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Thought you’d like to see some pics I took this morning of Steve Montague’s Vampire. It’s the HobbyKing one, Tony Neal also has one on order.  It was very windy this morning but the plane handled it with no problems. It has electric retracts and amazed us all by taking off from the patch even though the grass is a bit long as the moment, though of course the strong wind was a big help with lift-off. It might struggle in light winds but will probably be ok in the summer when the grass is shorter anyway. Had 3 flights, all about 5 mins long on it’s 4 cell packs. All landings were ‘wheels down’ and apart from minor movement of the nose leg mounting on the 3rd flight the retracts worked well. It even sounded very nice with a Vampire jet ‘whine’, not loud but nicely realistic. On the EDF front Phil Wiltshire’s Alpha Jet also successfully flew on Sunday. It is a 3 cell model with no landing gear so hand launch/belly land, produced by Art Tech. It flew very well and Phil and I managed a bit of ‘formation’ flying with the 2 EDFs, great fun. I forgot to take any pics of Phil’s model but I have attached one of it from the SMC site. Hope to fly again tomorrow, the winds should be lower…  Cheers Andy

 

Not sure if Andy Palmer was after another award.
Here are a few pics of sunday, Andy said it was a quiet morning… wonder why ?