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News  1 February 2005

The new season is not far off.  I intend to be ready to exploit any early good weather.

This Winter, I managed to suppress the urge to make another model; all my efforts have gone into refurbishing, de-bugging, cell testing, and reliability improvements.

First ground tests of Shulze receivers are promising.    Jeti 4 [for comparison]. Control totally lost at 22metres.   Shulze 435. Glitches at 45 metres.      Shulze 835. No glitches at 60 metres.  Let's hope this translates into glitch-free flying when in company.

The rebuilt DH88 is ready to go. Last flown ten years ago.

I'm looking forward to getting the Eagletrees datalogger in the air. My first electric twin [the Commuter, pic above] is coming out of retirement for use as a test hack.