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Chairman's flying wing, very fast but hard to launch |
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Rob's Trex 700 |
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The exhaust fell off while inverted, rob managed to land it without damage
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| Monday 24th What a fantastic evening, sun, blue sky and a slight breeze. The only thing missing were people flying!!!. the usual suspects were there, Clive and his Stryker, Jon and his edge, Ken and a twin jet, Nick and Archie and myself. Oh I nearly forgot Dave. Dave was last seen putting his Piper Cub into a black bag!!! The wings had done the long awaited clap!! Not a lot else happened |
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| Sunday 23rd | |
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Paul's Mini Rudder Bug built from a plan and powered by 1cc DC Spitfire diesel |
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Kevin's Pitts Python, Lee test flew it with a rearward centre of gravity, it was very lively on the elevator, the battery was moved forward just behind the motor |
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| Saturday 22nd | |
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Gordon's trainer, Kevin's Space Walker and Stan's Banshee |
| Sunday 16th Day much as forecast, breezy and overcast. Small number of the usual members out flying. |
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Darren had his new Vec-jet out for it's maiden flight. The rear mounted motor swivels with the rudder to give angled thrust. Looked a bit of a handful, first flight was a bit wild the wind didn't help. Don't think Darren tried the vectored thrust. On the second flight he let it get to far away and discovered that a colour scheme of black & white on top with white & black underside doesn't give much of a contrast. |
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| Lee's ever present Mustang on another long sortie. |
A rather apt slogan, although in Darren's case the ground was further away in the next field. |
| Thursday 12th. Very good turnout in excellent conditions, 18 cars at around 7.30. Sorry no pics.
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| Tuesday 11th A warm evening spoilt a bit by the breeze. We sorted out Gordon's Cub by adding a little nose weight and mixing in a little more aileron to rudder mix. We had one disaster when the wing joiner failed on a trainers maiden flight. The greens were out in force with their helicopters. Nick arrived late with a Magnatilla bought off Ebay, the engine ran well and it looked good in the air just a minor scarf problem. The strip is OK very little damage from the grasstrack meeting, the race track has been leveled and rolled but may get muddy if we get a lot of rain |
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Gordon's Cub |
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lee's Hype |
Nick's Ebay Magnatilla |
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Darren's fun fly |
Lawrence's Shuttle |
| Saturday and Sunday 8th & 9th No flying at our strip due to the autograss meeting, but flying still took place at Aston Down on Saturday and Fish Meadow Upton on Severn on Sunday |
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Alan King's Spitfire flying at Aston Down |
Our Chairman launching at the interclub competition at Fish meadow on Sunday see report |
| Wednesday 5th
At last a proper summer's evening, warm, sunny and very little wind. Jim used CB's dolly to launch his Tiger Shark, far too fast for me to get a photo. |
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Darren landing, well an arrival |
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Yes Jonathon, pictures are like buses, you wait for ages, then two come along together |
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Ken's EDF F35 Lightening |
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| Sunday 2nd A very good day with lots of models flown, warm with only a light breeze. |
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| Our Chairman's high speed wing had problem's, we had failed to hand launch this and a dolly was tried, this also failed. Marley demonstrates the correct way to launch Jim's flying wing, but Chris does not pay attention | |
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Phil's Asperra, electric pattern ship |
Nick's petrol Cap |
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Jim's park flyer |
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Malcolm's Procopter |
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Lee's new Spitfire on it's second outing |
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