Goodbye

 Hi guys

Some of you already know that Donna and I are moving to Portland on the 11th April.

It is with great sadness that i am leaving SWAMPS after about 17 years flying at this great little club and having made lasting friendships.

But we are also excited about our new life together in Portland.

We will be over a few times a year so i will be bringing something to fly.

We will probably be joining Hamilton club or maybe Warrnambool.

So i wish SWAMPS all the best.

I will keep in touch.   🕿

Happy flying.  ✈

Mike and Donna.  👋

Christmas barby

Hey guys 

On Sunday 10th December we will be having our Christmas barbecue 

AGM/GM

Our AGM/GM was held at the field on Sunday 1st October 

Six members were in attendance and one visitor 

It was voted that the current committee stayed the same as last year 

We had a great barbecue feast before the meeting 

Nobody flew due to the strong winds 

AGM/GM

Hi guys 

Our AGM/GM will be held at the field on October 1st at 1pm

Barbecue lunch provided 

See you there 👍

Swarms club

SWARMS club

SWARMS club

Western Australia

 On a trip to Margaret River last week Donna and I drove an hour north on Sunday to a club called SWARMS just out of a small town called Capel. 

We spent a couple of hours talking to some of the members there.

They fly a mixture of nitro, electric, petrol  and jets.

Concrete runways and taxiways join up to a concrete pits which is fully roofed.

One of the members highly recommended to me ZEEE lipo batteries purchased from EBay.

It is also a state field sponsored by WA lottery and Bendigo Bank.

Christmas

Hey guys your probably wondering about the Christmas barbecue 

With the late Annual and General meeting Christmas has come up quick so it was decided  that we will have a barbecue in the new year.

So have a great Christmas and a safe new year and we will see you next year. 

AGM/GM/Xmas barbecue

Attended by half the members the Christmas barbecue went down well followed by our AGM and GM which I think was done in record time!

The committee members remains unchanged for this year. 

Most put in some good air time and all had a good catch up after the long lockdown.

Barbecue

Hey guys I know it's been a while ( damn covid ).

On Sunday 5th December we will be having our Annual General and General meeting as well as our Christmas barbecue. Hoping the weather will be good to get some long awaited flying done. 

So check your batteries and see you there.

Cheers 

Mike

Pattern comp

Hey guys on Saturday 20th March there will be a pattern competition at our field. So there will be no general flying that day. If you haven't seen this before go along and have a look, these models are worth quite a lot of $.

Mike

A great day

A few of us took advantage of the great weather. The usual guys came out, Mike, Rob, Fred, Peter, new member Graham and former member Ben. Graham had a maiden of his scratch built Hustler with great success.

Lunch🌭

Me 🤪😀

Peter and his Stik

A couple of Fred's 

Graham and his scatch built hustler. He was very happy with it's maiden flight. 😀

Graham and Ben hard at it. 🤪

Ben and his chopper. He hadn't flown this for a few years.

 Our AGM/GM and Christmas barbecue was attended by 7 members and one associate, we welcomed new members Reg and Bill. There was plenty to eat, no flying was done due to the bad weather but that didn’t stop the social side of things. Thanks to Chris for sourcing 2 huge batteries for our charging table, the solar panel is happy now that it has new batteries to talk to 😀. All we need now is for the weather to improve for us to catch up on lost flying time. 

So see you at the field.

Cheers

Mike

 

AGM/GM. XMAS BBQ

Hey guys now that lockdown and travel restrictions are over we will be having our AGM/GM combined with our Christmas barbecue on Sunday 6th December .

So come and catch up with everyone, have a fly, get some official business out of the way and have a feed.

See you then.

Mike

We’re back

Well after many many months of lockdown we were able to go back to the field. Good turn out and a great day for it. Still wet in spots from the large amount of rain, but there is enough of the field to fly off. 

Hopefully after this Sunday for those of us that live outside the 25 kilometre radius will be able to join us.

