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October 2004 Kiwis take on the World and win in Tucson ! The 2004 Tucson Aerobatic Shootout. Frazer Briggs 1st in Unlimited & 2nd in Freestyle. Grant Finlay 2nd in Advanced. Click here for more....
August 2004 Combined Asian Oceanic Continental Championships - Australia
January 2004 Click here for photos from the NZMAA 56th National Championships - Clareville - Carterton Sunday 28th December 2003 to Friday 2nd January 2004.
October 2003 3rd place in Unlimited at the 2003 Tucson Aerobatic Shootout. Click here for the Report, Results & Photos.
The first ever Airsail Coolpower 1000 was held in Whangarei, in conjunction with the 2003 New Zealand Masters. Click here for more.
May 2003 Lots of action over the summer months since the last update. Frazer has been kept busy flying demo's around the country at various Airshows with the big Extra. After 5 years of moulding TOC aircraft, Mike is finally building a model for himself. Its big and its ugly ! Check out Mike's new project here. Frazer has just returned from the 2003 Australian Masters where he flew the latest Matrix version by Gallent Composites, the "Matrix DZ". Aussie Masters report will be posted soon. Click here for the pictures. The Carbon Tubes page has been updated with a few new sizes.
January 2003 The PBG range of Carbon Fibre Wing Tubes has been extended. Click here to see an updated listing of the sizes available, including metric & imperial, plus a new range of heavy walled tubes for you wing benders out there ! Contact details for a supplier in your area are also now listed.
Jarrod Briggs (age 3) now in training for the F3A World Championships Year 2015 ! He's flying his Grandads "Old Farts" machine on the trainer lead.
Coming Events for 2003 Frazer will be flying freestyle demo's with the big TOC Extra 260 at the following Airshows & events around New Zealand.
25th & 26th January 2003 - Wings Over Wairarapa 8th & 9th February 2003 - Warbirds Over Awatoto - Hawkes Bay 23rd February 2003 - Hamilton Airshow 8th & 9th March 2003 - NZ Warbirds Airshow - Ardmore - Auckland 29th & 30th March - Richard Pearse Airshow - Timarua
October 2002
TOC Report # 1 We have been in Phoenix for over a week now. It started off hot. 40 Degrees Celsius the first few days. This week the temps have dropped back to 30. We have flown every day, even though some days it has blown 40 Knots crosswind. I was hoping to have posted some photos before now, but all our time so far has been spent working on the models and practicing.
Click here for TOC Practice Photos from Phoenix
September 2002 ...... Its TOC Time ! PBG Composites.com has reached 10,000 visitors .... Pretty Bloody Good ay !
Problem is we've been so busy getting ready for the 2002 Tournament of Champions, we've hardly had time to celebrate.
While you were sitting at home cause it was too windy to go flying, we were at the field practicing in 10 degrees and 30 knots ! Brrrr ...... it was cold. And when you had you feet up by the fire drinking cold beer & watching a DVD on the telly, we were probably out in the workshop building Extra's !
The new models are flying great. Plus we have managed to knock several Kg's out of the airframe.
Here are some recent snap shots of the newest model in action at the field....
Now there are a few guys who have helped us get this far. Thankyou especially to Graeme Giles, Ewan Galloway, Mike Sutton & Clive Burgess.
Thanks also to our sponsors this year. JR, Desert Aircraft, Powerflite, Coolpower, Nelson Hobbies, J-Tech to name a few. The new models are loaded with some pretty cool gear, and soon I'll get some close up photo's of the installation posted on the website.
So, we are off on the 22nd September. We will spend 2 weeks down in Phoenix for 14 days of altitude training and acclimation to the local brew !
This years Team New Zealand is:
While in Phoenix we will try and do a few updates to the webpage. The TOC starts on the 9th of October, and results will be posted daily at www.desertaircraft.com
One more thing ..... F3B guru Dave Larsen of ESP Screen Printing has come up with a team shirt design for us this year that looks ... well, Pretty Blood Good of course ! Thanks Dave, you are a legend.
If you want to send us a good luck message, put it in the guest book. There's a link at the bottom of this page.
35 Degrees Celsius, 4% humidity, Tee Shirts and Jandals .... Phoenix here we come !
Bogan.
June 2002 The first balsa / glass composite fuselage version of our 2m Extra 260 has been test flown. The all up weight is only 4.8Kg, and with the OS160FX nestled in the cowl, there's plenty of power for hovering and 3D antics. Click here for more details about the kit.
