SWAMPS A.G.M.

SWAMPS A.G.M.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13th 2015 1.00pm

                              BARBY LUNCH SUPPLIED

SWAMPS Sunday 30.8.15

Another fine Sunday, light winds early and late, 10 to 15k around lunch. Clear skies but those west winds came straight off westernport and made it cool. 5 pilots turned up and all had a good days flying, add Alex's nitro monster truck for something different

 Above right is David C's 120 Spitfire and Alex's Red Zephyr and nitro monster truck.
Right is Fred C's Gladiator and 40 sized cessna.
Big and small Martins electric Stearman hitching a ride.......

 Right is Chris H's OS BGX 35cc powered Cessna and below right the twin returns for some more flying. Next to that is an electric G Bee R3, Chris has a passion for these with I think 4 different sized versions, the biggest a 3 metre 150cc monster, not flying yet. If it flies as good as the 2 smaller ones it will be a site. These surprise me, as they fly great, with no bad habits........

Martins electric sail plane and as in an above photo, also brought an electric Stearman.......

SWAMPS Sunday 23.8.15

"Any body for a club reunion",  certainly felt like it,  9 cars, 10 pilots and later a visit from a past president Peter Donovan.

Add a perfect day for flying and you have a great club day out, really good to see some faces that we haven't seen for some time and  catchup. Sky was busy, as you could imagine with all these pilots and there aircraft.

Planes, Heli's and Drones  made it a variety day.

 

 

 Chris H and son Clay with there collection of aircraft for the day. Chris fine tuning the Mitchell Bomber with its twin OS 56 four strokes before its maiden flight.
Later Clay, assisted by dad, has a fly of that trusty Red Zephyr.

Right we have Martins table of plane and heli's, the electric orange Stearman having its maiden flight on the day. Below that is Tim,s Piper cub, which had several flights during the day, a popular model on the day with 3 different sized yellow cubs present and below that is Mikes   S Bach warming up....

Above is Johns Piper Cub, Left is a car full of Bobby H's, under the covers are a few heli's. Below are David C,s OS 120 four stroke powered Spitfire and the Cessna 310 with twin Enya 46 fourstrokes, all craft taking to the air sometime during the day..

 All in all a good day was had by all, plenty of snags on the barbie for lunch and no major mishaps on the day, although there was a reported upside down landing with a drone by David K..... Fred C  happy to just relax and watch, later had a fly of David C,s electric cub. Hope to see many more days like this as the weather improves....
PLEASE NOTE.......
CLUB A.G.M. IS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13
 

Some extra action shots, care of Tim........

 Below 2 twins ready for take off, awesome sound with both in the sky at same time.........

 

SWAMPS Sunday 19 July 2015

David C's Giant Aeromaster

 Swamps Sunday 19 July, what a perfect day for the middle of winter. Plenty of sunshine and next to no wind, for the few that turned up, a great days flying. Field is in great condition for this time of year and track in is good also, only exception is the first gate if there has been rain the day before, just gets a little slippery on top due to cows but solid underneath. Days are rare like this, this time of year so make the best of them........

Alex C's electric Cub above and Red Zephyr below 



Fred C's Gladiator on taxi above and nitro powered Rainbow below



Gladiator in flight



Mikes Sbach 342

SWAMPS Sunday 3/5/2015

David C's  Spitfire

Alex C's  Red Zephyr and Rainbow

 Fred C's Fairy Gannett and below
              Gloster Gladiator

 

New member Neil Busby and some of the models he brought for a days flying.

   

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Neils odd Tiger Moth with a Evolution 35cc radial, flew very nice and sounded good too...

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Neils day had a bad start, a brand new Pulse that had the Ailerons reversed,
" we have all done that"
and his glider after a fail in the Elevator

Martins Old timer and Monster buggy

Johns Piper Cub

A perfect day for flying and socialising, with some valued time on the sticks after a couple of weeks off, plenty of flights all day. Ben also turned up for a chat and a fly, good to see a good turnout at the field.

SWAMPS Sunday 22/03/15

 

Alex's new Piper Cub

 

 

 

Maiden flight of Alex's Cub 22/03/2015

This is one of the prizes David came away with from Bairnsdale state field opening.

Bairnsdale ACTIO'n Scale day 7/8 March 2015

 The newest state field Bairnsdale and some of the models that attended the opening and scale day 

A nice clear day, with some wind in the afternoon, but plenty of flying done.

What was to be a casual day out for the Chigwiddens, turn out to be a very successful one.

The Fairy Gannett taking out the pilots choice award and myself winning the Barry James flight realism award.

This award in memory of Barry, who passed away recently and in recognition of his love for scale flying.

Being the first to win this award from a top club and some of the finest bunch of men  and wives I know, will be proudly displayed.

So if you want to meet a some wonderful people and fly on a top new field,

GO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Foster Show 28/2/15

SWAMPS Model display as part of the R.S.L stand at the Foster show

Thanks to Trevor Boundy / SE5A, Fred C/ Davis monoplane for the loan of their models

Spitfire and Fokker Triplane are from my own collection

The most surprising comment on the day is that they are actual flying models