Cosford time

WELL,just setting off for cosford 3days away with the boys, eat, drink, play with toys, and just CHILL, after a 6week kitchen build and equip, i am DESPARATE for some R&R, if you guys go, dont forget to give yourself quite a few hours for the museum, weather forecast is glorious on the friday/saturday, showers on the sunday, but warm as hell, hope you have a good time, i will be the git on some gate somewhere with the white panama hat on, and a knowing smile, do come say hello, have a great weekend whatever you get up too, one day, ho hum, now, wers that BEER

well, i know one of you went, that was fly navy, and he had the good grace to say hello, no-one else went????????????

You know I did, Alan. Or did you forget?

I did see you outside the YT tent, but you looked to be tied up selling something. I came back later, but you had disappeared again.  Time travel exists, or at least it passes at a different rate in the Cosford boundaries to the rest of the world.

Edited By Bob Cotsford on 29/07/2012 19:38:26

forgot Paul, sorry, Wasnt selling anything at the YT tent, there was nothing to sell!! we had no stock, only the display aircraft, Wilson, who has all the codes for the warehouse doors, and the 2nd van, had to fly out to china, where he had had a death in the family, should have come say hello Bob, would have been ok,

I was there all weekend camping, but i didnt see any dodgey panama hats ? lol

I did buy my ticket off a bloke on the friday evening that my little lad said looked like father christmas on his holidays tho ha ha,

Had a great weekend tho, excellent models ( the English Electric Lightning was a personal favourite ), flying, trade, weather (except a couple of spots today). Thats exactly how shows should be. The carpark was packed on saturday so the turnout seemed very good, especially the camping more than Ive seen for a few years.

we where spared duties on the saturday, but did a couple of hours shepherding the interesting gate between the flying area, and the museum, hat was in the car, wore it ll day saturday though,

And he did look cute

Nice to catch with you again Alan,and had a good day there,but decided one day was enough so did not attend today.

Nats next for me for the first time ever,don't know what to expect for that one,I hear the weather is normally carp.

John

Hi Alan,

I don't know you by sight, but we went yesterday and had a great day in the sunshine watching all the big toys fly about. Loved it!

I did sneak off to the Chester E-fly today though.......

tim

gawd, got to get a sign on the top of me ed, yesterday was a great day, spectators where 8 deep at the fence, all enjoying the flying, car parks where full to bursting, there where 2 incidents, a spitfire that bit the dust, and sadly, one of the 2 demo large corsairs, with the moki radials, engine cut, heavy model went in hard, its an all composite model, many pieces, but overall, the flying was great, did anyone take advantage of one of my better ideas? the flightline walk?

Yep had a wander,dribbled over the lovely Night Fighter Hurricane,and looked forward to it's flight.Could not see much of take off because of the ignorant souls with 3' telephoto lens on their cameras still need to get to the fence and infront of people without any consideration for others,by the time I had embarrassed him to move his butt the Hurricane was on it's nose and port oleo had collapsed,then the only other Hurricane there(think it was TJD models) had aborted sortie.

John

Edited By fly-navy on 29/07/2012 22:16:58

Thats bad news about the Corsairs Alan,which one was it number 15 or 17? an old acquaintance of mine flies i think number 17, he will be gutted

You leave it to us, we'll make one for you Al

Edited By David Ashby - RCME on 30/07/2012 08:03:52

Ta Dave i do somtimes wonder if forumites (hate that word, sounds like an outbreak of insects)dont actually want to meet up, even when you say 1.00 at such a place, rarey do they show,

as for the corsairs, i am sorry, i have no idea which one went in, on the same flight, the other one landed on one wheel, and suffered minor damage, is one owned by Trevor Wood? he went on to fly his superb sea fury later on,

Good show and great weather after a few showers in the morning on Sunday.

Impressed with the big lightening and the 90% Pitts Python with the microlight engine in. The boss however wasn't too impressed with the commentator!

A few photos:

i was chatting ti Ian, the very nice gaffer of IAD models when the big Pitts was flying, we where talking the routine he should have done, he didnt do a thing with it !!! but it was very underpowered

That and the Yak. Seems the larger one gets, the less power-to-weight ratio there is. Suppose the engines in these models are not really designed for loads of power, as they are meant for microlights. A bit like the early petrol engines - they did their job, but not much power.

Until someone brings out a 400cc model engine, large models in that range would be limited to marginal power. The Yak hardly had any power, using a fine pitch prop to get it going.

they need to discover gearboxes

Well was it a good day, did I miss anything? Or was it the usual yawn.

Edited By Tom Sharp 2 on 31/07/2012 19:00:40

have a read, then decide for yourself