08-05-2011, 07:59 PM
It was another perfect day for flying down at McCoy Airfield today - no breeze and clear skies.
There was a bit of entertainment late morning when Mandom from the Penrith Club turned up and he and Owen flew their Trojans around together with some really slick formation work. Both aircraft had uprated Turnigy 3536C motors, with retracts in the case of Mandom's plane. It looked great from the ground, especially as they were closely matched speed-wise so that as they turned together at the eastern end of the field and made high-speed low passes along the runway, they stayed together.
Later on they both flew F4F Wildcats with streamers attached for some combat. This looked really good too, and there was a phenomenal amount of G's pulled in a constantly twisting, looping dogfight. At the end of the flight Mandom took honours with a kill - just at the point that we thought it was going to end in a draw. Unfortunately there was a little damage to his plane (easily repaired) as Owen landed on top of him on the strip.
Dave turned up and exercised the Logo, which was very impressive again with the sound reverberating off the buildings behind us.
Lots of flying done by others ... KevB, Chris, Ingo, Russell, Gazz, Claudio, Ron and apologies to anyone I've missed.
The weather really was made-to-measure - wish we could have it like that every weekend!
P.S. Forgot to mention - Dave was lamenting the fact that most of the warbirds in the club currently are American, and thought that a little balance should be established with some German or Japanese machines. I can re-assure him that the balance will be addressed very soon. On the radar I know of at least two Bf-109s and an FW-190 which are closing fast.
There was a bit of entertainment late morning when Mandom from the Penrith Club turned up and he and Owen flew their Trojans around together with some really slick formation work. Both aircraft had uprated Turnigy 3536C motors, with retracts in the case of Mandom's plane. It looked great from the ground, especially as they were closely matched speed-wise so that as they turned together at the eastern end of the field and made high-speed low passes along the runway, they stayed together.
Later on they both flew F4F Wildcats with streamers attached for some combat. This looked really good too, and there was a phenomenal amount of G's pulled in a constantly twisting, looping dogfight. At the end of the flight Mandom took honours with a kill - just at the point that we thought it was going to end in a draw. Unfortunately there was a little damage to his plane (easily repaired) as Owen landed on top of him on the strip.
Dave turned up and exercised the Logo, which was very impressive again with the sound reverberating off the buildings behind us.
Lots of flying done by others ... KevB, Chris, Ingo, Russell, Gazz, Claudio, Ron and apologies to anyone I've missed.
The weather really was made-to-measure - wish we could have it like that every weekend!
P.S. Forgot to mention - Dave was lamenting the fact that most of the warbirds in the club currently are American, and thought that a little balance should be established with some German or Japanese machines. I can re-assure him that the balance will be addressed very soon. On the radar I know of at least two Bf-109s and an FW-190 which are closing fast.
Steve Murray