March 2002 The F3A Trans Tasman was held in the Hawkes Bay of New Zealand. The Kiwi's were victorious on this occasion. Click here for more about the Trans Tasman
January 2002 Happy New Year from PBG ! Since our return from the NZ Nationals over the New Year period, Mike has been busy in the workshop moulding 2m Extra 260 fuselages. We now have several versions of this kit available. The IMAC version - Standard glass fuse with some foam gators inside. We expect the IMAC version to be about 5.3 to 5.5 Kg finished flying weight. Lightweight Pattern version - The fuselage is a complete composite of light glass and very light balsawood around the entire fuselage. The fuse is vacuum bagged into the moulds, and comes out approx 250 grams lighter than the std IMAC version. The all up flying weight will be F3A legal at between 4.8 and 5Kg. Deluxe version. Pre sheeted wings, stabs and rudder, all the rigging and alignment completed. Includes Carbon Wing and Stab Tubes. Ready to cover and paint.
New from PBG .... Carbon Fibre Helicopter Booms (and they are tinted !)
The weather here in NZ is fantastic right now, and the summer flying season is under way. Keep an eye out for us at the following events in 2002.
December 2001 The PBG Model Shop is open for business ! We opened on the 1st of December 2001, and a number aeromodellers visited the shop during the day. Some of the opening day specials are still available. Click here to visit the PBG Model Shop website.
November 2001 The logistics of starting your own model shop has proven to take a lot more time than we had first expected, but its all going to fall into place for the grand opening on the 1st of December. Mike and Frazer managed to scarper for a weekend to the Pukekohe race track for the V8 Supercars event on Nov 11/12. Several times during the weekend, Frazer flew the Extra 260 in front of a crowd of 60,000 + petrol heads. Surprising how many spectators in the crowd actually thought the model was a real plane, until it started hovering !
October 2001 The big news this month is Mike's decision to extend PBG Composites into a full model shop. The PBG Model Shop will open in Tauranga in mid November. Cool Power Oil and Nitro, Bolly Propellors, Airsail Kits, Sig Kits, Dubro, OS Engines, Oracover, Adhesives, PBG Composites Kits and more. More details to follow soon.
New from PBG Composites. 7/8" x 30" Carbon Fibre Wing Tubes and Sockets. Intro price only $75 NZ. Half the weight of aluminium and stronger. Bigger sizes, 1 1/4", 1 1/2" and 2" Tubes in Carbon will be also be available soon. Click here for more info.
The new 2m Extra 260 is flying great, and has probably had over 40 flights already. Still a few things to sort out with the kit, plans, new u/c mould, etc. Production will start soon.
September 2001 The new 2m Extra 260 has been successfully test flown ! Click here for more info.
The F3A World Championships in Ireland are history ! Click here for photo's, articles, results etc
August 2001 Frazer has finished off a new Lazer for Mike and it was successfully test flown a few weeks ago. Looks great with the new cowl and canopy shape. ST2350 up front, and this time we've used the CD Products 2 stroke muffler rather than a full length pipe, its going great. Weight came out at about 4.6 Kg, and the ST is providing plenty of power. After a quick count up of lazers we've ever built, this is number 11 ! Photo's of Mike's new Lazer...
The new 2m Extra 260 has started to generate plenty of interest already. Mike has already pulled the first fuselage out of the new moulds. The canopy plug is finsihed and the wings have been pressed. The model will be in the air soon. Photo's of the new 2m Extra 260 fuselage moulding.
July 2001 New from PBG Composites ..... a long awaited 2m version of the infamous PBG Composites TOC model, the Extra 260. Mike has started and finished the fuselage plug, and the moulds are almost complete. The dimensions of the model are the same as the lazer 200, the fuse is slightly longer, but the bulk of the fuselage is huge in comparison. Power is likely to be OS140RX and up. Photo's will be posted soon.
June 2001 The Lazer 200 is now available in the U.S. Mike sent a batch of kits to our good friends Jim Dornberger and John Heigl in Arizona. These two have got far to much time on their hands, and Jims Lazer is already finished and flying ! Here are some photo's ....
April 2001 The 2001 Australian Masters, Wodonga, Victoria .... Team Bogworm places 1st and 3rd with the new models ... The Matrix. Click here for more...
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