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| Aresti prototype now with some paint on wings! |
What a wonderful day of testing on Sunday 16/3/2014 with the Aresti 2m at Moel Famau. Quite a different experience from the epic conditions of last w/e but still fun trying to thermal inverted!
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| Beautiful Spring day, 15mph at stunningly beautiful welsh hill,. |
Testing the Aresti in these sort of conditions on a hill more suited to climb and dive than flying in close with lots of compression gave a good indication of the prototype's light wind performance. Thermal setting was increased with a tad of down elevator compensation and it climbed away easily. Jonathan Wells did the testing and treated the onlookers to rolls and occasional bunts/loops with a fair bit inverted.
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Geoff Charlick beaming away
after another great flight with his Rotmilan,
the sort of model you would normally
use in the conditions
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Jonathan Well with own design
camera mount (!!) for his new
Mobius action cam |
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| Wind was off a little to the right, all the ballast out, now will it thermal inverted? Jonathan Wells pilot, Geoff launching. |
Of course it did, quite funny really. Not the perfect day for a model like the Aresti but it was more than capable enough for the conditions and never looked as though it was struggling.
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| Aresti on it's approach after another successful test flight |
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| Landed in soft heather! |
The next prototype Aresti with revised lay up specification will be with us shortly. This will be much closer to the final production version. Below are other prototype/test models, some now finalised and shortly to be released.
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Trio of prototypes from left clockwise: Brit Schwingey (2kw, 6s),
Carbon Schwing with 2x200g Carbon coreless construction and now 'Brit' Aresti |
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