22-10-2013, 03:06 PM
A quick report from pylon at Marulan I
The weather was perfect, if not a little smokey at times on the Friday and Saturday. With a good variety of different models being flown and pilots enjoying the vast open spaces!!
There was some great flying with Claudio’s X8 and the Pnumatic launcher getting a good work out, test flights of numerous UAVs from UNSW. Ranjit took the Dynamite for a few flights so I could get some up close high speed passes on film. There were also some test and practice flights of some of the large scale raceing models that will be flown at the nationals at Cootamundra this comming weekend.
Sunday was a little more challenging with a stiff breeze at times. There was serious racing with Q-500, F-400, EF1 and FFC being hotly contested and with no quarter being asked or given.
Jag had a bit of bad luck with the tragic loss his no1 F400 during what was supposed to be a trim flight, before racing had even started.
I managed break the fuse on my good Viper after just clipping no 3 pylon during landing. Fortunately, at the time, it wasn’t going fast and will be easily enough to repair for next month. Then it was out with the spare plane, which to my surprise was nearly as fast as the good one and I managed to pull off a 4th place behind Pete K, Peter V, and Ian L.
Hats off to Claudio, who made the PRCAC presence felt, by putting in some STERLING flying to win EF1, on only the Pogo’s second outing, in conditions, that really were arduous at times!! Quite an achievement considering that before the race weekend he’d had less than 10 flights with the plane!! Wingtipper did very well too with times improving every race and finishing around the middle of the field in FFC.
here's some pics
Dans UAVs that fly around in formation compleatly autonomously
No 1 pylon goes up
PRCAC corner of the shed
Some of the planes lighned up ready for flight
The weather was perfect, if not a little smokey at times on the Friday and Saturday. With a good variety of different models being flown and pilots enjoying the vast open spaces!!
There was some great flying with Claudio’s X8 and the Pnumatic launcher getting a good work out, test flights of numerous UAVs from UNSW. Ranjit took the Dynamite for a few flights so I could get some up close high speed passes on film. There were also some test and practice flights of some of the large scale raceing models that will be flown at the nationals at Cootamundra this comming weekend.
Sunday was a little more challenging with a stiff breeze at times. There was serious racing with Q-500, F-400, EF1 and FFC being hotly contested and with no quarter being asked or given.
Jag had a bit of bad luck with the tragic loss his no1 F400 during what was supposed to be a trim flight, before racing had even started.
I managed break the fuse on my good Viper after just clipping no 3 pylon during landing. Fortunately, at the time, it wasn’t going fast and will be easily enough to repair for next month. Then it was out with the spare plane, which to my surprise was nearly as fast as the good one and I managed to pull off a 4th place behind Pete K, Peter V, and Ian L.
Hats off to Claudio, who made the PRCAC presence felt, by putting in some STERLING flying to win EF1, on only the Pogo’s second outing, in conditions, that really were arduous at times!! Quite an achievement considering that before the race weekend he’d had less than 10 flights with the plane!! Wingtipper did very well too with times improving every race and finishing around the middle of the field in FFC.
here's some pics
Dans UAVs that fly around in formation compleatly autonomously
No 1 pylon goes up
PRCAC corner of the shed
Some of the planes lighned up ready for flight
“The knack of flying is learning how to throw your machine at the ground and miss.”
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your thoughts turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." ~Leonardo Da Vinci