Pictures
Friday at Kempton Park, and Ali assembles his 3-and-a-half metre Yak. It's a bit big!
Dave Stephens checks out the compression of the 150cc twin up-front. Even the carbon prop has a custom paint job.
If that doesn't give you an idea of how big this plane is, nothing will.
And it Flies beautifully too, 3Ding like the best.
The prototype Capiche 90 3D, built and flown by Chris Madge.
Malcolm Corbin's latest pride and joy, his Capiche 140ex in front of the Island Hobbies Banner.
Dave Stephens does some indoor flying with a Shock-a-like. Meaning its a bit like a Shockflyer.
Ali with the big Cap, with which he put on a stunning low-level 3D display on both days.
See what I mean?
A couple of Capiches on Sunday Morning, mine in front with the Fedex liveried one behind.
A look along the pit area, and this is only one side of it!!
Pete Rondel's Capiche line up. Left to right: ST power, YS power, Flightpower power.
Two of the Capiche 140 ex's lined up.
Ali's Big Cap.
This Jet Ranger is a 1:4 scale, 2.4m diameter rotor, and unfortunately suffered a catastrophic failure mid-flight.
A Boomerang, which is an aerobatic Turbine powered aircraft.
The Weston aircraft lined up, the new MagnumR, the revised version of the old one, is even quicker than the old one. Wicked!! I wonder how long it will be before these are banned at events like this. You don't want anything going wrong at 200mph+.
A bit of a retro-revival, the Cambrian Fun-fighters are back! This bunch are all powered by Leo 37's and I've never seen a fun fighter move quicker than any of these.
Mike Williams and Dave Stephens discuss things while Dave prepares his Capiche 50.
Regarded as one of the Best Colour Scheme's ever put onto a Capiche 50. This photo just does not do it justice.
The Eurosport, again flown by Ali (he gets everywhere). Surely it's models like this that turn normal sunday-fliers into hardcore Jet Jockies.
A couple of YT Adrenalines. Thomas, you won't be disappointed when you get yours, that's for sure.
An Extra, which has a very special paint job on it. It must be special, it cost £700!!! (Yes, that's ONLY for the paint job)
Dave Stephen's Capiche 140ex. Electric powered, it uses 90 LiPo cells. Yikes!
The Sandown runway. Short, isn't it.
Team Capiche Sandown 2004. Left to right: Dave Stephens, Malcolm Corbin, Paul Skinner, Pete Rondel, Mike Williams, Dave Wilkinson, Luke Shaw, and Ali Machinchy. Chris Madge and Paul Carr not in picture. (I hope I haven't missed anyone else).
Pete Rondels Capiche 50 on a low pass during a chaotic Capiche 50 slot.
See what I mean!! That's mine hanging at the top of the picture.
What a Raptor 50 looks like after a mid-air with a West Tornado. That's gotta hurt!
The New explorer V-90, a very nice-looking aerobat.
An apache with 4-blade rotors on it, I'm fairly sure it used Vario Mechanics.
Jamie Cole prepares his Fury Extreme for a bit of 3D action. The other two machines are Dave Fisher's Extreme, and Bob Johnson's Millennium.
The Jet Ranger on it's fateful flight. You could almost believe it was a full-size on a fly-past.
The Second Largest Electric Plane ever built, this Lancaster was massive!
A collection of Shockflyers and similar Depron aerobats. These things are a revolution, and many are saying they are the one thing to have the biggest single effect on model flying ever.
Ali's two large 3D planes, disassembled ready for transport back home after a cracking weekend's flying.
