front side speeds

Fastest time of the day was 147mph by Mark with the RCRCM DG600

I'm sure we can all see how this will soon end in mass model destruction....updates to follow!

WALLOP!

Quite possibly the most impressive scratch built scalie in the UK!

Congratulations Simon!

bagging the beast

vacuum bagging the first section of Simon's 7m scalie

itttttttts Firle!

 Jim starts the day by stress testing one of Barry's wings

The 5 metre Fox is eating up the sky for breakfast, dinner and lunch, and still has

room for a second helping of pudding!

Simon warms up for some very low passes in an attempt to take out trees, people, cows....

...radio masts etc

speak some evil, see some evil, hear some evil

Paritech DG somethingorother ready for the off

run, run, run

toss

...spends the rest of the day screaming around in an impressive manner

......then lands

 and goes back to the pits for a kip

Jim preps the mighty T21

a couple of steps....

....she's off like a majestic beauty rather than the 'pile of dog shit'

that Jim was expecting to be born from the workshop

scale creaking and groaning fitted as standard

 Jim takes a considerate route under the sun just in case the natives think there's been

an unscheduled solar eclipse

flying shot!!

and best of all, no nasties!

badwind

The only consolation to be had from the recent lack of flying is a recent lack of crashes.

In the mean time, let's enjoy someone else's misery....

pilot relieved to be back on terra firma, he's undergone a dramatic descent; note scale poo stains

merely a flesh wound

tabby tandem

here comes the Hun

Very little flying of late mostly due to shocking weather. And get this....when it does happen, the hallowed turf is being polluted by the noise of spinning propellers.

beating a quick one off over the Spitfire......and who can blame him!

perhaps the caption should read 'trouser snake spits on Spit'

'now listen here you couple of Johnny Foreigners, Her Majesty owns the sky round these parts

so you both jolly well bugger off back to whence you came'

....actually it's the glider that owns the sky round here, so get that wrinkled nose

and prop of yours to drag you back home, there's a good chap!

Wye so misty

What better slot for a half hour work meeting than at 4pm.....especially when it takes place within half a mile of a flyable hill!

The only fly in the ointment is the mist that keeps rolling in over the ridge. As we all know, trying to keep a model in sight whilst drifting in and out of the clag adds an element of excitement to any sloping sortie, so it's time to man up, toss off and squint hard!

a clear spot as the sun goes down

mist descends to the low lands just in time for night fall

rigging on a rig

An interesting aside from the usual crop of slender bodied F3F machines is Mr Phillips' latest acquisition. The moulds were constructed about a decade or so ago on an oil rig in the North Sea and only recently has a run of models been pulled from them.

Lovely retro lines and interesting little sub-fin arrangement, it's even got a late eighties inspired colour scheme! 

picking the masking tape off the wings

pink is 2014's man colour

anyone fancy giving it a discus launch?

the shape of things to come...

It would appear that summer has shuffled off into hibernation for its annual 51 week slumber. Bring on the misery of cold damp England, and just in case you can't quite recall what that's like, here are a few shots from New Year's Eve Eve 2012...

we have a traffic obstruction.....

in the world of the goggles....

Jason on the slope....a long gone and distant memory

grey, cold, chilly

Alpina begins to strip off in a joyous, hypothermia induced euphoric dance

let me just give you a hand there, you lusciously curvaceous creature!

last flight of the Wien

it's been a gentle and loving relationship...

but she's off to meet her new owner

light winds in Wales

Allen's BBQ

It's that time of year.....not to be missed....

a fantastic spread was provided

and the weather was better than this photo suggests.

just in case you were wondering

cow eyes up some gel coat that he quite fancies a lick of

oh how Gary laughed as his Duo Discus almost got destroyed by bovine exuberance!

a flying shot no less!

A Storm approaches...

Eric has a new toy.....

arriving after a successful post maiden flight

the cows bow their heads in honour

it's so lovely we'll even forgive him the mortal sin of  red tape on a white plane!

a week in Wales

Cermaes Head, 5mph and an alarmingly sized bald patch

Race M pretending to go fast over Cardigan Island

Radian, chapel and mist on Foel-y Mwnt

2mph sea breeze, Ceibwr Bay 

struggling to keep the Radian dry 

cliff launch, Newport Bay 

dune soaring, Newport Sands

or maybe it's New South Wales?