I hope you have all had relaxing holidays and an enjoyable start to the new year. Our last club event for 2018 was the Flyin BBQ at Murray Bridge on December 16th. We had 30+ persons roll up along with several aircraft including Greg Tabe’s brand new Bristel, looking very sharp in it’s yellow, black…
Forty five members and their guests enjoyed a fun filled Christmas dinner at the Public Schools club on November 23rd. The venue was very nicely decorated in the Christmas spirit with a superb 3 course dinner prepared by our chef Michael Crossley. There were raffle prizes galore with an almost 1 in 3 chance of…
Greetings from Wales. My wife and I are currently touring UK and we have spent the last week in South Wales. Lovely coastal scenery and some marvelous Norman Castles around the Pembrokeshire district. You may not know that during WW2 Pembroke Dock housed the largest flying boat base in the world ,with many RAF Short…
Oshkosh, the biggest aviation spectacle on earth has just concluded and by all accounts, one of the best ever. Some aviation folk from Adelaide attended this year so I am hopeful we will get a first hand report at next week’s club meeting. Closer to home we had 20+ attendees to Richard Young’s Sonex workshop…
A quieter time of year aviationwise but there are still some lovely flying days to be found between the cold front activity passing through SA. Indeed it is a perfect time of year to consider flying north to the outback or Queensland. The summer rains have now flowed down to Lake Eyre and it now…
A few items to report on this month. I have just returned from a 2 week interstate driving holiday where I visited several aviation museums around South Eastern Australia including the RAAF Museum at Point Cook, Victoria. You may recall this museum was originally on our itinerary for the Club Flyaway in April which we…
Last month we held the club Fly Victoria event visiting various destinations around Victoria. There were four aircraft and eight people involved. It was not a very auspicious start with the first of the severe winter fronts arriving over southern Australia on our planned departure day of April 14th. First stop was going to be…
I have just returned from a short trip to West Baden, USA where I was involved in the World Championships for free flight indoor duration model aircraft. A unique experience on two counts. Firstly, the venue was the atrium of a gorgeous 100 year old hotel consisting of a dome, 60 meters in diameter and…
Some good flying days were available in the last month and I was able to accumulate the remaining hours to complete the 40 hour test program on my Onex which went very well. I have now gathered all the paperwork together, which took nearly as long as the test flying, and await unrestricted flying approval….
I trust you have all had an enjoyable holiday season which included some fun activities like BBQs and flying. I have been busy accumulating hours on my Onex to lift the test flying restrictions. I am now up to 32 hours with another 8 hours needed to complete the test flying. The has been some…
