Club Update – October 2011

Not much to report on this month, Mick’s new Yak has fallen foul of the, ARTF undercarriage syndrome, “Always Ready To falloff “, hardly worth a mention really.
I have a question, what have london busses and a John Evans quiz  got in common?  You don’t get a winner in years then two come at once!!!. For the benefit of  those  who sit on  Andy Palmer’s side of the room, I can confirm it feels great to be a winner, again!!!

I arrived at the field on another windy Sunday morning, (after watching the rugby world cup final), to find, there were only a handful of guys present, all of them, could be considered new boys, except for myself and Andy, and neither of us had a model, the reason I mention  this, is becaues it  can only be a good  for the long term future of the club when you have such enthusiastic all weather numpty’s
Very often members donate small item’s for the club raffle and they are all very much appreciated, but it’s not often, if ever, have we  been given  a brand new, unopened, ARTF kit, but that is what happened on sunday. So on behalf of all of the membership I would like to thank Dave John for the seagull PC9 kit, which will be the last big raffle prize of 2011.
Once again we have had a very interesting and entertaining presentation from Nick Clement, I am sure I heard the dulcet tones of Bruce Forsyth, saying, “That’s all there is to it”. Nick if you ever read this I would like to thank you on behalf of the members for your time.
I hope you have all enjoyed the variouse presentations this year, many of them have needed a computor and projector, so I would like to take this oppertunity to acknolege the behind the scene’s work done by Nick Squire in supplying the necessary equipment and making sure it all works correctly.
There have been a couple of incidents this month, which come under the heading “luck was on our side today”. I am sure those involved will not  mind me sharing them with you.
Incident number 1 involved a poorly positioned airborne pack on/off switch. luckily even though the model was switched off as it left the launchers hand, the flight lasted longer than some of Mick’s new models!!  and landed, without  breaking the prop, I am looking forward to the second test flight, with a full radio link, and it’s new, more powerful engine! better not break the prop on landing.
The second incident should be a warning to the less experienced among us, as you all know I am a great fan of the wot trainer, so one of our newer members found a good second hand example and set it up with his own buddy box. The model was test flown and the first training flight undertaken. During this flight the model got a bit out of control so I released the trainer switch only to find I had no control, and the plane was heading vertically to the ground, fortunately the radio link did re-connect just before the inevitable happend. After a full inestigation the problem was traced to the receiver  used was from a park fly model, these recievers have a very limited range and should never be used in a normal model, luck was definetly on our side again.
The month ended on Halloween weekend, so we shouldn’t have been suprised that Sunday was such a horror, things can only get better, maybe we should start a new hobby, it could be  based  on standing in the rain!
All the best Lee On-sea.