N.

• Bob Madrusan's Nothing In Particular (NIP).
• A excellent detail shot, showing the NIP's power pod and how easy it is to convert back to a normal glider.
• A shot of the Power pod being attached to the NIP.
• Bob, just about to start the NIP's motor.

O.

P.

• Paul and Tom in action.
• Another Canterbury Sailplanes slopie. This one is the PC9.
• Paul Gibson and his new Pike plus X tail. Paul is very pleased with his new purchase.
• Close up of the radio installation in the Pike plus.
• The tail of the Pike plus.
• Looking along the wing of the Pike plus shows excellent moulding quality.
• A few fliers discussing the new Pike plus.
• Paul and his new Pike plus. Only its second day out.
• Paul taking the Pike plus up to the winch line for another flight.
• A shot of the moulded, curved tips on the Pike plus.
• Looking along the wing of the Pike plus, all 3.3m of it.
• Dave Cornish's Prophet. Dave recently completed this and added his own touches to the design. More about that in a moment.
• A detail shot of the Spoiler set up on the prophet.
• Dave's Mods. The two that stood out was the bolt on wing in lieu of the elastic bands and a shaped block behind the cockpit to smooth out the shape. This block serves as a locking pin to hold the wing and canopy on.
• John Melehan's Prophet. There seems to be so many Prophets at the club at the moment that I can't keep up with who owns them.
• Paul Collins' Prophet, flying overhead.

Q.

R.

• One of our youngest flyers is Taylor and here you can see him holding a Rubber band powered plane.

S.

• Mick's SB-10. First is a shot of the SB-10 glider and a close up of the Cockpit detail.
• Shawn and Trent's gliders.
• The line up of slopies for the days flying. The one you may not know is the wing with the check design (Owned by Shawn) and the CS F20 (Owned by Jason)
• Mick and Taylor walking back to the pits with a 2m Spirit. Quite a competitive model in this class
• Jason Whipper and his Spirit.
• This shot of Darren's Spirit, was taken after he did some major repair work. The wings came off during launch. Now the wing is a one piece affair.
• Darren's Great Planes Spirit Elite with a power pod attached.
• Mick Flanders Great Planes Spirit Elite.
• Taylor holding the his fathers Spirit Elite.
• Trent Collins's Stepp Upp. A low end competition glider still capable of top performance but without the price tag of the moulded models
• The Stepp Upp turning in on finals for an attempt at spot landing
• The Stepp Upp during a launch, notice the bend in the winch line, caused be the model diving to zoom off the winch line
• The Stepp Upp zooms off the line, maximum tension is reached here and the wings are quite bent accordingly. The parachute has opened and is being winched back down to the turnaround.
• Check out the video of the Stepp Upp.
• Trent's Model Flight, Stepp Upp.
• Launching Trent's Stepp Upp.
• Trent launching his Stepp upp, with David on the left and Darren flying on the right.
• Here's a few shots of a Stratos fully moulded glider
• The Stratos banking away from the camera
• The Stratos gliding around at tree height
• Approaching the spot. The use of crow braking on the Stratos makes getting a spot landing a lot easier
• Geoff and his Stratos. This model is fully moulded and is a top line glider for open class events

T.

• Jason Whipper's Tank. Ugly, Slow, Ugly, but awfully hard to knock out of the sky. A home made experiment, that no longer exists as Jason bought himself a Canterbury Sailplanes F-20 Tiger shark (Photo to come).
• Paul Gibson's Thermal Eagle
• A photo of Tom Launching for one of the juniors.
• Take your pick, of Transmitters. All are Drool worthy hardware.
• Geoff Hungerford showing the way its done. Using the Transmitter tray enables the pilot to get more precise control on the sticks

U.

V.

W.

• Brian Lindsay's Windstar.
• A picture of a typical 2m model. This model belongs to Simon Bishop and is a Windstar

X.

Y.

Z.

• Trent's Zugly. This glider is home made and is loosely based on the Zagi.
• A shot of the Zugly flying by.
• Looks maybe deceiving. Here is a shot of Trent's Zugly after it crashed.
• This is how he had to retrieve it!
• A relieved and happy man!
• Based loosely on one of Brian Lindsay's designs. This little one is owned buy Trent. The thing is tiny and can do an incredible amounts of spins before losing height. (Truly for the talented pilot only)!

??.

• A full EPP slope soarer owned by Paul Gibson. It is a very similar design to an eraser, except this model is a little larger. Also pictured is a multiplex cockpit radio.
• Shawn managed to have a midair on the slope, between his flying wing and a fibre glass jet. The jet speared the wing with its nose, and both models fell to the ground stuck together. The nose of the jet pierced quite a sizeable hole into shawn's wing. A little bit of tape to cover the hole and Shawn was back into the action.
• A good action shot of Peter spot landing his own design 2m glider
• Test launch of a glider. Paul Collins at the helm.
• Three shots of the above glider after a crash. Shot 1, Shot 2 and Shot 3. Notice how the whole structure collapsed in on itself.

Stepp 3 photos:

Here are the latest shots of Mark McIntosh's Stepp 3.

