Morse's
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The Astro Hog during a complete re-build.
The wings and tail feathers are original but the fuselage is all new.
All shapes are as per the 1956 drawing. However the construction is custom,
after all I did not have to make room for a valve receiver and servos
that look like washing machine motors! Below, the 'Hog gets a CAT scan! (15 Oct 2005) |
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<- This is Morsie at the controls
of a real Tiger Moth (17 Aug 2005) |
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<-This is Prangster, the ultimate rubber aeroplane. The manufacurer claims that it is unbreakable - clearly they haven't met me! |
     At last Domino is ready for the air. Fanny-Ann tests the cockpit for comfort - bit cramped but she can't wait to feel the cool draft from that Laser 75 (howling gale actually) in her blond hair. |
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At last the Domino is nearing completion. Here seen parked on the site of the old 'hanger'. The installation of the Laser is proving to be 'interesting'. (Fanny-Ann got fed up waiting and has gone off to St Lucia to top up her tan!) April 2005 |
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My latest
project is Domino, based on a Pitts Special. It will be very aerobatic
and will require great skill to get the best out of it. So, I have recruited
a new pilot, Fanny-Ann. Fanny has taken a great interest in the construction of here new stead as it progresses. Here she has taken time off from her sun bathing to closely examine the engine installation to ensure her safety. After all, she does not want to go the same way as her friend Randy-Mandy who is still recovering from a near fatal crash in an Astro Hog (see 'flying flops') |
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Fanny-Ann just can't wait to get into her leathers, swing that prop and fire up the awsome power of the Laser 75 engine. She can't wait to get airborne and feel the wind in her blond hair ... ah .. a blond ... is this a good idea - letting a blond loose on such a powerfull machine? (answers, on a postcard to ......) |
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TravelAir ready for its maiden flight! (May '04) |
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Ace Wizard / OS10FP After a number of crashes I have decided to go back to square 1 with this, less visious, specimen. So far it seems to be working i.e. it is in one piece and flies like a dream. |
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Astrohog ready for the
skies again Aug 2003 |
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MVVS91 for power
and (The MVVS proved to be a lot of agro so so I exchanged it for an OS91FX which is superb!) |
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After the rebuild and the hotrod is ready to take to the skies again |
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OS46FX |
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This
is a jet built by Bert Smith who flies at the local club. That's a real
jet turbine engine at the back and this is the latest craze for those
who have the cash - and access to a long runway. (I bet Sadam wished
he had bought one of these) |
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Matthew and I go flying the 'Hog in (USA 1989) |
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This must be '85ish - Morsie and Wing Cmdr W. (Bill) Hallett (Rtd and bar) at Finmere Aerodrome. Bill taught me to fly radio - so it's all his fault! He is now exiled in Australia where he chases poor defensless kukaburras round the skies. (He told me that Australian R/C engines have 2 throttle settings - dead stick and flat out) |
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'65 ish in Gadebridge
Park, Hemel Hempstead where the flying club did a display each year
on carnival day. This picture appeared in the local rag L-R:- |
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