Club Update March 2011

Hi again.
OK, by the time you are reading this everybody should have stopped laughing, never again will I call myself NO CRASH HASTINGS, I thought I was formation flying, but no one had told Don, I think he thought it was combat, after all he obviously crashed into me.
Its a funny old game is a well known saying in football circles, the same could be said for aero modelling, on one side there is my favourite granddad in the whole wide world, who in recent weeks seems to have reach an epiphany, and is taking off and landing like a seasoned pro, on the other hand there is poor old George, who found that passing the A Cert is only the start of the learning process, and as you start to push your abilities, the margin of error gets smaller, will it be calmato number 3 or something a bit different this time George ?
I would like to thank everybody who attended club on the March 17th, I am sure you all found the evening very informative. Please take time to look at the you tube link, to see what can be achieved if you fit a power box, some regulators, cheap servos that would fail the sound test, and oscillate around their centres, oh don’t forget your can!!, and apparently another very important gadget is a rearward CG. I have studied Nicks photos but I haven’t been able to identify. At one point Don  was heard to mumble that if our speaker had a forty size sport model, he could be driving a newer car and even be able to afford a new pair of jeans !! obviously Don, for young Mr Clement, size is far, far, more important than cars and clothes.
The month is coming to an end, the weather has been good, the calmatos are back, two into one, good work George . Mick has resurrected the three demon again, so remember in the words of the great Shaw Taylor “keep em peeled”, we can never be to sure which direction this one is coming from  !!!
No one, especially Mick will believe me when I tell you that the above paragraph was written before the last Sunday of this month, I know I think I am capable of many things, but seeing into the future was not one of them. On a serious note, earlier in the morning, before Mick’s model overshot the patch and required George to take evasive action, our newest member had commented that in the past there was always a much greater distance between the patch and the pilots, if this had still been the case sundays, incident would have been avoided. I think this is a warning, and we should move the pilots back a short distance with immediate effect.
One last comment to George, as I said to Woody in my past ramblings, keep the faith your luck will change, oh, don’t fly at the same time as Mick, it will help to keep the odds in your favour.
Keep practicing those low rolling harriers,
see you next month,               all the best
Dominic Dover.