05-03-2011, 02:21 PM
To all that didn't get there, there was a good turn out this morning with the wind really not gettting in the way of some decent flying.
Colin "landed" his Cessna on the roof next door. Steve retrieved it ok. Some minor damage saw it grounded in favour of the fan powered flying wing.
The *lawn dart award* went to Steve who had aileron servo issues during a high speed low level pass over the second runway. Just a few metres from Gary's PC9 crater, Steve's plane went in hard leaving a 4m debris field. Only the tail section left to make a wall mounted trophy for the sports room.
Chris brought down a 2ch sail plane and after some trimming issues, it performed quite well but the concensus of opinion would be that it would fly much better with a mod to the tow hook for the bungie to launch it much higher and to fly in quieter winds. Found myself flashing back myself to the days of the 2ch 'floating' sail planes and tow line starts with the brother peddling the bike one handed with the line in the other (no bungie!).
John's TB20 performed flawlessly until a hard'ish landing revealed a stress fracture in the wing root. TB20 back in the boot. Out with another parky which zoomed around until no batteries left.
A good morning of flying until the rain started to sprinke down about 10.30am. That cleared the field!!
Colin "landed" his Cessna on the roof next door. Steve retrieved it ok. Some minor damage saw it grounded in favour of the fan powered flying wing.
The *lawn dart award* went to Steve who had aileron servo issues during a high speed low level pass over the second runway. Just a few metres from Gary's PC9 crater, Steve's plane went in hard leaving a 4m debris field. Only the tail section left to make a wall mounted trophy for the sports room.
Chris brought down a 2ch sail plane and after some trimming issues, it performed quite well but the concensus of opinion would be that it would fly much better with a mod to the tow hook for the bungie to launch it much higher and to fly in quieter winds. Found myself flashing back myself to the days of the 2ch 'floating' sail planes and tow line starts with the brother peddling the bike one handed with the line in the other (no bungie!).
John's TB20 performed flawlessly until a hard'ish landing revealed a stress fracture in the wing root. TB20 back in the boot. Out with another parky which zoomed around until no batteries left.
A good morning of flying until the rain started to sprinke down about 10.30am. That cleared the field!!