MMM Countdown.

WORLD HOBBIES MID MAY MUSTER BAIRNSDALE.
4 Sleeps to go. 
Willyweather weather
AND
Willyweather Wind Forecast
are both looking very good for Sunday.
I predict it will be very warm in the sun and a nice breeze almost straight down the runway.

SEE YOU THERE!

Sunny Mothers Day

 What a great day, sunny, light wind WNW along the strip, couldn't ask for much better.









Surprised at the good turn-up, Mothers Day usually means few guys and those that come, leave early.
Good attendance today.

















There's always something that has to be fiddled with, adjusted, tweaked, or puzzled over.
Ians new second hand Cessna was no exception.

Both engines performed very well on the second flight, they didn't sound too smooth on first flight.
Had to be got right, ready for the Muster.

Wednesday

Kevin C was a happy flier, he finally sorted out the problems with his 'Swiss Stick'.

 Dave F fired up his 'Falcon 190'

 The Falcon as it approached its first "arrival".
I won't go into details of its second, suffice to say it wasn't good.

Kim finished his great looking plane, I can never remember whether it's a ME 109 or a BF 190, it's a great job.

 Watch the Video.

 Peter brought his ASK21 glider for a fly.
He made a dolly for launching.

 It woks well, flies a treat too!

Kev B helps Ralph assemble his nice looking C160, reckons it flies way too fast for him, may be for sale soon.

Question.

How much rubbish can you fit into one small pump-house?

Answer:  Quite a LOT!! 

It all came out so the pump and house could be removed in preparation for moving to State Field East.

 We had a great turn up for the work, the idea was to get the pump out, cut the legs off the shed and trailer them away.




The pump was removed as the angle grinder on hand cut the padlocks off easily enough, but an industrial-size device is needed to cut the legs.

 Anyway the dirt has been dug away so the legs are reachable when technology is available to do the cutting.

The opportunity was taken to get rid of some of the junk in the field shed as well, to add to the pumphouse stuff and off to next door for chucking out.

A good mornings work, thanks guys.

Sunshine

The rain stopped!
An excellent day for flying.

Kim brought along his nearly finished FW 190 for comments and to show us what a good job he is doing on the paint etc.
The kit was designed for an electric motor, but unfortunately he has put in one of those infernal combustion thingys, hope it doesn't vibrate to bits.

Another Sizzle

 The 12th saw the weather NOT RAINING for a change, so a good days sizzling was anticipated.
Once again Bunnings was the site. Photo shows "the boys" ready for action, Kim and Ken.

Sponsors, Bunnings  have donated this 4 burner BBQ for us to raffle and we sold a few tickets, hopefully we will sell many more.

A very profitable day.

First Wednesday April

 Barry was punting his electric Tiger about with great alacrity.

 Ian S just loves his Sebart thingy despite it being electric.

 Ian W was trying to wear out his nice biplane with a multitude of touch and goes.

 My squadron while it is still looking reasonable.

WHAT'S THIS??
click
http://www.statefieldeast.blogspot.com.au/

to find out.

Another Wednesday

 The guys are assembled for more.

Antenna exit.

Ian W is adding more detail to his wonderful Cub, here the antenna has been added. The radio frequencies required a long antenna, this was stored on a reel and once in the air, it could be unrolled to the correct length for best efficiency.

Trailing antenna detail.

At the end of the wire there was a drogue to keep it extended and keep it fairly tight, once again for best  transmission performance.
A nice scale detail, I approve.

 NOTE CAREFULLY, the person is sitting in the back seat, the pilot seat is between his legs.

Just WHO is flying this plane??

 Barry is flying one of his Biplanes, Graeme is obviously flying a Glider.

Talking about Barrys biplanes, the blue one is very very very old.
Some say, it was a development model for the full size aircraft.