Alan Hulme Series
Power Scale Soaring Part 7
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 44 October 2005 In this final part of the series Alan Hulme brings us up-to-date with the last 5 years of PSS developments in the UK. During the winter months of 2000 I designed and built a model which had been on my building list ever…
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Power Scale Soaring Part 6
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 42 August 2005 Alan Hulme continues the history of PSS in the penultimate part of his series… Valkyrie The first PSS meeting of 1997 took place at the Hole of Horcum in the North Riding of Yorkshire and as usual this was well attended. The surprise…
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Power Scale Soaring – Part 5
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 40 June 2005 Alan Hulme continues his pictorial history of PSS… Panther In 1992, apart from the three Scottish swing wing model fighter aircraft, we saw at both the Llandudno, North Wales and Hole of Horcum, Yorkshire meetings the initial flights of a large Grumman Panther. …
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Power Scale Soaring Part 4
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 39 May 2005 Alan Hulme continues his history of PSS Moving On In April 1989 the Clwyd Soaring Association held their 6th annual PSS meeting on Moel Famau mountain, North Wales. It was here that we first witnessed the initial flight of Fred Jackson’s scratch built…
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Power Scale Soaring – Part 3
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 38 April 2005 The story of PSS in the UK continues. Late 80’s From the middle of 1987 there were three well attended PSS meetings at already established flying sites. Clwyd, as usual, turned out to be a popular two day venue and three new model…
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Power Scale Soaring Part 2
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 37 March 2005 This month, Alan continues his series with an examination of design considerations and looks back at more of those pioneering models. Moving On In part 1 of this series on PSS, I introduced readers to several early examples of models flown in the…
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Power Scale Soaring – Part 1
by Alan Hulme originally published in Q&EFI Magazine No 36 February 2005 In this series of short articles, Alan Hulme traces the development of the PSS model in the UK over the last 20 years. Power Scale Soaring has been practised in the U.K. for many years. The variety of models built and successfully flown over…
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