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This is the Club's 29th year, established by a small group of enthusiasts led by Dave Ellis (who ran the local model shop, long gone unfortunately) and a few others. Like most Clubs there is a small group who have been "playing with toy aeroplanes" for this whole period and many new faces over the years. It is good to see novices join, get trained, pass their "A" test, become competent flyers and join the Committee to help put something back.
Much has happened during those 29 years the most notable being the effective silencing of I/C engines and the fantastic advance of electric power. There is a great interest in electric powered models now with it becoming a very useable source of power. Many of the old "nitro heads" have converted to electric and with the new Li-Po batteries which provide good duration and light weight. We have the mobile 'phone industry to thank for this development as without this huge market for batteries we would not have the low prices we currently enjoy. We now have electric ducted fan models producing around 10 lbs of thrust approaching 3 Kw of power
We are a fixed wing group and the ethos of the Club is very much flying for fun and enjoying ourselves safely and creating minimum disturbance to our neighbours. Our sites and location dictate that certain types of models cannot safely be operated. For example gas turbine powered aircraft are not permitted nor are models exceeding 7kg in weight. If competition aerobatic flying, large models or fast and furious is where your interest lies then our Club facilities will not match your requirements.
Felbridge Flyers Radio Model Flying Club operates near East Grinstead in West Sussex, UK. Our members come from a large radius: Crawley in the west, Croydon to the north, Edenbridge to the east and Brighton to the south.
The Club promotes quiet and safe operation. We learnt many years
ago that to maintain the use of flying fields we must fly quietly and minimize
annoyance. Quiet operation has had little effect on the performance of sport
and scale models. Many members are surprised on how much better the models performed
with the slower revving and more efficient props: it is thrust you need, not
rpm. We operate from mown grass runways at two sites on the Surrey / Sussex
border and operate i/c and electric powered sport and scale models. We are a
friendly Club where everyone seems to talk to everyone else.
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