Chris Freeman 3 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Not Winter in South Africa, we are having a very hot summer around 30 during the day, some have been around 35 and even hot at night! My son and I visited a local club on Saturday and had some good flying. Both scratch built aircraft. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Got a couple of hours in this morning, lovely blue skies, but the light NE crosswind made it far coder than it had any right to be, for the first day of the meteorological spring. Flew both the Seafire and the Spitfire PRXIX and they looked ace against the blue sky, apart from when the PRU Blue did it's job and made the Spitfire all but disappear.😮 Also did some single channel flying with the Super 30 and a post repair test flight for the wee SEMFF Zero, which it passed with flying colours. Just seconds after I landed a single Typhoon came over the adjacent field at very low level and motored up into the Cairngorms, where he spent the next 45 minutes cavorting about before going home to Lossiemoutn for tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john davidson 1 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 3 minutes ago, leccyflyer said: Got a couple of hours in this morning, lovely blue skies, but the light NE crosswind made it far coder than it had any right to be, for the first day of the meteorological spring. Flew both the Seafire and the Spitfire PRXIX and they looked ace against the blue sky, apart from when the PRU Blue did it's job and made the Spitfire all but disappear.😮 Also did some single channel flying with the Super 30 and a post repair test flight for the wee SEMFF Zero, which it passed with flying colours. Just seconds after I landed a single Typhoon came over the adjacent field at very low level and motored up into the Cairngorms, where he spent the next 45 minutes cavorting about before going home to Lossiemoutn for tea. Paint over the PRU blue with PRU PINK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Chaddock Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Nice today with little wind with low pressure centred over the UK and not that cold either. Filed impossibly muddy so flying operations restricted to a very small part of the field. Not wishing to risk anything more delicate I flew to heavily repaired Big Dragon pusher. All the blue bits are replacement printed parts. The red are original. Easy to fly so just over ten minutes of climbing and gliding including some simple aerobatics just to get stick time in. Battery capacity would have allowed to go on for quite a bit longer. The interesting bit is that although the printed fuselage was so severely damaged in a crash the far more delicate Depron wing structure was completely undamaged thanks to it being rubber band retained and free to slide forward so slipping the bands off the forward hook. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Another chilly morning, with light winds, grey skies and a short shower - such was the visibility though that I bottled out of trying that PRU blue Spitfire PRXIX against the gloom. Did get some flying in though, as did a few of us but it would be nice if Spring kicks in sooner rather than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Had a nice few hours out. The entrance to our field is still bog-like, and it's all still soft underfoot so it needed a few trips from the car to the pits.... Well worth it. Calm, warm(ish), dry. Nice time flying the Wotty and baby FW190. Think the LiPos for my Hawk are past it though... Surprisingly, only Phil and I were taking advantage of a most excellent day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Good crowd today at our strip, the cool breeze dropped off in the afternoon, had some good flights with the Warbirds Replicas FW190 and the Brian Taylor Corsair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Yes, today was a very welcome dry interval. There were 6 of us at the field. A club mate flew his E-flite Draco. I'd not seen one before, it's an impressive beast and flies well, but then so it should for the money (£600+ new, although he got his secondhand for £300). A sun halo marked our departure. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Gaskin 1 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 A lovely day here on the south coast - wall to wall blue skies for the whole day. The batteries got a real caning 😀 Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Davies 3 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 4 of us in the calm air of Suffolk today. Got another flight with the big depron Spitfire. It was a bit chilly, but I'm calling it Spring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Had a nice couple of hours over lunchtime, went from -2° at 8:30 to 9° at 11:30...... calm, sunny. I was billy no mates until I left. Nice time flying my Saito powered Spacewalker, and my little Arrows Hawk. Need it to stay dry for a few days so we can get a mower on the runway - 8 of my first 9 take-off attempts resulted in a nose over. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Not so calm in NW Durham, nice to see the sun and blue skies, flew the Warbirds FW190 and broke a prop first landing, gusty conditions replaced prop and carried on. Also flew my depron 109f. 5 turned up today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Winter, another day at 18°c and sunny, my trusty Taurus 2, and it's Rossi 15 RE drunk 1.8 litres of my fuel, screaming around the sky and actually blew a Rossi N°5, it was less than ten years old, don't Rossi plugs have a lifetime guarantee ?.😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Got out this morning in deepest Somt. Fog ,fog and more fog ! Patch a quagmire! Teaching an old chap on buddy on his Riot . First time. Fog started to clear and sun up there. It kept moving!!😱😱How I got Riot down after it flew into a fog patch that suddenly appeared I just can’t think ?🤯🤯UMX Mossie still rubbish despite adding lead up front !Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymaz Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Not flown for about 2 1/2 months...come the weekend, come the rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 A week has gone by and no one flying except me,,,😇, there is a downside, a couple of short downpours so we all scuttled under the hanger, and after 6+ months of my Pitts resting in my garage it did take 5 backflips to start,,,😂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Not been flyable here for about ten days, pretty much constant wind and rain. Forecast is better for tomorrow so planning some flat field fun in the morning then as the wind is building after lunch a spot of slope soaring on the afternoon, fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Yes, fingers crossed for tomorrow which is shaping up to be a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Almost inevitably - I’m unavailable for flying this weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Smith 1 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 I am hoping to get out tomorrow too! 😄✈️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Smith 1 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Start your engines .......... Really nice morning today. Almost no wind so no turbulence to contend with. Newly mown strip what could be better? ✈️😄 A bit of a loosener first flight, as I began by being a bit tentative. After that a really good morning. Here's to the next one! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 (edited) Beautiful day on NE Coast - warm (sometimes t-shirt warm!), calm, sunny. A grand total of 3 of us at the field....... the ground is now firm enough to park on the field and avoid the 20/30 metre walk 🙂 Lubricating the power unit in my little Arrows Hawk means I can continue to fly it with my existing LiPos - good news! My Double Trouble continues its fuss-free-fun-delivery. My Wot4 didn't fare so well - about 20 seconds after take off I got a telemetry lost' warning and it flew a lovely curved arc into the ground from about 150 feet. Fuselage smashed to pieces back to the wing, engine totally buried with only about 5cm of the muffler above the earth..... led on rx still solid so radio link re-established. I hate crashes when I did nothing wrong. It wasn't its first flight of the day. I subsequently flew my Hawk again (after a successful range check) so I can only suspect the rx - which is headed for the bin anyway following such an impact. I left the 2 Kevs enjoying the sun, while I sulk and veg out to 8 hours of rugby, accompanied by beer and beige baked snacks..... Edited March 16 by GrumpyGnome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan mcatamney Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 2 hours ago, Adrian Smith 1 said: Start your engines .......... Really nice morning today. Almost no wind so no turbulence to contend with. Newly mown strip what could be better? ✈️😄 A bit of a loosener first flight, as I began by being a bit tentative. After that a really good morning. Here's to the next one! Thats a fantastic looking grass runway. Enjoy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Nice morning for a maiden flight. Bought a second hand contra drive and second hand airframe. Needed a new ESC and props - expensive. Got in 4 flights and lots of progress on trimming. Probably needs another 10 flights or so yo get it completely dialed in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Is it time to put winter to bed and reopen the spring thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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