ONE more sleep!

Today we had a static display at Bunnings Bairnsdale to help promote the MMM.
Weather was quite cold with a Souwester blowing.
Sunday will be BETTER I PROMISE!
There were other displayers there too, with an ice cream van and small cone ice creams for free. The obligatory sausage sizzle by the front door on weekends was also present, it is compulsory to have at least two snags with onions. Jumping castle for kids, SES van to look at, very well equipped it was too.




TOMORROW, MID MAY MUSTER.
Predictions still show strongish winds for us, Westerly though, so that's a small compensation.
I believe it will be better for us than predicted, but it WILL be cold so must rug up.
Plenty hot Pies and Sausage Rolls to eat courtesy of Patties


 See you tomorrow.

4 More Sleeps

We rehearse the weather for Sunday.
Mid May Muster Day that is.

 The weather will be good for flying though a bit cold, just like today started out, except it will be better.
Trust me, I'm the publicity officer.

Ian W gets his GeeBee-Y out.

 Gets off the ground OK........













 Flings it about the sky a lot........



 

Then brings it in to land quite nicely thank you.

David C flew his Heli's, this Eurocopter looked very nice in the air and also close up on the ground.

 

Charles lends a hand to David as he packs up his lovely big electric Cub.











 Ron B flew his Extra, I thought this shot of take-off looked rather surreal, very artificial, like a picture on the box it came in...... except it's not. This is just as I grabbed it today.

Despite the thick smoke haze, plenty of members turned up for the working bee in preparation for the muster, only eight more sleeps to go.

Looking at the MSLP chart I reckon we WILL have good weather on the day, no doubt about it.

Only 10 more sleeps

What a great Wednesday!!!

Busy in the pits

The weather was almost perfect today, a slight breeze straight down the strip would have made it absolutely perfect.
Mid May Muster weather will be just as good, I am positive!
There was a good turn-up today with lots of flying done.
Working bee on Saturday next 11th May to prepare, then a static display in Bunnings car park on Saturday 18th to help promote the Muster.

Good One

Landing approach

Another top day for flying with quite a few guys in attendance.
David C did the honours again for Graeme M and piloted
the Skyraider for its second flight.

That was the highlight of the day although Ben did his usual shredding of the laws of physics with his helicopter doing all sorts of impossible flying stuff, just because he can.

Wednesday pix

 Today I flew my new cheapo "Action Camera" to get a shot of the field with the new smooth conveyor-belt surfacing in the pits and executive taxi-way  along with our lovely 9 metre by 50 metre runway.

I used a high-tech approach as can be seen in the accompanying pix.

The Art-Tech Diamond 1800 Glider is shown lying on its back with the camera nestled in its port wing-pit.





The Action Camera came with a range of mounting options in the box, but resort had to be made to other suitable methods so as to preserve the pristine (not) glider.
It's amazing how smooth and stable the model looks in-flight when watching from ground level but how violently it is chucked about by every bit of breeze when viewing the video.

Team Wear

Brian brought along some sample TShirts and jackets for us to peruse with the aim of getting us nice-looking blokes even better looking in a coordinated way.
Our models, Kim and Ian are wearing for your enjoyment the chosen items and Brian is taking orders. The club logo will be embroidered on left front, no printing on the back this time.

Get your orders in VERY soon.


OK turn off the soppy music now.






Charles and I had a coming-together in the mid air this morning, the planes hit wing to wing, very noisy and not much damage until they hit the ground.

Hazy Day

Lots of smoke haze after a foggy start today.
Lots of guys turned up to enjoy the calm conditions.

 David C is tweaking Brians ESC in the Ryan

 A full-size Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a most successful carrier-based aircraft.
A web site dedicated to the type, here.








Graemes model takes flight today, after taxi trials, David C did the honours.
The video is here.