G'day

I'm really an afternoon person so the fact that my current club flies in the morning is not really best for me.

Usually I fly on a Sunday for about 3 hours and in that time I get between zero and half a dozen flights. Quite often I am flying other peoples planes to help them in training or testing.

As I am retired, I like to fly during the week and then I usually start about lunch time and go for a couple of hours.

Last Sunday I had only one flight. I flew my Phoenix Tiger Moth bi-plane with its Saito 40a. I had not flown it for several months and had forgotten what a pleasant little model/engine combination it is. We did some loops, rolls and even some inverted flight though my Tiger has a bit more power to weight than a real one and can actually do a loop from level flight. (The real ones need a bit of a dive to get some extra airspeed for the loop.)

This coming weekend we are having our Warbirds for Dummies day and I am trying to get my five year old Hanger 9 Sopwith Camel ready to fly. It has not been flown before and this is going to be a "fly or die" attempt.

Mike in Oz