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Lost Model Found By Tree Surgeons (HobbyZone Cub), Please contact info@rpff.org or contact the Parks office located at Holly Lodge.

Trial Flights – Come and try! 

We offer free trial flights for all who are interested in aeromodelling, see our Trial Flights page for further information.

For those who are unable to fly we now run ‘Special Operations’ to give you an immersive experience you will never forget! For more information please see our Special Operations Page.

Thanks to HoverThings.com, who have not only kindly donated one of their fantastic VC450 airframes but also a DJI Naza flight controller (and a big bag of spares!); we can now offer our Special Operations service to those with limited external space. With this new airframe we can now take off and land safely out of a very small space. For more information or to request a Special Operations visit, please email us at info@rpff.org.

All who attend our Trial Flights sessions or benefit from our Special Operations can now have their flights recorded and can take the footage home to show their friends and family! A quick Film of us testing the camera below.

Trial Flights – Donations!

We have just received an over whelming donation from Mike,the proprietor of West Wales Models. Not only has he generously donated an ST Models Discovery and a Wot4 E, he’s also provided a Spektrum DX6i and a box of his fantastic LightSpeed batteries which will power our project for a very long time! All I can say is a big thanks from the team here at rpff.org and from all the people that sign up for our Trial Flights project! Thanks to Mike for a further donation of more of his LightSpeed Batteries, all our Trial Flights are now powered by Lightspeed Batteries!

Thanks to an amazing donation from DragonLabs we soon will have our first FPV (First Person View) airframe ready for flight. DragonLabs UK partner DragonLabs (EU) have supplied us with their latest Dragon On Screen Display (DOSD), this device works with a live video feed coming from the aircraft to which the DOSD overlays values for GPS, Speed, Current Heading, power usage and other important bits of information which helps control the aircraft. Another amazing feature of this device is its built in Return to Home function, flick a switch and the aircraft will fly to a preset location automatically! We will mainly be using this equipment to give lesser able bodied people a flying experience, using FPV technology, we can enable them to see a birds eye view of the world which makes all go “wow”, this is fully immersive!

Thanks to the generous people from FatShark, we soon will be able to provide an FPV (First Person View) experience, this is quite a new type of RC flying where the pilot see’s from the ‘cockpit’ with the help from an on board video camera and video headset. This is as close to flying a real ‘full size’ plane you can get, a thoroughly immersive experience. FatShark are the industry leaders when it comes to video goggles and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their help and generous donation.

Thanks also go to the owners of RobotBirds who have kindly donated a model to our project, this gives us further flexibility which we greatly need!

Open anemometer

RPFF will now also host our Open Weather-station project. Formally known as Open Anemometer, with this open source project, we aim to create a weather-station which school children can build as a school project and set up to monitor their local weather conditions, either by hooking up to a PC or via a digital display. We are also creating schools packs for teachers to aid in teaching about weather and outside activities which encompass using the weather, Kite flying, Aeromodelling, to name a few. We hope that this will encourage the younger generation to pay a closer interest in their climate, along with getting them outside enjoying related activities. For more information please see the Open Anemometer page.

F3K World Championships

One of our local F3K Pilots, Mike Stern, came 3rd in the inaugural F3K World Championship held in   Arboga – Sweden. Joseph Wurts (New Zealand) took first place.

Over all, the whole team took 10th place after a grueling 3 day competition which had some very challenging weather conditions, a fantastic tour de force from all involved -  pitted against 27 nations Team New Zealand took first place. Congratulations to all who took part and made it a very thrilling competition.

Further information including the full results can be found here.