Longest day at a CJ in a long time, I've only been home an hour and I'm knackered! As always the 50th Classic Jets event was a great day out with good friends and a ton of flying. Having decided to go light I still ended up with 8 models, I managed to fly 7 of them...some two or three times and a host of customer/friends models. Our day always starts in a Mcds where we meet up before travelling the last 15 minutes to Abingdon. We were greated with a clear blue sky, crisp in temp and as usual on the wrong runway Think there were reasons this time . The turnout was huge, but the flying was not too manic..save the usual loose cannon flyers I couldn't second guess We fly 4-5 models at once and there were almost no incidence today. I had the pleasure of re test flying a friends Ultra Flash, now with G Booster 80 and DMSS 11Zero X radio...perfect. Also helped with several other guys who were a bit rusty coming back to models not flown for a long time...on the subject I took and flew the #1 Classic Flash P-120 v 4.9 ECU Gas start model, hundreds and hundreds of flights and still perfect!
I had my Habu 32 T, Nano, Classic Flash, Ultra Flash, DerJet Vampire, CARF Hawk, BVM Bobcat (not flown) and EDF Venom. I did three unit formation flights with both the Vampire and Venom! Gregg came over from Belgium with his Vampire (P80SE) added to mine and Rob W (P-100RX) model we had one attempt at formation! The EDF Venoms were good fun!. As always the event would not have happened without Dick and his happy group of troupers. Thank you all.
Dick's bestest mate Geoff also organised a gift for Dick to celebrate this special day and he now has an EDF Venom to enjoy...

Big thank you to Capt Aldridge who was really on it today with the busy flightline.

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