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I had a "never throw anything away" moment earlier this afternoon. I was working on my Baron and needed some red Humbrol paint, No. 19, to paint the wheels. I opened a box which I rarely open and there were five tins of bright red Humbrol paint including two which were matt! I thought, "How cool would it be to enter a Baron in La Coupe Des Barons in June with matt painted wheels!"
I realise that I will have to apply some matt varnish over the top of the paint to protect it from the methanol but matt red wheels it is! The Baron is not really a vintage model but it is a balsa and plywood build. For those who would like to find out about La Coupe Des Barons, please see Post 24. |
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Monza, just to confirm.... THIS IS THE BARON that this meet is focused around?
I think I might be seeing a new sport flyer in my near future..... |
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I have built two Barons, one finished in Russian markings which I call Boris and another finished in inter war RAF markings, which I call Bertie. I reduced the dihedral angle on Bertie to make him more manoeuvrable but I think I've just made him less pleasant to fly! The Baron in the first picture on the OZ site is my Boris fitted with an inset aileron wing which I designed myself. The second picture shows him with a wing without ailerons ready for La Coupe Des Barons in 2018. Mr Chauzit's original Baron was intended to be powered by a 2.5cc-3.5cc two stroke (15-19 in American parlance.) The prototype was fitted with a 3.5cc Micron. For the competition, La Coupe Des Barons, ailerons are banned or if fitted must be disconnected and taped up. In practice out of 65-75 entrants I believe I've only seen one or two Barons with taped up ailerons. One of the joys of the competition is that just about everybody has built his own model. There are even father and son teams like Phillipe and Louis Charles, Barons 77 and 255 respectively. Louis won a prize for being the youngest entrant in the competition last year and one of our own team, Francois Dutreuil won a prize for being the oldest competitor. He is the man in the dark blue top in our team photograph from the 2019 competition. The main departure from Mr Chauzit's original intention is that we may fit much more powerful engines to his airframe for la Coupe. The rules restrict you to a 35 two-stroke, a 56 four-stroke or a 700 Watt electric motor, consequently the models go like hell! With an OS 26 Surpass or similar and strip ailerons like the OZ plan I'm sure that the model would make an unusual sports model or trainer. |
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*Lawyers: It's only a joke. PLEASE! I'm not worth suing! |
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If your Roomba runs over a cord and gets air, do we have to notify the FAA?
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I'll probably be accused of going way off topic here but I have a few moments to spare so I thought I'd introduce you to some of the personalities involved in La Coupe Des Barons but first a word of explanation.
La Coupe Des Barons is the idea of Vincent Saffioti who used to be a fighter pilot in the French airforce and who later worked as the pilot of a rescue helicopter. He had the idea of registering each pilot who flies in La Coupe with a number so naturally he flies the No.1 Baron. He has also adopted the persona of Tomio Harachi, a mythical Japanese fighter ace from an American television series of the Sixties which is why you may see him in a Samurai headband, a Japanese tee shirt or even draped in a Japanese flag! His aircraft is always white with red Japanese markings and in his emails to us he regularly says that we will all "taste the water of the lagoon" if he catches us! Incidentally, the pilot who flies the No. 2 Baron, Christian Bolis, always finishes his model in the blue and grey of an American naval fighter and has recently rounded off the wing tips and tail surfaces to make his model look a bit like a Douglas Dauntless! Basically then, new members are given new numbers so those with numbers between say 1 and 20 were founder members of the competition. The group photograph below was of the 2018 entrants. So going from left to right, at the extreme left, the man with the grey beard in the blue shirt is Laurent. He is an artist and he always donates one of his paintings as a prize at the end of the competition. He flies the No.5 Baron which may be seen just to his left painted black and yellow to look like a wasp with two 5s prominent on the upper surface of the wing. He has not entered this year but I expect that he will help with the organisation on the day. Moving further right you may see a man in a pale blue rugby shirt with a model finished in a Stars and Stripes scheme rather like an aerobatic Chipmunk. I remember admiring it prior to the start of the competition. He had made a lovely job of it but he had the phrase "Born To Win" printed on trailing edge of the wing. With my typical British reserve I thought that that was a bit flash so I had to smile to myself when he spread the model deep and crisp and even all over the ground in the first round! Schadenfreude I believe they call it. Towards the centre of the runway at the back with the white and pink model is one of the three female competitors, unfortunately I did not manage to get her name. Neither did I get the name of the pilot of the model with the diagonal stripes on the wing, just to her left but he was pointed out as one of the leading pilots of the event. I know that he is from the sizeable Corsican contingent because the fin was decorated with an African's head, the symbol of Corsica. You might say that he was "well-fancied" to use a horse racing term. His Baron was wrecked in a mid-air collision but he was back in 2019 with a model finished in the same way. The man with the plain flourescent green model is Phillippe Charles who