Laois Scale Fly In April 25, 2010
Photos from this event can be viewed in the gallery -- click here.
A good start to a season of scale flying, in the earnest hope that this will be the first of many, with kind weather, which improved as the day progressed, enticing scale flyers to brave the spring skies.
Several scale pilots from clubs of counties on the eastern side of this green isle of ours were in attendance, and who were all very welcome. It was good to see old friends of Laois MAC, Dave O’Flaherty and Joe O’Sullivan, to mention but a few, as well as new flyers, both young and old – sorry, middle aged, who enjoyed the day exhibiting their aircraft and putting them through their paces in the fresh and plentiful laois air.
Our regular pilots, Brian, Martin and Kieran boasted their much admired P47’s, which took off together almost, in great style, and then flown in formation, leaving us groundhogs wondering when they might collide with each other in splinters of balsa, but not to be as they were flown with precision.
Of interest to all who attended this scale day, was a static mounted, seven cylinder radial engine, Seildel, 7X10cc, swinging a 24X10 propeller, which Walter had on display, and calibrated to purring perfection on tick over with masses of thrust on high speed to such a velocity that the holding post was at risk of take off. I gather Walter is working on a suitable scale aircraft capable of receiving this superb power plant, and certainly it will be one to watch out for.
As they say or is it some old song, a picture paints a thousand words, and so it is with this article, and rather than rambling on as to what I have rambled on about before in different rambling accounts of scale events, I ask you instead to look at the photographs in the photo gallery, which I hope capture the good attendance and selection of scale aircraft on view. Enjoy, and see you at another scale event coming your way soon, and see the MACI webpage, Flightlines, Scale Association News and Laois MAC webpage for upcoming dates.