Wednesday 27 February 2013

The Association for Helicopter Aero sports’ Season Opener On Saturday 6th April 2013


The LMAC are pleased to host:


The Association for Helicopter Aero sports’
Season Opener
On Saturday 6th April 2013

LMAC Club members are welcome to enjoy a day of Helicopter competition flying demonstrations of:

Clubman and Sportsman Schedules
and
FAI F3C ‘P’ and ‘D’ Schedules
As flown by the British F3C Team

F3N and Scale

Free tea and coffee will be available throughout the day and opportunities to join in the AHA raffle will be on offer.

See you there!

Monday 25 February 2013

SkyBlue Indoor Flying

A few of the LMAC members attended the SkyBlue Indoor Flying over at Ryton on Sunday evening (not content with one indoor flying session in a weekend)!  As always, thanks for your support at the LMAC event and we look forward to see you back at the SkyBlue event on the 17th March.

For those interested, more details can be found on their Facebook page here

These are the best bits from the evening:


Inverted hovering...

Matt Chamberlain braving the cold northerly wind on Sunday 24th February to try out something different, mounting his small keycam #16 camera to the Blade 450x and promptly trying some inverted hovering!  "It will end in tears" as one on-looker remarked!  They of little faith!

Video thumbnail by Max Ewan


February 2013 Indoor Flying

Thanks to all those who attended the LMAC indoor flying on Saturday 23rd February. A fantastic 19 modelers took advantage of both sides of the indoor hall where the Heli's occupied one half and the fixed wingers took the other side.  As can be seen from Simon Carter's pictures below, there were a varied number of different types of model airborne on the night.  If you were there on the evening and have any other pictures to contribute then please feel free to send them over and I'll tag them onto this post.

We look forward to see you on Saturday 23rd March at 8pm for the final indoor event. If there's demand however, we will carry on the event and look to arrange others.

Simon also managed to capture the following video too:



















Monday 18 February 2013

Reminder - Indoor Flying scheduled for this Saturday 23rd February 2013 8pm at Parklands Leisure Centre Wigston

Reminder - Indoor Flying scheduled for this Saturday 23rd February 2013 8pm at Parklands Leisure Centre Wigston

More details here on the Indoor page

Picture by Colin Wilson

Penguin spotted flying over LMAC!

Matt Chamberlain presents his Finwing Penguin FPV plane flying for the first time over LMAC on Sunday 17th February. The flight was filmed from a GoPro Hero 3 camera (HD) with clips from the OSD footage (what you see from the goggles or video monitor) with embedded telemetry.   As the sound track encourages, "get up and try" - FPV.  Anyway interested in learning more, then let Matt know and you can happily have a fly on the buddy lead.  Great views flying around the field and is Spring finally in the air?


Thursday 14 February 2013

Fed up with eBay fees? Fear not, check out the new LMAC "For Sale" section

where you can list those RC related items which you wish to sell on. What's even better is that we will not charge you commission to do so!
Just send any items you want listing to admin@leicestermodelaeroclub.org.uk. along with pictures, description, price, contact details and hopefully we can help you out.

Monday 11 February 2013

Electric Indoor Masters 23rd-24th February 2013


The British Model Flying Association in collaboration with the Great Britain Radio Control Aerobatic Association is proud to announce the Electric Indoor Masters event will be back for 2013 and will be held on the 23rd and 24th February 2013 at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre in Bradford.


Click on the above picture or here for more details.

Should there be enough interest from members of LMAC who wish to attend this event, it was suggested at the February LMAC committee meeting that people should contact either Sandra Simmonds or Andy Prime if they were looking to attend this event with the possibility of car sharing and sharing the associated costs.
Should be a good event with trade presence there too.

Saturday 2 February 2013

New LMAC member Neale Bassford demonstrates some very nice helicopter flying

New LMAC member Neale Bassford demonstrates some very nice helicopter flying of his flybarless TREX 550e on a very windy Saturday morning.  We look forward to see plenty more of his flying over the coming months.