was very kind to me when I turned up all by myself, he acted as my mechanic taking my model to the takeoff point and guiding me to the pilots' fence. His model was electric powered. The Lipo was the size of a young housebrick! The boy in front of him holding the white model with the prominent black crosses is I believe, his son Louis. The blue model, two Barons to the right, is the "Douglas Dauntless" of Christian Bolis mentioned above. Vincent Saffiotti is next to him with the Japanese No.1 Baron. The brown model in the front row is actually covered in brown paper and is that of a pilot who rejoices in the soubriquet Yesyes Deuxa! He is another of the Corsican continget also well-fancied. Though not obvious in the photograph, his model was finished in a Soviet scheme, Cyrillic script and all! He crashed into another model during the competition but repaired the model well enough to compete in later rounds even though the repairs included the use of duct tape. I believe that he finished second in the competition. He will be campaigining another model this year with the same Soviet markings but on white film. I've attached a picture of it wearing floats. It looks very smart. Like all of the competitive pilots he uses an OS 35SX. The two white models next to him were flown by twin girls, Iris and Clara. I suppose that they were thirteen to fifteen years old at the time. They entered the 2019 event as well but were amongst the five pilots who did not show up on the day. 2020 was cancelled of course and they have not entered the 2021 Coupe. If they were fifteen in 2018 they'd be eighteen now. Proper young ladies! I suspect that they have more important things to occupy their time now than playing with toy aeroplanes. Your Humble Servant stands just behind them with the grey model with the number 247 prominent on the wing. I had set myself certain goals for the competition one of which was not to be the first pilot in my group to crash. I wasn't! That distnction belonged to the pilot standing next to me with the yellow model with pink wings! He managed to repair it though the rudder was attached with duct tape! On the extreme right stands the winner Laurent Jacquot, No. 4 Baron, American training scheme, OS 35 AX tuned pipe. A very skillful pilot from the host club able to fly fast and accurately. |
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Re: Tomio Harachi - a recurring character on the mid 1970's television series "Baa Baa Black Sheep," starring Robert Conrad as the immortal Greg Boyington. As a boy, I watched every episode in awe, and today the series, esp. the first season, holds the same mythical status as the original Star Trek episodes from the late 1960's, and this coming from a guy (me) who generally does not like television.
To keep my reply on-topic, the late Gerald Martin, a beloved SAM (Society of Antique Modelers) builder-flyer-competitor, flew one of the Corsairs used in filming the tv show, and I'm reasonably certain, as a proper vintage modeler, Gerald would have never thrown anything away... |
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That looks like a fun event. The Barron strongly reminds me of a couple of Nick Ziroli designs from the late 60’s, the Eindecker and the Saulnier. Two nearly identical airframes with superficial changes to the tail, wingtips and cowling. Designed for REM, medium size glow power and mock combat patrol.
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I had another "I Never Throw Anything Out" experience this afternoon.
A chap on a well-known social media website was having problems with his Thunder Tiger 91 . I have two of these, one of which is fitted to the Barn Door Wing Senior Telemaster which you may see in my avatar. The other is in pieces waiting for me to fit new bearings. Lots of people came up with suggestions and I suggested that he re-adjust the slow running needle on his engine by shutting everything off, attaching a clean piece of fuel tubing to the fuel inlet nipple then try blowing through the tube. Adjust the needle inwards or outwards to achive a very slight hiss. He wanted me to take a picture of my carburetter. The one in the STM proved difficult to photograph because the fuselage sides were so high so I found the box with the dismantled engine in it and photographed the carburetter detached from the rest of the engine. Then I noticed that I had left behind a note in the box stating, "This Engine Requires New Bearings!" I must have written that at least five years ago but there in the box were two new bearings still in their packaging. With a little help from an electric paint stripper I soon had the engine assembled! I haven't run it yet because it was raining outside but now I have an engine in serviceable condition. Now what am I going to build for it? |
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tt 91 were good engines
maidened a stick 40 , found the landing gear a bit short to my liking, went through a few othe gear sets, most were the same height, then remembered a set for an extra a little reworking and they fit right in giving me and extra 1" height and they look neat |
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Or this one, the Omen II.
A friend built one way back then, but it was a bit sluggish powered by his old OS 58... https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=5050 |
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I like the look of that Omen II KraftyOne. I had a look at the write up on OZ and found out that the prototype could do aerobatics on a Merco 61! With a Thunder Tigre 91 in the nose it would be magnificent.
However, too many other domestic and aeromodelling projects are in the queue first but I do have a Dave Smith Aerostar which requires a make-over. I was planning to fit an OS 61SF in that but the TT 91 would fit. Alternatively I have a DB Sport & Scale Auster to finish off. I could fit it in that and fit the Laser 80 into the BE2! |
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