Flying Penguin Foto Gallery (1997)

A place where I can show off pictures of my planes, and some of yours (if I feel like it)

(Click on any of the thumbnail images to view a larger picture.)

Please Note: If you submit a photo, I will post your e-mail address so others can contact you, unless you specifically ask me not to post it.

"Here is a photo of my latest creation for the photo gallery, it's a Precedent Low boy, with a GMS.47 and Mac tuned pipe and JR radio. It hasn't flown yet, but when it it does it'll be noticably as I've measured the pipe at 110db - one of the good things about my club (WARMS Western Australia) is no noise limit, but hell with a plane this loud I'd never hear the complaints anyway."

"The top photo is my first plane ever. It is a great planes PT-20 with a Thunder Tiger .25 for a motor. The other picture is a photo of my plane next to my father's Clancy Lazzy Bee. The Bee uses an O.S. .15 and the wing is his own design. Both planes fly really well and the bee is especialy fun to watch."

"Airtonics Peregrine from the now closed specialty division :(
Span: 118", length: 56", wing loading: 11.5 oz/sq'. aspect ratio: 14:1, wing area: 950 sq" construction: obechi / white foam w/carbon controls: Ail/Elev/Flap/Rud/Crow & Camber finish: 6 hand rubbed coats baby powder & clear lacquer (sp?) w/2 coats polyurethane."

"This is the first landing of my 'second plane', A SIG Four Star 40 powered by an MDS 46"

This amazing model has a web page dedicated to it. You can see several more pictures of it and a construction history, and there's lots of technical information on Super Guppies there if you're interested:

http://www.thegrid.net/daren

Sea Fury from Don Smith Plans. G-62 engine. 2nd flight.

Great Planes Giant Aeromaster. G62 Engine. Translucent yellow covering

"My name is Adam Woodhouse and I live in Campbellville, Ontario (half hour west of Toronto). The flying club I belong to is called the Buzzard Squadron Model Flyers (does that qualify for your funny club names list?). I have been flying for a few years. The kit shown is the Sig Kougar with an oversized engine in it (Irvine .61). I am currently using the newer Futaba 6XA to fly this baby. I also own the Sig Kadet MkII and the Sig Kavalier (that's it for the Sig kits). All I still have and fly! The Kavalier is great in the spring for those first few flights to work out the winter bugs. The Kougar is a much hotter plane than the other two but a good introduction to low wing aerobatics. With the .61 in it it is capable of great vertical! If I were to do it again I would get the Sig King Kobra. It is the same as the Kougar just a bit larger."

"Image 1 is an X-Cell pro heli running an OS 60 engine and JR radio which belongs to Kevin Lunn."

"Image 2 is the same heli being tuned. This a bench in our pits and these guys are holding the heli. while they run it full bore, TOTALLY CRAZY!!!"

"Image 3 is a rather nice Funky Skyleader one of our guys wants to fly pattern so he flies this while he builds his pattern plane. It runs an OS 46SF with a tuned pipe but unfortunately Futaba radio."

"I fly at Markam, the Tiger60 is the first plane I built (since starting R/C in november) (my father gave me the bug!). It had a Super Tigre 75 in it (I lost patience in breaking it in and put in a K&B .61 so I could fly it) the plane flies great lands easier and slower than my trainer! My wife picked out the pilot (Quasimoto)."

Jeff flies at Markham Park in Sunrise, Florida. This is his latest project. He had some problems getting the radio setup properly at the field. Took six of us three hours to figure out his computer radio was setup for the wrong mode, and a call to the psychic hotline to figure out how to fix it.

"Thought you might like to see a shot of my Mig-15. I built it back in the winter of 1982 and first flew it in spring of 83. It really is an antique now as this was one of Byron's first kits. I started out with an OS .61 in it and promptly received the lead bird award from the M.O.B., which was the club I belonged to at the time. It was a case of too much weight with an attempt to take it off from a grassy field. I cured that with a new Rossi .81 and it's been flying off of the grass ever since. It has two tanks in series, one 12 oz. and a 10 oz., as I soon found out it was very thirsty. I haven't flown it since I have been in my present club as there is not enough runway to take a chance on. We have used it in several Mall Shows, along with many other static displays and it always attracts a lot of attention."

Send me your photos along with your name and a description of your plane. If I use your photo you get nothing but the admiration (and occasional snicker) from your fellow peers. If I don't use it, I'll tack it up in my workshop and claim I built it. E-Mail it or Snail Mail it, your choice.