Hello Goans,

It was nice to read & see pictures of aero / heli models flying in Goa..... we are few guys from pune who love traveling places & carry our models too along with us, do let us know a week in advance would surely like to meet you all & do some flying too... Cheers!!!

wow!
mckinley was there?
i'll try to come sometime after exams...

HI Nandan - When you next coming to Goa - everyone missing you..... Heres my latest creation back home in the UK.   Its Sal Taibi's Powerhouse from 1936 but with modern gear.  Design is six years older than myself.   It doesn't look so big until you pick it up.
Total flying weight of all this with ancient OS60 is only 3.5kgs - thats what good wood selection does for you.   The five inch inflatable wheels cost 30quid from the USA  (ouch) so that was the wife's beer money gone for a week.         Cheers.   H.

Harry
The Powerhouse looks lovely.
Also looks like an ideal candidate for electric conversion for nice clean no mess fun.
Planning a 2.5 day sail from Bombay to Goa on the 7th or 11th April , hope to catch up with you guys then, should be in Goa for a week.
Cheers
Nandan

Hi Guys,
I dd not know Harry was already a member.....I just sent an email to him informing about this forum...Sorry Harry.
Well guys did you know Harry has obtained a qualification of the National Institute of Linguists in GUJARATI... not only that, I understand he is fluent in Hindi and Konkan.....

SEE FOR YOURSELVES IN THIS ARTICLE;

Deepak

Hi b4ggu  -     Kem Cho etc..... thanks for all the publicity but its been 20 years since I retired and my Gujarati is very rusty now.  Where I live in the UK we only have a couple of Gujarati families and they speak English better than I do so I get no chance to practice my language skills - I really miss my job in the Police,   also my Hindi and Konkani is about the level of a four year old who knows all the vocabulary for ordering drinks !!!

I am building a Leprechaun Glider at the moment which is worth a Google - the fuselage is 7feet long and my workshop is only nine feet.

I once came to Leicester in connection with my work and it was like Little Gujarat - super days and happy memories.

Sorry to ramble on - keep in touch. AVJO.    H.

Thanks for the reply Harry, yes please do keep in touch.

Here in Leicester, I am a member at BURBAGE MODEL AIRCRAFT CLUB. We have been getting a lot of stick on "NOISE POLLUTION" so most club members including me are flying more and more ELECTRIC.

I built a few WOT4's many years ago but recently due to lack of time, I am mainly into RTF's.

A big fan of "ARC" Kits, learnt flying on a READY, owned 2 of them including a READY2 , moved to CAROSEL, hated it..got rid now my ever faithful JUPITER has been with me for the last 10 odd years. Thunder Tiger recently bought all the tooling of ARC kits hence the prices have come down to a sensible level.

If possible please do copy and paste your article that I scanned for all to see.... Take care and safe landings....
Deepak aka B4ggu
GUYS HARRY HAS THIS TO OFFER IN GOA......PLEASE LIASE WITH HIM;

Hi Deepak.    Nice to hear from you and thanks for the list of Goa Model Fliers. But where are they all???   Almost every Sunday from November to April the same three or four of us meet at Divar and we could do with some new fliers. At the moment I am back in the UK until around July when the only flying will be indoors.   I have a Plantraco  Micro Butterfly which is 63mm (yes - mm) wingspan which flies beautifully with full proportional control, plus this year I am bringing some indoor materials to build some EZBs and Hangar Rats which also go really well.   Sanjeev from Saligao tells me he has a good place for indoor flying so it will give me something else to do in the monsoon.


Back at my house in Goa, I have a spare set of 35mhz Futaba four channel if it is of use to anyone, the TX is the early  model without rates but the RX is new and unused and there is a slimline rechargeable battery pack.  Its OK for a glider but a bit old-tech for anything more sophisticated.   I had it serviced by Futaba last year in the UK, the TX was in good working order but I had to junk the receiver, hence the new one.   I am open to offers/swops for it.I have no objection to you putting it on the forum if you know what buttons to push - you are obviously better at this computer thingy than myself.   The radio stuff may help someone. There's also a couple of HiTec Servos to go with it and it may help someone along the way to being a radio flier at Divar.
Three boxes of Kingfisher would be a very acceptable swop but they will have to collect it from me at Assagao in July. 
Please keep in touch - best wishes. Harry.

Some more pics from this Sunday at Divar

WOW... Is that you Sanjeev in the dark shades or is it some goonda from a Hindi Movie !!!  Nice to see that you are all still flying and enjoying the sunshine at Divar before the onset of the Monsoon.
Over here we went to our daughters place in Scotland and there was snow on the hills - back home in England three days later its 26 degrees and  Barbie weather.    Will be back out in Goa in August so if someone can arrange a decent indoor venue and let me know how many people are interested I will bring all the bits for the requisite number of models and we will see how it goes.   In the meantime, I am getting along well with building the Leprechaun Glider from 1950 and even got a nice email from Richard Twomey the designer who must be even older that myself !!!  Have a look at my build thread at RCGroups.com.
Heres a pic of the basic fuselage minus the wing pylon - its around 7 feet long.   Photo taken in one of my more mellow moments.       

