Powerlines and Pinetrees

[airtime]

Hey guy's great speed for the Jdub. I also got a personal best today. 2 actually
at Mcloeds shoot or pinetrees and powerlines should be a good name for that spot. Cause that's what you've gotta Ds in between. When I got there it was gusting from 25 to 30 knots. Nigel was already there with his reaper. So I pulled
my reaper out too. Nige said he had already cut some laps on the dark side.
So no time to waist straight into the groove. My groove is not the smoothest at times but still a groove. I've had the moth out a lot lately and haven't been able to crack 100mph. only 99.6. So I had a motive today and that was to crack that 100. The reaper looks a lot slower than the moth but it's 20inches
bigger. Soon after Eric arrived with his Dad and a newly Built Jdub. Also Nige pulls out a nicely built Jdub too. They're everwhere I might have too get 1 too.
Naaaaa. Already got 4 foam planks. Anyway getting side tracked, back to Dsing
while I was cutting circles Eric had the gun on the reaper. And I heard a call for
105 mph . yahooo . I know that's not that fast but it took me a while to get that.
While I was cutting circles Nigel had his new maidened Jdub doing some massive cirles around my reaper at the same time. There was a few close passes but no colisions. That thing is really smooth. I put the foamy away to get the ERWIN out, while I was setting it up Ezza had the tripple carbon bird up and heading straight for the back. I like the way he thinks..... Mate those Birds are fast. I think it got 147mph and that was with fairly high rates. Man Ezza's a great pilot. Congrates on the awesome maiden speed Ezza He landed after hitting some wild turbulance. Now it's the Erwins Turn.
Launched , done some last min trimming and back to the groove. wow the knees were a bit wobbly. It was just starting to winde up and hit 143 I think it was. Then flutter so we landed. Eric said to tape the flaps. so we did and turned off snapflap, never done that before. threw out again and started cutting some nice big circles, man she was picking up some speed then I heard someone yell 155mph. Done a few more and then a rotor sucked it straight down so I pulled up it went straight up then back over my head very high inverted I paused for a second and pushed down which pushed it around right way up. I felt a little tingling all over that was fun. landed on the front side. Nige done some loops while I landed and got 87mph

Pilot : Astan Singh
Plane : 2m Erwin
Speed : 155mph
Place : Mcloeds Shoot, Byron Bay
Witness : Eric Smith & Maynard Smith
Gun : Stalker pro

Pilot : Astan Singh
Plane : 60 inch Reaper
Speed : 101mph
Place : Mcleods Shoot
Witness : Eric Smith & Maynard Smith
Gun : Stalker Pro

Pilot : Eric Smith
Plane : 60 inch Carbon Bird
Speed : 143mph
Place : Mcleods Shoot
Witness : Astan Singh & Maynard Smith
Gun : Stalker Pro

Pilot : Nigel Ball
Plane : 60 inch JW
Speed : 87mph PB
Place : Mceods shoot
Witness : Eric Smith & Maynard Smith
Gun : Stalker Pro

Cheers Asto

[nige]

It was a great day Asto. I have some chasing to do but so do you. (I might have to sneek out and practice)

Nigel.

[airtime]

Nov 23, 2009 5:41:43 GMT 10 nige said:

It was a great day Asto. I have some chasing to do but so do you. (I might have to sneek out and practice)

Nigel.

I think I'll take my time to get to 200. Wanna keep my mouldies alive as long as possible specially the trusty old Erwin. Gotta put some better push rod system in it though, the aloi ones are a bit spongy over 140mph Might go with Sean and Tims Idea with carbon inside tubing. Won't be long mate the groove will just click in your head soon. I can see that Jdub of yours crackin out some serious speed. The way it was flyin yesterday, Except for the run in with the neighbors shed, that was loud.
Cheers Asto

[nige]

Yes the shed a bit embarrassing that little episode. I would have gladly swapped it for a crash on the darkside.

Nigel.

[nige]

Astan and I had a great session at McLeod's Shoot yesterday in a light ENE breeze. It was smooth but Astan assures me there are a lot smoother sites. We were taking turns to DS but Astan thought I was going ok because he let me do some laps with him. It was really cool to see my Starling and Astan's 3m ship doing circles. We went for about 5 min and sometimes confusing when they cross behind each other at the bottom of the circles when one is following close to the other. We had some good speed considering the light breeze and a great arvo with no accidents.

Nigel

[sean]

Sounds like fun Nige. Formation DSing with a Starling and Furio must have looked great!

[nige]

It did look great. A bit risky to do it too long though especially when I am learning.

Nigel.

[airtime]

Me and Nige went toMcleods yesterday and got some vid he it is.
vimeo.com/8714172
Cheers Asto

[graememarion]

Impressive !

[nick]

thanks for the video astan ;D
im sitting here rather dejected at myself about my xpro and i have a d 40 on the bench waiting to be built, and after seeing your video i will get out in my shed next chance i have and start her

have fun

regards nick

[bananaman]

Man we have to get you in the air again.
I'll keep my eyes and ears open for spares etc or a functional, el cheapo to tide you over for those odd times when you need a break from berry mania.

[thevon]

Loved that video Astan and Nige. That D40 really is darn quick! Great sound. I keep looking at that tree on the end closest and thinking yep, that's the one I hit with the Nemesis! It went so quick at that spot, but it was before I learnt about cutting back the rates!

On those laps where the Starling Pro went really low, I squirmed violently in the chair! Reminded me of a few of my more unfortunate laps. I'm very familiar with that feeling of "it's going low .. she'll be right ... thump ... oh, no!"

[nige]

That Starling was flying low Andrew, and only saved from certain death by the skills of a seasoned professional

Those trees do like grabbing planes, one jumped out and got my JW, lucky it spat it on the ground and I didn't have to go climbing.

Nigel.

[airtime]

Jan 14, 2010 16:37:39 GMT 10 nick said:

thanks for the video astan ;D
I'm sitting here rather dejected at myself about my xpro and i have a d 40 on the bench waiting to be built, and after seeing your video i will get out in my shed next chance i have and start her

have fun

regards nick

Sorry to hear about ur xpro, can it be rebuilt? Get that D40 built mate You won't be disappointed, I'm gonna Say that it's my favorite plane I've got. Just don't take ur eyes of it, it's not hard to loose.
Cheers Asto

[nick]

howdy Asto

i don't think it's worth fixing, a new one is called for.
looking forward to getting the D40 into the grove, im glad it's your favorite plane, i think it will be mine once i have got good speed out of her

regards nick