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MicroMagic's in Vuosaari

Saturday, October 27, 2007

There's a new area around Vuosaari in Helsinki being developed and they've built a number of channels/ponds close to a park and the golf course. Google map view here. 8 boats, possibly the largest gathering of MicroMagic's so far in Finland, showed up for some friendly racing today. I tried it too for two races. [...]

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Helsinki Model Expo 2007 - Day 3

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Last day at model-expo, my first try at using google video! First the new Futaba 2.4GHz radios. There are two wheel-model radios already on the market, and I was told two stick-radios (a 3-channel and a 6-channel model) will be in stores very shortly. Priced close to the Spektrum offerings at around 200 eur. Then [...]

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Helsinki Model Expo 2007 - Day 2

Saturday, March 31, 2007

A long day at Model Expo today... Our main new attraction for this year was Micro Magic sailing in the pool - and it worked great! This picture shows a general view of the pool, the marks, and the blowers(the yellow and blue fans at the top of the picture) that created wind for us. [...]

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Micro Magic

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Timo brought along his latest toy, a Micro Magic, to our annual radiosailing winter meeting. This thing really is small compared to a Marblehead or an IOM! It's an all 'plastic-fantastic' ABS moulded boat, but you do have to glue the deck to the hull in this Racing version of the kit. The vitals are [...]

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