Author Archives: Colin-Cowplain

Happy New Year everybody! That’s 2025 done and dusted, another successful year for the club with no real problems. I hope you’ve all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you lots of modelling goodies. I’d like to thank all … Continue reading →

The November weather was pretty much what we expect for the south of England. The first couple of weeks were mostly wet and windy and flying was rather limited, but things improved a little in the second half of the … Continue reading →

We are now in mid-autumn and the clocks have gone back, so we expect the British weather to take a downturn. We lost a few flying days in October and some days were ‘less than optimal.’ One such day was … Continue reading →

I was away for two weeks near the start of the month and from what I hear most of what I missed was rain. The UK summer had been incredibly dry with record lows of rainfall so I suppose more … Continue reading →

Well, we certainly can’t complain about the weather in August, it was almost entirely dry and sunny, near perfect conditions for flying in fact. Many of the flying days were well attended, especially the midweek sessions, and several new models … Continue reading →

Well that’s summer over then, the nights are drawing in and it’s time to start looking for your winter build projects… just kidding! We had some lovely weather in June, including two heatwaves when for we all moaned that it … Continue reading →

I was away for the last week of April and much of May so I missed most of what was going on at the patch. Fortunately both MacFly and Dougal Entendre took lots of photos and video as well as … Continue reading →

This month’s Patch News will only include events of the first three weeks of April as I was away for the last week. But there’s lots to talk about, some flying and some non-flying. The month began with gloriously sunny … Continue reading →