leccyflyer Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Looks idyllic Nick 🙂 We managed a few flights yesterday morning between the showers, but it was a dreich day and the rain soon sent us packing. This morning was much nicer and brighter, but I'm not able to go flying today - might have a quick blast round the garden and over the fields before lunch though, having seen your summery picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangsegler Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 We went on a hang gliding holiday for a week. Some of the pictures are already online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Today is more like winter in East Riding........😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Ditto Somerset!🥶Winter shirt donned ! Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Gorgeous morning up here in sunny Scotland, warm, sunny, calm to a very, very light breeze - perfect flying conditions, couldn't have been more different than Wednesday. A few of us turned out and we got some decent flying in - best fun was formation flying with three Volantex Spitfires, including Bob's repaint as MH434. I flew a few models including my E-Flite PT-19, with replacement servos, which I was much happier with Parkzone SE5a and a nice flight with my ACT Me163 Komet, culminating in snapping the nose off on the mandatory fast landing. That's the first damage that I've done to the Komet in the fee flights that I've had so far and I can't remember too many of them surviving more than half-a-dozen flights. Nothing that a smear of UHU Por to the clean break won't fix. The weather looks set fair for the weekend up here, so looking forwards to more flying - fingers crossed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learner Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Charged a few batteries ready for today, woke up to thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Ended up driving to local national trust house in the fog! Looks like a fine day tomorrow but who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Just tied some chain to a breeze block - makes a reasonable kite in this wind...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 2 Liters of methanol and an OS N°8 plug in my Raptor .50 in the last couple of days, 4 batteries yesterday and another 6 today in my Copter X with its fuselage,( 100€) the mechanics bought in 2009 from HK for 36€ !, and I still haven't crashed it, probably because I bought a load of spares for it at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Nice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Fairly windy in the North East, still managed some good flights with my Warbirds Replicas P51 D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Warbirds Replicas Yak9, video by Mark Robinson on Wednesday 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 (edited) Perfect conditions Saturday, sunny, warm, initially flat calm, once the mist had burned off then later a pretty gentle NE breeze. Lots of folks at the field and some lovely models on show. Happy to fly some sorties with my repaired Kyosho Spitfire, which went beautifully off the dolly and Durafly Seafire also making her dolly debut, as well as some old favourites. Prolific builder Jim had his new Ian-Peacock inspired Me109E and a scratch built BE2e that he'd just completed both of which flew brilliantly. Derek had a great save with his scratch build FA 18 Super Hornet, which lost a fin in flight - good airmanship and flying skills led to the decision to land out safely after regaining control of a wildly erratic jet. NO damage and a soft landing. Tosh McCaber of this parish was also flying his Big Boy, that I hadn;t seen before and can be slowed to walking pace for a very precise landing. Smashing September Summer outing. 🙂 Edited September 8 by leccyflyer 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Envious. Wet. Windy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Robson Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Amazing weather in the North East after the fog lifted 6 hrs at the field flying my Warbirds Replicas Yak9, and Mustang, last flight with the Yak9 one undercarriage unit packed up so I had to belly land, unit replaced last night. I also had my Laser powered Seagull Chipmunk which had not flown for a log time. It started first time and ran faultlessly. Only 4 turned up, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 To be honest, I’m not sure why we need separate seasonal topics - just an historical quirk after the naming of the first topic if memory serves. Is it time to simply have a “what have we been flying” thread? Comments and ideas welcome! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Yes! At least we won't miss a story that is split across 2 threads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Sounds like a great idea Martin and, as noted earlier, given the geographical spread of active members here and the different definitions of astronomical and meterological seasons just having one thread would make a lot of sense . Here in Scotland, this morning excepted, we've just had two of the best day's flying weather that we have had all summer, in the oft-promised Indian Summer that we often get in early September. BY all accounts some parts of England have had dreadful weather over the weekend and it's often the reverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 2 hours ago, Martin Harris - Moderator said: To be honest, I’m not sure why we need separate seasonal topics - just an historical quirk after the naming of the first topic if memory serves. Is it time to simply have a “what have we been flying” thread? Comments and ideas welcome! Good Idea it's summer here 8 months of the year and I think England is still waiting for theirs.🤣 As for Scotland, maybe their last one was in 1976.🤢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Weather this morning couldn't have been more different to yesterday's glorious sunshine and blue skies, with low cloud down on the deck, ceiling for visibility probably less than 100ft, With that low ceiling established though we had a reasonable morning - some more maxxed out fun formation flying with three Volantex Spitfires as a highlight. Also gave a rare outing to my wee World Models Miss America EP Mustang which, despite the dorky undercarriage, flies really nicely and was the perfect model for this morning's conditions. I might lose that wire undercart entirely as it's of very little use on grass. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 1800x1350. Flew another few favourites, including the Spittie Dogfighter and wee Baby Sharky. Only downside of the morning was that I flew my Vulcan, on request and the flight went great, right up until the end, when I clipped the top of a very tall pine tree and the Vulcan is now pretty firmly embedded about 15m up in the air. The motors were still working, but the model is wedged quite firmly in there and didn't want to come out. Doesn't look the best presentation for getting blown out any time soon. Other models claimed by those trees have stayed up there for more than a year. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 - Moderator Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Here on the Welsh coast it has been very much a non summer, lots of rain spells and the day's when the sun has come out have tended to be rather windy. Good model flying days have been thin on the ground. The only nice spell was in the middle of June when I took the pic of a rare this year cracking sunset. Feels like a long time ago. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I've collated all the "[Season] is here, who has been flying then?" topics into this current thread so it can flow seamlessly from one nominal (and slightly contentiously defined) season to another in the future. It seems the threads originated in 2011 from a post from "Seamus O'Leprosy" - I'm not sure whether the title format was originated by him or by David Ashby, who edited that first post for some reason. The 272 pages so far certainly reflect its popularity - hopefully the change of title won't affect this but I'm open to any alternative suggestions. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis 2 Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 19 hours ago, leccyflyer said: Perfect conditions Saturday, sunny, warm, initially flat calm, once the mist had burned off then later a pretty gentle NE breeze. Lots of folks at the field and some lovely models on show. Happy to fly some sorties with my repaired Kyosho Spitfire, which went beautifully off the dolly and Durafly Seafire also making her dolly debut, as well as some old favourites. Prolific builder Jim had his new Ian-Peacock inspired Me109E and a scratch built BE2e that he'd just completed both of which flew brilliantly. Derek had a great save with his scratch build FA 18 Super Hornet, which lost a fin in flight - good airmanship and flying skills led to the decision to land out safely after regaining control of a wildly erratic jet. NO damage and a soft landing. Tosh McCaber of this parish was also flying his Big Boy, that I hadn;t seen before and can be slowed to walking pace for a very precise landing. Smashing September Summer outing. 🙂 What scale is the BE2e? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis 2 Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Dry but rather windy in the middle of France yesterday which probably explains why only four of us turned up with only three models between us. Gerard flew his Kingfisher, Francois his Baron and I flew my Calmato powered by an OS 46AX which I picked up at a swap meet for very little minus the exhaust. I fitted one from my box of bits! Check out the maize crop blowing in the wind in the first picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ron Gray Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 A bit breezy at the SNMFC yesterday for an ‘end of season’ get together and BBQ. Over 20 members plus a few stalwart ‘other halves’ turned up to enjoy the fun. Sorry but, unusually for me, no photos or vids. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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