24-04-2011, 05:28 PM
Hi guys,
Thought I would break with tradition and start a new thread for reporting on any day's flying rather than post on the end of the "flying this week" or "flying this weekend" threads.
Well, the weather forecast didn't look too promising yesterday but for the early risers this morning, today didn't start that badly at all. Rather nice actually.
I got the field around 8.40am and found Gazza there already setting up.
Wayne arrived with Rob, Darren, Jason, Victor, Joe (newbie) and later Kieran. A fantastic day all weather forecasts were predicting rain.
Darren flew the mini Titan 325 patched up over night to the Futaba T10. Flew brilliantly straight off. Gotta be happy with that!!
Wayne gave the Thunderbolt a workout with Gazz on umbilical. A bit twitchy but flew like a demon.
Jason gave ol' faithfull "Extra no.1" the usual routine. No issues there.
I gave the Logo-a-nogo-a-gogo two excellent flights. Real happy with this bird now that issues are sorted. Only issues is having two batteries. Need more batteries. The remainder of my batteries were discharged through the Trex500 which flew flawlessly as usual. That Logo has balls. Two hard collective pitch "pumps" didn't create any bogging at all. Whoa!!!
Gazz took the Su (number something) for a long awaited re-maiden. Despite the forward swept wings, ducted vectored fans and canards, they couldn't over come a battery that lost its mojo from sitting around charged for 9 months. Two take-off rolls in to the long grass eventually saw the Su (number something) go back in to the car. Glad to see it living again for another day.
Kieran arrived with the Stryker. Hyped up to the max, we realised if this bird landed without an issue, something was wrong. True to form the Stryker couldn't handle the high speeds and had a wing fluttering moment that saw it hit terra firma in the blink of an eye. Outlook for the Stryker not that great considering the reciever went through the prop. Out with ol' faithful T28 and all was good again. I noted Kieran deliberately knicking the tops of weeds and reeds for kicks. Man that guy is good!!
Rob, despite arriving no.3 this morning, decided to take the Soaring Star for a blat about midday. 20 seconds later, the prop spat it and saw Rob calculating runway length and approach speed rather rapidly. A hard landing later, Rob got the SS back to the pits without too much drama. Out with the HK Pitts, two sessions, and all was well.
Eventually we ran out of batteries and called it a day. I sincerely hope tomorrow is as good as today. Already, the wind forecast has dropped considerably. May the flying gods smile on us again tomorrow (or Tuesday if Monday doesn't quite work out).
I have no photos so apologies for the "texty" report.
Dave
Thought I would break with tradition and start a new thread for reporting on any day's flying rather than post on the end of the "flying this week" or "flying this weekend" threads.
Well, the weather forecast didn't look too promising yesterday but for the early risers this morning, today didn't start that badly at all. Rather nice actually.
I got the field around 8.40am and found Gazza there already setting up.
Wayne arrived with Rob, Darren, Jason, Victor, Joe (newbie) and later Kieran. A fantastic day all weather forecasts were predicting rain.
Darren flew the mini Titan 325 patched up over night to the Futaba T10. Flew brilliantly straight off. Gotta be happy with that!!
Wayne gave the Thunderbolt a workout with Gazz on umbilical. A bit twitchy but flew like a demon.
Jason gave ol' faithfull "Extra no.1" the usual routine. No issues there.
I gave the Logo-a-nogo-a-gogo two excellent flights. Real happy with this bird now that issues are sorted. Only issues is having two batteries. Need more batteries. The remainder of my batteries were discharged through the Trex500 which flew flawlessly as usual. That Logo has balls. Two hard collective pitch "pumps" didn't create any bogging at all. Whoa!!!
Gazz took the Su (number something) for a long awaited re-maiden. Despite the forward swept wings, ducted vectored fans and canards, they couldn't over come a battery that lost its mojo from sitting around charged for 9 months. Two take-off rolls in to the long grass eventually saw the Su (number something) go back in to the car. Glad to see it living again for another day.
Kieran arrived with the Stryker. Hyped up to the max, we realised if this bird landed without an issue, something was wrong. True to form the Stryker couldn't handle the high speeds and had a wing fluttering moment that saw it hit terra firma in the blink of an eye. Outlook for the Stryker not that great considering the reciever went through the prop. Out with ol' faithful T28 and all was good again. I noted Kieran deliberately knicking the tops of weeds and reeds for kicks. Man that guy is good!!
Rob, despite arriving no.3 this morning, decided to take the Soaring Star for a blat about midday. 20 seconds later, the prop spat it and saw Rob calculating runway length and approach speed rather rapidly. A hard landing later, Rob got the SS back to the pits without too much drama. Out with the HK Pitts, two sessions, and all was well.
Eventually we ran out of batteries and called it a day. I sincerely hope tomorrow is as good as today. Already, the wind forecast has dropped considerably. May the flying gods smile on us again tomorrow (or Tuesday if Monday doesn't quite work out).
I have no photos so apologies for the "texty" report.
Dave