Greatplane "Siren"

After reading a few review about this Greatplane "Siren" I have decided to give it a try. got the model from NTC and the packing of the kit is very presentable. Even the manual are well printed out with all the flying regulations and reminders.

The building process of the "Siren" are somewhat simple as it is and ARF kit except for some slight modifications that needed to be done. Wings comes in 3 pieces and it has a wooden spar for the joints. The joining of wings are very crucial as a little mistake will cost the performance of the plane. Extra focus needed for that.

The fuselage itself have a great livery and it's fully carbon which means that the receiver antenna need to be out of the fuselage. The plane was design for Nicad cell and since we are now using Lipo's, there some modification needed to be done in order to get the right CG. Apart from that, the assembly of the servo and other electronics are a simple.

Did a flight test some weeks back and it was sort of a warmliner. This is base on my configurations and I have read somewhere in the net that they are some flyers who actually pushes the plane to the limit and it became somewhat of a hotliner.

The plane is very agile and it can also thermal very well. Tried climbing and it went straight up will lots of power...suitable for F5B. Did a few laps with power cut and it did actually floats but with a slight fast sinking rate but nevertheless when you hit a thermal, it goes up again. Apart from that, did some aerobatic maneuver and it responed well. Did a couple of highspeed low pass and also tried to tip stall it and it was difficult to get it tip stall. Overall it was indeed a good model :)

I would say that it's a good model to begin with if you are a beginner with hotliner as I am. The next model that I currently assembling is the fully moulded "Eagle 5" which looks similar to the "Siren"

My Baracuda with new livery

Added some colors ( black ) to the Baracuda. New color are at the wing tips and also the horizontal tail fins.

BBFAC open day & Night Flying

Somemore photos taken during the day and night....what a day!


The guys after the BBQ and into drinking session

The night flyers with full concerntration..." Don't go looking at the wrong plane now "

Howey's night flying Heli....a beautiful sight

David with his Easy Glider...very colorful

Howey with his fully light up plane...can see it for miles!

Goh's with his night flying plane...looks like a lantern in the sky

BBQ in the evening...yummy :)

Kalvin's Suhkoi doing a knife edge

Mr Johnny Yong, owner of Singapore Hobby doing a fine tunning before take off

Francis with his Stevia...ready to launch

Vincent Lee with his Soaring Star... up to the sky

Kalvin doing one of his 3D stunt...he manage to grab the tail of the plane while hovering ( never do this at home )

Not sure whose Spitfire is this but it was a beautiful plane

Goh's warbird

Spkye and his new bird ( the green one )

Bukit Batok Open Day Fun Fly

BBFAC have organised an Open Day fun fly on the 11 September and it turn out to be very entertaining. Some other clubs members were there to perform some spectacular aerobatic 3D flight. Overall, there's gliders, helicopters and even gasoline aircraft.

As ususal me and Mr Goh will arrive early to clear up some the place and did some spring cleaning. The crowd came in around noon time and stay on till late evening.

After the day's event, we had an evening BBQ sponsor by the club and did some nice night flying.

Flyer Kalvin with his beautiful SUKOI

This Beautiful Huey belongs to flyer Derrick from the UK

Mr Johnny Yong, owner of Singapore Hobby supply setting up his Comander to do a precision flying aerobatic

Derrick Heli in action

Pilot 'Tumeric'

Got myself a Pilot 'Tumeric' recently and did a maiden flight this morning at BBFAC. The assembly was rather difficult at certain point especially trying to get the servo and extension cables thru the wings. The wings are foam core and sheeted with balsa and it really a thin wing. Apart from that the rest of the assembly are fine. A very typical japanese design and the manual was simple. You just need to be prepared to do some minor modifications.

Flew it today and it was a beauty to see it up in the sky. It was a fast and agile aircaft but at the same time it's light enough to ride the thermals. Vincent was there to taken some nice shot of the aircraft.

Here we go...