Moswey Day at our club!

My new Moswey III has spent many hours airborne over the past few months. It’s become one of my three favourite planes (next to the JS3 and the 4m Diana2). It thermals incredibly well, is a breeze to land, and I just love how you can throw it into a tight curve without having to worry about a stall. It’s wonderful to fly, and worth all the hours and frustration put into building it.

Our club (mg-eh.ch) has always had a special relationship with the Moswey. The plane was developed and built in our region, including just across the lake from our club’s airfield (Horgen). Moreover, the first ever rc-model of the Moswey was built within our club as far back as the 1970s and most of the commercial versions available today (the kit from albmodellbau and the small version from oldgliders, as well as the fully moulded version from Chocofly) are based on the work within our club or have been developed with involvement of members of our club – or both.

Over the past five decades, many Mosweys have been built and flown within our club, but with a few new builds finished or nearly finished, it was high time to organise another Moswey day. On 11 August 2021 we managed to get four of our Mosweys together. All were 4m versions, three self-built from an albmodellbau kit (lovingly called “Zitrönli” (little lemon), “Fröschli” (little frog) and “Schneewittli” (little snowy white), and one fully moulded Moswey 4 from Chocofly. Unfortunately we didn’t have many thermals that day, but the air was quiet and the flying wonderful – we even managed to get a bit of formation flying in. Some pictures of our planes are below. More pictures, including of our Mosweys in flight, can be found on our club’s website: mg-eh.ch/galerie/moswey-fliegen/.

 

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