FREE FLIGHT MAYHEM AT THE BMFA NATIONALS UK FLIGHT LINE # 2 - 2017

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WELL WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND A SATURDAY EVENING (AFTER FILMING ON THE FLIGHT LINE ALL DAY) THAN TO POP OVER TO THE WORLD FAMOUS FREE FLIGHT EVENT HELD HERE AT THE BARKSTON HEATH "NATIONALS" 3 DAY EVENT AT GARANTHAM,
THE IDEA IS TO TRY AND TRIM YOUR MODEL TO CLIMB IN A SEDATE CIRCLE (FREE FLIGHT - NO RADIO GUIDENCE) UNTIL THE FUEL RUNS OUT AND THE MODEL SHOULD DECEND IN A NICE BIG SMOOTH CURVE - NOT EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE MASTERED THE IDEA BY THE LOOKS OF THIS VIDEO - LOL,
MOST MODELS ARE OF THE VINTAGE TYPE BUILT FROM PLANS WITH SMALL DIESELS OR GLOW MOTORS IN THEM (FROM A 1/4 cc UPWARDS TO 3 OR 4 cc)
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FILMED AT THE BMFA NATIONALS RC MODEL AIRCRAFT SHOW AT RAF BARKSTON HEATH - GRANTHAM - LINCOLNSHIRE UK - NG32 2DQ OVER THE WEEKEND OF AUGUST 26th & 27th - 2017,
THIS EVENT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE BMFA,

[@P61guy61]

This is some of the most entertaining model airplane video I’ve seen. Thanks for posting. Fun fun fun.

[@tbobborap1]

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[@cal-native]

I think you Brits are as unfazed by crashing airplanes as you are the rain (or anything else for that matter 😉). Wishing you many calm days from San Diego!

[@EleanorPeterson]

calown? Hi! I reckon you guys have got it pretty much covered as well - the only difference is that Britain's a ludicrously tiny raft of a place about 8 miles square, cast adrift in the North Sea, so things can only happen on a small scale. Out in 'The Big Country' you've got the room to do this kind of thing with full-size aircraft! ("I think we're gonna need a bigger crash helmet.") Of course, you have more injury lawyers looking for business, too... ;-)

[@tbobborap1]

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[@deweypug]

More fun than I can imagine!!!

[@tbobborap1]

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[@Cadillacstsv06]

That some much fun to watch and would be a blast to be a part of! Cool to see Mick out there and of course one of the better flying planes! The only thing that's annoying is they fly and land better than I can! BIG thumbs up from me Pete! Cheers all!

[@tbobborap1]

yes Freddie boy it was a scream m8, mick flies £15,000 models on the showline then chills out at the free flight - lol

[@barqwoof]

Reminds me of what the essence of what we are there for. FUN in all capital letters. Thanks Pete. Jim

[@tbobborap1]

well said jim, everyone having fun,

[@patriotrob7066]

Looks like so much fun😊 I'd like to go there sometime.

[@timber8282]

Brilliant,you can keep your 20 grand turbines and 3d hotshots and super duper scale. I'd go to the nats just for this.You all seemed to be having far too much fun,and you know thats not allowed in this pc world and I hope you mend your ways by next year!! I think I'll have to attend next year and put a stop to all this joviality.

[@rthefish]

I think I need to see this with my own eyes. I've been looking for an excuse to visit the U.K. I just found it. Greetings from Australia.

[@EleanorPeterson]

rthefish - G'day, mate! You're extremely welcome to visit and stay as long as you can stand it! Hmm. Aussies are famous for being ace in the water, but it still seems a heck of a long way to swim just to get a hot diesel engine stuck in your ear. Well, you know best, and at least there's not much else round here waiting to spoil your day - no sharks or salt-water crocs or spiders or killer kangaroos or evil zombie killer koalas. There's only one venomous snake in Britain (he's called Edmund Blackadder). Oh, and watch out for summer snowstorms, warm(ish) bitter beer and the occasional low-flying Rolf Harris...

[@garygullikson6349]

This is what the good old days looked like before RC. Heads Up!!

[@tomf3150]

There once was circular flying with cable commands.

[@1000frolly]

Chuck & Duck nationals, UK.

[@ColeAviation]

A "Playboy" is the best flying free flight plane ever man back in the day. My Grandaddy had one. 👍🏼Did any of these guys test fly their planes before bringing them out or is this the first time flying for most models?

[@justiceforsethrichwwg1wga160]

How often does someone take a spinning prop to the face and/or hair?

