Yamamoto

This was the aeroplane that got me started in RC. I had always been interested in aircraft since I was little much influenced by my Dad who was in the Air Training Corps when he was 18?? The price of RC equipment when I was younger was very expensive but as electronics have become cheaper and used in everyday equipment so then the prices have come down. My farther once bought a complete RC se, batteries, engine and plane at bring and buy sale for the club for around £60 all in!!

I bought the aircraft in 1988 but did not first fly until 1992. Myself and my Dad joined the HMAC in late 1992 and have been with the club since. I first flew the plane at the Copland model flying club. This is a very large and open site but with only a medium size grass and tarmac landing strip.

The aircraft is easy to build and quite easy to fly. The engine was an OS35 FP fitted with one of those bendy yellow 10x6 props.



In flight inmges taken with the Yamamoto using a single shot throw away camera. The first three are of the Copeland model aircraft club field in Cumbria. The last is an early shot of the DMAC (formely the HMAC) flying field circa 1995.