Hi Harry,
Yes !! We did drag Sanjeev across the river for flying. Sanjeev is cruising thru  his mid life crisis and arrived on a spanking new Bullet 500 (read 6 month old and ONLY 350 km on the ODO) suitably attired like an aging Mel Gibson .
Anyway we had some good flying - Actually we went flying twice in the 10 days that I was in Goa.
On a slightly different note Im planning a slope soaring trip  - I've invited Noel and Sanjeev to my place near Lonavala and Id like to extend the invitation to you as well.
There will be around 8 gliders on hand from 1.2m to 3.3m and from 100" flying wings to the standard stuff so you don't have to bring anything - Just fly!
About the conditions on the slope - Excellent lift all day , winds from 15 to 25 knots and the best part is that you fly at eye level or below you & its feels strange when you don't have to crane your neck .
Heres a link to some pics from the slope soaring site      https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486987989293.269816.641654293
Nandan

Thanks for the invite Nandan - Yes - I would like to come, what date are you thinking of ?   Sanjeev doesn't look at bit like Mel Gibson however you look at him but he does have a really classic bike which puts his bullet in the shade.  He's got a BSA B31 in the back of his factory and its the same model and colour as one I owned in the early 60s.  Mine was a 1957 model and I ran it for four years and the only time it let me down was when I had a puncture.  Keep sending the photos - I know sometimes we quite often wander off this thread but at least its what the forum is for.   Nice weather here in UK for flying at the moment but this can change at any time - and it does !!
Got the barbie out today so its UK style Tandoori Moorgi tonight  - when we come in August we will do the famous 'Barbie on the Balcoa' in the rain in Goa  -  see you then.  Cheers. H.

Hi Folks - Sorry to see no one has contributed to the thread for some time so here's mine.
The Sal Taibi Powerhouse which I mentioned and downloaded the pics a few posts back has now had its maiden flight and I am trying to attach the videos.  If they don't download properly please accept my apologies.   Cheers. Harry.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwQ6VNFP4s&feature=youtu.be

Are you guys still active? I am rc flyer based in Panaji. Fly electric Yak-12 (EPO) 970mm wingspan.

Nice one Harry..... You have a superb patch too...
Deepak

 

Yes, Folks. Still flying at Divar Island most Sundays.   Take Ribandar Ferry about 4pm and go to football field.   This vid. taken 14th January.   I am now back in UK for a couple of weeks but Noel and Edward are regular fliers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dBRU3mjfo4g

This video taken on 14th Jan.  Please keep intouch.   H.

Also this one taken the previous Sunday.... H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KUxWB9Od3_w

..... and also this one - sorry about all the blank sky but my wife was filming and she is a non technical person - however I think you get the message.   I've got lots of photos where she has chopped my head off !!!     Hope we have got the thread here going again - please lets have some contributors as I am running out of things to say.  Cheers. H.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qD9ZN74r4TU

Goa model fliers at their pre-Christmas meeting in December 2012.   H.

Flying at Divar tomorrow, Sunday 10th March.   Ferry from Ribandar around 4.30pm.   All welcome.

Well....... To revive an old topic about the wonderful flying times at Diwar field in Goa !!!
 Way back in 2010 when Noel, Peter, Aneesh(Dr.Lawande/Medicineman) ....what a good flier and RC model builder.....Where is he these days??and myself flew at Diwar, Little did I know there was going to be a lot more flying in the subsequent years.
  I was in Goa these Diwali holidays and flew at a football ground in Marcel  the WLToys F939 polecat with the help of Vedant, his flying skills are excellent!!Prateek & Anikeet were busy with exams.
  It would be nice to meet Harry the next time I am in Goa for Holidays.

Hi Jonboy - Nice to hear from you.    I will be in Goa and available for flying from 20th November until Mid January or so.   After that I will again be in Goa from late March onwards.   I live in Assagao and my phone number is 9890501718 if you are down my way.
I came to Goa during the monsoon so there was no flying then !       Noel seems to have dropped off the scene owing to business pressures and Prateek is busy elsewhere.   That leaves me alone to fly - retirement is hell.     However, I am bringing  new model ( Staufenbiel e-soarer) and some new radio equipment form the UK so looking forwards to some flying in good weather - Its pretty grim here in UK - 4 degrees at the moment.
If you corrrespond with any other fliers in Goa please give them my details and we will see if we can re-start the whole scene.   Cheers. Harry.

Hi Jonboy - Forgot to mention.     If you have the technical knowledge of how to amend the title of this thread to read just   -  Flying in Goa  and leave off the Re: and the (14-11-10)  then it may be easier for other people to find.    Being a bit of a dinosaur and brought up in the days before all this computer stuff, it is beyond my comprehension of how to do it !!!!    H.

Hello Harry,
Good to hear from you, I will be in Goa again for Christmas Holidays from 22nd of December to 31st December, May be we could meet up and fly, then.
 Everybody has work pressure and some studying to do, the young college going fliers do fly quite well, like Prateek, Anikeet and Vedant but all busy with board exams at the moment
  I too was very enthusiastic about flying, But never really got down to serious flying due to work related matters...But who can give up Aeromodeling, once hooked to it???  Now am Back with a Bang!!
  for want of place I have become interested in small indoor flying models and envy the models Roman from Bandra builds and fly's, I too am interested in scratch build foam models and love to build more than I know to fly!!
   Don't worry Harry, This post has become alive and can be seen easily in view new posts, Maybe we can start a new post about flying in GOA
   I see you love gliders.....Let's meet up this December. Thank you, John.

Welcome all flyers of GOA.
I guess there are plenty of RC model fliers in Goa ,North and South.
So let's make it a point to meet in December and have a good flying session
Cheers!!!

Happy flying and safe landing guys...