Check those batteries.

Cheers

Mike

Best way (not) to start a gas engine plane at RingebuRC

Nearly

Hey guys how have you all been through this weird time.

Well it looks like we are nearly there, so finalise you're membership if you haven't already done so.

Dust off your planes get your batteries ready and let's go flying!

Will be great to catch up with everyone and put this year behind us.

See you all soon 🤞

Mike

Stay safe

Hi guys it's been a while eh?

What a messed up year we are having!

No flying due to virus then too wet and now that damn virus again!

Hopefully we will get over this hurdle soon and hit the sky again.

So until then guys stay safe.

Mike.

Memorial

Sunday 2nd February we will be holding a ceremonial aerial scattering of ashes in remembrance of our mate Martin

Thoonen.

Barbecue lunch will be provided.

Happy New Year

Happy new year to you all 

Hope to see more of you guys in 2020

Christmas Barbecue

Bob brought a car load. 😀

Christmas Barbecue

Had a great barbecue lunch.

Weather was excellent.

6 members present and a visit from a past member.

Some good flying was had.

An enjoyable relaxed day.

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR ONCE AGAIN !

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME !

WE ARE HAVING A BARBECUE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 8th

AT OUR FIELD

COME FLY
COME EAT
BRING GOOD WEATHER AND ENJOY A DAY WITH YOUR FLYING BUDDIES

Annual and General Meeting

Annual and General Meeting at the field.
Sunday 15th September.
Barbecue lunch provided.

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR ONCE AGAIN !

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME !

WE ARE HAVING A BARBECUE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 9th

AT OUR FIELD

COME FLY
COME EAT
BRING GOOD WEATHER AND ENJOY A DAY WITH YOUR FLYING BUDDIES

AGM

Please note ------ The AGM and General meeting of the SWAMPS Club is to be held at the field on 

                                                                    Sunday 26th August 2018 at 1pm  at the field.

                                                                     A BBQ lunch will be supplied.

                                            

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Big boys toys

Big boys toys is on at Vietnam Veterans Museum on Philip Island.
We have been invited to come along and display some of our models (fee is $5.00)
Should be a good day

22/4/18

Sunday 22/4/18
What a great day
What a great turn out of members and visitors
Weather was perfect you could not have wanted to be anywhere else
So many planes!

Pattern guys at SWAMPS 10/02/2018
The rain held up the comp for a short while so they stopped for lunch
It rained a bit more when they resumed but was not heavy enough to stop them
They had about 20 entrants
These planes are electric powered these days
They fly so smooth and precise and quiet
I'm sure they all had a good day, plenty of comments on how good our field is
They always enjoy flying here
A great bunch of guys
See you you next round

Visitors

Hello to our visitors ✌
I see that we have viewers from outside of Australia 
As a matter of interest:-
-What country are you in ?
-What do you fly ? ✈
- Does your club have a blog you could share ?

Freds Uncle Bob

Matt's Katana smoke on.

Matt's RV8.

PATTERN COMP

SATURDAY 10th FEB

AT SWAMPS FIELD

CALDERMEADE

Mikes Hellcat

??????QUIZ TIME??????

P51

P47

P40

P38

What does the ‘P’ mean ?

Leave your answer in the comments 

If you have a quiz question send it to me at

pakmick@gmail.com and I will put it up 

Ultimate

David with electric plane

fpv swamps.AVI

CHRISTMAS BAR-B-Q
SUNDAY 10th DECEMBER
FAMILIES WELCOME

Fred flying on a windy day

Matts space walker

G'Day all
                 Long time no write. As we all know the weather has been a bit wet,windy and wild.
this sunday we had our GM and elected a new committee member Matt J. Thanks to fred for cooking
a big and great lunch and to members for turn up in such wet conditions. Hope you enjoy the vids that
will be posted in the future.

Matts space walker

Ben with his nitro heli