Oh we are blessed with beautiful weather so far this year up in Wales.
Alan , Woody and I once again took to the field today. Wind was gusting up to about 8mph maximum , hardly a cloud in the sky , bright sunshine ....... almost perfect !
We put about 9 flights up but the number of rocket types were somewhat thin on the ground. I had my Estes MCom set with me again and the cannon fodder bullpup , Woody had his MCom set too and Alan had his Code Red and his pair of X-Fliers.
We had at our disposal an array of motors thanks to having two Estes Blast Off flight packs with us so we were able to gauge how the flights were going to be by sending up a B motor flight or two.
My MCom Navy got its first outing today and flew very nicely much like Woodys Navy a few weeks ago. I also sent up the Bullpup twice , very happy with the flights tho it suffered superficial damage on one landing. Chutes twisting on their lines seemed to affect nearly every flight today , the slow gusting wind seeming to have alot of influence for some reason.
I do recall having to run a long way for Alans X-Flier that he sent into the stratosphere on a C motor , Im a few kilos lighter after that run.
Code Red is still giving masses of value for money. No real bad flights on it yet , all pretty good n true and not many long walks to recover it. In fact the last flight of the day was on the CodeRed and it returned more or less back to the Pad and into Alans waiting arms.
So what did the rocket Gods demand in return for this good day I hear you ask. Well the Gods were not really hungry at all. They did threaten to steal away the MCom Army of Woodys' which incidentally flew much better with a weighted nose. It had landed out of sight in the long grass and took a bit of time to find. In fact the Rocket Gods threw up Woodys BT of his FireFlash lost a few weeks ago during the search! The only damage today that Im aware of is the paint chip on the Bullpup NC. This means of course that to balance out the rocket Kama someones just about to have a CATO ..... sorry .....
Hopefully Woody will get some more Videos of day done , watch this space.
Paul
Alan , Woody and I once again took to the field today. Wind was gusting up to about 8mph maximum , hardly a cloud in the sky , bright sunshine ....... almost perfect !
We put about 9 flights up but the number of rocket types were somewhat thin on the ground. I had my Estes MCom set with me again and the cannon fodder bullpup , Woody had his MCom set too and Alan had his Code Red and his pair of X-Fliers.
We had at our disposal an array of motors thanks to having two Estes Blast Off flight packs with us so we were able to gauge how the flights were going to be by sending up a B motor flight or two.
My MCom Navy got its first outing today and flew very nicely much like Woodys Navy a few weeks ago. I also sent up the Bullpup twice , very happy with the flights tho it suffered superficial damage on one landing. Chutes twisting on their lines seemed to affect nearly every flight today , the slow gusting wind seeming to have alot of influence for some reason.
I do recall having to run a long way for Alans X-Flier that he sent into the stratosphere on a C motor , Im a few kilos lighter after that run.
Code Red is still giving masses of value for money. No real bad flights on it yet , all pretty good n true and not many long walks to recover it. In fact the last flight of the day was on the CodeRed and it returned more or less back to the Pad and into Alans waiting arms.
So what did the rocket Gods demand in return for this good day I hear you ask. Well the Gods were not really hungry at all. They did threaten to steal away the MCom Army of Woodys' which incidentally flew much better with a weighted nose. It had landed out of sight in the long grass and took a bit of time to find. In fact the Rocket Gods threw up Woodys BT of his FireFlash lost a few weeks ago during the search! The only damage today that Im aware of is the paint chip on the Bullpup NC. This means of course that to balance out the rocket Kama someones just about to have a CATO ..... sorry .....
Hopefully Woody will get some more Videos of day done , watch this space.
Paul
