Hi Senrack

Yeah, you have to watch those cars travelling on the wrong side of the road!

Shrewsbury is a pleasant County Town of some 70,000 souls and features some fine Mediaeval and Eighteenth Century architecture. I think it's England's best kept secret but I'll admit that I'm biased. I left it when I was 18 and came back to it aged 46 having lived on every continent except Africa in the intervening 28 years.

Shropshire Model Flying Club fly from Forton Aerodrome which was built as a training aerodrome in WW2. Pierre Clostermann first flew a Spitfire from Forton. I read his memoirs. He said it was extremely cold there in the winter. I can believe it!

If you go to our website www.smfc/biz and scroll down to the YouTube section you'll see the TSUK "works" Telemaster 40's maiden flight. The model was built by Richard Golding who took off and flew the model round before handing the transmitter to me. I then affected a bit of a rushed landing not being used to the flying characteristics of the model then. That's me in the white shirt and black trousers taking a few hours off work. The blue, orange and aluminium colour scheme is supposed to be similar to that of a 1920's light aircraft but it also echoes Hobby-Lobby's red and white STM ARF. I now have a Mini Telemaster finished in the same colour scheme and an STM is soon to take shape on my building board.

Happy Landings

Dave Davis.