Paul Moore

Yes Please Mr Ashby. Would love that. Had a Pilot Kits T Moth once but sadly no more.

Do please add my name to the list of hopefulls and If I do happen to strike lucky, I would be one grateful old man!!

Strange how different models come out of this forum on this thread. My Waterhouse ans Ely Superfly was a great follow on from my old DB Mascot Trainer. Yes it did need the OS 40 FSR to get it going but what a delight in the air. So what if it did land fast, sharpened the reflexes and lasted for five years till I got over confident and did a gigantic Loo ----. (b*gg*r). Worse plane I had was a Dave Smith Saphir 60. That did introduce me to tip stalling and I never did learn how to turn it from downwind into wind for landing so it would land out of sight mostly after a brilliant flight of some 15 minutes on a Mutunuc 60 and pipe (remember those). Beautiful in the air and so smooth but - - - - . Follow that with a Flair CAP 230 and again couldnt land the damn thing except from 4 feet up and flop down!!! I fly from the top of a hill on the South Downs and the wind is really more suited for Slope Soaring due to the lift when coming in to land. Oh, yes, and a Thunder Tiger Extra profile thing that the covering would explode on with the slightest of brushes with fingers, tranny aerials and thistles. Oh how fun eh?

Piper Cub - any derivative De Haviland Chipmunk DHC 1 - lovely Decathlon - Ultimate Scale High Winger. BRING IT ON, BABY!

Yehhhh. Wicked and great. Surprising that no one has followed up on it since then as I know of no other design for so small a man carrying plane - - - - unless someone out there knows differently.

Oh, the plane is in fact french, designed by Michel Columban and first flew in 1973. I want one so I can teach the wife to fly in it (he he he).

Try "You Tube" and type in Cri Cri, a few there and quite amazing. Well worth a look. LMA have bigger models than that!

Was that the "Hair Raid" siren I just heard?

Oh no! Reversed polarity, the props turning the wrong way!

Having just spent the whole weekend there from Thursday night till 7 on Sunday, I must say that it has been the bestest show of the season for me. The Croydon club has got it right and as this was the fifth show at Hop Farm it has to be well established now.130 Transmitters booked in on Saturday meant 130 models flying from 9:30 to about 5:30 and I loved them all! What a treat to see all manner of planes, scale, 3D, Jets and some novelty, as well as the few Heli slots. Well done Croydon Club, I  will hopefully be there next year to meet you all again and to see all those wonderfull pilots, young and old alike, just enjoying our hobby. I will be looking forward to the photo's on the web site soon. Cheers all.

You may well be surprised dear Jetsome, throw out a challenge for a world speed record for electric control line and someone will at least take it up, maybe one of the Trade fraternity, like Overlander, or Thunder Power etc.?? How about tying a piece of string to one wing of one of those Voodoo thingies. Imagine that whistling round your head?? Some one must do it, please.

A Fun Jet is one Jet that I could do with No flying electrics is no longer a Myth It's friendly and green and pollution free And would I like that big box coming to me!! Well, one has to try doesn't one.

£40,000.00 to hire Sandown for the weekend, it comes as a package with security staff and food and bars etc. Add to that organisational costs, staffing and the biggie, insurance and you have laid out one heck of an amount of money. You have to attract one awful lot of peeps to cover that. Not that I mean the peeps are awful! I know the traders pay quite highly for their pitches and that is why, over the recent years, that a lot of the well know traders didnt appear, too expensive, hence the gradual downsizing until it just became too expensive and not viable. Shame, I do agree, as it was always the first show of the year and bargains to be had. I have spent much much "pocket" money there over the years. Sadly missed and lamented. RIP Sandown Symposium.

Adam, I can appreciate your concern about the noise but try to consider this. Noise tests will be taken with the model static and I am sure that the standard Zenoah installation will pass that ok. With regards to the plane in the air, you should have no problems either as the Hannibal is not "normally" flown in the sam way as the aerobatic CAP's etc where they use a lot of nearly max throttle and all of the throttle range, which is where you will find the maximum noise from all the air sucking! Not sure how you intend to fly your Hannibal, but I know once mine is in the air and apart from a few high wing overs and dashes along the strip, it flies at about half throttle and is more quiet than some of my fello members 61 glo powerd stuf at high revs. Go petrol, you will not regret it.

Or the O2 dome thingy??? (Was the millenium dome, remember that?). Plenty of room for Prop Hanging and Harrier landings etc. Thats what most of the show stuff seems to be about now) Not sure what you could do with the Jet engines unless someone came back with the actual Harrier (remember that even?)or Dave Wilshere brought along his vectoring jet? But hey ho, the weather will be fine come the middle of July and onwards, I have it in the diary that that is the beggining of my real flying year, when I can go to the patch two or three evenings a week and just relax, chatting and flying. Summer dreams eh?

Well, it works brilliantly at Paddock Wood (Hop Farm). They have about 6 trainers in the air on buddy leads throughout the lunch break of their show and charge £1.00 for a go and anyone can have a go. Now that does get people interested, always been a massive queue.

Ah, I didnt know that the trade pilots had to pay for their camping, that will definately have an effect next year, we are not all made of money and it is a hobby after all. But I suppose that is the commercial aspect of it all, it not only has to make money for the organisers, it has to make a certain percentage of the costs as profit. All said and done, I suppose I will be there again next year, maybe see you on the flightline at Paddock Wood then? Do you have slots booked yet as I understand they are closing their pilots invitations due to so many wanting to fly there.

All ok, the poor man that got hit by the wind flipped Tiger Moth was taken to hospital for observation. He had ten stitches to a gash in the back of his head, two on his shoulder and three in his back but guess what? He was back at the show and in the beer tent by 8:30 that night! I spoke with him a few times on Sunday and he was fine and had no blame for the pilot of the moth, just put it down to an unfortunate accident. Lucky eh? Everyone did a good job with that.

It as certainly different this year with a marked absence of more Large planes. Is the LMA boycotting this event or was there another show somewhere. I suppose that as it is run by a commercial outfit (Designaction, something to do with Traplett Publications,traders displays must take precedence as they are the ones that are paying. More trade displays this year rather than individuals, as was borne out by the DB commentary. However, DB was right, there are less shows in the South than there used to be. Agreed, roll on Paddock Wood, now that is a truly magnificent show.

Despite the weather, those pilots must be heros to want to show their stuff that way and hats off to the flight line organisers too for running a tight flightline. Great stuff guys and well done. Both big and small stuff, its our hobby and well represented. Did you see that beautiful English Electric Lightning by Shane Harding waiting for its maiden flight? I dont blame him for waiting. Good on you Shane. Here's to next year eh? P