Crash Free weekend and I did Fly

What a great weekend of flying again this weekend. And it was Crash Free!!!!   My Lad and I flew for several hours at the Flinders University sports grounds which is surrounded on three sides by major highways and the other side by a massive hospital carpark. So as long as no sport is being played, we can fly and no one even would here us, know or care. Well so far anyway!!! We still fly with mufflers. The area has four very large sports fields with beautiful thick green grass and it never seems to have the dead clippings left in it after its been cut.

My Lad got four crash free flights in on his modified American Boy with a surestart 049. And I got six crash free flights in on Claw 0 with a pressurised  TD on 42 foot spectra lines.



Claw 0 is quite light and fast but maneuvers beautifully! This weekend I managed loops, wing-overs, lazy eights and some inverted laps which were never far from disaster The 42 foot spectra is great!. Next weekend I will try some fifty foot spectra as Claw 0 pulls pretty hard even on 42 foot, and I like the extra sky for practicing and trying to regain some very very old and rusty skills, and some new ones also. Im not into Stunt flying itself, I just need to get some basics back so as that I can start practicing some combat maneuvers which pretty much require you to be able to do all sorts of things without planning or thinking about it, whichever way up you are! The TD was just awesome again. Set the needle conservatively and it ran the whole flight without changing revs or such, whichever way it was pointing. Till it ran out of fuel, which is always exciting as it doesnt lean run on pressure. It just stops running.

No crashed planes, so came home, flushed the tanks etc. cleaned all my stuff, and then cleaned my build bench area as I didnt have any crashed planes to fix.! Dont plan on that being overly frequent occurrence. HaHaHa

Yabby