Sloping Off - March 2006

Calshot Snaps
by Mike Roach

 

Steve and Chris Morris hamming it up for the camera. Chris is the one flying!

 

Lagg 5 flew well, if a little fast for indoor peace of mind

I’m sorry to say that Trevor’s magnificent “model of a model”, the Stanger Canard, was written off by a Shock Flier at the same meeting.  I could not bear to take a picture of the wreckage (which shows that I will never make it as a journalist) and was amazed how calmly Trevor took the loss.  I’d have been hopping mad.  Moral?  Scale fliers should insist on a short closed session for their flying.  Aerobatic models are by their very nature unpredictable and the two types are incompatible in the same hall at the same time.  Ed


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