February 2009

Sunday 22nd

Jim's Caprise

Stan's Edge	Mark's Badboy and heli

Paul's heli	Lee's Weston Tiger Shark, very fast
	Chairman's high speed Fox, this proved to be too fast for Phil, who only gave it half throttle and as predicted complained it was out of trim, 3 rolls a second is not for the elderly Hacker A10 on 3 cells. 4 servos
Saturday 21st Saturday's indoor flying

Jonathon's low wing trainer

Monday 16th Went down to the field Monday to see how my mate Keith is doing with his flying with his Sceadoo, surprise Phil the fridge was there flying his heli – no training gear - making great progress considering this is the person that was not keen on heli’s when I joined the club 12 months ago.

Does size matter? Keith's Sceadu, Phil B's Raptor and X-cell Pro 2K, dwarfing Phil's Twister

Keith is also making fantastic progress flying further than I have seen him doing before, but alas winter sun in your eye’s is a great hindrance even if you wear expensive sun glasses as can be seen by the result in the photo of Keith & Phil checking out the damage when he had a spillage into the ground after loosing vision of his heli.

Good news is that he will not be long before he is flying again (bless the internet for being able to order parts on line) I believe that Keith was talking to the farmer about the field and decided to start ploughing the field for him, but I personally would not use the skids of my heli, photo shows Phil’s interest in how to do a proper job of a accident with a decent size heli and put his blades at an angle on his so he would not be left out in the photo. Keep up the practice both of you Many thanks Phil B
Sunday 15th


David's new control line model	Marley launches

Paul flying and inverted going the other way
	Mark's petrol MA Spectra-G

Saturday 14th Saturday's indoor session

Friday 13th A warm day with a light Breeze and only two cars

The Heli has rest and the X-Ray has a couple of flights	Paul's Panic
Thursday 12th Dry but with a cold westerly breeze Phil B's Raptor, still a little snow on the hills
Wednesday 11th A warm day, nearly all of the snow has melted, but the field is very wet; I parked in the visitors area

My Twister Storm, the training under carriage still on, it seemed to ignore the breeze, not needing to lean into it, Phil