Below are some shots of my glider (Photo 1 and 2). As you will see, I am very close to finishing. All I need to do is set up the control system. i.e. fit servo tray and servos. Plus run control rods and fit tail area. So with out further ado, here are the photos:

• Photo 1: Overview of the fuselage and completed wings.
• Photo 2: A closer look at completed wings. Note the servo hatches.
• Photo 3, is of the general layout of the wings and fuselage. As you can tell, the wing isn't fully skinned. This is due to the importer of Pro-film (Oracover) running out of Silver film.
• Photo 4, is view along the whole length of the wing. All 3 metres of it!
• Photo 5, is a side view. You can see the Carbon fibre running along the cockpit seal.
• Photo 6, is a close up showing the detail of the joiner box. The servos are a modification of the original plans, which had one servo in the fuselage with a cable running to each spoiler. Obviously this works, but I rather disconnect to servo plugs, than try to disconnect quick links. The Kevlar in the fuselage is also another modification, due to the fuselage not been able to handle the wing flex on heavy landings. One suggestion, is to have a strip of kevlar running down the entire length of the fuselage on both sides and then the single glass layer over the top. I also have a servo tray to go in, which will help strengthen this area. That only leaves where the trailing edge meets the fuselage to strengthen.

Below are the older pictures showing the wings before they were skinned.

• A photo of the Servo detail on my Stepp3 wing
• The Stepp3 Wing spoiler
• The Wing of the Stepp3

Hunter Titles:

• The Launch area at Muswellbrook.
• Tom Launching Paul's Eliminator
• Paul's 134 inverted.
• Thermals were that good that the guys had to put towels over the Gliders in pits, to prevent them launching.
• Here is a close up of Shawn's Angel 1600 cockpit, which has a non standard wing.
• A nice example of a Vintage sailplane.
• Vintage glider flying close up

NSW glider championships (19th & 20th of October, 2002)

Below is a collection from the New South Wales State Gliding Competition held over the week end of the 19th and 20th of October. All photos are from Trent Collins or Shawn Armitage, except the team shot, which was taken by Simon Bishop and the first three photos which were taken by Macr. For all those that participated and those that are interested, here are the Results for Rudder, Elevator, Spoiler class (RES).

• The Rebel Team quiver.
  Tom Prepping, Paul's Eliminator 134 for the first heat.
  Tom looks on whilst Trent and Paul tape a wing tip on.
• Team Rebel. Left to right. Front Row:- Taylor Flanders (Spirit), Shawn Armitage (Hammer), Ray Oehme(Stepp3). Back Row:- Mick Flanders (Prophet), Paul Collins (Eliminator 134), Tom Tobin (Eliminator 134), Mark McIntosh (Stepp3) and Trent Collins (Stepp Upp).
• First up is a shot of macr and his recently completed Stepp 3
• Here is macr Winching his glider up into the air .
• After finding some great air, macr had some troubles getting it down. Unfortunately the Joiner bar rolled and the tail planes came off. Fortunately though it landed without any major damage. He quickly fixed the minor damage and had it up in the next round.
• This time he was not so lucky and rolled the joiner bar again and lost the tail planes (permanently, this time). He also hit a tree on the way down. This is a Shot of the damage
• This photo is of Bruce and his Bird of time, with a fibre glass fuselage. Bruce is a member of Muswellbrook Model Club, but is a good friend of our club members.
• Simon is also a member of Muswellbrook Model Club and is also a good friend of Rebel members. Here he is holding his Cirrus.
• Shawn Armitage Preparing his Sky Affairs Hammer for an open class heat.
• Shawn launching his Hammer.
• Shawn and Paul working the area, Looking for thermal activity.
• The hammer in flight.
• Probably Not one of Shawn's best landings.
• This one is a Smoother landing, but unfortunately the glider didn't have the legs to carry it to the spot.
• Taylor has got to be the youngest person in our club. Here he is Holding his spirit.
• Taylor learnt how to launch his glider on the winch, this day. There was no stopping him from this point on.
• Notice the unpainted panel on the nose of Taylor's spirit. Taylor had a hard landing earlier in the day and broke the nose off. This is part of the repair.
• Mick and his new prophet.
• Mick getting prepared to launch, whilst a number of our club members are already working the thermals.
• Paul launching Mick's prophet, with macr in the foreground dealing with the sun.
• Pre-heat preparation. Tom works on Macr's Stepp 3.
• Ray and his Stepp 3. Ray is a member of NACA and stayed in our camp for the weekend.
• Paul and Ray readying for the next heat.
• The two amigos. Paul launching Trent's Stepp Upp.
• Trent's Stepp Upp on its way up.

NSW F3B's and F3J's Titles.

Now we move on to the expensive side of the sport. F3B/J. These ships are designed to make the most out of what is around. These gliders are generally made of carbon fibre and / or Kevlar. The airfoil on these are very efficient and the glider can store a heap of energy due to their efficiency. This was demonstrated, by some of the fast approaches that they did coming into the field area. Aerobatics was the most common way to wash off speed. If you can help me name these ships or who owns them, drop me an e-mail and I will update them. Once again for participants and those that are interested. Results for open class.