Friday Fly In 26-09-2025

[Predator]

Luckily the day turned out pretty much as forecast with no rain & only mild winds and it was almost warm so quite a pleasant day for flying.

We were short of a few Sugar Babies who piked out due to the early morning rain but the 4 that did turn up to fly had an enjoyable time.

As is often the case poor old Kermit didn’t manage to get airborne at all today (primarily flat batteries & crook connection in his Zohd). Didn’t even manage to get the frog parachute jumping today as the battery in the chute dropper was flat.

Andrew flew one of his large gliders (and found a few small thermals) & his Cessna.

Ron primarily flew his 3d printed Zero.

I had the Bix 2 Sport back in the air after a rebuild from several weeks ago, also the Sky Shadow wing & the BumbleBee glider.

For the first time ever I managed to hit the overhead power wires that run across the top of the field, not once but twice, first I came down on top of them & busted the right aileron servo arm then I managed to come back up under them and ripped of several of the vortex generators from the top of the left wing.

Luckily (no doubt due to the flight controller working overtime) the BumbleBee still flew fine and finished off the battery before a successful landing.

Gerald, who piked out earlier due to the morning shower, changed his mind when the sun came out & whilst he didn’t fly he at least dropped in to say hello to everyone.

As noted earlier there was no flying from Kermit but he did quite a bit of filming & as usual dished up a superb BBQ lunch for Andrew & I. (The rest left early & missed out).

[Kermit]

[Gadget]

Fantastic sound effects and action shots Kermit. Well done 🙂👍

[Fab]

Shit, I didn’t see the post,. I wasn’t expecting one with the wind lately.

Fab

[Kermit]

oh dear swearing on this channel tusk tusk  We now have another mob on the site called  orford sailing  they think we are cool because we dont swear   Now FAB you have destroyed that   from now on please dont use SHIT  use shytt   you dont want Mr judicator  to jump on you an we dont want to let the orford mob to throw shytt at us …ay  ………………………………………………………….just say’n

[Gadget]

Wow Mike! You wouldn’t have known you were flying with one aileron.

[Predator]

Did notice it was turning better in one direction than the other but nothing too dramatic. Anyway all fixed now.

only needed a new servo arm and 4 replacement vortex generators

[Hoppy]

Nice footage, I will be back in November for next round of Top Gun Tasmania lessons. We flew at Angeles Philippines today. Here is first video of my XK X450 crashing due to a mechanical linkage slipping. More footage to come.

[Hoppy]

Here is onboard footage from my Volantex Saber. nb its been rainy and typhoon season here hence this was first fly for a month. Just had typhoon go thru yesterday but today Sunday super calm and hot.

 

[Hoppy]

And here is Handycam footage. Im rusty with this cam if only I can find a cam school.

 

[Predator]

Nice footage, thanks Chris.

 

[Kermit]

gezz chris cobber your video was almost exacatly like my flying on friday   the one I couldnt show because I lost the sd card   so well done young’n…………………………………………………just say’n

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