Peter Miller

THis has been the worst year ever for the garbage on TV. They even showed a lot of films from the 1930s

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How true. Looks like my front garden which I have pumped out for the second time this week...and I live on top of a hill

Do you know I couldn't find it, I didn't realise how long ago it was. A little story about MIss Cassy to prove that someone up there looks after us; Some years ago I was flying Miss Cassy and I went to change the elevator trim on my Spectrum Tx and hit the on-off switch instead. The model crashed some three hundred yards out in a bare field. We retrieved all the wreckage carefully and I took it home. The next day I realise that the Rx satellite receiver was missing. On the Wednesday I went back and started looking for the crash site which we had cleaned up really well so it was almost impossible to say exactly where it was. After spending nearly two hours wandering round in the approximate crash area I gave up and started back to the car. Now when going over fields I always look at the ground for Roman remains etc. (I have a medieval token picked up from a field in front of my house among other things). As I walked along I though "That looks like an interesting stone" and bent to pick it up. RIGHT BESIDE IT WAS MY SATELLITE receiver. No one can ever tell me that I was not guided to find it!!!

Their Early plans are a lot cheaper but I could not Find Miss Cassy there. I am surprised how long ago it was listed.

My Standard CG position is 25 percent of the chord back from the leading edge.

I never mind people modifying my plans as it is the first stage of designing your own. Just don't lame the original design if the mods don't work. Just don't add too much extra weight....Low wing loading makes them fly better. I did a stretched version of the Cassut Called Miss Cassy but can't find the plan listed. If it was a full size plan I may have a copy.

Miss Deeds is a very close to scale Cassut. It should be available from Sarik as it was a free plan in RCM&E August 2019

I worked as a technician in a Craft, design and technology department. Some of the girls did brilliant work while some were dim BUT the same could be said for the boys.

I know of three within 6 miles of me.

Well the Apaches are around here all the time including taking off and landing up to 11 pm at night. See my other picture of one hovering over our flying field. We do get other low flying military aircraft occasionally. Hopefully that will make this area a "No Fly" zone for Amazon etc drones. As for civil aircraft disobeying the rules...I have no sympathy. One interesting incident from a few years ago. I was just unloading my weeks shopping when a Peitenpol Air Camper flew over. fairly low. As he came over our houses (3 in a country lane) he did a roll which ended up in a 45 degree dive. He then did a barrel roll as he flew on towards a couple more houses. Peitenpol Air Campers are forbidden to do aerobatics. I reported him to the Light Aircraft Association and was told that a letter warning owners of the ban on their doing aerobatics had been sent out.

Following on from my last posting. In this area we have Wattisham where they have the Apaches. These fly round day and night (up to 11 pm) at low level. I would therefore imagine that this area would be a no-go area for drones. The Apaches know where our model flying site is so we have no problems there. Pictures taken from my house. And one of the Ultralight that flies around the area And one of the Pitts Now fly drones through THAT area

But while we would be flying from a local strip and our models would be staying close to that, aircraft from farm strips go everywhere. We have one farm strip with several aircraft on it. One of these is an ultra light aircraft and the owner who has several aircraft has actually landed on our model flying field on more than one occasion when we were not there. He has been reported to the CAA for that. He also has an aerobatic aircraft which we see performing all over the area and another owner has a Pitts which he flies aerobatics here and there in the area. So giving a drone operator a map would need to cover a large area of East Anglia just for that one strip.

To quote a very old comment "Roll on death, retirement is too far away"

Not if you add up the 1000s and then add the 10s etc

"Ying Tong Iddle I po!" Famous song from the 50s!!!

I had my cataracts operated on just before Covid struck. I had my annual eye test done on the 12th of December. I could read most of the letters on the bottom line of the chart. The optician was most impressed.

The first ones that I took were back in the 70s. Then in the early 80s I did more looking at a local archaeological site in the area for a amateur archaeologist and I flew at Flag Fen for Blue Peter. Had an article in Amateur Photographer and another in "The Journal of Aerial Archaeology. All before drones had been thought of. Now they can do so much more and better in that field. I have the odd picture that make the hair stand up on my head now.

On and off over the years I have done quite a bit of aerial photography from models. Mainly to look for crop marks. My camera planes would be taken up to great heights. A few years ago (before the pandemic) I took my Super Scorpion up over my village. Not sure how high it was but I could see it perfectly. Camera was a Mobious video and still.The shot is a frame from the ten minute video taken on that day.

We regularly have Apaches from Wattisham flying round. Wattisham knows where our flying field and they don't come too close when we are flying. They even use our metal box as a "tank" at times. The photo shows one hovering over the box.Taken from my bedroom window 1 mile 200 yards away. The little white mark is the box.

Just an interesting little anecdote . A club member was in a branch of a national chain of shops awhile ago. He was looking at some drones in a display cabinet when the assistant came over and started a sales spiel. The club member asked him if the advised purchasers about the laws on flying them. "Oh no,we don't bother with that!" Now I admit that that was some time ago but I do wonder how much the sales staff have changed. After all,if you start telling customers about all the rules and regulations they might decide not to spend their money.

Many years ago the then club secretary (Who was one of those who was into everything and on all sorts of committees and organisations) at our "AGM" brought in the rule that we should have a club safety officer. and a yellow jacket would be worn but him. However it was then decided that whoever was not flying at the time would put the jacket on and be "safety officer" until he wanted to fly. On one occasion when someone was flying and did something unsafe the secretary who was wearing the yellow jacket was approached about this he made some feeble excuse and did nothing. In fact the whole thing was a fiasco. Some time later he resigned and I took over as secretary. I spoke to someone at BMFA (Forgive me I forget the name...it was some 15 years ago) and the advice I got was that One club safety officer was not a good idea, Every body should be safety minded but if one person was then everyone tended to leave it up to them.

What ever works for you. I build my wings with the leading edge overhanging the building board. Glue on the leading edge, raise the lower sheet to fit and hold in place with map pins Then hit it with Superphatic glue.