Thank you for posting the clip, Tapio. Whoever the builder/flier was, he
was certainly skilled. The model reminds me of the Fledgling that I am
building for SAM events. I am very tempted to enlarge the Fledgling plan to
150%, use built-up empennage and an old LPP prop to fly just for fun
indoors.
From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tapio Linkosalo
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:06 PM
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Indoor flying in Finland from 1934
I posted this to HipPocket, but I guess I should mail it also here:
Earlier this year the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) aired a film
from 1934, called "Our boys in the air". The film is most of all to
promote the importance of air force and aerial weapon (I guess there
were the first undertones of the war coming 5 years later), but the
first scene tells how important model aviation is to introduce aviation
to the youth, and shows an indoor contest, where the "champion" from the
previous year makes a new record with his new model (and is greeted by
hoorays from the audience). New record: 5 minutes and 25 seconds.
I uploaded the clip into Youtube but put it unlisted, as the copyright
issues of such movie clips are sort of unclear. Follow this link but
please do not distribute further:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6t8vdZFcRw
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-Tapio-
Received on Thu Dec 13 2012 - 11:21:21 CET