[@EleanorPeterson]

DOZENS of people were blinded at this terrible event! Nineteen DIED! Hundreds more were injured and scarred and HIDEOUSLY wounded and maimed! LAWSUITS AND PERSONAL INJURY COMPENSATION CLAIMS exceeded £98 million; the Prime Minister declared a state of National Emergency. Batman was called; stuff happened; new laws were rushed through Parliament; Superman knelt before Zod; Dangermouse said, "Good grief!"; Granville fetched his cloth; there was an outbreak of cholera and a plague of locusts; frogs rained from the blood-red skies like so many badly-adjusted .149 diesel engines. Oh, the pain and human misery! The emotional trauma! Daddy, daddy please don't leave us... We love you, we need you... Don't make mummy cry... THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! Won't somebody please think of the children! And - Oh, wait a minute. It's in England? Meh.

[@tbobborap1]

lmfao - well said elli

[@4u2cJoeD]

I don't see any PPE, Did they have a permit to create such mayhem, wished I was there

[@kae4466]

fun indeed.:)

[@HorsleyLandy88]

Beers and free flight, what could go wrong. Would never happen in US imagine the law suits.

[@tbobborap1]

you enter the arena of death at your own risk im afraid, its been done at this airfield like this for over 40 + years !

[@uropygid]

I have been a modeler for 60 years. This looks like fun. This looks like every rule of safe modeling broken. This looks like fun until someone takes an 8 or 9 inch prop spinning 10,000 RPM into the face. At the world sanctioned events I have attended, not even rubber powered planes are allowed to be launched in such a reckless and hap-hazard manner as depicted here.

[@tbobborap1]

I wouldn't worry about it whip cos no one gives a F$%K over here m8

[@EleanorPeterson]

@@tbobborap1 - Too right, old bean. The thing Whip Scorpion may not appreciate is that there's not much of a compensation-culture here. People are generally happy to take accidents and injuries at evening muck-abouts like this as a natural part of the proceedings. Nobody gets blamed. Nobody gets sued. Nobody gets angry. If your picnic is spoiled, someone - probably a complete stranger holding a video camera - will buy your kid another bottle of pop or an ice cream. Plasters are available for minor wounds. First aid experts and marshals are always on hand (and sober). I've been hit twice at after-event non-events like this, once on the bum and once on the back of the head by an angry .049 at full chat. Both models survived, although several small rubber bands were viciously broken. There were no lawyers in attendance. I was sadly killed, and my tattered corpse was left to rot where it fell, a fate befitting a warrior-maiden of the Iceni tribe once led by Queen Boudicca herself... Seriously, though, Whip Scorpion, this is not the 'main event' of the meeting; the main event is run to an extremely high standard, with all of the crowd and contestant safety you could wish for - flight lines, crowd barriers, spotters, safety goggles, condoms, the works. This is just a bit of after-hours fun. People know what's likely to happen, and adjust their expectations and behaviour accordingly. And if that's not enough to satisfy your quite legitimate safety concerns, please don't forget that these are only Brits, so nobody gives a toss what happens to them anyway. ;-)

[@candisbrendel7396]

WHY DO HALF THE ENGINES SOUND OUT OF TIME, OR MISFIRING ALOT? JUST ASKING, WHEN WE WERE LITTLE WE RAN COX ENGINES AND THEY NEVER SOUNDED LIKE THAT!! LOVE THE VIDEO, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T RETIRED NAVY

[@patriotrob7066]

Because those are diesel engines not nitro. I love the way they sound.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Hi, Joseph! Yep, Robbie's right - these are tiny diesel engines running on a mix of oil, ether and magic fairy dust. There's a T-bar screw on top of the cylinder to adjust the compression as it's running, and most modellers like to set it a little 'off' before they launch to hold the revs down, keep things cool and generally less stressed. As the fuel runs low, the engines can get pretty frisky, so it's best to leave the compression a tad low if you don't want to cook your motor. The wonderful Cox glow engines you mention are an entirely more 'angry' proposition; these diesel guys probably run them, too, but after all that highly-tuned nitromethane screaming, it's nice to run a burbling diesel with a big prop for a change. Seems a lot less... frantic! :-)

[@candisbrendel7396]

@@EleanorPeterson THANKS FOR THE INFO, NEVER KNEW THESE THINGS, JUST SAYING OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T RETIRED NAVY

[@paramitadey660]

Good

[@f4udhorn]

I wonder if they have to sign a non-liability waiver to spectate at this contest?

[@1000frolly]

No. Either bring a couple of beers - or bring a helmet.

[@viliamgazo8589]

Looks like a lot of fun but gee, watching ppl having conversations and not watching what's going on above their heads sounds like a recipe for hospital treatment. To be honest this whole event looks reckless and uncoordinated. Ppl launching planes from every direction that's insane.😳

[@tbobborap1]

thats the point of it gazo, its called FUN

[@maxrackstraw]

i was there we were doing f3d though

[@jayfmiller]

Mayhem is right. In the U.S. there would be 50 tort attorneys there just waiting for someone to be hit by a running propeller.

[@tbobborap1]

yep its getting like that over here now

[@янетой]

Безопасность 80 lvl.

[@vintagesurvivor]

Heads up! Lol