Gliding Weekend

 Starting Friday 26th, weather strong winds mainly westerly, so no flying, much camaraderie into the afternoon and I'm sure, into the night.

Saturday better, strongish wind from the west, but plenty of flying going on.
Here are some pictures to look at.

Get organised.

Tow plane ready

Hook up

Get soaring!

THAT is an EDF! 12S power rips this through the air.

Monitoring the local air band.

That little prop won't get that big glider anywhere.

OOOOOPPPss! My error, I take it back.

LUNCH

Ready for the off.

Fire up the tow plane

Talking about tow planes..........

Hmmmmmm, just a little risky methinks.

 

Electrics can do it, no problem.

Neat fold-away motor

Nice bit of engineering here

NOT a small model.

A lone heli.

 

 

TIME FOR ONE MORE!

Cheers, Geoff. 😎

Second Wednesday of '24

 Gorgeous weather today, good roll-up.

Garry bought out his Vampire, Marty brought out his Jet too, as well as a 'GLIDER'

 

 

Pulled off a perfectly good electric motor for a "COX" thingy.

They even got it running.

Tweaking, making noise.

 

Nice throwing action.

 Unfortunately, insufficient power, safely brought back to land by Garry.

"Needs more Nitro!" I heard mentioned a number of times.

I don't think there's any Nitro needed here.

 

Note the jet blast control.

A LOT of stuff in there. How about that nearly spherical fuel tank.

 

Lift off!

 Fabulous flyer.

Fast too.

Then a smooth landing.

Ken had his nifty EDF Vampire shredding the sky also.

A great time was had by all and looking forward to next fly day.

Cheers Geoff 😎

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 Last flying day for 2023

 Great weather for a change, and lots of pilots to enjoy the day.
the breeze was variable, to say the least, in direction that is.

A couple of pics to record the day.

 

 Doesn't the field look fabulous?

 That's because it is. 

Beautifully mown by our field managing team. Truly excellent work.

 Have a great new year everyone.

Cheers, Geoff. 😎