And it isn’t finished, not by a long way! But...what’s next? |
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