Tim Rowledge's Model Plane Page

Models Page

Into the distance, a ribbon of black

Stretched to the point of no turning back.

A flight of fancy on a windswept field,

standing alone, my senses reel.

- Pink Floyd, Momentary Lapse of Reason

I build and fly radio-controlled model planes; mainly scale slope gliders, but also electric powered stuff. I've been doing it about as long as motorcycle riding, and one day I might get to be good at it.
At the moment I have quite a collection

A 3m, 1/5th scale Fox by Herr Steber. Nice kit but not very good instructions. See www.steber.de
Pik-20: 15m open class sailplane. This one is 1/5th scale, from Icare. Currently needs new wings due to hitting both branches of the only tree on the Coyote Hills slope!
Multiplex TwinStar - definitely the wildest electric model I have had for a while. Recently passed on to another owner.
Balsacraft Spitfire with Aveox 1406/3Y planeta, 12*8 prop, 12 CP-1700 cells. Flies beautifully but is a bugger to launch. Crashed horribly after a confusion over frequencies. If you can find a NIB kit, get it.

And with no pictures available just now

Reichard Elipsoid 2.8m power soarer with Astro 05g, 11*7, 8 1700 cells. Crashed :-(
Casavos Vortex-SP 48" hotliner, Jeti 15/4 direct on 8 1700 cells, currently using a graupner 9*5. 'Old Reliable' that just flies and flies. Excellent aerobatics on the current setup.
Seledkin F5B hotliner, Aveox F12LMR, 12 cells, whooooooooosh, whistle, yee-hah!
Multiplex 60" ASK-18 semiscale, a gentle potter-around-the-slope model for quiet days.
Scratch built 36" span SpaceWalker with an Axi 2808 out-runner motor.

I belong to two local clubs, South Bay Soaring Society (AMA #163) and the Baylands Park e-clique (an informal gang, hosted by the generous people at Sunnyvale Baylands Park) as well as the Academy of Model Aeronautics. Mostly I fly at either the Baylands Park site or at Glider Hill in the Coyote Hills Park just by the East side of the Dumbarton Bridge. Occasionally I get to go to Los Banos resevoir as well.

email me at tim@rowledge.org

A 3m, 1/5th scale Fox by Herr Steber. Nice kit but not very good instructions. See www.steber.de
Pik-20: 15m open class sailplane. This one is 1/5th scale, from Icare. Currently needs new wings due to hitting both branches of the only tree on the Coyote Hills slope!
Multiplex TwinStar - definitely the wildest electric model I have had for a while. Recently passed on to another owner.
Balsacraft Spitfire with Aveox 1406/3Y planeta, 12*8 prop, 12 CP-1700 cells. Flies beautifully but is a bugger to launch. Crashed horribly after a confusion over frequencies. If you can find a NIB kit, get it.