A Hot July Day Brought a Good Selection of Models Out - and a Motley Collection of Owners!

	A pits was soon set up with every bit of available shade that could be found.
Followed shortly afterwards by an active flight line come knobbly knees contest!

Its always nice to see (and hear) twins flying and two were very much in evidence this year:

Tony Brought Along His Own Design Canberra Which Gave its Usual Smooth and Often Low Display

Ian's, Seagull Models Dual Ace might not have beaten Tony for smooth flying but it made up for it with raw speed!

Warbirds were also much in evidence, Fred with his ARTF P47 below:

Fred Really Loves His Warbirds!

Particularly impressive was Geoff's conversion {retractable undercarriage and all} of a .60 powered ARTF Spitfire to Electric power using an AXI outrunner and Lithium Polymer battery. This aircraft had the power - and duration - of a .60 cu in (10cc) 2-stroke powered version without the 2-stroke noise.

In fact the propellor noise was more Merlin-like than a 4-stroke engine.

Geoff's Electric Spitfire Conversion

It is nice to see a Spitfire without a silencer sticking out of the side!

For scale authenticity (silencer allowing!) though Mark's aggressively flown spitfire is hard to beat - A little careful cloning out of the cooling intakes and silencer - or the shots taken from an angle where they are hidden and you would be hard pressed not to believe it is the full size on display.

Bandits at 12 o'clock, Mark's Spitfire Roars By before Cruising in to a Smooth Landing.

Equally impressive to see flying alongside Mark's Spitfire was Dave's Hurricane, unfortunately it got a little too slow on the crosswind approach to land and the turn onto finals really did become its final turn!

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Keith England

Updated 14 December, 2006