Sunday 3 Aug 2003

Weather: Very light South West Breeze, 24degC

A glorious day! Warm sunshine, a slight breeze (to provide just a little help with those autos) and a good turnout of members (see left). The club has quite a large contingent of new members and some have been struggling, one way or another, to get their heli's going and get in the air. Whether it is the great weather, or just perseverance,  they all seem to make major steps forwards and get into the air, if only with "bunny hops", but there's nothing wrong with that!!! A great deal of thanks goes to Colin McFarland who helped Paul Ward get his ship ready for action, Andy Harrison for his eternal patience and to SP who quietly works in the background and helped Pete Crossley get his heli under way - after a fairly traumatic start. I strongly recommend scanning through our Tips and Tricks, as it it could save you a lot of heartache (though its not guaranteed of course)!

SP's OS90 powered Eagle (see left) must be one of the quietest heli's around. But Andy's 3DNT wasn't prepared to take that suggestion sitting down and muscled in on the pictures (see right).

David's Xcell Graphite 60SE (see left) probably wins the beauty contest though. And with a proud father (see below).

Sunday 31 Aug 2003

Weather: Damp!

I wont write a lot today... we don't often get a scale model on the field, so I will let Richard Fry's Airwolf (built by Joe Curry of Revolution Models) do the talking!

  Pretty impressive, eh?

We had a good turnout to watch too (left!).

SP's Freya rises again like a Phoenix, after some apparent stupidity by someone else caused the destruction of the original Eagle - even the OS90 didn't survive.

Colin McFarland's little Eolo provides good flying times (left).

Lastly, just to prove even the indomitable 3DNT can have its off days (left)!