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Fred Harno and his team travelled to the Nordheim Model Flying Club to witness some of Europe's best model aircraft. Nordheim is situated in the Roehn region, about an hour north east of Frankfurt, near the famous German gliding centre of Wasserkuppe. At the start of this video Fred gives us a brief view of the gliding site and the fascinating museum there. It looks well worth a visit if you're in the area! Moving
onto the main showground and all I can say is that the Nordheim Club must
have one of the best flying sites I have ever seen. Set in the rolling
German countryside, they have their own tarmac strip with ample well-mown
grass all around. Beyond the runway, the ground slips away into a dip.
This made for some interesting flying, as we shall see later. Further
away After the formalities of registration and frequency control the flying gets going with Ulli Richter's Super Constellation. The four-engined Constellation has a span of 4.5 metres and weighed 19.5 kg, but it soon covered the blue sky with the first flight of the day. Aircraft of all types where on show at Nordheim. From a very large Fokker Dr1 to the latest turbine powered modern jets. Aircraft of the future were also displayed, with some concept designs like the Gulfstream Sukhoi experimental business jet, that are only currently on the drawing board in their full size guise.
There were many examples of turbine-powered aircraft, from the diminutive Starfighter to passenger liners such as the Airbus 330 and even a twin turbined Concorde, complete with drooping nose! The dip in the ground I mentioned earlier came into it's own with the aerobatic pilots. Along with the prop hanging of the Extras and the Zlins, several pilots found that they could knife edge lower and lower into the dip until they disappeared out of sight for a couple of seconds. Most disorientating.
Several
of the aircraft and pilots appeared in the La Ferte Alais video, but this
is to be expected when the cream of European modelling gather at such
events. All the interesting moments are replayed in slow motion, from
collapsing undercarriages to the death defying forest escape! Fred and
his team have caught it all on camera. For the model enthusiast, this
video is well worth the Euro € 20.29 (approx £13 UK) asking price. Please mention 'Flying Sites' when contacting Air Video Fred.
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