Sandford 2009
At last, a Sandford fete without rain!
After 2 years of having to pack up early and go to the pub (not all bad then!) the weather for the Sandford School fete was just about perfect for our trio of display pilots, Simon, Rod and Glenn. |
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| Starting out just after the crack of dawn (well, quite a few hours after) the team prepared the site for acton. | |
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| Sandford is a tight little airstrip surrounded by trees and hedgerows which makes landing, especially, difficult. A lot depends on the wind direction, of course, and as the day progressed it swung round to provide our pilots some tricky cross wind landings. | |
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Of course not all pilots get it right and there is the occasional lonely walk to collect models that overshoot the runway. Then again it was rumored that secrecy is surrounding some modeling projects at the moment so was this an opportunity to make a discrete modification while no one was looking! |
| There were plenty of models on display and lots of requests to fly specific aircraft. Our willing pilots were only too pleased to accommodate! | |
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| Glenn attracts an interested audience of young flyers. While parents eat candy floss Glenn provides a detailed lesson in the art of model building and the technical issue of flight control. Note the man in on his mobile who could not answer Glenn's aviation question so elected to 'phone a friend'. |