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Yes it was a fine day for flying for the 7 that made it, I almost didn’t. (see below)
Anyway, back to the day at hand.
Stephen, Scott & Ron all had IC engined planes today that all went well, quite surprising as Ron’s last flew at Katherine N.T. in 1991.
Andrew managed to write off his little Fox glider (but I’m sure its repairable) and due to a less than perfect landing I put a couple more cracks in my 3D printed Wolf glider.
Phil had an absence note (medical emergency) & Kermit arrived rather late after commandeering his wife’s car (his had a stuffed battery again).
Scott was interested in trying out my onboard GPS to check out the speed of a couple of his planes. His fastest one didn’t have enough room inside for the GPS and the couple of others that he tried came in at around 137 kph so still a little way to go to catch the V2 Excalibur @ 171 kph or 106MPH
Other than that the warm & “almost” windless day went off without incident & Kermit even arrived in time to cook up his customary BBQ for lunch (and to provide fresh doughnuts), thanks Mr Frog.
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Pretty good Kermit, and you didn’t need any help from your No.1 cameraman.
A bit lacking on the oops moments though.
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Tell me anyone Why would two sensible highly thought of interviduals go to the dark side I can understand fruity being there but two of our own I of course alude to the use of turps /kero/ metho /petrol or what ever powers these noisy wiz bang motors……. we have advanced to electric motors nowadays … hallo.. knock knock… electric ..purhaps its a age thing like going back to your youth or maybe its like a virus you will get over it arhhh well …MY motor car is now working fine with a fully charged battery 🔋 an the dragons happy she has her car back I did notice the sinker wasnt his usual bubby self the distemper tablets musta kicked in an the hangman (gentle giant) was sporting a new set of hanging braces after his last lot broke …. very nice MY pick of the videos would be predators bix sport 11………… what say you………………………………………………………………………..just sayn
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Great videos everyone and it was a magnificent days flying.
You were so lucky with that truck incident Mike. Thank goodness that no one was injured. Maybe the truck drive will pay a bit more attention while driving now?
Kermit, seeing as though you mentioned “perhaps it’s an age thing like going back to your youth”, you remided me about the original video of the plane that was filmed in 1991 (with 1991 video technology!).
So, here is the vintage video of the plane that was flown on an unused runway in Katherine NT. I think the runway was one of the left overs from WW2.
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With Mike’s near miss and a similar incident that I had the other day I went and bought a traffic cam myself. Had a bit of fun trying to run the cable for the rear camera but finally got there. Just need to sort out the power cable.
From what I have seen of the video it looks quite good. It’s a Navman mivue pro 4k.
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