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It was lucky though mate, with rain in the morning and windy conditions it would have been a difficult race day.

Yes there is nothing like a perfect day for racing and we get them now and then but often the weather can be dubious. The last two large scale events have been a bit like that. Darrawite Guim was howling windy on the Saturday so much so that at times Steven greens big red and white Casut seemed to hover down to the ground when landing. Bendigo wasn't that windy but it was finger numbingly cold and we had to race in-between showers of rain.

Only twice have I been to an event that's been called off due to wind once was at Marulan where it is nearly always windy and you couldn't sit a model on the ground with out it getting blown away. The other time was at Nowra when it was so windy it was barely safe to go out side.

We have been rained out a couple of times as well but mostly it goes ahead regardless.

Hopefully Canberra turns on a nice one for the large scale in October. I'm going to take my Texan and race it as well as the Harmon Rocket.

The weather was kind enough on Saturday for a bit of test flying and getting it passed the heavy model inspection. I'm quite pleased with it, it's my first plane that's over the 7kg weight limit and actually it's quite easy to fly, very easy to see and not in any way twitcy. It's just seems to be big and smooth in a lumbering sort of way. It doesn't feel that fast because of it's size and although it's doing a similar speed to an FFC "rarebear" it's much more relaxing to fly.