Mephisto at Phoenix

Full-size and model pilot, Tim Jenkinson, flies his Jet Turbine on a cloudy Spring afternoon at the Phoenix Model Flying Club. This is his 20kg Vectored Thrust Mephisto by Carf, great model and flying; frightening and awesome at the same time. The thrust vectoring enables some new to me jet manoeuvres shown here, 'flips' and flat spins, a knife-edge loop as well as the usual massive loops, rolls and reverse half cuban eights.

Brother David Woods did the camerawork with his very nice Sony AX53 handy-cam and I put the video together using VideoPad.

Videoed at the Phoenix MFC field, London Colney, Hertfordshire, UK on 21st March 2019.

Oh, the smell of Kerosene and burning Smoke Oil, a model standing vertically on a column of hot air. A model like this, somewhere 'north' of £10K, flying like this, definitely exercises the 'sphincter ani internus' I should imagine.

Specs: As far as I can see this model uses 10 high power digital servos, two gyros, two receivers and a couple of sets of LiPo batteries for both the glow (ignition) and RC gear. I think this model has a 300N turbine running on Paraffin (Kerosene) to drive its massive 20kg bulk, 2.6m wingspan and 3.1m length.

(Mephisto is a short version of Mephistopheles, the winged demon with whom Faust does a deal when he sells his soul to the Devil. An apt name I thought.)