If you look back on our ‘posts’ to October 2020 you will read about the beginning of a major project by one of our long time club members, Eanna Healy, well here we are three years later and here is a picture of the model with all the ‘bits’ (as Eanna calls them) assembled and Read More …

Home of the Irish Aer Corps, Museum & Heritage Project. At 14 years of age and with a keen interest in aircraft & particularly military planes, I wrote to the Minister of Defence requesting a visit to Casement Aerodrome which was duly granted. I was privileged on that occasion to visit on a day when Read More …

A comment on our ‘WhatsAp’ page prompted the title for this months article and while there must be many such ‘finds’ out there, I’ve only come across two. The first one I found on ‘Adverts.ie’ and I purchased a magnificent ‘Messerschmitt 109’, a Durably scale model, never flown and in great condition, RTF. The second Read More …

Republished by kind permission Bob Jacosa, Trainer at ‘FlyCVA’ No, I’m not talking about saying please and thank you. As important as those things are, that won’t be the focus of this article. Understandably, training tends to focus on flying skills but there are bits of etiquette that are often overlooked in the training of Read More …

If you ask a large group of R/C pilots to raise their hands if they know how to control the throttle, rudder, elevator, and ailerons on a so-equipped airplane, it is a safe bet that they all would raise their hands. Now if ask them to keep their hands up if they use the rudder Read More …

Welcome to our website & apologies for our absence from these pages, needless to say it all started with ‘lockdown’ when we were forbidden flyers! Seems like it took a while to get airborne but we are well back and over the coming months we will be posting monthly news items showing club activities, events, Read More …

Paddy Burke – although I was one of the lucky people to be able to continue to work from home during lock-downs, the inability to go anywhere, gave me time to move this project along. Briefly, I set about converting a single seat foam model, Vampire, to a two seater, T11 in Irish Aer Corps Read More …

Bill Thompson Flight Box Check all tins or plastic boxes with small items such as nuts and bolts, screws for onset of rust or corrosion and replenish with clean items Check for leaks in bottle of fuel or priming bottle, if used Wash or replace all rags used on field for cleaning models Check spare Read More …

The French seem to have a talent for producing simple, but in their own way stylish and sophisticated, light aircraft.  Just three examples being, Roger Druine and his Turbulent, the Jodel Bebe of Joly and Delemontez, you can see how they came up with the name, and of course the Fournier series of Motor Gliders Read More …