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Billy no mates yesterday here in the Vale of York. 5 10min flights with my recovered Super Air/SC70 4* with coffees in-between. To be fair it was breezy 😉 (see sock) but that's great for practicing crosswind landing.  

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Blue sky and no wind today (Monday )  my son  me and Bob who maidened  his Hurricane built from a  Vintage Model company free flight rubber kit with Volantex electronics transplanted from a Super Cub. Due to the servo layout  he could not get two ailerons acting the proper  way so ended up with only one aileron. Amazingly  it flew straight from his hand  no trim required. Hope the attached photo appears

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Indoors was quiet - just the four of us.  My fun was curtailed by a failed solder joint between esc & motor connectors after just three flights 🙁.  Think I'll remove the connectors and solder the wires permanently and save a few grams - that'll offset the glue that's been added!

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Excellent morning at the club field - cold, but calm, bright, sunny, blue skies, perfect flying conditions. Just half a dozen of us but really nice to get some fresh air over our wings. Highlight for me was seeing Bob's wee Vintage Model Company rubber powered Hurricane kit in action - converted to electric flight radio control, using the innards of a Volantex Cub, so beautifully stabilised. 

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Got some good flying in with the other Volantex wee warbirds too - Spitfire, Bf109E, P-51 Mustang and John's F-16. Bigger EFlite Spitfire XIV and Parkzone Spitfire IX put in an appearance along with Arrows Red Arrows Hawk and other bits and bobs.

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