Sunday 5 th

I am so impressed with the attitude of the members that I think its worth a mention.I saw today at least two newish members needing help in setting up.Some older,not so much in age but experience , give of their time willingly and of course freely to help...what a great example.Well done gentlemen

I can only second your comments John. Apart from engine setups thanks to Mark and Leigh for maning the buddy box whilst my good mate Brent finaly got to fly his trainer He really enjoyed the day, the flying and the good natured banter

Zaid aka dead stick was at it again and one of his landings was so far away that my telephoto lens could not pick it out. He is seen below thanking the crowd for their support after the long walk back



It is rumoured that a new engine may be in the offing which is good because the old one bit me this afternoon

Mark had half a flight and nearly ended up with half an airoplane when the Port wing blew its covering. Well done Mark for getting it down in one piece.





Richie finaly got to fly after engine tunning duties and a spell on the buddy box.







Brent on the buddy box.




No need to be rude Mark



A good turn out again.







Leigh carries in another dead stick for Zaid.



Andy`s best landing yet



I had some good luck when the tail srvo arm fell off on my Raptor 50 JUST BEFORE IT TOOK OFF. If it had happened in the air it could have totaled the machine. I checked it before flight but the screw must have been working loose and just fell out. Must increase my preventitive maintinance.

Anyway my T Rex 600 flew well.

See you on the field soon


DaveS

Great days flying helis and fixed wing. Many thanks to Rich for his help in tuning that doomed engine.
And thanks to Dave for being my pit crew in more than one occasion !

But at least I was prepared for it cutting out on me, again, again, again ... I had 5 fixed wing flights, 4 of which ended up with a dead stick..
As usual Dave and the boys were very supportive , especially when I had another dead stick and ended up in Rhyl town center. All in all its been a good day..
All models accounted for and ready for another adventurous days flying and dead sticking ..................................

Aye apart from the obious it was a stella day Cap was going great untill the great covering excaped,

Cheers to Zaid for the blast on the Hawk (hope your nervous are still ok) Was great to have such an easy time on the Buddy box Brent`s a natural and wont be long if/when he joins

Also good to see the Ex Chairman John Bowman down the strip snapping away with his camera so hopfully some good shots on the way and also nice to see Tim managed to drag himself away from the rock

M

They say that it's almost impossible to escape the "ROCK"

What a place to be trapped though providing you've got a glider and a battery charger

Here's a nice photo of Tim Mackey's Spit on a low strafing run from yesterday sent to me by John Bowman, excellent results from his new camera

I'm sure the Pilot just winked at me.....

I had a good afternoon too, managing to actually hit the strip just the once with the Komet, and a few chucks of the Mini DLG inbetween the noisey stuff flying

Roll on Summer!

Cheers
Andy

Andy Sayle wrote:I'm sure the Pilot just winked at me.....

I had a good afternoon too, managing to actually hit the strip just the once with the Komet, and a few chucks of the Mini DLG inbetween the noisey stuff flying

Roll on Summer!

Cheers
Andy

Do you mean hit the strip as in land on it or as in leave a crater

Hi all... 'twas indeed a joy to be back on the power site - and I only got lost once trying to find it
Flew my two fav power models in what I consider ideal conditions, OK so the wind was slightly off centre of the runway but no bother, and enjoyed myself immensely.
Spitty had a couple of deadstciks ( most unusual for me - except up the Orme ) and thius was later discovered to have been caused by the entire clunk tube lying in the bottom of the tank ! All fixed up and ready for the next sortie, which I hope will be this Thursday evening - a dusk raid required me thinks to show off the guns and lights a little better
EDF Sabre behaved, as usual, impeccably. Loved the Komet of Andy's although not sure about the formation flying with the Spitfire as requested by John Bowman for the camera
CU soon peeps.
PS flew the Jart this afternoon after her re-build with Andy Ellison and Steve Dorling and co up the Orme - nice fresh 40+MPH westerly - big grins all round. Richie and Roy arrived shortly before I left and seemed to be enoying themselves.

The formation flying was a right laugh! Rather hard work, but jolly good fun!

Your Spitty had a deadstick? A deadstick? I thought it was obvious that the Komet had the upper hand, and shot the Spitfire down.......

Cheers
Andy

Thursday evening Tim, you'll be lucky the weather forecast is Charlie Romeo Alpha Papa

Oh well, we all now how reliable weather forecasts can be - I prefer to use the hope system.